The Hold Steady

Por fin aparece algo del nuevo album...

http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady

Me ha dejado un poco frío la verdad... El listón estaba demasiado alto, tal vez...

Habrá que esperar a que salga el disco entero...

yo tengo ganas de verlos en vivo , como lo tienen para el Arf?

Ricky´s Appetite escribió:yo tengo ganas de verlos en vivo , como lo tienen para el Arf?

molaría cachísimo!!!

KIM_BACALAO escribió:

Ricky´s Appetite escribió:yo tengo ganas de verlos en vivo , como lo tienen para el Arf?

molaría cachísimo!!!

Ahora ya nos lee Mr Azkena?

The Hold Steady al ARF!!!

Creo que fue el gran Manel el que me pasó un disco de estos. No están nada, nada mal la verdad. Apoyo la moción

me suena el nombre pero no he escuchado nada...son eastwoodizables?

watts escribió:

KIM_BACALAO escribió:

Ricky´s Appetite escribió:yo tengo ganas de verlos en vivo , como lo tienen para el Arf?

molaría cachísimo!!!

Ahora ya nos lee Mr Azkena?

The Hold Steady al ARF!!!

Grande su último disco, sería una gozada verles en el Azkena.

clint eastwood escribió:me suena el nombre pero no he escuchado nada...son eastwoodizables?

yo creo que sí, bastante

disco al que hincar el diente?

clint eastwood escribió:disco al que hincar el diente?

a mí el último me lo grabó manel (también ), es el único que conozco en profundidad:



también me bajé otro anterior, pero sólo le pegué media escucha por falta de tiempo

KIM_BACALAO escribió:

clint eastwood escribió:disco al que hincar el diente?

a mí el último me lo grabó manel (también ), es el único que conozco en profundidad:



también me bajé otro anterior, pero sólo le pegué media escucha por falta de tiempo

oki doki. lo busco

Tienen 3 discos... y si bien el último es el mejor (Girls And Boys In America) los dos primeros (Almost Killed Me del 2004 y Separation Sunday del 2005) están también cojonudos...

En su myspace parece que tienen fechas en USA hasta agosto así que no sería descartable que aparecieran en el Azkena.

Yo les vi en directo dos veces el año pasado (una en Moby Dick y la otra en Nueva York) y son la repolla... el cantante es un auténtico colgao encima de un escenario y el teclista con el bigotito (adjunto foto) no le anda a la zaga...

Desde luego sería un acierto traerles...

clint eastwood escribió:

KIM_BACALAO escribió:

clint eastwood escribió:disco al que hincar el diente?

a mí el último me lo grabó manel (también ), es el único que conozco en profundidad:



también me bajé otro anterior, pero sólo le pegué media escucha por falta de tiempo

oki doki. lo busco

creo que te va a gustar

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive



The New Hold Steady - Stay Positive
"One thing I can say is that [Craig Finn] continues to blow my mind. And I'm saying that as a big a fan of his as anybody." - Tad Kubler

Earlier this week, Craig Finn and Packers/sausage aficionado Tad Kubler of the Hold Steady were in upstate New York. When we rang them up, they were "driving around," as Finn tells it, and "kind of scouting some stuff for artwork ideas."

Artwork for the fourth Hold Steady album! That's right-- after months of being hunkered down in the studio, growing their beards, the thing is finally in the can. All that needs to be done now is the mastering, sequencing, and, of course, artwork.

Pop the bottle of your choosing: this is reason for celebration.



"It's probably going to be called Stay Positive," Finn says, adding "we can say tentatively. There's a song called "Stay Positive" we've been playing live, and it was just something that's been kind of hanging around in my head a long time. I would say it's safe to say that's the name of the record."

For a band as prolific as the Hold Steady--they'll have four LPs in five years once Stay Positive is released-- tunes tends go from the page to the stage and then the studio in rapid succession, but some of the Stay Positive jams have been kicking around for a while now. "[Keyboardist] Franz [Nicolay] kind of got his laptop set up to do some hotel room demos over in Europe last summer, and we started throwing down ideas through that, and just kind of collected songs. And then when we got off the road from the tour we did with Art Brut, that ended at Thanksgiving, there was kind of a huge push right there when things were coming together. You know, sometimes you get in the creative mode, and you start using the other side of your brain and things happen quickly, there's a warm up period and then things start firing in all cylinders."

Recorded at a handful of New York-area locales over the last few months, the record is the band's second with Boys and Girls in America producer John Agnello. As Kubler says, the combination of the seasoned touring band's tightness and Agnello's deft hand behind the boards created a very fluid studio situation. "I would compare it to a basketball team that plays well together, that can get into that kind of rhythm. You can read people's next move and it allows you to kind of move together as more of a fluid unit or a machine, like a Swiss watch or something like that." He laughs, noting, "though I'm not sure I should describe our band as having quite that precision."

Though both Finn and Kubler are quick to point out that it "still sounds like a Hold Steady record", there's talk of opening up the sonic palette a bit on Stay Positive. Finn adds "there's certainly horns and strings, which I guess we had before, but there's also a mandolin, a harpsichord." Kubler notes the band's growing comfort with the studio setting, particularly with Agnello at the helm. "In terms of fidelity or stereo range, I think John took a little different approach in the way we mixed it in terms of just using some hard pans and doing some things different, rather than just a compressed guitar rock record."

One can't talk to Craig Finn without asking him about words themselves; specifically the ones he'll spit all over Stay Positive. When asked if there was any kind of overarching theme to the tunes on the new disc, he hesitated a bit. "I think the songs relate to each other in a way," adding "I'm not sure I want to talk about that quite yet." I figured maybe Kubler would give up the goods. "Well, he's sitting right next to me, so you're not going to get anything out of me!" Dammit. Let's assume alcohol is involved. Maybe parties, too.

Kubler did offer this: "One thing I can say is that the guy continues to blow my mind. And I'm saying that as a big a fan of his as anybody." Awww. "You rehearse, rehearse, rehearse and you go in and do takes, and takes, and takes, and different tracks of the songs, and then as that comes together, some of the funnest parts of being in the studio are getting to listen to Craig go in and start to do the vocals and hear the story unfold. It's a really exciting part for us-- I think I speak for everyone in the band-- when we're recording."

It's been said before, but what the hell: it's quite clear these guys just love making music. They'll even tell you themselves. "It isn't always just this huge bloodletting process that you sometimes hear other artists talk about in terms of songwriting." Kubler said of making Hold Steady records. "We do it because we enjoy it."

The Hold Steady dates:

02-25 Glasgow, Scotland - Garage
02-26 Manchester, England - Academy 2
02-27 London, England - Koko
03-27 Austin, TX - Emo's
05-09-11 Rye, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (ATP vs. Pitchfork) *
05-13 Dublin, Ireland - Academy
05-14 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Spring and Airbrake
05-16 Brighton, England - Great Escape
07-06 London, England - Hyde Park (O2 Wireless Festival)

* with Jens Lekman, Hot Chip, Les Savy Fav, Black Mountain, No Age, Caribou, Vampire Weekend, Of Montreal, Black Lips, Man Man, Los Campesinos!, the Clientele, Times New Viking, Glass Candy, Dirty Projectors, Born Ruffians, Redd Kross, Marissa Nadler, Jay Reatard, Meat Puppets, the Black Angels, Howlin Rain, Harmonia, Wooden Shjips, Shit and Shine, Sebadoh, Car Sick Cars, Ween, A Place to Bury Strangers, Deerhunter, Pissed Jeans, Yeasayer, Apse, Even


http://www.sendspace.com/file/ledaug

Yo no puedo bajarlo si alguien puede......

Ricky´s Appetite escribió:

clint eastwood escribió:

KIM_BACALAO escribió:

clint eastwood escribió:disco al que hincar el diente?

a mí el último me lo grabó manel (también ), es el único que conozco en profundidad:



también me bajé otro anterior, pero sólo le pegué media escucha por falta de tiempo

oki doki. lo busco

creo que te va a gustar

Por cierto, llevo unos 15 intentos para bajar el disco nuevo del sendspace ese... menos mal que se llama Stay Positive...

Puto sendspace.....

http://rapidshare.com/files/116868155/HS-SP.rar

KIM_BACALAO escribió:

clint eastwood escribió:disco al que hincar el diente?

a mí el último me lo grabó manel (también ), es el único que conozco en profundidad:



también me bajé otro anterior, pero sólo le pegué media escucha por falta de tiempo

Discazo! Me enteré que tocaban en Barcelona el día después de haberlo hecho. No me lo perdonaré nunca cojones!. A ver que tal el nuevo.

Despues de dos escuchas lo han vuelto ha hacer, discazo. Las mismas guitarras potentes, esos teclados y pianos tocados por el bigotes de chef francres, las grandes historias de sus canciones. Uno de mis top five del año, seguro. Ojala vuelvan a tocar otra vez por estas tierras, disfrute con su concierto de la anterior gira enormemente.

silver escribió:Puto sendspace.....

http://rapidshare.com/files/116868155/HS-SP.rar

pinkpanther escribió:

silver escribió:Puto sendspace.....

http://rapidshare.com/files/116868155/HS-SP.rar

pues mira por donde que puede que los vea en el 02 wireless, voy a ver como suenan.

KIM_BACALAO escribió:

clint eastwood escribió:me suena el nombre pero no he escuchado nada...son eastwoodizables?

yo creo que sí, bastante

totalmente diría yo

Definitivamente... discazo... una vez más y ya van 4 de 4...

Empieza con dos cañonazos: "Constructive Summer" (raise a toast to st joe strummer / think he might've been our only decent teacher / getting older only makes it harder to remember / we are our only saviours / we're gonna build something this summer) y "Sequestered In Memphis" las dos con las guitarras muy presentes al igual que los teclados del "chef francés" como le llama Al Bundy.

Quizás por lo grandes que son esas dos canciones, el disco se resiente un poco en las dos siguientes: "One For The Cutters" (con clavicordio) y "Navy Sheets" (con Patterson Hood de DBT) pero resurge rapidamente con ese baladón que es "Lord I'm Discouraged" casi a la altura de "First Night".

"Easy Saphire" y "Both Crosses" mantienen el nivel, ésta última con un ligero toque "western" y a continuación llega la traca final: "Stay Positive" (wooohoho), "Magazines" (con el cantante de Lucero a los coros), "Joke About Jamaica" y "Slapped Actress".

Lo dicho enoooooooooormes...

The Hold Steady al ARF '08!!!

cablehogue78 escribió:Definitivamente... discazo... una vez más y ya van 4 de 4...

Empieza con dos cañonazos: "Constructive Summer" (raise a toast to st joe strummer / think he might've been our only decent teacher / getting older only makes it harder to remember / we are our only saviours / we're gonna build something this summer) y "Sequestered In Memphis" las dos con las guitarras muy presentes al igual que los teclados del "chef francés" como le llama Al Bundy.

Quizás por lo grandes que son esas dos canciones, el disco se resiente un poco en las dos siguientes: "One For The Cutters" (con clavicordio) y "Navy Sheets" (con Patterson Hood de DBT) pero resurge rapidamente con ese baladón que es "Lord I'm Discouraged" casi a la altura de "First Night".

"Easy Saphire" y "Both Crosses" mantienen el nivel, ésta última con un ligero toque "western" y a continuación llega la traca final: "Stay Positive" (wooohoho), "Magazines" (con el cantante de Lucero a los coros), "Joke About Jamaica" y "Slapped Actress".

Lo dicho enoooooooooormes...

The Hold Steady al ARF '08!!!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!

[quote="pompitas"]

pinkpanther escribió:

silver escribió:Puto sendspace.....

http://rapidshare.com/files/116868155/HS-SP.rar

No me funciona el enlace, alguien tiene alguno actualizado?

The Hold Steady han anunciado fechas para su gira europea en otoño y parece ser que no van a pasar por España...

Que alguien les traiga... hostia ya!!!

08-16 Chelmsford, England - Hylands Park (V Festival)
08-17 Staffordshire, England - Weston Park (V Festival)
09-29 Oxford, England - Academy
09-30 Manchester, England - Manchester University
10-01 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
10-02 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
10-04 Bristol, England - Anson Rooms
10-05 Nottingham, England - Rock City
10-06 Portsmouth, England - Pyramids
10-08 London, England - Roundhouse
10-09 Paris, France - Nouveau Casino
10-11 Hamburg, Germany - Knust
10-12 Cologne, Germany - Luxor
10-13 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
10-15 Oslo, Norway - Rockerfeller
10-16 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Slussen
10-17 Goteborg, Sweden - Sticky Fingers
10-19 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
10-20 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club
10-21 Vienna, Austria - WUK
10-22 Munich, Germany - Ampere

Descubriendolos por primera vez!!!

BONZO escribió:Descubriendolos por primera vez!!!

joder, qué envidia!!!

qué te parecen???

cablehogue78 escribió:

BONZO escribió:Descubriendolos por primera vez!!!

joder, qué envidia!!!

qué te parecen???

Solo escuché los temas del my space,ese guitarrista tiene muy buena pinta.

Pues investiga, investiga...

cablehogue78 escribió:Definitivamente... discazo... una vez más y ya van 4 de 4...

Empieza con dos cañonazos: "Constructive Summer" (raise a toast to st joe strummer / think he might've been our only decent teacher / getting older only makes it harder to remember / we are our only saviours / we're gonna build something this summer) y "Sequestered In Memphis" las dos con las guitarras muy presentes al igual que los teclados del "chef francés" como le llama Al Bundy.

Quizás por lo grandes que son esas dos canciones, el disco se resiente un poco en las dos siguientes: "One For The Cutters" (con clavicordio) y "Navy Sheets" (con Patterson Hood de DBT) pero resurge rapidamente con ese baladón que es "Lord I'm Discouraged" casi a la altura de "First Night".

"Easy Saphire" y "Both Crosses" mantienen el nivel, ésta última con un ligero toque "western" y a continuación llega la traca final: "Stay Positive" (wooohoho), "Magazines" (con el cantante de Lucero a los coros), "Joke About Jamaica" y "Slapped Actress".

Lo dicho enoooooooooormes...

The Hold Steady al ARF '08!!!

Aunque no son 100% mi estilo lo estuve escuchando hace un par de semanas y es un gran disco. No tan optimista como el anterior, pero muy bueno. Si vuelven por aquí no pienso perdérmelos.

DarthMercury escribió:

cablehogue78 escribió:Definitivamente... discazo... una vez más y ya van 4 de 4...

Empieza con dos cañonazos: "Constructive Summer" (raise a toast to st joe strummer / think he might've been our only decent teacher / getting older only makes it harder to remember / we are our only saviours / we're gonna build something this summer) y "Sequestered In Memphis" las dos con las guitarras muy presentes al igual que los teclados del "chef francés" como le llama Al Bundy.

Quizás por lo grandes que son esas dos canciones, el disco se resiente un poco en las dos siguientes: "One For The Cutters" (con clavicordio) y "Navy Sheets" (con Patterson Hood de DBT) pero resurge rapidamente con ese baladón que es "Lord I'm Discouraged" casi a la altura de "First Night".

"Easy Saphire" y "Both Crosses" mantienen el nivel, ésta última con un ligero toque "western" y a continuación llega la traca final: "Stay Positive" (wooohoho), "Magazines" (con el cantante de Lucero a los coros), "Joke About Jamaica" y "Slapped Actress".

Lo dicho enoooooooooormes...

The Hold Steady al ARF '08!!!

Aunque no son 100% mi estilo lo estuve escuchando hace un par de semanas y es un gran disco. No tan optimista como el anterior, pero muy bueno. Si vuelven por aquí no pienso perdérmelos.

En directo son todavía mejores... De hecho mucho mejores... Les vi dos veces el año pasado y, sobre todo la del Moby Dick, fue de lo mejor del año

cablehogue78 escribió:

DarthMercury escribió:

cablehogue78 escribió:Definitivamente... discazo... una vez más y ya van 4 de 4...

Empieza con dos cañonazos: "Constructive Summer" (raise a toast to st joe strummer / think he might've been our only decent teacher / getting older only makes it harder to remember / we are our only saviours / we're gonna build something this summer) y "Sequestered In Memphis" las dos con las guitarras muy presentes al igual que los teclados del "chef francés" como le llama Al Bundy.

Quizás por lo grandes que son esas dos canciones, el disco se resiente un poco en las dos siguientes: "One For The Cutters" (con clavicordio) y "Navy Sheets" (con Patterson Hood de DBT) pero resurge rapidamente con ese baladón que es "Lord I'm Discouraged" casi a la altura de "First Night".

"Easy Saphire" y "Both Crosses" mantienen el nivel, ésta última con un ligero toque "western" y a continuación llega la traca final: "Stay Positive" (wooohoho), "Magazines" (con el cantante de Lucero a los coros), "Joke About Jamaica" y "Slapped Actress".

Lo dicho enoooooooooormes...

The Hold Steady al ARF '08!!!

Aunque no son 100% mi estilo lo estuve escuchando hace un par de semanas y es un gran disco. No tan optimista como el anterior, pero muy bueno. Si vuelven por aquí no pienso perdérmelos.

En directo son todavía mejores... De hecho mucho mejores... Les vi dos veces el año pasado y, sobre todo la del Moby Dick, fue de lo mejor del año

Yo tambien estuve alli, geniales!!

Por eso mismo la noticia de que su gira no para por aquí es la peor de un 2008 que estaba siendo perfecto...

Sí, he visto a Dylan, a Young, a Springsteen, a Waits, a Cave y a The Cure... entre muchos otros... veré a a los Sonics y a los Jayhawks en el ARF... volveré a ver a The Wildhearts... 12 años después!!!... pero sin ver a esta gente no será un año perfecto... y lo digo totalmente en serio

Acabo de escuchar por primera vez a esta banda. He escuchado su primer disco Almost Killed Me. Qué buenos! Dónde me he metido los últimos 4 años para no haberlos escuchado antes?

Patterson Hood de Drive-By Truckers aprovecha la gira conjunta por USA que están haciendo con The Hold Steady para comentar sus 5 canciones favoritas de la banda de Brooklyn...

1. CHILLOUT TENT - This is the song the made me first fall in love with the band. If "Let There Be Rock" was my snapshot of going to The Rock Show back when I was a teenager, it could be argued that this one is theirs. At any rate, it tells a great story with both humor and pathos and like so many of their songs is cinematic as hell. I also love the irreverent reinvention of the sappy Greece "Summer Lovin'" scene into a classic slab of pop-culture revision that somehow manages to be both ironically detached and humanistically warm. A rare feat in modern culture, especially from a Rock and Roll Band.
One of my favorite songs of the decade.

2. LORD I'M DISCOURAGED - My favorite song on the new album and probably my favorite song so far this year. Also cinematic as hell (boy, it's hard not to use that phrase in describing this band). This song plays out like a five minute movie with humor and drama. Even a twist at the end. A beautiful piece of work with an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo to boot.

3. YOUR LITTLE HOODRAT FRIEND - This one plays out more like better version of classic era alternative rock (boy that's a funny concept in its own rite) turbo charged and taken up about ten notches in the writing department. Damn, they write great Rock and Roll songs. This song is truly hilarious from start to finish (getting even better as it builds up to the punch line) and it Rocks like pure hellfire. Many of my favorite songs ever written are structured like a well told joke that builds to the payoff punch line at the end. This one does that about as well as any song I could name.

4. STEVE NICKS - I may be totally full of shit, but this one hits me like some kind of deconstructed Springsteen song (especially when it starts coming unhinged toward the end) and I mean this in the absolute best of ways. Listening to THS, I always got the feeling that they were trying to build their idea of an ultimate Rock and Roll Band, taking elements they all loved from their favorites growing up and reconstituting them on their own terms to build their version of the perfect beast. All of my favorite bands through the years seemed to take this approach; including The Clash and yes, Bruce Springsteen (and yes, Drive-By Truckers) and to me few have ever nailed the concept any better than The Hold Steady.

5. STAY POSITIVE - Here we have a great song that references it's own catchiness in the second verse ("The singalong songs will be our scriptures") immediately followed by the most amazingly unshakable singalong chorus of the last decade and a half. This song is a monster hit single waiting to happen and if there was any justice (or half decent radio) it would be blasting from every car stereo in America.




Coincido con él en que Lord I'm Discouraged está entre las mejores canciones de este año....

cablehogue78 escribió:Patterson Hood de Drive-By Truckers aprovecha la gira conjunta por USA que están haciendo con The Hold Steady para comentar sus 5 canciones favoritas de la banda de Brooklyn...

1. CHILLOUT TENT - This is the song the made me first fall in love with the band. If "Let There Be Rock" was my snapshot of going to The Rock Show back when I was a teenager, it could be argued that this one is theirs. At any rate, it tells a great story with both humor and pathos and like so many of their songs is cinematic as hell. I also love the irreverent reinvention of the sappy Greece "Summer Lovin'" scene into a classic slab of pop-culture revision that somehow manages to be both ironically detached and humanistically warm. A rare feat in modern culture, especially from a Rock and Roll Band.
One of my favorite songs of the decade.

2. LORD I'M DISCOURAGED - My favorite song on the new album and probably my favorite song so far this year. Also cinematic as hell (boy, it's hard not to use that phrase in describing this band). This song plays out like a five minute movie with humor and drama. Even a twist at the end. A beautiful piece of work with an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo to boot.

3. YOUR LITTLE HOODRAT FRIEND - This one plays out more like better version of classic era alternative rock (boy that's a funny concept in its own rite) turbo charged and taken up about ten notches in the writing department. Damn, they write great Rock and Roll songs. This song is truly hilarious from start to finish (getting even better as it builds up to the punch line) and it Rocks like pure hellfire. Many of my favorite songs ever written are structured like a well told joke that builds to the payoff punch line at the end. This one does that about as well as any song I could name.

4. STEVE NICKS - I may be totally full of shit, but this one hits me like some kind of deconstructed Springsteen song (especially when it starts coming unhinged toward the end) and I mean this in the absolute best of ways. Listening to THS, I always got the feeling that they were trying to build their idea of an ultimate Rock and Roll Band, taking elements they all loved from their favorites growing up and reconstituting them on their own terms to build their version of the perfect beast. All of my favorite bands through the years seemed to take this approach; including The Clash and yes, Bruce Springsteen (and yes, Drive-By Truckers) and to me few have ever nailed the concept any better than The Hold Steady.

5. STAY POSITIVE - Here we have a great song that references it's own catchiness in the second verse ("The singalong songs will be our scriptures") immediately followed by the most amazingly unshakable singalong chorus of the last decade and a half. This song is a monster hit single waiting to happen and if there was any justice (or half decent radio) it would be blasting from every car stereo in America.




Coincido con él en que Lord I'm Discouraged está entre las mejores canciones de este año....

Y que Stay Positive suena a himno. Discazo, discazo.

DarthMercury escribió:

cablehogue78 escribió:Patterson Hood de Drive-By Truckers aprovecha la gira conjunta por USA que están haciendo con The Hold Steady para comentar sus 5 canciones favoritas de la banda de Brooklyn...

1. CHILLOUT TENT - This is the song the made me first fall in love with the band. If "Let There Be Rock" was my snapshot of going to The Rock Show back when I was a teenager, it could be argued that this one is theirs. At any rate, it tells a great story with both humor and pathos and like so many of their songs is cinematic as hell. I also love the irreverent reinvention of the sappy Greece "Summer Lovin'" scene into a classic slab of pop-culture revision that somehow manages to be both ironically detached and humanistically warm. A rare feat in modern culture, especially from a Rock and Roll Band.
One of my favorite songs of the decade.

2. LORD I'M DISCOURAGED - My favorite song on the new album and probably my favorite song so far this year. Also cinematic as hell (boy, it's hard not to use that phrase in describing this band). This song plays out like a five minute movie with humor and drama. Even a twist at the end. A beautiful piece of work with an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo to boot.

3. YOUR LITTLE HOODRAT FRIEND - This one plays out more like better version of classic era alternative rock (boy that's a funny concept in its own rite) turbo charged and taken up about ten notches in the writing department. Damn, they write great Rock and Roll songs. This song is truly hilarious from start to finish (getting even better as it builds up to the punch line) and it Rocks like pure hellfire. Many of my favorite songs ever written are structured like a well told joke that builds to the payoff punch line at the end. This one does that about as well as any song I could name.

4. STEVE NICKS - I may be totally full of shit, but this one hits me like some kind of deconstructed Springsteen song (especially when it starts coming unhinged toward the end) and I mean this in the absolute best of ways. Listening to THS, I always got the feeling that they were trying to build their idea of an ultimate Rock and Roll Band, taking elements they all loved from their favorites growing up and reconstituting them on their own terms to build their version of the perfect beast. All of my favorite bands through the years seemed to take this approach; including The Clash and yes, Bruce Springsteen (and yes, Drive-By Truckers) and to me few have ever nailed the concept any better than The Hold Steady.

5. STAY POSITIVE - Here we have a great song that references it's own catchiness in the second verse ("The singalong songs will be our scriptures") immediately followed by the most amazingly unshakable singalong chorus of the last decade and a half. This song is a monster hit single waiting to happen and if there was any justice (or half decent radio) it would be blasting from every car stereo in America.




Coincido con él en que Lord I'm Discouraged está entre las mejores canciones de este año....

Y que Stay Positive suena a himno. Discazo, discazo.

Me han gustado, moderadamente, pero me han gustado.

Escuché una vez "Boys and girls..." y me sonó descaradamente a "Born to run".

¿Debo darle otra oportunidad?

Moltisanti escribió:

DarthMercury escribió:

cablehogue78 escribió:Patterson Hood de Drive-By Truckers aprovecha la gira conjunta por USA que están haciendo con The Hold Steady para comentar sus 5 canciones favoritas de la banda de Brooklyn...

1. CHILLOUT TENT - This is the song the made me first fall in love with the band. If "Let There Be Rock" was my snapshot of going to The Rock Show back when I was a teenager, it could be argued that this one is theirs. At any rate, it tells a great story with both humor and pathos and like so many of their songs is cinematic as hell. I also love the irreverent reinvention of the sappy Greece "Summer Lovin'" scene into a classic slab of pop-culture revision that somehow manages to be both ironically detached and humanistically warm. A rare feat in modern culture, especially from a Rock and Roll Band.
One of my favorite songs of the decade.

2. LORD I'M DISCOURAGED - My favorite song on the new album and probably my favorite song so far this year. Also cinematic as hell (boy, it's hard not to use that phrase in describing this band). This song plays out like a five minute movie with humor and drama. Even a twist at the end. A beautiful piece of work with an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo to boot.

3. YOUR LITTLE HOODRAT FRIEND - This one plays out more like better version of classic era alternative rock (boy that's a funny concept in its own rite) turbo charged and taken up about ten notches in the writing department. Damn, they write great Rock and Roll songs. This song is truly hilarious from start to finish (getting even better as it builds up to the punch line) and it Rocks like pure hellfire. Many of my favorite songs ever written are structured like a well told joke that builds to the payoff punch line at the end. This one does that about as well as any song I could name.

4. STEVE NICKS - I may be totally full of shit, but this one hits me like some kind of deconstructed Springsteen song (especially when it starts coming unhinged toward the end) and I mean this in the absolute best of ways. Listening to THS, I always got the feeling that they were trying to build their idea of an ultimate Rock and Roll Band, taking elements they all loved from their favorites growing up and reconstituting them on their own terms to build their version of the perfect beast. All of my favorite bands through the years seemed to take this approach; including The Clash and yes, Bruce Springsteen (and yes, Drive-By Truckers) and to me few have ever nailed the concept any better than The Hold Steady.

5. STAY POSITIVE - Here we have a great song that references it's own catchiness in the second verse ("The singalong songs will be our scriptures") immediately followed by the most amazingly unshakable singalong chorus of the last decade and a half. This song is a monster hit single waiting to happen and if there was any justice (or half decent radio) it would be blasting from every car stereo in America.




Coincido con él en que Lord I'm Discouraged está entre las mejores canciones de este año....

Y que Stay Positive suena a himno. Discazo, discazo.

Me han gustado, moderadamente, pero me han gustado.

Escuché una vez "Boys and girls..." y me sonó descaradamente a "Born to run".

¿Debo darle otra oportunidad?

sí... pero probablemente te siga sonando a born to run...

de todas formas molti, tienen 4 discos... y todavía no sé cuál es el mejor y cuál es el peor... quiero decir que si no te convence eso prueba con otro...

DarthMercury escribió:



Y que Stay Positive suena a himno. Discazo, discazo.

discacísimo...

Moltisanti escribió:

DarthMercury escribió:

cablehogue78 escribió:Patterson Hood de Drive-By Truckers aprovecha la gira conjunta por USA que están haciendo con The Hold Steady para comentar sus 5 canciones favoritas de la banda de Brooklyn...

1. CHILLOUT TENT - This is the song the made me first fall in love with the band. If "Let There Be Rock" was my snapshot of going to The Rock Show back when I was a teenager, it could be argued that this one is theirs. At any rate, it tells a great story with both humor and pathos and like so many of their songs is cinematic as hell. I also love the irreverent reinvention of the sappy Greece "Summer Lovin'" scene into a classic slab of pop-culture revision that somehow manages to be both ironically detached and humanistically warm. A rare feat in modern culture, especially from a Rock and Roll Band.
One of my favorite songs of the decade.

2. LORD I'M DISCOURAGED - My favorite song on the new album and probably my favorite song so far this year. Also cinematic as hell (boy, it's hard not to use that phrase in describing this band). This song plays out like a five minute movie with humor and drama. Even a twist at the end. A beautiful piece of work with an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo to boot.

3. YOUR LITTLE HOODRAT FRIEND - This one plays out more like better version of classic era alternative rock (boy that's a funny concept in its own rite) turbo charged and taken up about ten notches in the writing department. Damn, they write great Rock and Roll songs. This song is truly hilarious from start to finish (getting even better as it builds up to the punch line) and it Rocks like pure hellfire. Many of my favorite songs ever written are structured like a well told joke that builds to the payoff punch line at the end. This one does that about as well as any song I could name.

4. STEVE NICKS - I may be totally full of shit, but this one hits me like some kind of deconstructed Springsteen song (especially when it starts coming unhinged toward the end) and I mean this in the absolute best of ways. Listening to THS, I always got the feeling that they were trying to build their idea of an ultimate Rock and Roll Band, taking elements they all loved from their favorites growing up and reconstituting them on their own terms to build their version of the perfect beast. All of my favorite bands through the years seemed to take this approach; including The Clash and yes, Bruce Springsteen (and yes, Drive-By Truckers) and to me few have ever nailed the concept any better than The Hold Steady.

5. STAY POSITIVE - Here we have a great song that references it's own catchiness in the second verse ("The singalong songs will be our scriptures") immediately followed by the most amazingly unshakable singalong chorus of the last decade and a half. This song is a monster hit single waiting to happen and if there was any justice (or half decent radio) it would be blasting from every car stereo in America.




Coincido con él en que Lord I'm Discouraged está entre las mejores canciones de este año....

Y que Stay Positive suena a himno. Discazo, discazo.

Me han gustado, moderadamente, pero me han gustado.

Escuché una vez "Boys and girls..." y me sonó descaradamente a "Born to run".

¿Debo darle otra oportunidad?

A mi me gusta más este que Boys and girls... aunque también es menos 'buenrollista' y requiere de bastantes escuchas. Y sí, a mi me suenan a canciones de Springsteen cantadas por Joe Strummer. O algo así

Por cierto, las letras en general tienen bastante nivel. De lectura recomendable.

DarthMercury escribió:

Moltisanti escribió:

DarthMercury escribió:

cablehogue78 escribió:Patterson Hood de Drive-By Truckers aprovecha la gira conjunta por USA que están haciendo con The Hold Steady para comentar sus 5 canciones favoritas de la banda de Brooklyn...

1. CHILLOUT TENT - This is the song the made me first fall in love with the band. If "Let There Be Rock" was my snapshot of going to The Rock Show back when I was a teenager, it could be argued that this one is theirs. At any rate, it tells a great story with both humor and pathos and like so many of their songs is cinematic as hell. I also love the irreverent reinvention of the sappy Greece "Summer Lovin'" scene into a classic slab of pop-culture revision that somehow manages to be both ironically detached and humanistically warm. A rare feat in modern culture, especially from a Rock and Roll Band.
One of my favorite songs of the decade.

2. LORD I'M DISCOURAGED - My favorite song on the new album and probably my favorite song so far this year. Also cinematic as hell (boy, it's hard not to use that phrase in describing this band). This song plays out like a five minute movie with humor and drama. Even a twist at the end. A beautiful piece of work with an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo to boot.

3. YOUR LITTLE HOODRAT FRIEND - This one plays out more like better version of classic era alternative rock (boy that's a funny concept in its own rite) turbo charged and taken up about ten notches in the writing department. Damn, they write great Rock and Roll songs. This song is truly hilarious from start to finish (getting even better as it builds up to the punch line) and it Rocks like pure hellfire. Many of my favorite songs ever written are structured like a well told joke that builds to the payoff punch line at the end. This one does that about as well as any song I could name.

4. STEVE NICKS - I may be totally full of shit, but this one hits me like some kind of deconstructed Springsteen song (especially when it starts coming unhinged toward the end) and I mean this in the absolute best of ways. Listening to THS, I always got the feeling that they were trying to build their idea of an ultimate Rock and Roll Band, taking elements they all loved from their favorites growing up and reconstituting them on their own terms to build their version of the perfect beast. All of my favorite bands through the years seemed to take this approach; including The Clash and yes, Bruce Springsteen (and yes, Drive-By Truckers) and to me few have ever nailed the concept any better than The Hold Steady.

5. STAY POSITIVE - Here we have a great song that references it's own catchiness in the second verse ("The singalong songs will be our scriptures") immediately followed by the most amazingly unshakable singalong chorus of the last decade and a half. This song is a monster hit single waiting to happen and if there was any justice (or half decent radio) it would be blasting from every car stereo in America.




Coincido con él en que Lord I'm Discouraged está entre las mejores canciones de este año....

Y que Stay Positive suena a himno. Discazo, discazo.

Me han gustado, moderadamente, pero me han gustado.

Escuché una vez "Boys and girls..." y me sonó descaradamente a "Born to run".

¿Debo darle otra oportunidad?

A mi me gusta más este que Boys and girls... aunque también es menos 'buenrollista' y requiere de bastantes escuchas. Y sí, a mi me suenan a canciones de Springsteen cantadas por Joe Strummer. O algo así

Por cierto, las letras en general tienen bastante nivel. De lectura recomendable.

Ok, creo que sí, prefiero este porque tiene más calado.

Y le daré lectura a las lyrics, que sí, tienen buena pinta. De hecho el libreto es cojonudo, me alegro de haberme dejado los cuartos. Hoy ha tocado comprita en la Fnac. Hacía tres meses que no iba.

En 2008, buen disco.

En cualquier año de los 90's, y en el primer lustro de esta década, un bonito posavasos.

Barfly escribió:En 2008, buen disco.

En cualquier año de los 90's, y en el primer lustro de esta década, un bonito posavasos.

Barfly escribió:En 2008, buen disco.

En cualquier año de los 90's, y en el primer lustro de esta década, un bonito posavasos.

Puede ser.

Ahora estoy escuchando el de Lucinda Williams y, no me preguntes por qué ni cómo, pero tengo ganas de volver a ponerme el de Hold Steady.

por cierto mcfly... tengo una pregunta para usted en este topic...

http://azkenarockfestival2.foroes.org/la-plazoleta-f13/que-estais-escuchando-ahora-t4687-260.htm

aunque ya no sé si fiarme de su criterio...

Moltisanti escribió:Ahora estoy escuchando el de Lucinda Williams y, no me preguntes por qué ni cómo, pero tengo ganas de volver a ponerme el de Hold Steady.

Hazlo, a mi me parece un muy buen disco y vuelve a intentarlo con "Boys and Girls.." me parece muy bueno también.

Moltisanti escribió:Ahora estoy escuchando el de Lucinda Williams y, no me preguntes por qué ni cómo, pero tengo ganas de volver a ponerme el de Hold Steady.

Te puedo entender.

A mí de Hold Steady me gusta más la segunda parte del disco que la primera. Hay alguna por ahí moderadamente buena.

Pero vamos, grupo del montón, como casi todos hoy en día, por otra parte.

Lucinda Williams, por su parte, ha ofrecido un disco del nivel de West, más o menos. Es decir, aceptable, que probablemente esté en mi lista de mejores discos de 2008, pero a años luz de World Without Tears, Sweet Old World, Car Wheels y demás.

Mete la versión de AC/DC para intentar convencer a forolandia de que ha recuperado la garra y la pegada de antaño y tal, pero vamos, a mí no me ha engañado.

Eso sí, vuelvo a reiterar que If Wishes Were Horses es una canción absolutamente memorable.

Barfly escribió:Eso sí, vuelvo a reiterar que If Wishes Were Horses es una canción absolutamente memorable.

Estaba sonando ahora mismo un piano escalofriante y he mirado la contraportada, y efectivamente, es esa.

Excelente canción.

El disco en conjunto es inferior a West porque West estaba marcado por la muerte de su vieja y eso a mi me conmovió, de hecho lo considero un disco terriblemente imperfecto, pero maravilloso en su conjunto, con estructuras dramáticas sensacionales, melodías más arrebatadas que este, parecidas de hecho a esta "If wishes.." que comentas, y vaya, "Come on" era una patada en los cojones como dios manda, y "Are you alright" funcionaba a todas horas, y en general el tono melancólico y doliente del álbum me convenció desde la primera escucha hasta la última, y mira que le di escuchas.

A día de hoy, me rompe y me rasga mucho más el último de Everlast que este, la verdad.

Y no sé pero creo que estoy en un momento particularmente confuso para juzgar discos, pero sé cuál si y cuál no, y este, es un "pues vaya".

Bueno, van ya cinco escuchas.

Cada vez crece más, tengo que decir. Pero MUCHO más.