Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
- Lester Bangs
Showing posts with label The Hold Steady. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hold Steady. Show all posts
My obsessive-compulsive musical personality has gotten the better of me...again, and I have decided to post the obligatory list of my favorite 10 records of the year past.
I usually agonize over these things for way too long, so this year I am not going to think too deeply on it, and just pick the 10 albums that I couldn't stop playing in 2008.
"She got screwed up by religion. She got screwed by soccer players. She got high for the first time in the camps down by the banks of the Mississippi river. Lord to be seventeen forever. She got confused about the truth. She came to in a confession. She got high for the last time in the camps down by the banks of the river. Lord to be 33 forever. She got screwed up by her vision. it was scary when she saw him. She didn't tell a single person about the camps on the banks of the Mississippi river. Lord to be seventeen forever. She got strung out the scene. She got scared when it got druggy. The way the whispers bit like fangs in the last hour of the parties. Lord to be 33 forever."
This new Hold Steady record is already my summer soundtrack. I have played the thing into the ground and still love every single note. Just wanted to take a second and share the first track off of 'Stay Positive' and a track from the band Craig Finn name checks in the song, The Clash.
I'm perplexed, don't get it, can't understand these problem! YOU (women) that are honestly available and searching won't get off your duff ! What is in your britches, concrete, bricks, iron or worse..... MALLORY ? (heaviest known metal) You all talk playin Baseball, however you become afraid when a real opponent steps forward to the plate knowing the game and wanting to win. "OH, I'm scared.... he's a for real kind of guy, he has expectations!" Is that a bad thing, don't you? I'm beginning to think you women can only judge your next man by first screwing him to death while saying "NSA" relationship. (No Strings Attached) Where are your brains, up you puss? Why be scared? Just because the last prick screwed you over good doesn't mean I'm going too, well maybe your puss eventually but not you! Yes, my future hopes are real! Why does that scare you? What else should they be?? I also want to know if being with you is right for the rest of my life, but not using my bat needlessly as the instrument of determination!!! One lovely woman is all I want / need!! You just can't sit on the bench talking Baseball, that is not how you win! Why not have some honest fun and be a serious participant? If you strike out... so what, did you give it your best effort?! Can a person really succeed if they don't put all their effort into what they are trying to accomplish? NO, I don't think so.... the outcome will show that exact effort given!
I am playing to win. I hope to find an attractive woman, at least somewhat slendar and healthy (fit), as I am too.
I'm just making a request to love again before I start pushing daisy's up.... that's all!
Please forgive me, I have good intentions toward all.
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What an IDIOT! Don't people read these out loud before submitting them? And I can't believe he was able to stretch the baseball metaphor out in such a long, dreadful way.... T
I had to pick this one. The person posting was SO brave to admit to those songs as 'their songs'...God bless her.
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Your Birthday 3/16, - 41
We always had so much fun together and thought I love would be 4ever, although you had it in your head what if with her, now are you wondering what if without me being in your life, since you are divorced. You are still in my head, obviously you are suppose to be that is why you are in there. Our songs: Whitney Houston I will always love you, Elton John something about the way you looked tonight, Atlantic Star Secret Lovers. I sure do miss you.....I hope life is treating you very well these days. Have you been back to Myrtle Beach looking at the moon and think of me like you did before, those days were some of the happiest days of my life spending them with you. I still have everything you ever gave me. I will be keeping them to the day I die. What about the log cabin, new built house, Jack's steakhouse, just to name a few, yes, I carry the list everyday in my purse. As I said years ago, you will always be in my heart.
My love for the words of Craig Finn and the music of the Hold Steady knows no limits. I think a lot of it has to do with my Midwestern roots. So much of what they sing about revolves around growing up, living, and just trying to figure life out in middle America.
Finn has the most amazing way of naming names and naming places that gives his songs instant credibility. He is a fantastic story teller. There music alwyas sounds to me like a great mesh of Bruce Springsteen and Social Distortion...and it always has so much heart. Can't wait for another Hold Steady record.
I love musical name-checking. You know, when a band name or song title are dropped into a lyric. Snow Patrol's 'Chicago' springs to mind. But this song, 'certain songs'...is the name dropping grand champion! A love song to songs.
Just taking a second this Holiday season to immortalize my favorite band in youtube form...thanks for the hours of distraction, motivation, and sheer pleasure over the years fellas...you are loved!
...or my email is anyway! Hey, it's me Blair...the Certain Songs staff of one. I just do this for the love of the music and am in no way trying to rip anybody off, so if you are an artist or a record label and you are not happy that I am promoting your music, or you want me to take a song down, just shoot me an email and I will most definitely oblige.
And please support the artists I post here in whatever way you can if you do download a song...go to a show, buy some merch, buy an album...these songs are the soundtrack to my life and I just love to share them. But I can only do that if the insanely talented artist responsible for said songs are able to eat.
I also love hearing new stuff...so any submissions can also be sent to my email, I will try my bestest to listen to everything and get back to you all...peace,love,rock n' roll.
csmusicblog@gmail.com
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I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the east coast. Roughly twenty years old. Got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio. Of warm beer to the summer smoke. And the meat loaf to the billy joel. Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.
She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car. She looks shallow but shes neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars. She's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks. Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox. Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along. B-1 is for the good girls. It's only the good die young. C-9 is for the making eyes. It's paradise by the dashboard light. D4 is for the lovers. B12 is for the speeders. And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends. And they're playing it again. Ellen Foley gives us hope. Certain songs they get scratched into our souls.
I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes. Screwing in the surf and going out to shows. They get high and ride around in gtos. I guess you're old enough to know. CERTAIN SONGS THEY GET SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS. - The Hold Steady
