The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (October 27th 2023) Album • Page 122

I'd put Elsie second in his entire catalogue behind only The 59 Sound which is my favourite album ever.

 

59 Sound
American Slang
Sleepwalkers
Elsie
Sink or Swim
Handwritten
History Books
Painkillers
Local Honey
Get Hurt

 

59 Sound
American Slang
Handwritten
Sink or Swim
Sleepwalkers
Get Hurt (including bonus tracks)
Painkillers
History Books
Elsie
Local Honey

 

Gonna throw on American Slang now. Perfect album for this hot and muggy weather.

 

Before anyone yells at me (again), I love Elsie too, it's incredible, but it also happens to have, like, 3 of my least favorite BF songs and that drags it down compared to the others.

 

And Get Hurt remains criminally underrated by the fanbase for reasons I never totally understood.

 

We just ignoring Night Divine? Cause thats my least favorite hes put out.

 

Yes, I do in fact ignore Night Divine lol

 

I am more prepared to acknowledge Molly and the Zombies or the Cincinnati Rail Tie or whatever before Night Divine haha

 

I am absolutely ignoring Night Divine

 

i think it wouldve been better with the bonus tracks. Have Mercy is one of my favs.

 

Cincinnati Rail Tie isn't great, but the other band, the one after that and before Gaslight, is very listenable

 

Which 3?

 

Yeah I'm including those 4 songs, those make it so much better for sure

 

I still accept the Reading and Leeds version of Have Mercy the finished product of this song, and that version is probably a top-5 gaslight song for me.

 

I am not a fan of I Believe Jesus, Joey (which I know is a bonus track and a cover so kinda cheating here), and Cherry Blossoms

I love "slow Fallon" but none of these are very melodic to me, and his best slow songs are still very melodic. These are more, like.......moody? I guess. Probably not explaining it very well. But I do love the rest of the album.

 

oh hard disagree on Joey but to each their on

 

If we are ranking:

59 Sound
Slang
Elsie
Sink or Swim
Handwritten
History Books
Get Hurt
Painkillers
Sleepwalkers
Local Honey (21 Days is a great song)

 

This Charming Man

 

You got lucky this time. These are the only 3 I would accept.

 

And that Teenage Dream cover rules.

 

HA HA fair enough. I could easily move the album up from 9th, to like, 6th or 7th, those are all close for me. But those 3 songs are just not my thing and all the other albums are more "start to finish great" in my opinion so they stick out compared to other albums

 

Local Honey has grown on me over the years for sure

 

He dropped that right before the pandemic and I was able to catch him in Delaware with Justin Townes Earle (Last Show,RIP).