I struggled with placing the new songs quite yet, and it's hard for me to place ANYTHING from 59 Sound or Slang below the top half. I consider myself a Get Hurt apologist of the highest order, but when you actually do this exercise, you see that at least half that album, even though great, ends up bottom tier in the overall ranks. I think, for me, History Books will be similar, even though I do really dig it. The top 15 and bottom 15 are pretty easy but godDAMN the middle part is hard. Here’s Looking at You Kid Handwritten The Backseat The 59 Sound Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Dark Places 45 Meet Me By The River’s Edge She Loves You We’re Getting a Divorce, You Keep The Diner We Came To Dance Boxer Mulholland Drive Keepsake Here Comes My Man I’da Called You Woody, Joe Wherefore Art Thou Elvis American Slang Blue Jeans and White T Shirts 1930 Autumn Have Mercy Diamond Church Street Choir Bring It On Film Noir Selected Poems Orphans Red Violins Howl Little Fires Casanova, Baby Great Expectations Old Haunts Patient Ferris Wheel I Live In The Room Above Her Stay Lucky Michigan 1975 1000 Years The Spirit of Jazz Miles Davis & The Cool High Lonesome Positive Charge Old White Lincoln Rollin and Tumblin Get Hurt Biloxi Parish History Books Boomboxes and Dictionaries I Could’a Been a Contender Too Much Blood Angry Johnny And The Radio Queen Of Lower Chelsea Drive Helter Skeleton Mama’s Boys Red At Night Mae Spider Bites Break Your Heart Senor and The Queen Say I Won’t National Anthem Blue Dahlia Underneath The Ground Preludes The Navesink Banks The Weatherman Red In The Morning Wooderson Ain’t That A Shame Sweet Morphine Empires We Did It When We Were Young Halloween Desire Stray Paper Teenage Rebellion Stay Vicious
1. Handwritten 2. Miles Davis & The Cool 3. The Backseat 4. The '59 Sound 5. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 6. Great Expectations 7. Mulholland Drive 8. American Slang 9. Here's Looking at You, Kid 10. Michigan, 1975 11. Mae 12. Dark Places 13. Casanova, Baby! 14. The Patient Ferris Wheel 15. Get Hurt 16. Stay Lucky' 17. Old White Lincoln 18. Bring It On 19. Meet Me by the River's Edge 20. 45 21. Here Comes My Man 22. High Lonesome 23. The Queen of Lower Chelsea 24. Old Haunts 25. The Spirit of Jazz 26. The Diamond Church Street Choir 27. Biloxi Parish 28. The Weatherman 29. Keepsake 30. Spider Bites 31. We Came to Dance 32. Have Mercy 33. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts 34. Stray Paper 35. She Loves You 36. National Anthem 37. History Books 38. Wooderson 39. Film Noir 40. Blue Dahlia 41. Orphans 42. Angry Johnny and the Radio 43. 1,000 Years 44. Little Fires 45. We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner 46. 1930 47. I'da Called You Woody, Joe 48. The Navesink Banks 49. Coul'da Been a Contender 50. Drive 51. Red Violins 52. Ain't That a Shame 53. Rollin' and Tumblin' 54. Red at Night 55. Red in the Morning 56. Selected Poems 57. Sweet Morphine 58. Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? 59. I Live in the Room Above Her 60. Positive Charge 61. Say I Won't (Recognize) 62. Senor and the Queen 63. Howl 64. Boomboxes and Dictionaries 65. Stay Vicious 66. Break Your Heart 67. Underneath the Ground 68. A Lifetime of Preludes 69. Boxer 70. Desire 71. Autumn 72. Empires 73. Halloween 74. Too Much Blood 75. We Did It When We Were Young 76. Helter Skeleton 77. Mama's Boys The bottom 4 songs being the only songs I truly dont like. This was extremely difficult at times. History books are still quite fresh but whatever, a fun exercise. Room Above Her seems immediately too low.
1. Great Expectations 2. The Backseat 3. The '59 Sound 4. Say I Won't (Recognize) 5. Senor and the Queen 6. Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? 7. Here's Looking at You, Kid 8. Film Noir 9. 1930 10. Orphans 11. Boxer 12. The Spirit of Jazz 13. We Came to Dance 14. I'da Called You Woody, Joe 15. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts 16. Mae 17. Howl 18. American Slang 19. Angry Johnny and the Radio 20. Drive 21. The Patient Ferris Wheel 22. We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner 23. Old White Lincoln 24. Meet Me by the River's Edge 25. High Lonesome 26. 45 27. National Anthem 28. Wooderson 29. Coul'da Been a Contender 30. Boomboxes and Dictionaries 31. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 32. Stay Lucky' 33. Handwritten 34. Little Fires 35. Have Mercy 36. Halloween 37. I Live in the Room Above Her 38. Casanova, Baby! 39. The Diamond Church Street Choir 40. Miles Davis & The Cool 41. Red in the Morning 42. We Did It When We Were Young 43. Old Haunts 44. Rollin' and Tumblin' 45. The Queen of Lower Chelsea 46. Michigan, 1975 47. Positive Charge 48. The Navesink Banks 49. Bring It On 50. Helter Skeleton 51. Autumn 52. Dark Places 53. History Books 54. Here Comes My Man 55. Mulholland Drive 56. Get Hurt 57. Underneath the Ground 58. Ain't That a Shame 59. Empires 60. She Loves You 61. Blue Dahlia 62. Too Much Blood 63. Biloxi Parish 64. Spider Bites 65. Red Violins 66. Desire 67. Stay Vicious 68. 1,000 Years 69. The Weatherman 70. Red at Night 71. Break Your Heart 72. Selected Poems 73. Stray Paper 74. Keepsake 75. Sweet Morphine 76. A Lifetime of Preludes 77. Mama's Boys This feels pretty right for me. I hate Mama's Boys and I have such a soft spot for the whole Senor EP so i'm not shocked seeing it so high. Have Mercy is far lower than it should be. That's one I'd manually boost but oh well.
Here's a new topic: What's everyone's favorite Brian Fallon rant/random tangent at a live show? When I saw Gaslight last year, he got into this whole thing about poutine that was hysterical.
my caveat is that History Books is new and I haven't listened to anything but spare tracks before The '59 Sound in like five years at least. looking at this list... what a damn band though. All-Time Classics for the 'Best of Gaslight' Disc: 1. Mae 2. The '59 Sound 3. The Backseat 4. Great Expectations 5. Get Hurt 6. Keepsake 7. Autumn 8. Michigan, 1975 9. The Weatherman 10. Meet Me by the River's Edge 11. Bring It On 12. 45 13. The Queen of Lower Chelsea 14. Handwritten 15. Boxer 16. The Diamond Church Street Choir 17. Orphans 18. American Slang Incredible Songs: 19. Old White Lincoln 20. The Patient Ferris Wheel 21. Here's Looking at You, Kid 22. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 23. Old Haunts 24. Mulholland Drive 25. Here Comes My Man 26. The Spirit of Jazz 27. Red at Night 28. Casanova, Baby! 29. Film Noir 30. High Lonesome Great Songs: 31. Miles Davis & The Cool 32. Howl 33. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts 34. We Did It When We Were Young 35. Stay Lucky 36. Biloxi Parish 37. Dark Places 38. Little Fires 39. Have Mercy 40. Spider Bites 41. History Books Good Songs: 42. The Navesink Banks 43. Underneath the Ground 44. Rollin' and Tumblin' 45. Too Much Blood 46. 1,000 Years 47. National Anthem 48. Positive Charge 49. Say I Won't (Recognize) 50. I Live in the Room Above Her 51. Empires 52. We Came to Dance Fine Songs: 53. Desire 54. Stay Vicious 55. Break Your Heart 56. We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner 57. 1930 58. A Lifetime of Preludes 59. Ain't That a Shame 60. Selected Poems 61. She Loves You 62. Senor and the Queen 63. Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Not For Me: 64. Halloween 65. Mama's Boys 66. Sweet Morphine 67. Stray Paper 68. Boomboxes and Dictionaries 69. I'da Called You Woody, Joe 70. Wooderson 71. Blue Dahlia 72. Red Violins 73. Helter Skeleton 74. Angry Johnny and the Radio 75. Coul'da Been a Contender 76. Drive 77. Red in the Morning
now someone make one that adds Horrible Crowes and Brian's solo stuff into the mix and let's see something.
man, this is a good one. he went on for like 15 minutes at one of the NJ shows last year about Pork Roll vs Taylor Ham (its a jersey thing) and it got quite a reaction from different parts of the crowd lol