The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (October 27th 2023) Album • Page 99

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Your Long Island is showing

 

59 and Slang are pretty close for me for sure

 

Okay but what really matters is we need “The Blues, Mary” on streaming, but only the Live Crossroads version.

 

I really wish I had all of the Painkillers era bonus tracks in album quality, particularly "Georgia", "Low Love" & "The Blues, Mary"

* edited to add that I realized that leaves out "Tin Pan Alley", so just scratch the second, qualifying part of my original post - I wish I had them all that way

 

The blues Mary is so good

 

Yes

 

I saw him play “Georgia” in Philly the week the album came out, and was like “wait, how did THIS not make the album?” Such a great song.

 

I like all three of his solo albums quite a lot, but they’re all a step below the four albums he released in that five-year period, for me.

 

Let me tell you guys something....

This band is back and on fire. Every single one of their records is a classic, including get hurt.

And go listen to we came to dance - these guys know how to bring rock back

 

The Georgia EP is on streaming though?

I’ve never understood why The Blues, Mary was left off that release. I’m not sure where I heard the studio version, but I know I heard it & I preferred the Live at Crossroads version.

I’d honestly take it at this point though! I just want it in my library with everything else.

 

Some days Get Hurt is my favorite.

some days every other album is my favorite.

but it’s Elsie and we all know it.

 

This is the version I know

 

Studio version of The Blues, Mary was included on the 7” boxset version of Painkillers.

 

alright well which one is it

 

Musicfan contains multitudes

 

Really haven’t stopped listening to this album since the new version.

Just so much more life added into these already good songs, but it just sounds so, so good.

 

They had a great set last night in Sf. I was always lukewarm on mulholland drive but man that song hit last night

 

yeah, but there's a noticable step down in quality with the actual album tracks. and I've never been able to track down a quality copy of the studio version of "The Blues, Mary" that came as a vinyl bonus thing with the album.

 

Ohhhh okay! Yeah I know what ya mean. I never looked at the credits, but weren’t they done with different producer? Maybe I’m remembering that wrong, but I do remember being like “these can’t be the same sessions?”

I think what I heard was that bonus track vinyl rip of The Blues Mary, so that might be why I wasn’t impressed. It *sounded* like it was closer to the Live Crossroads version but the quality wasn’t there.

 

I think "The Blues, Mary" & "Tin Pan Alley" had been around for a while by that point, and I can understand wanting to do new songs / songs you've written more recently for the album, but I absolutely love both "Georgia" & "Low Love" and I just can't imagine looking at those two and thinking that they don't deserve a spot on the album. I thought I remember reading that those songs were from separate sessions and not the main album sessions with Butch Walker, but I don't have my copy of the Georgia EP anymore to check.

I'm pretty sure the version I have of "The Blues, Mary" is ripped from that vinyl, and it's a great version of the song, but the quality is awful and it's extremely quiet.

also, and I remember this being a thing with people who paid way too much attention to this stuff (like me), but I've never been able to adjust to the album version of "Long Drives" as opposed to the Molly and the Zombies version, which is perfect to me. but I know that's more of a me problem and not a problem with the actual song. I do love the album version of "Smoke" though. that one is awesome.

 

Same RE: Long Drives

 

Yeah I love all of those M&TZ demos & really wish we would have gotten a separate EP of them as they were.

I equally love the versions that ended up on Painkillers though too, haha!

 

go listen to we came to dance

why is this song not being played live ?