The Gaslight Anthem Ranks The Gaslight Anthem’s Albums

I give 'Get Hurt' a lot more credit...luckily for me all the albums are super close and anyone's ranking could potentially make sense. Love hearing the back stories behind the albums, and frustration that goes into actually making a record. Makes me wonder what certain albums that fall short for other bands could have been without a timetable?

 

Sink or Swim at 3 makes me pretty happy. I love the rawness of it!

 

Love Get Hurt and American Slang....bands always do this with the records I love most.

 

Brian didn't seem so sure about his ranking. Haha

 

59 Sound



Handwriten
American Slang
Sink or Swim

Get Hurt

And I'd throw Elsie in second. His two solo records are probably just under Sink or Swim. Sleepwalkers above Painkillers because it has higher highs (Etta James soty).
I like every Fallon/Gaslight album although 59 Sound is like top 10 all time for me and the others are a step below while still being good to great.

 

1.59 Sound (Top 10 albums of all time for me)
2.Handwritten (Top 20 albums of all time for me)
3.American Slang
4.Get Hurt
5.Sink or Swim

 

Get Hurt is definitely last but I still enjoy most of that album. Just love this band.

 

59 Sound
Handwritten

American Slang
Sink or Swim

Get Hurt

 

Listened to a Scott Hutchison interview he did with Google during the TMOF tour, and he talked about how he understood and empathized with the fact a lot of fans have a special love for the first album that introduced them to a band (whether that's actually the band's first album is a different thing). Anyhow, curious how the (average) fan ranking of Sink of Swim varies depending on when the fans got into them? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are plenty of long time fans of Gaslight Anthem who still prefer the later albums more, but i can't help but suspect overall they/we rank it higher than later fans.

 

'59 Sound got me into the band. First time I saw them was them touring American Slang. I completely agree with Fallon's ranking.

 

I should note, despite my earlier post about Sink or Swim, Brian's ranking totally matched mine too.

 

'59
(Elsie)
SoS
Slang
(SatQ)
Handwritten
(Painkillers)
(Sleepwalkers)
Get Hurt

Something like that. Best band.

 

Elsie is #2 for me. Sleepwalkers and Painkillers are up there with Handwritten.

 

American Slang
Handwritten
'59 Sound
Get Hurt
Sink or Swim

And honestly, Painkillers, Sleepwalkers and Elsie are all ahead of all of those on the 'Fallon' list. Which is no knock on Gaslight, who's one of my favorite bands; Fallon's solo work is jusf absurdly, brilliantly good.

 

Agree with these 100%

 

Handwritten got me into the band and that is my favorite, even though I like all the other albums

 

1. American Slang
2. Handwritten
3. ‘59 Sound
4. Get Hurt
5. Sink or Swim

 

sleepwalkers and painkillers are both better than get hurt, and maybe sink or swim. Elsie is at the very bottom of the list.