The Gaslight Anthem Band • Page 67

That's a good point, although I think "Orphans" could make a good run at that title as well

 

Goodbye circus wheel
May you rest along the sea
I have given you the fire of my youth
And the triumph o're my enemies
Goodbye fair weather home, and your faithless factories
I have given you the blood and the truth
From the wounds they laid onto me

this is a song i cant help but sing along to every time i comes on, same with Old Haunts as well actually haha


....same with allot of TGA songs tbh.

 

Those are probably my two favorites on American Slang, along with the title track. I think they are the thematic core of the record.

 

Boxer
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

 

Boxer (14) vs. Casanova (11)

Dark Places (8) vs. Cowgirls (17)

 

I can't think of Here's Looking At You, Kid as sad, because I saw them right before Handwritten came out at a packed venue (They could have played somewhere twice as big) and when they played that song Brian had the biggest smile on his face at the "I'm famous now for all of these rock and roll songs" as if he was truly realizing for the first time that they had pulled it off.

 

Boxer
Dark Places

Easy choices. Dark Places is an exceptionally great song and Boxer is second favorite Slang cut. I’ve also got a pretty strong personal connection to Dark Places.

 

I’d say so, especially when you stack it up against Backseats, although the second verse in “Get Hurt” always pulls at me, and the end of “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” where Fallon questions whether he should just start abusing drugs to deal with the grief of divorce is pretty bleak.

“So should I take everything,
All your temporary medicines?
All your reds, your blues, and your cocaine?
Should I take something to try on the weekend?”

 

Boxer
Dark Places

 

I always thought he should have named the album The Great Depression, such a clever line in that song and also thematically what the whole album is about.

 

(not that "Get Hurt" doesn't get the same idea across, as a title).

 

Orphans, Old Haunts, and Spirit of Jazz

 

Holy shit, I was just re-listening to Dark Places and I guess I wasn't paying attention before...

Fuck.

That's a great but very sad song.

 

Petition to let me change my vote immediately as it won't matter

 

Boxer (16) vs. Casanova (11)

Dark Places (10) vs. Cowgirls (17)

 

You guys are killing me here! Haha FWIW though, if I were allowed to vote, i'd go with Dark Places too

 

If we were allowed to change it would be 12-14 right now and super close

plz

 

At least we can have pyrrhic victory of knowing we got a couple of people to realize the greatness of Dark Places

 

If I remember correctly, "The Great Depression" was the original title of the song. But they changed it so they wouldn't step on Dave Hause's toes, who had recently released a song with the same name.

 

No kidding? I never heard that, nor am I familiar with Hause.

 

Go listen to him and the Loved Ones now

 

Makes sense though. Rollin' and Tumblin' never sounded like a real TGA song title to me

 

i always liked dave hause, but there is a particular strike anywhere song that means the absolute world to me and can reduce me to tears without fail, but it's a lesser known song from a later album of theirs that never caught fire, and then they quietly disappeared.

of all songs, dave covered that on the b-side of i believe the "pray for tucson" 7". it was one of them in that series, i have it at home. i was kinda stunned that he covered such a deep cut song by a deep cut band and i adore his version and subsequently now love him.

 

I'll try and find the exact quote, but yeah, they're good buddies with him, they've toured together.

His solo albums are definitely worth checking out, and like @Joe4th said, his old band the Loved Ones.

Also, he plays the husband in this video.

 

What song?