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Post by bschultz27 on Mar 5, 2010 18:09:41 GMT -5
Will Dana of Rolling Stone had this to say about the new record on his Twitter:
"Listening to the upcoming Hold Steady album: a great unashamed rock album: Blues, power, smarts & shredding. Great band kicks it up a notch"
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Post by delboydrums on Mar 5, 2010 18:31:05 GMT -5
And that's all I need to hear for now!
Thank you.
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Post by cre618 on Mar 5, 2010 19:42:19 GMT -5
Will Dana of Rolling Stone had this to say about the new record on his Twitter: "Listening to the upcoming Hold Steady album: a great unashamed rock album: Blues, power, smarts & shredding. Great band kicks it up a notch" Welcome. Great first post! |
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Post by mikeflynn on Mar 5, 2010 20:00:18 GMT -5
Good Lord, I am so pumped...
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Post by mcstevepants on Mar 5, 2010 21:30:56 GMT -5
DO WANT.
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Post by stringer on Mar 5, 2010 21:42:32 GMT -5
i searched excited on the internet i found this  i think that pretty much sums my feelings up! |
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Post by bschultz27 on Mar 5, 2010 22:03:30 GMT -5
Thanks! I've been lurking on the forums for a while now after Brendan told me about it at the Basilica Block Party show. I saw that post on my Twitter and had to tell SOMEBODY. I figured now would be the best time to register for an account.
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Post by doctoracula on Mar 5, 2010 22:23:15 GMT -5
i want to hear more about them trying new things!
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Post by mike on Mar 6, 2010 5:14:07 GMT -5
great first post! welcome!  there's also a couple of mentions on the @gdnfilmandmusic twitter feed: "Have been sent stream of new Hold Steady album. Let joy be unconfined. Well, in this house." "Oh, this new Hold Steady record is good. Though I would say that." and most fascinatingly... "Rock oddities: new Hold Steady album has a song that is in part a tribute to the late Matthew Fletcher, drummer of Talulah Gosh/Heavenly" |
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Post by jwd on Mar 6, 2010 8:07:41 GMT -5
Rock oddities: new Hold Steady album has a song that is in part a tribute to the late Matthew Fletcher, drummer of Talulah Gosh/Heavenly" Twee pop reference? Wow, CF never ceases to amaze in the arcare references department. Let's get a blast beats shout out going and we're on! |
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Post by muzzleofbees on Mar 7, 2010 14:33:45 GMT -5
Rock oddities: new Hold Steady album has a song that is in part a tribute to the late Matthew Fletcher, drummer of Talulah Gosh/Heavenly" Twee pop reference? Wow, CF never ceases to amaze in the arcare references department. Let's get a blast beats shout out going and we're on! Haven't we alleady picked up that reference? It's in Heaven Is Whenever. Or We Can Get Together, which it's title now seems to be. |
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Post by muzzleofbees on Mar 7, 2010 16:03:15 GMT -5
She said heaven isn't happening,
She claimed heaven is a truck
She said Heavenly was cool, I think they were from Oxford
I only had one single, it was a song about a pure and simple love.
...should refer to Heavenly (from Oxford), and I guess the single is Our Love Is Heavenly. Maybe the whole song is kind of self biographical, and that Craig has a nice memory of listening to Heavenly with some girl in the early nineties.
The whole song is quite referential. The 'heaven is a truck'-line is obviously refering to Pavement, and I've been thinking about the things Craig sings about the drummer, who was someones little brother, that it might be a reference to Cut Your Hair. Far fetched? Maybe, but they're both songs from Crooked Rain, at least. Later on Hüsker Dü and Love Is The Answer by Utopia gets mentioned as well.
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Post by doctoracula on Mar 7, 2010 16:42:16 GMT -5
i figured that lyric about the single is a reference to 40 bucks
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Post by motörben on Mar 7, 2010 17:19:05 GMT -5
It wouldn't be unlike our boy CF to drop a little double entendre.
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Post by doctoracula on Mar 7, 2010 17:32:07 GMT -5
until now, i'd never heard of Heavenly, so i had no idea it could be a reference to that haha
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Post by lindakaylund on Mar 7, 2010 22:06:19 GMT -5
She said heaven isn't happening, She claimed heaven is a truck She said Heavenly was cool, I think they were from Oxford I only had one single, it was a song about a pure and simple love. ...should refer to Heavenly (from Oxford), and I guess the single is Our Love Is Heavenly. Maybe the whole song is kind of self biographical, and that Craig has a nice memory of listening to Heavenly with some girl in the early nineties. The whole song is quite referential. The 'heaven is a truck'-line is obviously refering to Pavement, and I've been thinking about the things Craig sings about the drummer, who was someones little brother, that it might be a reference to Cut Your Hair. Far fetched? Maybe, but they're both songs from Crooked Rain, at least. Later on Hüsker Dü and Love Is The Answer by Utopia gets mentioned as well. The best thing about the unified scene is the OCD and the Asperger's. Oh wait and the alcoholism. Oh and the... |
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Post by jamesjesusangleton on Mar 8, 2010 3:40:48 GMT -5
The thing about the drummer being someone's little brother must refer to Matthew Fletcher, brother of Amelia Fletcher, Heavenly's singer. He killed himself in 1996.
Here's some stuff from an old interview with her:
PB : Would you like to say anything about your brother ? His death must have been a very traumatic experience.
AF : It's funny how he's always there in my head, but how little I think about it. It was weird when Rob and I had Dora because when she was really little it was like having a little Matthew around him, but now she is nothing like him. There were times when she looked just like him.
It's just a terrible, terrible pity he did what he did because nowadays he would do really well. A lot of people I knew at the time were depressive and there were people I knew not so well that committed suicide as well.
I feel cross about it because he was on Prozac at the time and that can give you the motivation to do it. He wasn't on it for very long. He was only on it because of that f**king Blur song, 'Country House', which rhymes Prozac with Balzac and he thought he was cool taking it. I'm sure that was why he was on it as he really liked Graham Coxon.
Recently there was a survey on Prozac and I wrote to them to say it should be banned but it was hard for the doctors to take my views into account because they sent me a form which was only for people on it. I'm really lucky. I haven't been depressed at all. It's quite a long time. It's 10 years now.
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Post by motörben on Mar 8, 2010 4:28:41 GMT -5
Good shout JJA! One more for my collection of Bands I've Discovered In A Hold Steady Song. Which album should I go to first? I'm leaning towards Heavenly Vs. Satan because calling your album ... Vs. Satan is cool.
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Post by jamesjesusangleton on Mar 8, 2010 5:22:59 GMT -5
I don't know my Heavenly that much. Amelia is still regarded as a goddess in indiepop circles (she still has a band, the Tender Trap, despite these days being chief economist at the Office of Fair Trading). Matthew Fletcher was a hardcore fan who accidentally ended up playing indiepop. Track down the Talulah Gosh comp Backwash, on K! records, and you can hear that - the later songs are played at hardcore pace, despite being indiepop. The funny thing about THS referencing Heavenly is that Amelia chose that band name to be as unrock sounding as she could: this is something she told me in an i'v a few years back: "After Talulah Gosh we formed Heavenly," says Fletcher of her late-80s group. "Everyone was getting into loud rock, which I absolutely despised. So we came up with a group name that no one who liked loud rock could possibly like: a deliberately cissy name. I didn't realise that because of dance music Heavenly had all sorts of drugs connotations." And now they crop up on a loud rock album. Here's Talulah Gosh's greatest hit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwgHCDyeTuU&feature=PlayList&p=5AC711D5AE068B89&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4And here's a bit of Heavenly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W60nQZrcCVsOh, C86. You were my first love. |
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Post by muzzleofbees on Mar 8, 2010 9:23:00 GMT -5
The thing about the drummer being someone's little brother must refer to Matthew Fletcher, brother of Amelia Fletcher, Heavenly's singer. He killed himself in 1996. That makes sense. I've always thought Craig sang "someones little brother", but I can see that some lyrics pages one the web have transcribed it to " the singers little brother". In that case it should be quite clear. The lyrics to Our Love Is Heavenly also could be read as a suicide note rather than comforting words to someone who's been dumped: "I just have to go, so say goodbye
Never even had to tell you why
I don't even want to make you cry
So don't cry honey, you'll ger over this
Though it may take at least a day
After that time, you will be feeling fine
And you'll be glad I've gone away" |
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Post by muzzleofbees on Mar 8, 2010 9:29:04 GMT -5
i figured that lyric about the single is a reference to 40 bucks My guess is that it's both. And you know what links the two references together? Certain Songs! 40 Bucks"She’s always been a pretty big fan.
Certain songs get scratched right in
(...)
She’s never even met the dude
But she heard the song and it was pretty cool.
A sad, slow waltz about a pure and simple love."We Can Get Together"I only had one single, it was a song about a pure and simple love
(...)
and heaven is the whole of the heart,
and paradise is by the dashboard light"Certain SongsB-1 is for the good girls, it's only the good die young
C-9 is for the making eyes, it's paradise by the dashboard light.
So there you go. The Hold Steady lyric universe, with all its cross references and spinning threads is expanding once again. There strings attached to every single line. |
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Post by WhiskeyDaisy on Mar 8, 2010 9:31:35 GMT -5
This thread has taken an odd turn, considering it's called "Feeling Good About THIS Statement."
XOWD
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Post by Brian_NJ on Mar 8, 2010 10:33:28 GMT -5
Is it May 4th yet?
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Post by theriver on Mar 8, 2010 10:38:04 GMT -5
I am amazed no Star Wars related jokes have been made about the release date yet.....
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Post by muzzleofbees on Mar 8, 2010 10:44:44 GMT -5
Are you asking because I'm talking about unreleased material? If you are, I'm don't. I've heard Heaven Is Whenever live, with my own ears |
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