The Gaslight Anthem title new record 'American Slang'

I would be extremely happy if one of these pictures somehow became the cover:

I just read a TGA article in the 20 May 2009 issue of Kerrang, and this is what Brian was saying then about writing new songs:

"I've started to write new songs and we've talked about what we should do to kick it up a notch and write something better than The '59 Sound. [...] You can't necessarily write for other people, but I want to write lyrics for people who don't have a voice and talk about things that people can't get out there and make public. We have a recession going on here and there are things people can't talk about, like health insurance, the struggle to feed your family and keep your job. I want to write songs that make people think 'Yeah, I can make it through another day'."

I wonder if the new songs are anything like it, so many months down the line.

JohnnyC wrote:

I had a horrible nightmare where Brian gave me a copy of the album and it was an hour of unlistenable free jazz. It was absolutely terrifying. Luckily, I did wake up.

Hilarious xD

Jukebox, Brian said that El Jefe is working on the album cover so unfortunately no badass pictures from above.

the second picture makes him look like he is breathing fire!

thecosmickid wrote:

JohnnyC wrote:

I had a horrible nightmare where Brian gave me a copy of the album and it was an hour of unlistenable free jazz. It was absolutely terrifying. Luckily, I did wake up.

Hilarious xD

I'm really not even exaggerating. It's frightening how real dreams can seem in the moment.

hahaha I had a TGA nightmares too about Brian being a drunk asshole to me after a show and one about TGA being really bad live like an Eric Clapton shreds video. (Type Eric Clapton shreds on youtube and you know what I'm talking about).

new tweet from gaslight_anthem:

We did some finishing vocal touches today courtesy of pete and Bryan from the bouncing souls, Dave from vision and Tommy gunn from communication redlight! Awesome!

http://tl.gd/cv78a

I really hope that guy from Communication Redlight is not audible on the record.

So stoked for pete and bryan backup vocals. its gonna be awesome

steady now steady now wrote:

I just read a TGA article in the 20 May 2009 issue of Kerrang, and this is what Brian was saying then about writing new songs:

"I've started to write new songs and we've talked about what we should do to kick it up a notch and write something better than The '59 Sound. [...] You can't necessarily write for other people, but I want to write lyrics for people who don't have a voice and talk about things that people can't get out there and make public. We have a recession going on here and there are things people can't talk about, like health insurance, the struggle to feed your family and keep your job. I want to write songs that make people think 'Yeah, I can make it through another day'."

I wonder if the new songs are anything like it, so many months down the line.

Ugh, I hope they don't get too political on us. That just sucks the fun out of everything.

Brian said in that interview that was just posted earlier that he isn't really that political, he's just interested in giving a voice to people who don't have one. I doubt we have anything to worry about.

Prisoner wrote:

It's probably a misquote or something pulled out of context.
Brian probably said that he isn't a doctor or a famous baseball player, just a regular American citizen without having it too good or having it too bad. He said things like that in past interviews. Kinda stroks with this quote from the paste interview.

"“American Slang is just what we do. That’s who we are,” Fallon
says. “You’re presented with this American Dream and all these American
possibilities—and then there’s the reality of what actually happens
with your life.”

Ok, in his ExploreMusic interview Brian says that he was talking about the American Dream and how you fall short of that dream and don't grow up to be the world's greates baseball player, how you don't grow up to be the doctor who cured cancer, but how you just grow up to be you. He says the songs are about that dream, not about doctors and basball players.

AND THE ALBUM IS DONE!

new gaslight_anthem tweet & pic: "I think we're done. We're in love with this record. We hope you all will as well."





great pic!

Something about seeing that the album is done makes the fact that we have to wait until June unbearable. Can we have it right now please?

WWD4D? wrote:

Something about seeing that the album is done makes the fact that we have to wait until June unbearable. Can we have it right now please?

There's done and done; they might be done, but the techs surely aren't.

Anyway, what sort of timetable are we looking at in terms of releases? First single radio play and TV appearances, then single release, then album release?

I'd settle for a demo to tide me over til June.

I think we've got two new track names:

From Rolling Stone:

“On 2008’s “The ‘59 Sound,” New Jersey’s Gaslight Anthem delivered soulful punk tunes about working-class dreamers, earning plenty of Springsteen comparisons. But for the follow-up, Gaslight looked across the pond. “We’ve been influenced by early Stones,” says the frontman Brian Fallon of the LP, which Gaslight are cutting in New York. Fallon compares the title track to “Gimme Shelter” and says “The Queen of Chelsea” recalls the Clash’s “Straight to Hell” and the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket.” “It would be easy to write The ‘59 Sound again,” says Fallon. “We wanted a new road map.”

So far we have
1. Bring It On
2. American Slang (new but obvious)
3. The Queen of Chelsea

Latest Tweet:

Quote :

Packing up the studio... Goodnight. On to mixing, mastering, pressing, and releasing.

According to the countdown as well...just 100 days to go.

Vibes wrote:

I think we've got two new track names:

From Rolling Stone:

“On 2008’s “The ‘59 Sound,” New Jersey’s Gaslight Anthem delivered soulful punk tunes about working-class dreamers, earning plenty of Springsteen comparisons. But for the follow-up, Gaslight looked across the pond. “We’ve been influenced by early Stones,” says the frontman Brian Fallon of the LP, which Gaslight are cutting in New York. Fallon compares the title track to “Gimme Shelter” and says “The Queen of Chelsea” recalls the Clash’s “Straight to Hell” and the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket.” “It would be easy to write The ‘59 Sound again,” says Fallon. “We wanted a new road map.”

So far we have
1. Bring It On
2. American Slang (new but obvious)
3. The Queen of Chelsea

Wow! Gimme shelter might be my favourite song of all time.

Midnight Rambler wrote:

Vibes wrote:

I think we've got two new track names:

From Rolling Stone:

“On 2008’s “The ‘59 Sound,” New Jersey’s Gaslight Anthem delivered soulful punk tunes about working-class dreamers, earning plenty of Springsteen comparisons. But for the follow-up, Gaslight looked across the pond. “We’ve been influenced by early Stones,” says the frontman Brian Fallon of the LP, which Gaslight are cutting in New York. Fallon compares the title track to “Gimme Shelter” and says “The Queen of Chelsea” recalls the Clash’s “Straight to Hell” and the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket.” “It would be easy to write The ‘59 Sound again,” says Fallon. “We wanted a new road map.”

So far we have
1. Bring It On
2. American Slang (new but obvious)
3. The Queen of Chelsea

Wow! Gimme shelter might be my favourite song of all time.

Haha. Just thinking about it reminds me of The Departed.

Deliciously ironic that an album with American in the title takes more British influence than ever.

Quote :

And we're gone... Into the hands of mixing it goes... http://twitpic.com/173fji

Latest.

JohnnyC wrote:

Deliciously ironic that an album with American in the title takes more British influence than ever.

As for 'The Queen of Chelsea', there is a Chelsea in London, UK, but I know there is one in NYC too, so which one might it be?

Of course, Brian is actually referencing the Clash's 'Lost in the Supermarket', via a reference to Springsteen's 'Queen of the Supermarket'. He is also alluding to the Clash's 'The Guns of Brixton', as London's Chelsea is socio-economically, though not geographically, a world away from Brixton ...