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simo The Navesink Banks
Posts : 1983 Join date : 2009-07-03 Age : 32 Location : Columbia, Missouri
| Subject: Re: magazine review ratings thread (American Slang) Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:38 pm | |
| Remind me never to read comments on reviews of albums I like. | |
| | | RobertODonnell Wooderson
Posts : 330 Join date : 2009-11-12 Age : 33 Location : Georgia, USA
| Subject: Re: magazine review ratings thread (American Slang) Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:20 pm | |
| - steady now steady now wrote:
- oldgospelchoir wrote:
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/06/album-review-the-gaslight-anthems-american-slang.html
this is the second review that I have read that said the band is too young to write about sad things...i think the NY Times said something similar Not quite; the review says: "This band is way too young to be singing about its 'aging bones' yet." Fair enough. To be fair, when you say your bones are aging it really means they're growing, and I'm pretty sure your bones stop growing at about 21 years old, so technically they're too old to be singing about "aging bones". Haha, sorry. I overthink things. | |
| | | CluckyB The '59 Sound
Posts : 1020 Join date : 2009-06-16
| Subject: Re: magazine review ratings thread (American Slang) Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:05 pm | |
| There doesn't appear to be a review on allmusic yet, but they were listed third (behind Devo and Drake. Looks like they took six releases (Petty, McLachlan and Robyn also had blurbs) and alphabetized them) in the weekly new release email they send out with the following blurb - Quote :
With their hearts on their sleeves and their feet planted firmly in the garden state, The Gaslight Anthem’s third album, American Slang, plays out like an offering to Springsteen, the patron saint of heartland rock. The feeling on this album is considerably more relaxed. All of the punk rock tension and urgency have been replaced by a more patient and heartfelt mood.
update: pitchfork gave it a 7.3: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14355-american-slang/ wow. I actually agree with a lot of it. Particuarly - Quote :
- But the Gaslight Anthem are not a band simply awash in nostalgia; their songs are about
the very concept of nostalgia. And most importantly, they understand that nostalgia is not a lens through which we fondly reminiscence about the past, but a gauge by which we evaluate our troubled present. The idea that Brian is "utterly consumed by the idea that his best days are behind him" is complete baloney -- He is a story teller, telling stories from his past -- but he also knows how to live in the moment. Whatever, I guess they had to find something to rip on. My only other complaint is it has no regard for the album order (and I think most reviews were victims of this). Has the degradation of the album gone so far reviewers no longer care or notice either? | |
| | | NDTGA Red In The Morning
Posts : 45 Join date : 2010-05-08
| Subject: Re: magazine review ratings thread (American Slang) Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:49 am | |
| Pitchfork review is up and its a solid, well thought out look at the album. They gave it a 7.3 out of 10 (they gave '59 Sound an 8.6 in '08 and didn't review Sink or Swim).
I thought this line was pretty funny and somewhat true:
"For about half of American Slang, the Gaslight Anthem simply barrel ahead like they're making The '60 Sound..."
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14355-american-slang/
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| | | acousticbandit Wooderson
Posts : 331 Join date : 2010-06-03 Location : NJ in my veins, DC under my feet
| Subject: Re: magazine review ratings thread (American Slang) Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:04 pm | |
| 8/10 from spin
http://www.mediafire.com/?nkoy4uzyqzz | |
| | | sismoxie Guest
| Subject: Re: magazine review ratings thread (American Slang) Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:16 pm | |
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| | | Shrewsbury_Stars The Navesink Banks
Posts : 1512 Join date : 2010-05-06 Location : Back In The Swamps of Jersey
| Subject: Re: magazine review ratings thread (American Slang) Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:19 pm | |
| Nice collection from the band's myspace page: Press for AMERICAN SLANG
This album feels more varied, and riskier, than the ones preceding it: not just an exercise in style, but also in ambition. The arrangements have more breathing room, and more dynamism, without sacrificing the band’s central tension between its insistent chugging and Mr. Fallon’s scratchy howl. -THE NEW YORK TIMES
The true test of a Gaslight Anthem album can't — or at least shouldn't — take place while the listener is staring at a computer screen. The New Jersey-based band makes music for car stereos, plain and simple; its timeless, barreling rock 'n' roll anthems are all about conflating simple tropes (Saturday night, the open road) with disarmingly wise observations on life, death and youth…Beneath the big, galloping fun of American Slang lies a unifying theme about the fleeting nature of youth. "Everybody used to call you Lucky when you were young," Fallon sings in the magnificent "Stay Lucky," taking all of 10 words to sum up a lifetime of compromise and faded hope. American Slang keeps coming back to lost vitality; the album might as well have been titled Hey, Remember When You Were Young? Yeah, That Was a While Ago. As such, it's a perfect companion for those who might be on the verge of, say, their 20th high-school reunion this summer. If you are, it'll give you a perfect excuse to rent a muscle car for the occasion, blast these bold anthems of ambivalence in the parking lot, and revel in what little youth you've got left. -NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO "First Listen"
Everywhere here, there are big rock songs, purpose-built for arenas and FM radio playlists, with driving riffs where open chords were once struck. The band haven't forgotten where they came from - the brilliant Stay Lucky borrows both its title and run-out lyrics from an email written to Brian Fallon by Kerrang!'s own Ian Winwood, who penned the band's first cover feature - but where they're headed now is even more exciting. Prepare to fall in love all over again. -KERRANG! (UK)
Unless you're Chris Daughtry or the dude from Nickelback, blue-collar guitar guys don't stand much chance in a world Lady Gaga was born to run.Fortunately, the Gaslight Anthem went ahead and made a killer arena-rock album anyway. American Slang sticks to the template Fallon's been hammering away at since the band's beginning; its stories star the same kind of characters and its garage-punk sound still sparkles with flashes of Motown and R&B. -SPIN
But The Gaslight Anthem isn’t really about obeisance to the past this time out; from the line “We called for our fathers, but our fathers had died” in the surging title track to the rueful “old haunts are all we’ve ever known” in the walloping “Old Haunts,” American Slang calls for new stories. And while much of the record is focused on exploring New York City—Fallon’s new home—it takes a broader view on the people and places he’s singing about, putting them in a global context. Fallon sings better than ever, too, using his vocals as another rhythmic element in songs that build insistently, as on the steady-mounting, impressively layered “Bring It On.” It’s all in the service of a stirring call to renewal, cued to Fallon’s admonition, “God help the man who says, ‘If you’d have known me when.’” -THE ONION A/V CLUB
From the opening title track, this is the sound of a band retaining all the best traits of their previous work but building on them with the confidence of four guys who know they're not a flash in the pan. The opener is the perfect bridging track from THE '59 SOUND - all driving rhythms, trademark loose but intricately trebly guitar melodies from Alex Rosamilia and Brian Fallon's gruff but warm and welcoming roar...the entire ethos of the band: bruised, romantic and gloriously soulful. -ROCKSOUND (UK)
For far too long, punk rock bands have been making punk rock records for tiny slivers of the listening audience. They've made records for the hardcore kids, records for the old-school fanatic, records for the highbrow critics, records for the pop-punk fanatics who refuse to grow up, the hard-livin' lifers, the wet-behind-the-ears suburban rebels, for the dorky computer-class bloggers and the grizzled newspaper 'zine publisher. No matter how finely you wanted to parse the punk world, there was a band ready to rock that increment of a minority subculture. With American Slang, The Gaslight Anthem turns its back on the petty concerns of the punk scene, and makes a punk album for America. -AVERSION
Glossier and bigger sounding than its immediate predecessor, (AMERICAN SLANG) has a similar proportion of raucously anthemic tunes in its armory… -Q MAGAZINE (UK)
Somebody needs to save rock n roll. And if anybody stands a chance, its these passionate New Jersey punks. Their third and most assured CD still suggests Springsteen leading The Clash but their chiming punk sprints and streetcorner anthems boast more original and varied songwriting, richer production and Brian Fallon's most personal lyrics. Album of the year contender. -THE SUN (CANADA)
Perhaps the only difference between 'American Slang' and 'The '59 Sound' is that this, tbhe band's third album, is better, the constant roadwork and closer attention to songwriting working in their favour. It's why every track here boasts a sing-along chorus that can raise the spirit. -ROLLING STONE (AUSTRALIA) | |
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