jmcassetta

You really gotta check 'em out on dry land.

In reply to guy's comment on New Brightblack Morning Light - "Hologram Buffalo" at June 25, 2008 12:24 PM
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Yes, and he works Catholicism into it as well.

And to reply to some of the "bar band" comments:

I think the point of The Hold Steady is that they're like a glorious bar band; the absolute low of music (bar bands) dealing with the absolute bottom of society (drug-addicts, pimps, etc.) that generally has recourse to everyone's real life, at least to some extent. The music, for the most part, supports and masks the lyrics, either with anthem-y guitar hooks or, more currently, marginally more inventive instrumentation. It's guilty-pleasure rock music with some of the best lyrics in a long time - hardly bar music or indie-rock (whatever that is).

In reply to guy's comment on Premature Evaluation: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive at June 2, 2008 11:40 AM
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