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Gareth: OH!!

Gareth: Umm both?

[sunnydaleherald]

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[rustbeltjessie]

A mix tape for @blondrichclosetwitch. I know I initially said I could make it into an actual physical mix tape, but that has been put on hold because my cassette recorder decided to stop working. In the meantime, you can listen to it on YouTube. (There’s also an Apple Music version, if you prefer, just let me know.) Title from the Ekko Astral song of the same name. Full track list below.

head empty blues

side a

The Slits - Ping Pong Affair

Mekons & Kathy Acker - Ange’s Song as She Crawled Through London

The Golden Palominos - Belfast

Genevieve Pasquier - Mind-Whore

Ditz - Fuck the Pain Away [Peaches cover]

Blondie - X Offender

The Shangri-Las - Out In the Streets

New York Dolls - Bad Girl

M.I.A. - Bad Girls

Doechii & KUNTFETISH - GTFO

Big Freedia - Betty Bussit (feat. Soaky Siren & Tank and the Bangas)

Lifter Puller - Candy’s Room [Bruce Springsteen cover]

Ramones - 53rd and 3rd

Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation

Iggy Pop & Tarwater - Leaves of Grass

side b

Angels of Light - New York Girls

ZOPA - Love and Other Forms of Violence

The Dead C - Sky

Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi - Night of Webs

Sonic Youth - Rats

Crass - Bata Motel

Gouge Away - The Sharpening

Laura Jane Grace - Your God (God’s Dick)

Ekko Astral - Head Empty Blues

Amyl and The Sniffers - Jerkin’

Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101

Neighborhood Brats - Year of the Brat

[ibtmx208]

Lifter Puller

This band was introduced to me through a podcast called “I only listen to the mountain goats.” It has since become one of my favorite albums. There are some GREAT live performances of them on YouTube that are worth checking out. This band also stars the lead singer from The Hold Steady if you know them. My favorite tracks are Candy’s Room, Lake street is for lovers, Nice Nice, and Katrina and the K-Hole. Hope you like it.

[ramalbumclub]

20 Years of Almost Killed Me

Let me quickly run through the biography.

Craig Finn, future leader of The Hold Steady, was THAT kid in school - neither the first to be picked for the sports team, nor the last. A bespectacled adolescent navigating the school corridors, aware that there’s an “in-crowd” and he’s on the outs. 

He's the kid in-between - like most of us. Like me.

So what's the plan? How does he get from there to here?

Does he settle or does he aspire?

He does neither, he retreats into a world of books and music and becomes an expert in HIS field. He learns how to play guitar, becomes a fan of local Minneapolis bands like The Replacements and Husker Du, and, even though he's still a kid, he goes to see them at the "all ages hardcore matinee shows" in town.

Just a quick aside here but "hardcore matinee shows" sound like the most fun in the world - something to really build a day around. I'd basically vote for any political party that introduced them into the U.K.

But back to the story....

In his early '20s, Finn forms a band called Lifter Puller who are simultaneously pretty good but also not quite right. What works, spectacularly, is Finn's lyrics about drugs and the shady characters that surround them but "the not quite right" bit is the music - a sort of '80s inspired synth overdose that, at its worst, sounds like the soundtrack to a Brian De Palma movie and, at its best, sounds like the soundtrack to a Brian De Palma movie.

After a few albums, a modicum of success, Lifter Puller split up and Finn becomes a financial broker for American Express before moving to New York to get a job at a digital webcasting company. At this stage in Finn's life it would appear that his brief flirtation with a career in music had ended and he was now on a course for a series of jobs in tech and finance. In fact, he doesn't do anything related to music for two whole years. He's just the guy at work, the one who used to be in a band called Lifter Puller.

And then it happens.

Craig Finn is watching Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz, the film of The Band's final concert, and he turns to his friend Tad Kubler, and says "Dude, why aren't there any bands like this anymore?"

Finn's observation is correct - there are no bands like that and I'm not sure there ever will be. But that's obvious, that's the bit we can all see. Even I've watched The Last Waltz and said to my mate Dan (I don't have a mate called Tad, I wish I did) - "Dude, why aren't there any bands like this anymore?"

No, what I love about this moment is what they did next. Finn and Kubler, there and then, decide to form a band like that. They took the completely mad decision in 2003, when everyone was still floored by that Neutral Milk Hotel album and everything it spawned, of creating a band with just guitar, bass, and drums.

They called themselves The Hold Steady and there wasn't a singing saw, a zanzithophone, or a wandering genie organ in sight.

What started out as an excuse for a bunch of guys in their '30s to hang out, drink, and play the occasional show, then becomes something of a going concern. Finn's lyrics, framed by Kubler's big riffs, created an unlikely breath of fresh air, a sense of celebration. Before long they're signed to Frenchkiss, the best name for a record label ever, and they release their first album - Almost Killed Me.

The album, in fact their career, opens with A Positive Jam, a song which tells the history of 20th Century America in 171 words. In the background, a lazy guitar struggles to wake up as the events are passed like road signs. It's their first song, on their first album, and after 90 seconds there's been a stock market crash, a World War, and 3 Kennedys are dead. The lyrical economy is remarkable, the way he deals with each decade precisely and definitively in one sentence. 

This is how he nails the '50s -

"We got shiftless in the '50s, holding hands and going steady, twisting into dark parts of the large Midwestern cities"

No need for the white picket fence trope, no need for Ike or Truman to co-star. Post war America perfectly reduced to "Holding hands and going steady". And then The Twist tells you the ‘60s are coming.  I got it straight away.

And this is how he nails the '70s -

"We woke up on bloody carpets, got tangled up in gas lines and I guess that's where it started"

He rhymed "carpets" with "started" and reduced the long term economic and political effects of the 1973 Oil Crisis to a line. What's not to like? I can still vividly remember my first listen now - the time, the place, and an album cover of blacked out faces. It was immediate. I was in.

And I didn't even know then what I know now, that he was providing context - that he was explicitly saying "We have shared history." Because at the end of the song, he brings us up to date, the guitar does wake up and the band kicks in. It's then that he tells us that he was bored so he started a band, it's then that he tells us that he wants to start it off with a positive jam.

The first time I heard Almost Killed Me I rewound the opening song again and again. I guess the "positive jam" that the song was trailing was The Swish, the second song on the album. But I couldn't get to it, I couldn't get past how good the opener was. I listened to it five times on the spin – by the time I was finished 15 Kennedys had died.

But then I did I get past it. I got to The Swish and my head fell off. Honestly, I stood there laughing, air riffing and dancing, in thrall to my new favourite band after just two songs. The bridge from A Positive Jam to The Swish is one of THE moments in music for me. It simultaneously comes out of nowhere yet evokes a memory. I made it through the rest of the album, breathless and giddy.

I'd never heard anything like it, despite having heard things like it.

Does that make sense? That bit really needs to make sense.

You know when The Sopranos came out and you thought "Jesus, not another story about Italian American Gangsters. Surely not THAT again." But then you watched it and saw that the characters were immersed in that culture as much as the viewer. They existed within their own context and couldn't move without referencing it.

And that was the difference. It was derivative but it was spun, from an angle so it wasn't head on.

That's The Hold Steady. That's Almost Killed Me.

It would be easy to say it's my favourite album of the 21st Century if only it didn't have to compete with what they did next - Separation Sunday, Boys and Girls in America and, finally, the hangover, Stay Positive. Finn had done it, with his friends they'd made one of the greatest runs of albums ever - an aggregate score of at least 36 out of 40.

At least.

Yes, there were comparisons to things you'd heard before, a familiarity, but for me it was almost entirely different. People screamed Springsteen, people screamed The E Street Band but I never really knew why. These weren't stories about open roads, about making love to the interstate. These were stories about the claustrophobia of community, about the kids in between - confined by drugs and religion. And you know what? Springsteen never swished through the city centre to do a couple of favours for some guys who looked like Tusken Raiders did he? No he didn't, he was probably driving somewhere.

The Hold Steady wore their influences on their sleeve but they spun them. They humoured them. They said "Tramps like us and we like Tramps" and told stories about people who looked like people -  people who looked like Rocco Siffredi, Elisabeth Shue, Izzy Stradlin, Alice Cooper, Mickey Mantle, and, of course, Tusken Raiders. They were doing that thing again - they were saying "We know you know. Because we have shared history"

But this analysis, my attempt at explanation, is nothing compared to the visceral triumph and joy of a Hold Steady show - the pleasure of watching this band that had been plucked from their own lives and were creating anew. I used to spend hours looking at the bass player, I'd never seen anyone work so hard whilst standing still - a man who started the night dry and ended it dripping in sweat and smiles.

And then there was Finn - the inbetweener, the most generous of front men. He was always so warm and inclusive to his audience, so glad that they're there with him. Yet he never forgets the band. Never. And for someone so wordy it's remarkable the gaps he leaves for them - the gaps for them to play and for him to admire. Often he’d be clapping, dancing, and having so much fun in admiration, that I’d worry he’d forget to join in again – that he’d forget that the moment after the gaps were his.

But he never did.

Fast forward to 2014 - to the Holiday Inn, in Brighton, a few hours after a Hold Steady show.

I'd probably had my back to him for about 10 minutes, having a night cap at the hotel bar and thinking about what had come before. But then I turned around and there he was - Craig Finn, sitting alone, a hero rather than a star. I decided to say hello and he gestured for me to sit down. We talked about The Last Waltz. I asked him if it was true, whether that's really how it started, and he said it was. We talked about the rest of the film, all those conversations, you know where they go - Joni Mitchell and all her chords; Van Morrison and that ridiculous high kick. And somewhere in the drink and The Last Waltz I lost the memory of the night, other than to say he was good company and he paid his way.

And if I met him now?

If I met him now, I'd probably get lost down another rabbit hole - about how we're the same age and how I wasn't picked first for the sports team either. I'd ask him how he feels now, at 44, about the start he gave himself at 33 - whether that still surprises him, whether it ever did. Whether he knows, REALLY knows, that for about four years The Hold Steady were the best band in the world. But more than that I'd tell him about how HE influenced, how HE inspired, about how Ruth and I always used to say this album club was about spinning familiar stories, about telling them from an angle rather than head on - just like The Hold Steady.

Because that's what we used to say. When we wanted to avoid nostalgia and reheating the past , we used to say it should be "JUST LIKE THE HOLD STEADY".

And before I lost another evening, and its fluid memory, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank him for that.

Martin Fitzgerald (2014)

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[sirjuggles]

OH MAN let's talk about The Hold Steady for a sec! I spent SO MUCH TIME listening to this band in college. My favorite description of them was always "if drunk Bruce Springsteen fronted a bar band about rural American 2000's party culture."

The important thing here is the NARRATIVE! Over their first four(ish) albums you're going to hear the names of a couple of recurring characters pop up again and again, and over time we can piece together a story. Holly and Gideon and Charlemagne are the primary characters, though I personally love the Sapphire songs (go listen to Chips Ahoy and take the lyrics literally! Then listen to The Weekenders!) Over a number of albums these kids go from stumbling around the party scene looking for a high, to getting roped into drugs and gangs and cults and murder investigations, to waking up strung-out in the confessional booth of a church somewhere and lecturing the congregation on how it actually feels to come back from the dead. It's an incredible ride and piecing the details together from a sort of Americana oral tradition is a fascinating experience.

If you want to get the full experience you pretty much just have to sit down and listen to their first four albums. Start with Boys And Girls In America, the album order honestly doesn't really matter and that's probably the most accessible (I love their first album Almost Killed Me and there's good songs on it, but you really have to be ready to listen to Craig Finn just drunkenly drawl words at you instead of singing. For the full experience go listen to his previous band Lifter Puller!).

If you just want to get a sense for the style, I'd recommend listening to the following songs:

"Banging Camp"

"Stuck Between Stations"

"First Night" (One of their slower songs, a sweet sad portrayal of looking back at your life and realizing you can never go back to being the sweet innocent kid you once were)

"Ask Her For Some Adderall"

[upthewitchypunx]

I keep thinking I'm clever by saying I'm "half vaxxed and dynamite" but no one know what I'm talking about because no one cares about the band Lifter Puller and their album Half Dead and Dynamite.

My arm hurts a little, not nearly as much as a tattoo.

[justincourtneypierre]

In anticipation for the release of my The Price Of Salt EP tomorrow, I’ve added another playlist to the previous one that delves a little deeper into the literal and figurative influences that went into it all. Enjoy.

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[pbandjstew]

Craig Finn "Dennis & Billy" (Live on KEXP, 2015)

Dennis and Billy from up by Champlin

Been friends since forever, first day of first grade

Played football together, won some pretty big games

Dennis and Billy from up by Champlin

After graduation, Dennis enlisted

Billy was taken by bitter surprise

Dennis said he didn't have any other answers

Didn't want to be stuck in this town his whole life

The night before he left, they went way out on some wine

Billy asked Dennis if he was scared he's gonna die

And Dennis said everybody dies at some time

Neither of them said a thing for a while

Billy stayed home and took on a trade

Went for the handle, got bit by the blade

There were hospital bills, there was pain, there were pills

The pain went away, but the pills, they just stayed

The way it washed over, it was warm like the sunshine

Billy felt filled up with the bright shining lights

Just for a moment, he wasn't anxious or nervous

And Dennis was somewhere still stuck in the service

Dennis wasn't much for sending off letters

Billy wasn't either, so they weren't much in touch

Dennis came back to see his sick mother

Billy's on the corner like he's waiting on a bus

Later on that evening, in a tavern barely talking

Billy said "Dennis, man, you're lucky you left"

Dennis started saying something, then he reconsidered

He looked down in his beer and he slowly shook his head

And he said "I've been out there fighting

You've been hanging round here dying

It might be ironic, but it's not a good joke

These vics and oxycontins, this whole town is stuck on something

That's pretty much why I hate coming home"

The night before he left, he watched Billy getting high

Dennis asked Billy if he was scared he's gonna die

Billy said everybody dies at some time

Neither of them said a thing for a while

Neither of them said a thing for a while.

[kylejasonblack]

[lyricsasquotes]

'In walks the queen of the clubs Five deep in her foam dance thugs Dripping wet with hair care Drowning in designer drugs' -Lifter Puller | Visit LyricsasQuotes.com for more lyrics.

[revilermpls]

Triple Rock Memories: Adam

Legendary venue the Triple Rock Social Club closes this month. As a memoriam We’re each looking back over the next few weeks on some of our favorite shows/memories from the venue’s storied history.  Lifter Puller (6/6/2003) with The Mountain Goats and Monarques / Lifter Puller again (6/7/2003) I had probably only been to the Triple…