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[Mike in STL]

Listened to some Hold Steady for the first time today. Uncanny resemblance to Bruce Springsteen, minus Clarence.

Not bad at all. Good stuff.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Listened to some Hold Steady for the first time today. Uncanny resemblance to Bruce Springsteen, minus Clarence.

Not bad at all. Good stuff.

Glad you enjoyed it!

[Pedro Cerrano]

Been on a kick lately.  Listening to some of their newer albums that I haven't heard as much as the old ones.

 

Not as good as their earlier stuff, but still really really really good.

[McNulty]

Craig Finn @steadycraig

Cat's out of the bag. I'm going on tour with @TitusAndronicus and it's going to be amazing. on.fb.me/1NvegqR

 

Your boy is going on tour with my boy.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Oh, the guy that wouldn't shut the hell up on that podcast?

 

PASS!!!!

[Pedro Cerrano]

Been neglecting this:


Before she figures out what's wrong
They put another record on.
She picks it up and she carries the cross.
Heartbreak hurts but you can dance it off.
Sure some nights she'll curse these clubs
She's two years off some prairie town
She goes out most every night.
She dresses up and she spins around.

The same guy buys another round
To let her know he's interested.
The nights go on forever now
But the morning comes up quick.
You've got to loosen your grip.

Never let them tie you up
It's a big city, there's a lot of love.
Salted rims and frosted mugs.
You gotta get back out there.

Flat champagne and inbound trains.
Soft hands and phantom pains.
Never let them tie you up.
It's a big city, there's a lot of love.

Once she's pretty sure it's safe
She goes to a different place.
Decides she's gonna get some guy
Before she even finds him.
Then she's got him if she wants him
But she cant decide if she wants him.
She goes out almost every night.
She cuddles up and she spins aside.

Never let them tie you up
It's a big city, there's a lot of love.
Salted rims and frosted mugs.
You gotta get back out there.

Flat champagne and inbound trains.
Soft hands and phantom pains.
Never let them tie you up.
It's a big city, there's a lot of love.

She's two years off some prairie town.
She dresses up and she spins around.
Little looks and smaller talk.
Heartbreak hurts but you can dance it off.

She's two years off some prairie town.
She dresses up and she spins around.
She never lets them tie her down.
Its a big city and there's just so much love.

Once you're out there everything is possible.
There might be a fight. There might be a miracle.
Loosen your grip, it feels so incredible.
Let the city live your life for you tonight.

Once you're out there everything is possible.
Even the bad nights they aren't all that terrible.
Loosen your grip, it feels so incredible.
Let the city live your life for you tonight.

Never let them tie you up.
It's a big city, there's a lot of love.
Salted rims and frosted mugs.
It's a big city there's a lot of love.
Tavern wine and tiny bugs.
It's a big city there's a lot of love.
Never let them tie you up.
It's a big city.

[Pedro Cerrano]

https://m.youtube.co...h?v=X87Grij4f5Q

[Pedro Cerrano]

"She said I just can't sympathize with your rock and roll problems"

[Pedro Cerrano]

"I tell this story every time, but it's worth noting for prosperity*.  That I was in my slothful teenage years, my dad came to me with some motivational advice.  He said, you know, guys go for looks, but girls, they go for status"

 

*he was drunk and I'm sure he meant "posterity"

 

anyway

 

He's drawn out in the dark, up in Penetration Park
He says he's got your medication
And she was sitting on the edges of his vision
Trying to start a revolution

But he's done with all the parties
He's covered in contusions
Your life leaves life lines
Your rug leaves bright bruises

She said she was cruising
But she came back, all proud and out of focus
With a cool car
Drank and broke us

Guys go for looks, girls go for status
There are so many nights
When this is just how it happens
Guys go for looks, girls go for status

He was dreadlocked in the dorms, in the Colorado corn
He says he's got your vegetation

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And she was sitting on the edge of the bed
Smoking, trying to reach emancipation

And he's done with DVDs, he's fully entertained
He's bleaching out the blood stains, he's got diamonds in the drain
She said that she was coming but she wasn't
Just made hard fast noises, it kinda sounded like the locusts

Guys go for looks, girls go for status
There are so many nights
When this is just how it happens
Guys go for looks, girls go for status

It was song number three on John's last CD
Gonna make it through this year if it kills me
And it almost killed me
Well, song number four on that first D4
You want the scars but you don't want the war
That's just hardcore, these kids are clever to the core

 

Guys go for looks, girls go for status
 

[Pedro Cerrano]

Drinking and listening to Boys and Girls in America.

How'm I S'posed to know you're high if you won't let me touch you?

[Pedro Cerrano]

They used to think it was so cute
When she said, "Dyer Maker"
All the boys knew it was a joke about Jamaica
She'd always find a ride back home from the bar

She used to feel so stupid when they'd talk about the music
Born into every single tune
They used to hum against her lips with their hands on her hips
They used to kiss in the car

Dancing days, houses of the holy
Hotshot in the city in the middle of the prairie
Flirting with the boys with all her charms

But first they laugh, then they eyes then the touch 'em on the arm's
And the drinks, they never seem to cost money
And Saturday night was a runway
That extended into Sunday and sometimes Monday

Back then it was beautiful, the boys were sweet and musical
The laser lights looked mystical, messed up stuff felt magical
Girls didn't seem so difficult, boys didn't seem so typical
It was warm and white and wonderful, we were all invincible

Tired eyes, trampled under foot
Dazed and confused, c-c-cocaine blues
She hasn't got any eye contact tonight

The boys are getting younger and the bands are getting louder
And the new girls are coming up like some white unopened flowers
She's pretty sure that that's where their power is

Back then it was unified, the punks, the skins, the greaser guys
Then one summer, two kids died and one of them was crucified
Now it's so competitive, the sleeplessness and sedatives
I know it sounds repetitive, every show can't be a benefit

We were kids in the crowd now we're dogs in this war
We were wasps with new wings, now we're bugs in the jar
We were hot, soft and pure, now we're scratched up in scars
We were counting cards, now we eat in our cars
The boys in the band they know they'll never be stars

Back then they were quite convinced, firing and sickering
The front row girls were posturing, we were all imagining
And man, we had some massive nights
Some bashes and some bloody fights back before those two kids died

 

[Pedro Cerrano]

The girls want to go to the party, but no one's in any shape to drive
So we called up your guy, and when he comes we're gonna ask for a ride
We get to the place and she don't want to dance, she says she's not really into this track
She wants to know what's going on in the room that's all the way in the back

Back home we were listening to Catholic Boy
And I got hung up on the people that died
I didn't even want to go out 'cause I was way too fried

She said I just can't sympathize
With your rock and roll
Isn't this what we wanted?
Some major rock and roll problems

That one girl got me cornered in the kitchen, I said I'll do anything but clean
She wants to know what I like being better, a trash bin or an ice machine
Some writer's by the fridge, said he didn't make the gig, wants to know if I was drunk
He said some kids that he knows from the net said the sound kinda sucks

I didn't want to stay in 'cause the walls were so gray
You can almost feel the tentacles tighten
I didn't even want to go out 'cause I was way too frightened

She said I just can't sympathize
With your rock and roll
Isn't this what we wanted?
Some major rock and roll problems

Didn't want to go out but it felt really right when someone put on "Heaven Tonight"
Had a moment in the middle of "In Color" and "In Black & White"
Sing along to the "Southern Girls"
Rip me out of my little world

These are rock and roll problems
These are rock and roll problems
These are rock and roll problems
These are rock and roll problems

This is just what we wanted
This is just what we wanted
This is just what we wanted
This is just what we wanted
 

[Pedro Cerrano]

So on their Twitter and Facebook pages they're hinting at a 10th anniversary tour of the release of Boys and Girls in America!!!!

Please please please please please!!!

"You don't have to deal with the dealers, let your boyfriend deal with the dealers. It only gets inconvenient when you wanna get high alone"

[Pedro Cerrano]

So on their Twitter and Facebook pages they're hinting at a 10th anniversary tour of the release of Boys and Girls in America!!!!

Please please please please please!!!

"You don't have to deal with the dealers, let your boyfriend deal with the dealers. It only gets inconvenient when you wanna get high alone"

Welp...IT'S HAPPENING!!!

 

Boys and Girls in America" is my favorite album from the 2000s and is, in my humble opinion, the best album since "Ok Computer." The fact that The Hold Steady are playing a 10-year anniversary tour of its release WITH Franz (who was one of the writers on the record and whose keyboard playing is essential) is mind blowing to me.

The site says "limited" tour dates, which is a bummer but I'm counting on them coming somewhere close. Hopefully Philly, BMore or DC, but I'll travel further if I have to.

Huge news. Huge.

[NewMarketSean]

[RShack]

Welp...IT'S HAPPENING!!!

 

Boys and Girls in America" is my favorite album from the 2000s and is, in my humble opinion, the best album since "Ok Computer." The fact that The Hold Steady are playing a 10-year anniversary tour of its release WITH Franz (who was one of the writers on the record and whose keyboard playing is essential) is mind blowing to me.

The site says "limited" tour dates, which is a bummer but I'm counting on them coming somewhere close. Hopefully Philly, BMore or DC, but I'll travel further if I have to.

Huge news. Huge.

 

Well, I don't get it... but I'm glad you have something to be excited about looking forward to...  looking forward to something is one of life's great pleasures...

[Pedro Cerrano]

Hi I'm NMS and I don't know dick about anything!

[Pedro Cerrano]

Welp...IT'S HAPPENING!!!

 

Boys and Girls in America" is my favorite album from the 2000s and is, in my humble opinion, the best album since "Ok Computer." The fact that The Hold Steady are playing a 10-year anniversary tour of its release WITH Franz (who was one of the writers on the record and whose keyboard playing is essential) is mind blowing to me.

The site says "limited" tour dates, which is a bummer but I'm counting on them coming somewhere close. Hopefully Philly, BMore or DC, but I'll travel further if I have to.

Huge news. Huge.

 

Tour dates announced today

[Pedro Cerrano]

She's sleeping at a storage space by the airport.

The only thing she talks about is TV.

The only thing that tethers us together Are these dreams.

Last night her teeth were in my dreams.

In my dreams.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Hallelujah came to in the confession booth
Infested with infections and smiling on an abscessed tooth
Running out on residue and crashing through the vestibule
The crucifixion cruise, she climbed the cross and found she liked the view

And sat reflecting on the resurrection and dreaming about an old connection
And talking loud over lousy connections, she put her mouth around a difficult question
She said Lord, what do you recommend to a real sweet girl who's made some not-sweet friends?
Lord, what do you prescribe to a real soft girl who's having real hard times?