Hold Steady - Stay Positive
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Artist: Hold SteadyBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Music Label: Vagrant Records
Soundtracks:
- Constructive Summer
- Sequestered in Memphis
- One for the Cutters
- Navy Sheets
- Lord, I'm Discouraged
- Yeah Sapphire
- Both Crosses
- Stay Positive
- Magazines
- Joke About Jamaica
- Slapped Actress
Free Music Notes for Stay Positive
Free Music Review: It's a grower.
Hit: 5 Stars
The Minneapolis, New York City band The Hold Steady released their 4th studio album in 2008. "Stay Positive" #30, produced by John Agnello, an album that took a few listens to get what Craig Finn was trying to get through. The album opens with a E-Street piano by Franz Nicolay on "Constructive Summer", great! They let it rock on "Suquestered In Memphis", great guitar breaks by Tad Kubler (a very underated guitar player), and Doug Gillard and great horns by Peter Hess and Lloyd Debonis. "One For The Cutters", has that 60's baroque sound, this is quite a song, very desperate lyrics, with more great guitars. "Navy Sheets", with those new wavy keyboards and crunchy guitars. Craig Finn wrote a great song with "Lord I'm Discouraged", which would probably fit in perfectly on their new release "Heaven Is Whenever", a very mature tune. "Yeah Saphire", just rolls like Franz's piano on this track, Tads guitar again smokes. The biblical story song of "Both Crosses", (might be their best song!), it's a great rockin' dirge tune, with good banjo by J. Mascis. The title track is a true anthem, you can til the band loves this one! "Magazines", a nice little pop rocker. "Joke About Jamaica", has that play on Led Zeppelin songs, a great song, some fine Nicolay here, Tads guitar rings out, great talk box! "Slapped Actress", another great song, like the lyrics, "I'll be Ben Gazzara you'll be Gena Rowlands", smokin' guitar by Tad. "Ask Her Aderall", a rockin' tune, a concert favorite. "Cheyenne Sunrise", blusey type tune, good harp. "Two Handed Handshake", a favorite of mine, love the horns, a great end to the album. For people that only gave this 2 stars, you didn't give it a chance. I know because when I first heard it, I only gave it 2 stars. You just need too listen to it closer.
The Hold Steady:
Craig Finn Lead vocals,guitar
Bobby Drake-drums,bgv
Tad Kubler - guitar, bgv
Galen Polivka -bass, bgv
Franz Nicolay - keyboards,bgv (last studio album)
Stay Positive Poster
Limited edition packaging (50,000) includes 3 bonus tracks:Bonus Tracks
1.Ask Her for Adderall
2.Cheyenne Sunrise
3. Two Handed Handshake
The Hold Steady's ascent and eventual breakthrough with 2006's Boys & Girls in America was never pre-ordained. If anything they did it without the tastemakers' consent. Their shtick is old-fashioned through and through, beginning with Thin Lizzy and ending with Bruce Springsteen, performed by men advanced enough to have experienced those touchstones first or second hand. And look at them--not exactly The Strokes, are they? But it was precisely their enthusiastic unoriginality, the fact that the clichés were piled on so thick and so fast, that they triumphed. And placed next to that unapologetically feel good record, that Stay Positive sounds so immediately brighter and more muscular is undoubtedly a great sign. Production is really cranked up--see the horns wedged into "Sequestered in Memphis", the REM mandolin texturing of "Both Crosses" and the surprising harpsichord flagrancy of "One for the Cutters". They're clearly determined to not be so easily pegged this time around, though admittedly they never exactly go that far off-piste. "Our songs are sing-along songs," announced Craig Finn semi-helpfully, and though the spirit is right, with such a conversational lyrical style that is rarely the case. It's more about the rock gestures and knowing when to punch the air. And there are instances aplenty, from the Pete Townsend-esque windmill power-chords in "Constructive Summer", to the overblown solo in "Lord I'm Discouraged" that is so "November Rain" it's practically going through Stephanie Seymour's trash (those not watching MTV in the mid-90s, hit Youtube). --James Berry
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