Tidy Tune #222: Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Iconic Axes Post About Springsteen's Fender.

The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt Deluxe Version (August 2014)

Listen to 'Get Hurt - Deluxe Version' Here.

I sat down a couple of nights ago and listened to all of the albums by The Gaslight Anthem becasue I was trying to figure out how the new album 'Get Hurt' fitted as part of their musical puzzle. What I discovered was that each album is really a seperate puzzle and comparing the albums to each other doesn't really work so well, because they are all actually very different from each other (though of course the critics would say they are very much the same).
 
The other thing, it's easy to go with the flow of what critics say and believe that GA, and especially Brian Fallon, have lost their way. But in doing that we tend to forget a very vital thing: It's no easy matter coming up with 10 songs (let alone the 16 that are on the Deluxe Edition of 'Get Hurt') - if we think it's that easy maybe we need to ask Bono and crew why it's been five years since the last U2 album!
 
One of the keys to this new album is the songwriting. Fallon seems to have gone through a whole heap of valleys and heartache and personal hurt and he's opened wide his heart and made himself vulnerable (not easy for any man to do by the way) as he has put pen to paper. The results might not be pretty in our eyes but one of the principal reasons people write particular types of songs is to firstly be able to unburden their own hearts (some say it's cathartic) and then in some small way hope that the songs, once the music has been added, are able to connect with the listener.

(Just as an aside let me give you a great example of this. Earlier this year Stiff Little Fingers released a long awaited new album entitled 'No Going Back' and on it was a song 'My Dark Places'. Here's what Jake had to say about it in an interview with Cracking Vinyl:

The title of ‘My Dark Places’ paints a grave enough picture, as Jake goes on to explain.

“I went through a period of deep personal depression after I’d gotten divorced and moved out, and you think you’re over the worst of it. I thought I’d gotten through the whole thing pretty unscathed.”

However, things soon went downhill. “I think once you’re actually a wee bit distant from whole thing, the enormity of it all kinda hits you, and I did withdraw into myself and did hide away. I wasn’t fun to be around.”

While being therapeutic for Burns, the song in question has also reached out and helped a lot of their fans.

“It seems to have helped a lot of people because, for some with this depression business, there’s this weird stigma about it. People think that you’re in some way impaired because you’ve gone through this and don’t want to talk about it in public.”

That song, an experience of Jake's own life, made a connection and still continues to make a connection in the lives of listeners.)
 
So, with the new album I was a little fearful because after hearing a few tracks I didn't get it and wasn't convinced I was going to like it but on hearing the last song on the Deluxe Version ('Have Mercy') a connection was made. I think Fallon would say that his job has been done!
 
My problem though is that I feel I want to connect with all the songs (and I'm sure you feel the same way also, especially as you are laying down your heard earned cash for the album in the format of your choice) but that rarely happens and maybe that's why we struggle with Fallon and Co at times because we can't always find ourselves in his lyrics. But I'm sure if we listen and look hard enough then we will find one that jumps into our heart and soul like a lightening bolt.

Read an insightful interview with Brian Fallon Here. 

Bonus Music

 from 

The Gaslight Anthem

Handwritten (Full Album).

American Slang (Full Album).

The '59 Sound (Full Album).

Sink or Swim (Playlist - One Track Missing).

Live at Made in America Festival 2013.

Southside Festival 2013.

Live Acoustic at The Lowlands Festival 2012.

Lollapalooza Festival - Chicago 2012.

Area4 Festival Germany 2012.

Live in NYC 2013.

Live on Letterman 2012 (Full Playlist).

Live at Vintage Vinyl 2008.

The B-Sides (Full Playlist).

Tidy Tune #221: Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards

19 and Mad

Happy Birthday to Scott Stapp

Happy Birthday 

to 

Scott Stapp

Click on the links to enjoy the music.

 Proof of Life (Album Playlist).

Slow Suicide (Promo Video)

Consequence of Sound Interview.

WAAF 97.7FM Boston Interview.

Acoustic Performance for Rock933HV.
Acoustic Performance of 'Dying to Live'.
'Jesus Was A Rockstar' - Philadelphia 4th April 2014.
'Bullets' - Atlanta 9th April 2014.
'Overcome' - Irving Plaza NY 2nd April 2014.
'Sublime' (Unplugged).
'A Prayer For Sunrise'.
'The Great Divide' - Jay Leno Show.
'Relearn Love (Radio Version)'.
 

 Slow Suicide.
What If.
Justify.
My Own Prison.
New Day Coming.
Higher.
Hit Me More.
One Last Breath.
'Only One' .
My Sacrifice.
With Arms Wide Open.
Dying To Live.
Proof of Life.
 

Tidy Tune #220: Kite - U2

Happy Birthday to The Edge

U2 - Slane Castle 2001

Click on the links to enjoy more music from U2.

U2 - Glastonbury 2011.

U2 - 360 The Other Side (Fan Made Concert Video).

U2 - U22 The Show That Never Was (Fan Made Concert Video).

U2 - Johannesburg 1998.

U2 - Buenos Aires 2006.

 

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Interviews, TV, Live and Album Tracks

Hypnotic Eye (Full Album).

Click on the links to enjoy the music.

American Dream Plan B 

Live on Jimmy Kimmel

U Get Me High - Live on Jimmy Kimmel.

Forgotten Man - Live on Jimmy Kimmel.

Red River (Audio).

Power Drunk.

Fault Lines (Audio).

Playing Dumb (Bonus Track Audio).

Canadian TV - Indepth Interview

A Q Exclusive Interview with Tom Petty Part 1.

 A Q Exclusive Interview with Tom Petty Part 2.

3rd August 2014

Opening Night of the Tour

Setlist

So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star.
Mary Jane's Last Dance.
American Dream Plan B.
Into The Great Wide Open/Forgotten Man.
I Won't Back Down.
Free Fallin'.
Spike.
Tweeter and the Monkey.
U Get Me High.

Rebels.
It's Hard to Find a Friend.
Willin'.
Learning to Fly.
Shadow People.
I Should Have Known It.

Refugee.
Runnin' Down a Dream.
Encores
You Wreck Me.
American Girl.

Rewind: 1996 Last Ever Ramones Concert

6th August 1996 The Ramones played their 2263rd show and sadly their final show.

Edited Video of The Show

We're Outta Here (Full Album).

 Durango '95/Teenage Lobotomy
Psycho Therapy
Blitzkrieg Bop
I Wanna Be Sedated
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Pet Cemetery
Love Kills
R.A.M.O.N.E.S. W/ Lemmy
Pinhead
53rd and 3rd
Beat On The Brat
Any Way You Want IT W/ Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam

 Bonus

Last NYC Concert

1st May 1996

Coney Island High NY

Part One.

01 - Durango 95
02 - Teenage Lobotomy
03 - Psycho Therapy
04 - Blitzkrieg Bop
05 - Do You Remember Rock N' Roll Radio?

Part Two.

06 - I Believe In Miracles
07 - Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
08 - Rock N' Roll High School
09 - I Wanna Be Sedated
10 - Spider-Man

Part Three.

11 - The KKK Took My Baby Away
12 - I Don't Want To Grow Up
13 - I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
14 - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
15 - Rockaway Beach

Part Four.

16 - Pet Sematary
17 - Do You Wanna Dance?
18 - Somebody Put Something In My Drink

Part Five.

 19 - I Just Wanna Have Something To Do
20 - Wart Hog
21 - Cretin Hop
22 - R.A.M.O.N.E.S.
23 - Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World

Part Six.

24 - Pinhead
25 - I Don't Want You
26 - We're A Happy Family

Part Seven.

27 - I Don't Care
28 - Chinese Rocks
29 - Beat On The Brat

Last Ever South American Show

River Plate Stadium

Beuno Aries, Argentina

16th March 1996

Tidy Tune #219: Let The Beauty Be - Bob Mould

Bonus

I Don't Know You Anymore (Live on Conan).

Boing Boing Interview and Performance.

Tidy Tune #218: She's So Tough - Mink Deville

 Studio Version

Live Version