The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
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Artist: The Hold SteadyEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
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
Music reviews of Stay Positive
Music Review: Stay Postive People
Rating: 4 Stars
When I first heard the The Hold Steady, I didn't get them. I could not get past Craig Finn's vocals and the simple regurgitation of rock and roll cliches. So I figured they were trying to trick me. Why would a band in the new century just play straight ahead rock music? I had to be missing something and that annoyed me.
Included in this recording you should know: There isn't any tricky production. There isn't soci-political statements being tossed up as enlightened dogma.
After the second listening it all came back to me. I remembered the joy of putting on a Stones album. I remembered digging a Springsteen record. I remembered about singing along in the car to Tom Petty, Creedence, The Pretenders, The Clash etc. Sometimes it's just rock and it's important because it's simple. Sometimes it doesn't have to change the world to change your outlook.
If you like Rock when the count to get it started is "One, Two, Three, Four", if you are not looking for vocal hysterics, over-blown freshman posey/poetry lyrics, maudlin mope rock and/or songs composed on Pro Tools which do not require learning how to play an instrument with ANY level of professionalism.....
This is an album for you to buy. Sometimes it's just Rock and Roll folks. Sometimes it's just that simple.
Description of Stay Positive
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 clich?s 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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