The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (October 27th 2023) Album • Page 33

It's so hard because they are all great and nothing deserves to be "last place" or "least favorite"

59
Slang
Handwritten
Sink or Swim
Sleepwalkers
Get Hurt
Painkillers
Elsie
Local Honey

To explain, before everyone tells me I'm a stupid fuckhead as per usual -

Local Honey is awesome but it always feels short, more like an EP to me. And it's by the far most mellow. Still great.

Elsie's highs are extremely high but it has a couple songs I don't really like.

But really everything after Sink or Swim should be "tied" or close to it.

Get Hurt gets bonus points for having 16 songs, most of which I very much enjoy and think are underrated. I still don't like Stay Vicious very much though.

Can't wait to hear BF10 and see where it slots

 

stupid fuckhead

 

HA HA HA

 

59’ Sound
Handwritten
American Slang
Elsie
SOS
Get Hurt
Sleepwalkers
Painkillers
Local Honey

 

I think I rank this the lowest of the gaslight anthems but that doesn’t mean I don’t love it and still rank it above the solo albums

 

I think trying to rank albums immediately upon first hearing them is really pointless. I need time and life experiences with memories attached to music to truly get a sense for where an album ranks. Unless I just don’t like it at all right away I guess. I could see history books being right up there at the top for me eventually, it certainly is a wonderful work of art.

 

YASSSSSS

 

My email must be broken

 

now thats a take.

 

Handwritten
American Slang
59 Sound
Get hurt
Sink or Swim

 

This probably makes zero sense but Get Hurt has a lot of songs I like but its by far my least favorite "album" of Gaslight for me.

 

I think I agree with I think it was @Craig Manning, that I’m able to enjoy Get Hurt more without “this broke the band” weighing it down

 

I like being objectively wrong so why not

59
Handwritten
Painkillers
American Slang
Elsie
Sleepwalkers
Sink or Swim
Get Hurt
Local Honey

History Books is phenomenal. I love the wistful melancholy of it all. It's making me want to go back and revisit Local Honey in hopes I was dead wrong about it.

 

"phenomenal" is what I wanted to hear. Can't wait

 

Best band.

 

Local Honey rules. It really helped me through the early days of the pandemic, it was like comfort food.

 

My Gaslight Store order has a label, though not sure it's actually shipped yet. Woo?

 

Lol has it been sitting in Kansas for a day and a half?

 

29 hours to go

 

12 hours until New Zealand :)

 

If only! I've got "label created, not yet in system" right now.

 

Definitely agree with this, I think it's why I'm having a hard time connecting to the new Menzingers album, some of the songs just sound so general, standard rock songs that could be written or sung by anyone

 

So. Close.

 

one more sleep :-}

 

My record isn’t coming until November 1st now. I’d have been better off just not pre-ordering and going to my local newbury comics. Bummer.