The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (October 27th 2023) Album • Page 55

I Live in the Room Above Her may be the song i heel turned on the hardest. i freakin love this song now.

 

1. Michigan, 1975
2. Little Fires
3. History Books
4. Autumn
5. Spider Bites
6. Positive Charge
7. I Live in the Room Above Her
8. Empires
9. A Lifetime of Preludes
10. The Weatherman

 

Autumn is my #1 with a bullet, that's the one that makes me go yeah this is on the "Gaslight's best" list. I Live in the Room Above Her and either Weatherman or Michigan round out my top 3.

Empires...I really like it, but coming right after Weatherman it's just a little draggy for me. Don't love the lyric that makes me think of Santa Claus. It's interesting hearing Brian write a song that's striving for something more philosophical and profound but it doesn't quiiiite get there for me.

Probably:
1. Autumn
2. I Live in the Room Above Her
3. Weatherman
4. Michigan, 1975
5. History Books
6. Spider Bites
7. Little Fires
8. Empires
9. Positive Charge
10. Lifetime of Preludes

No bad tracks but Positive Charge and Preludes both suffer from the "he's done this thing way better in other songs" factor...Positive Charge because it's the one song where the production really irks me and the chorus lyrics are just fine; Preludes because it's not one of his more memorable love song ballads.

 

1. History Books
   
2. Michigan, 1975
3. Spider Bites
4. Autumn
   
   Feels like classic Gaslight but there's also a clear evolution here.
   
   
5. Little Fires
6. The Weatherman
7. Positive Charge
   
   Feels like they were trying to do classic Gaslight. Still good.
   
   
8. A Lifetime of Preludes
9. I Live in the Room Above Her
   
   Not bad.
   
   
10. Empires
    
    Not good.

 

1. Autumn
2. The Weatherman
3. Spider Bites
4. Michigan, 1975
5. Positive Charge
6. Empires
7. A Lifetime of Preludes
8. History Books
9. I Live in the Room Above Her
10. Little Fires

 

I"m in this boat. I love 6 songs on this and thats one of 4 just "good". And as I said, i think the song could be longer.

 

Preludes is a firm like, in an awkward place, behind 9 loves. So it was kinda screwed from the get.

 

Sure, why not, but need more listens to really have this list finalized.

1) Autumn
2) Room Above
3) Little Fires
4) Michigan 1975
5) Positive Charge
6) History Books
7) Preludes
8) Spider Bites
9) Weatherman
10) Empires

 

I have no idea how Room isn’t at least in everyone’s top 5. That song absolutely rules

 

Like all Gaslight albums, there are songs that are VERY good that end up at the bottom of the rankings. Does not mean they are bad, or even average

 

The guitars in Autumn are so perfect

 

Autumn
Positive charge
History books
Preludes
Spider bites
Room above
Empires
Michigan
Little fires
Weatherman

 

I love it.

 

Damn apparently,Im the only one who’s not into this at all.Really tried listen to it couple times but it just dragging for me.

I put Local Honey and this into the same category.Probably won’t really come back to it again.

 

I'm just stoked we have an album from them that we all seem to love. Can't remember everyone being this stoked since Handwritten

 

1. Autumn
2. Little Fires
3. I Live in the Room Above Her
4. Positive Charge
5. Spider Bites
6. The Weatherman
7. A Lifetime of Preludes
8. Michigan, 1975
9. History Books
10. Empires

 

I feel like you can really tell how incredible this album is based on the wild variation in everyone’s rankings

 

1. Michigan, 1975
2. Autumn
3. Positive Charge
4. History Books
5. Spider Bites
6. The Weatherman
7. I Live in the Room Above Her
8. Empires
9. A Lifetime of Preludes
10. Little Fires

My top 2 are probably set in stone. 3-7 are interchangeable.

8-10 are definitely my bottom 3 but I still like them.

 

Little fires last, shame

 

I’m in the music video, I can do what I want.

 

This was extremely hard to do since I feel like the album is so consistent but I’ll give it a shot.

1. Michigan, 1975
2. Spider Bites
3. Positive Charge
4. I Live in the Room Above Her
5. Autumn
6. History Books
7. Weatherman
8. Little Fires
9. Empires
10. A Lifetime of Preludes

 

1. History Books
2. Little Fires
3. Positive Charge
4. Autumn
5. I Live in the Room Above Her
6. Spider Bites
7. A Lifetime of Preludes
8. The Weatherman
9. Michigan, 1975
10. Empires

 

1. The Weatherman
2. Michigan, 1975
3. Spider Bites
4. Autumn
5. I Live in the Room Above Her
6. Little Fires
7. Positive Charge
8. A Lifetime of Preludes
9. History Books
10. Empires

 

1. Michigan, 1975
2. Autumn
3. Empires
4. The Weatherman
5. A Lifetime of Preludes
6. Positive Charge
7. Spider Bites
8. Little Fires
9. History Books
10. I Live in the Room Above Her

 

Little fires is also a classic