The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (October 27th 2023) Album • Page 81

I don't know if I am eloquent enough to convey what I am trying to say, but whenever I listen to the entire album I'm always a little bit disappointed that the album ends with "A Lifetime of Preludes", not so much because I don't like that song, because I do, it is a beautiful song, but moreso that I think I wanted one more shit-kicker from the album overall and that's just the song that is playing when I'm feeling that as the album ends

that aside though, this is absolutely still up there with the rest of their albums

no question

 

I still don’t understand why people don’t like Desire

 

I just dont think its that interesting of a song.
I dont think I "dont like it" though.
Its just whatever.

 

for me it's just a lackluster song on an incredible album by a great band and there happens to be a b-side with similar energy that is an infinitely superior song in every way

 

59 Sound
Handwritten
History Books
American Slang
Sink or Swim
Get Hurt

Sounds about right for me at the moment, especially with the discog dive I went on around the times I saw them this year.

 

Sink or swim the best

 

I'm pretty much exactly where you are. Get Hurt and History Books are kinda close but Get Hurt benefits from having 16 songs

 

listened to american slang a few weeks ago and found it fairly underwhelming

59 sound (by a large margin)
handwritten
history books
everything after that is kinda equal

 

Been liking their setlists so far on these international shows.

20+ songs is nice

 

Agree. Hoping they start playing Little Fires more often too

 

I will not stand for the Get Hurt erasure in these sets.

 

I won’t stand for get hurt erasure period, that album rules. Though considering it was such a painful time for Brian and the band I’m assuming they aren’t too keen on revisiting it much

 

Also odd that they aren’t playing anything off American Slang (from what I saw), either.

But agreed, Get Hurt is such a good album with some misses (what TGA album doesn’t have a whiff or two, tbh, including T59S) that I go back to somewhat regularly.

 

They over-indexed on the Get Hurt stuff in setlists for years. I'd personally love to see a setlist that focuses on other stuff. I agree that it's weird they play almost no American Slang stuff anymore, though. I gather Brian isn't as fond of that album.

 

I’ve seen Underneath the Ground too many times live that I’m fine with them moving on from playing a lot from that album lol

 

Have Mercy should always be in the set tho

 

Agree with that. Someone should also talk to someone and get it on streaming

 

It’s on Apple Music, another reason why Apple Music is better then Spotify.

 

One of many

 

Underneath the Ground? It is.

Are you thinking of Have Mercy?

 

I was responding to Grimace’s post about Have Mercy getting added to Spotify* however I can’t see his post anymore cause he’s BLOCKED with his Apple Music campaign I’m too lazy to ever switch over on

 

Have Apple Music and listen to Have Mercy all the time. Gonna listen to it now lol

 

have mercy on grimace

 

I’m currently listening to it at Donnie. I hope you can feel my streaming superiority.

 

Jokes on you BOZOS I simply can just play it on Youtube where I'll get a random ad for Robinhood mid song and lose my mind