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Stay Positive [VINYL] by: Hold Steady List Price: £17.99 Price: £16.98 You Save: £1.01 ( 6%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Vinyl EAN: 0883870046015 Label: Rough Trade Manufacturer: Rough Trade Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Rough Trade Release Date: July 14, 2008 Studio: Rough Trade Sales Rank: 86224 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: 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 clichés 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - A modern classic for an ignorant generation.Writing this review I don't mean to sound judgemental or condecending, but I feel I must take a moment to vent my rage. The Hold Steady are a band who along with many other great American artists(Richmond Fontaine and The National to name two) who are continually ignored by the general public in the UK. This is the band's 4th album and I firmly beleive it to be their career high-point to date. If you are yet to hear the dlights of Craig Finn and co, then let me take a second to discribe their sound. Imagine if you will Bruce Springteens's E Street Band having grown up listening to 80's punk legends Husker Du and Fugazi, then decideing to bring in a poetic literate (much in the same vein as our own home-grown ... Read More: |
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