Have you
ever found a band that is just amazing, but you really can’t explain why? A
band that has something about them but, you’re really not sure what that
something is? Well The Gaslight Anthem is that band. I have been a fan of TheGaslight Anthem for over 2 years now and I can honestly say I can’t get enough
of them.
What type of band is The Gaslight
Anthem? What do they sound like? Well The Gaslight Anthem sounds like Bruce
Springsteen, and Miles Davis got together with the drummer from the Cure and
started recording songs by The Clash, the Bouncing Souls and the Replacements
and had Bob Seger, Tom Petty, John Lee Hooker, Alkaline Trio, Otis Redding,
Muddy Waters and Johnny Cash all make guest appearances on the album and
Charles Dickens wrote the songs . Everything from Punk Rock, to Soul, to Jazz,
to Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty has influenced The Gaslight Anthems sound.
When it comes to The Gaslight
Anthem’s songs, they are very lyrically based, when you listen to them you have
to listen to everything that is said in the songs. The reason for this is all
of The Gaslight Anthems songs tell a story, and paint a picture of a different
era kind of like a Springsteen song or a Bob Seger song. The stories that The
Gaslight Anthem tells range from Hard Luck, Love, Good Times and Nostalgia for
things such as Cruising at night and hanging out at drive in’s, dreaming about
making it big, racing in our Hot Rods and Muscle cars around Asbery Park and
remembering all of the other good times.
Relating to this one thing I really
have to praise The Gaslight Anthem is for making my Generation (the current
Generation) feel Nostalgic for things we never have experienced like what I
mentioned aboved. When I listen to there song Old Haunts I think about places
in Town an Old Diner or Driven in use to be that people would cruise, or when I
listen to High Lonesome I think about some lost love I never even had!
Getting back to the Story telling
and the Imagery, one of the songs I have to praise the band for is there song
Great Expectations. When I hear the song I from the opening riffs I start to
picture an old style place, but I can’t quite picture it, and after the First
verse I picture a Diner full of Hot Rods and Classic cars with Bruce
Springsteen’s Character Mary and Pip from Charles Dickens Great Expectations on
a date thinking about the good times while listening to Bob Seger! Another
great song with Imagery is there song the Spirit of Jazz which I picture a
married couple through the years from the 40s when they were married till now,
all old with Grandkids but still together.
I like The Gaslight Anthem so much
that I can probably Literally write articles about each song and how I picture
them, but I’ll leave that up to you to deiced. Another thing you may notice
about The Gaslight Anthem is there name and song tittles. There name its self
just says nostalgia! The Gaslight Anthem, it makes me picture an old North
Jersey Style Home built in the early 40s with a big porch at night, with the
Gaslight Light and a Blues guitarist (I picture John Lee Hooker) sitting on the
porch strumming his guitar. Just
everything about the Band has Imagery!
If you are a Fan of 70s Rock, 60s
Rock, 50s Blues and Soul, Swing, Cool Jazz, Punk, or Rockabilly this band is
for you! If you are a Fan of Bob Seger, the Clash, Joe Strummer, the
Replacements, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Otis Redding, the Bouncing Souls
or John Lee Hooker this band is for you! The Gaslight Anthem is great for when
you want something to cruise to, or if you want something straight forward yet
deep.
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