The '59 Sound - Gaslight Anthem (2009)
Ideated from: a favorite album that starts with a “5”
The title track here (along with a tune by GLA side project Horrible Crowes) sat atop my most-played list for more than a year.
Almost every track is a monster.
The songwriting is so emotionally complex and full of quotes and allusions to other bands.
Tracks I Liked
Great Expectations - an emotionally jarring tune, until you realize that’s just how Brian Fallon rolls
59 Sound - One of those songs that’s clearly about something I don’t know the story behind, and I don’t even want to know. I can make it up myself.
High Lonesome - quotes Counting Crows’ Round Here at length, and also drops in a line from Springsteen’s I’m On Fire, and has some of the same energy as both of those
