“The main thing now is wondering: How did we get here?” he says of Gaslight’s career. And while he was willing to play our ranking game with the Gaslight Anthem’s records, he says that, with a few years’ distance behind him, he’s more prone to looking back on the band’s output as a whole, and the unexpected international success it brought the Garden State natives. “We were able to be real with ourselves and say, ‘Does anyone have anything to offer that needs to be said, in addition to what we’ve already said?’ And everyone went, nah.”įallon has since moved on to a solo career that’s been doing quite well, with two well-received records already under his belt. That’s not to say we’d never do shows ever again, but we don’t have any plans for a record,” says Fallon.
And after that, well, it sounds like that might be it for a while. The record is also getting a deluxe reissue.
The band is returning briefly on June 2, though, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of The ’59 Sound at Governors Ball, where they’ll play the entire album. Their crowning achievement is their 2008 album The ’59 Sound.Īfter almost a decade together, during which they released five albums, The Gaslight Anthem announced in 2015 that they’d be taking a hiatus and have been inactive since.(Yes, this has already been mentioned, but it’s a very distinct part of their DNA.) Their lyrics are packed with themes of old-fashioned Americana-driving classic cars to diners, kissing women named Maria, and dancing to songs on the radio.They got the Bruce Springsteen Seal of Approval when The Boss joined them on stage at Glastonbury.So here are five things most people know about The Gaslight Anthem: The Gaslight Anthem are far too good to be the New Millennium's answer to John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band, but it's all but impossible to listen to The '59 Sound without being aware of this band's key influence even if they never grow out of their Springsteen obsession, they're worth hearing, but it's hard not to hope they'll develop a stronger identity of their own with time.though they may want to warn their tax accountant before that happens.In other words, a band’s identity can be broken down to the bare essentials of collective knowledge about them.
If Fallon often comes off as a youthful Springsteen wannabe on The '59 Sound, he also happens to be pretty good at it the force and sincerity of his songs roll over the occasional clunky spots, and the band brings this music across with a strength and urgency that suggests a heartland rock version of Social Distortion, with Alex Rosamila's guitars and Benny Horowitz's drumming brimming with fire and energy. Hailing from New Brunswick, NJ, the Gaslight Anthem are that rare punk band that displays a strong and unmistakable Springsteen influence, and while Fallon's vocal resemblance to the Boss is clearly coincidental (he has more than a bit of Bruce's throaty gravity without the grit), the boys-and-girls-on-the-backstreets tone of his lyrics is not, especially when stray fragments from Springsteen's lyrics pop up in Fallon's songs (cue up "Meet Me by the River's Edge" and "High Lonesome" for evidence). Bon Jovi replied "In New Jersey, if you don't like Springsteen they raise your taxes." Listening to the Gaslight Anthem's second full-length album The '59 Sound, it's pretty clear that leader Brian Fallon doesn't have to worry much about his tax bill in the Garden State. In 1988, Jon Bon Jovi was being interviewed by a reporter for Spin Magazine when he was asked if he was a fan of Bruce Springsteen.
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