Open Thread: Is the Hold Steady Overhyped
My pal Graceland asked me what I thought about the Hold Steady. My first thought was who the fuck is the Hold Steady? Then I remembered that I'm familiar with this band. I heard their big indie rock hit Chips Ahoy and quickly forgot about them. I heard some other stuff by them. The songs sound catchy and then I never think about them again.
This band has been getting much buzz. I'm I missing something or is this band something special? Offer your opinions.
Side note: Joel, a post about Brian Eno, OK Computer and ambient music makes painful reading. Please, for the mercy of God, stop.
Updated: I also uploaded another Hold Steady song.
Southtown Girls MP3
posted by Michael Hussey @ 10:29 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
And yet you lived to tell the oddly catty tale - still, I'll be sure to run stuff by you first.
I had absolutely no plans to write about either album again, but you may have just inspired me.
P.S. - Listen to Hold Steady's "Cattle and Creeping Things" and "Stevie Nix" - for that matter, all of Separation Sunday. Listen several times - once I went through two or three times, I was hooked for good.
I had absolutely no plans to write about either album again, but you may have just inspired me.
Let us pray.
I seem to be missing something. chips ahoy does nothing for me.
Donkey, I forgot the band's name when I read your comment. I listened to the song Little Hoodrat Friend and it rocks in a sleazy early Afghan Whigs way. The question is will I remember the tune later. Chips Ahoy annoys me in a Weezer way. Total crap.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home