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Track Listings
| 1. Hornets! Hornets! |
| 2. Cattle And The Creeping Things |
| 3. Your Little Hoodrat Friend |
| 4. Banging Camp |
| 5. Charlemagne In Sweetpants |
| 6. Stevie Nix |
| 7. Multitude Of Casualties |
| 8. Don't Let Me Explode |
| 9. Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night |
| 10. Cruxifixion Cruise |
| 11. How A Ressurection Really Feels |
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. P. Guppy
Format:Audio CD
An album length concept, rambling, slurring soap opera from what sounds like a bar fly who couldn't really give two shit whether he sings in time with his band...infact I think they just try to follow his flights of fancy about drunks and pimps, ressurections and overdoses....like Mark-E-Smith meets Bukowski and Kerouac in an East-side speakeasy.
Huge, raining guitar riffs, a total disregard for chorus timing or structure in general...just banging it out like the E-Street band meets the Stones with a mouthful of cigarette butts and bloodsoaked sawdust. It's freakin' great, and you should make it your next LP purchase.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By juno60jr
Format:Audio CD
If you're looking at this becuase you liked Boys and Girls, then you should go ahead and get it. Excellent though Boys and Girls is, I slightly prefer this. The formula is pretty much the same, but Separation Sunday seems to give no ground at all to any thoughts of commercial viability (there's no whoas or funny keyboard figures in the choruses) and I think that improves things, by making the whole a bit purer and more coherent.
On top of that, Cattle and Creeping Things is one of the best things I've heard in ages - musically and lyrically it's spot on, and there's plenty of other great riffs and smarty-pants wordplay on here too.
So if you like your rawk music with a brain on it, do yourself a favour and get this.
On top of that, Cattle and Creeping Things is one of the best things I've heard in ages - musically and lyrically it's spot on, and there's plenty of other great riffs and smarty-pants wordplay on here too.
So if you like your rawk music with a brain on it, do yourself a favour and get this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Simon Turner
Format:Audio CD
Here's a sample of the lyrics from this brilliant album:
"i saw him at the riverbank. he was breaking bread and giving thanks. with crosses made of pipes and planks. leaned up against the nitrous tanks.
he said take a hit. hold your breath and i'll dunk your head. then when you wake up again. you'll be high as hell and born again."
Or:
"she's got a cross around her neck that she ripped off from a schoolgirl in the subway on a visit to the city. she likes how it looks on her chest with three open buttons. she likes the part where one brother kills the other."
Or:
"you came into the ER drinking gin from a jam jar. and the nurses making jokes about the ER being like an after-bar. you know you're weak and effite and i'm coming up from the streets. you're up in yr loft getting soft and i'm coming up the stairs and i'm coming from the streets."
Or:
"he's got the pages in his pockets that he ripped out of the bible from his bedstand in the motel. he likes the part where the traders get chased out from the temple. i guess i heard about original sin. i heard the dude blamed the chick. i heard the chick blamed the snake. i heard they were naked when they got busted. i heard things ain't been the same since."
The album Boys and Girls in America is just as good as Separation Sunday, with driving, infectious rock and roll. The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers are the great torch bearers of the rock n roll legacy of the decade 2000-2010, and offer the best lyrics of the decade also. See 'The Dirty South' for Drive-By Truckers. Yes again, the Allmusic site gets it wrong, incredibly missing the mark, giving Boya And Girls... and Separation Sunday just 4 out of 5 stars - not even the 4.5 stars.
"i saw him at the riverbank. he was breaking bread and giving thanks. with crosses made of pipes and planks. leaned up against the nitrous tanks.
he said take a hit. hold your breath and i'll dunk your head. then when you wake up again. you'll be high as hell and born again."
Or:
"she's got a cross around her neck that she ripped off from a schoolgirl in the subway on a visit to the city. she likes how it looks on her chest with three open buttons. she likes the part where one brother kills the other."
Or:
"you came into the ER drinking gin from a jam jar. and the nurses making jokes about the ER being like an after-bar. you know you're weak and effite and i'm coming up from the streets. you're up in yr loft getting soft and i'm coming up the stairs and i'm coming from the streets."
Or:
"he's got the pages in his pockets that he ripped out of the bible from his bedstand in the motel. he likes the part where the traders get chased out from the temple. i guess i heard about original sin. i heard the dude blamed the chick. i heard the chick blamed the snake. i heard they were naked when they got busted. i heard things ain't been the same since."
The album Boys and Girls in America is just as good as Separation Sunday, with driving, infectious rock and roll. The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers are the great torch bearers of the rock n roll legacy of the decade 2000-2010, and offer the best lyrics of the decade also. See 'The Dirty South' for Drive-By Truckers. Yes again, the Allmusic site gets it wrong, incredibly missing the mark, giving Boya And Girls... and Separation Sunday just 4 out of 5 stars - not even the 4.5 stars.
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Brilliant
Not sure why these guys don't have a larger following. "Damn right I'll rise again" one of my favourite one-liners from any song. This is a no brainer decision to buy.
Published on 6 Jun 2010 by A. Smith
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I Love The Hold Steady
I thought it only fair to include that in the title, as it will qualify what I say. I love the Hold Steady. I want to be their brother or at least a very close cousin. Read more
Published on 30 July 2009 by M. Henderson
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Best so far...
This is an album that has a lot going for it, and is something slightly different that attracts me to it. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2008 by R. Mitchell
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Just take it for what it is...
Most of the people reading this would probably be able to sing (?) just as good, if not better than the vocalist, but I think that's what I like about it. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2007 by D. L. Pestell
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your new favourite band
If you're over 30 buy this cd at your peril. You are in danger of developing the kind of devotion to the hold steady that you first had for bands when you were a teenager. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2007 by jeff pop
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