It’s different because when you’re writing it, you’re thinking about what’s happening right then, but you’re kind of looking at it in hindsight now and you remember when everything happened and it’s still translating for me, even though the situation is long past.Īs you’ve said before, The ’59 Sound is such a strange premise for an album. I remember what most of the songs are about, still. I don’t know if they’re sticking out differently to me, because I’m not far enough yet away from it to forget where it came from. Sure, there are maybe things that I would have written differently now, but it feels good to me, to be able to look at it and go, “OK, I can see where the 27-year-old was struggling with things that the 37-year-old is still struggling with.” It’s not embarrassing to me, 10 years later.Īre there specific songs or lyrics that are sticking out to you differently than they did 10 years ago? I hadn’t listened to the record in many years, but when I was going back and looking at some of the lyrics, I found that I wasn’t embarrassed by what I was saying. The big thing for me is I was happy when I went back and learned these songs. It’s interesting to hear you say that you feel like you’re still wrestling with the same things in your music that you were dealing with on The ’59 Sound. You’re searching for the same thing and maybe you’re not finding the answers you thought you would, but you’re finding different ones. So it’s fun seeing themes in The ’59 Sound that then carried onto American Slang and Handwritten and Get Hurt, and even into my solo work. I don’t know if we’re supposed to give answers to people because I don’t know if we have any. It’s amazing to me, when people start their career you write about maybe a couple of topics and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. That makes sense, and it’s something I find, as I’ve gotten older in these 10 years. Hearing the album performed today is sort of comforting – like, hey, we’re all 10 years older, and everyone turned out more or less all right. There’s so much anxiety about aging on The ’59 Sound, a deep fear about the passing of youth. We never thought that anyone would ever take a record that we made and make it a part of their lives. That was never part of the plan when we started out. It’s cool to me that people have taken the record and grown up with it. I’ve been noticing that some of the people in the crowd are my age and older, and I’ve been realizing that it’s not kids who are coming to see us. You’ve just wrapped up the first few full-album shows. Just a few days after performing the album in New York, Rolling Stone spoke to Brian Fallon about The ’59 Sound‘s surprising staying power. Instead, on Friday, to celebrate the album’s anniversary, the Gaslight Anthem will release The ’59 Sound Sessions, a collection of demos, alternate takes and outtakes from the sessions with the album’s producer Ted Hutt. When the band first got back together earlier this summer, they contemplated recording new material (“when an anniversary comes up, you start to think about that naturally”), but for now they have no plans to record or tour beyond a series of anniversary shows that run through August. Bush’s presidency, the album became a cult classic, capturing a communal loss of innocence for a generation, raised on baby-boomer nostalgia, that had suddenly found itself facing a newly uncertain, student-debt–saddled future. Released in August 2008, just as the global economy was collapsing in the final months of George W. The reason for the group’s temporary reunion? The ’59 Sound, the group’s breakthrough second album. That year, not long after recording their mixed-bag fifth album Get Hurt (Fallon has compared it unfavorably to the Replacements’ All Shook Down), the New Jersey roots-punk band announced an indefinite hiatus. But they’re not.”įallon, now 38, is in the midst of the first few shows that he’s played with the Gaslight Anthem since 2015. It’s funny, because you always assume that when you look out on an audience, especially when you do something like The ’59 Sound, you have this element of when it happened, like I’m playing a record I wrote when I was 26, so for some reason you assume that the audience is still 26. “I say kids, but they’re not kids, which I’m finding out. “The kids are real excited,” the singer-guitarist starts to say when asked how the first few shows of the Gaslight Anthem‘s current tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of The ’59 Sound have been going.
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