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The Hold Steady were formed in New York by vocalist Craig Finn and guitarist Tad Kubler, two former members of a Minneapolis band, the Lifter Puller, that had released Lifter Puller (Skene, 1997), Half Dead and Dynamite (No Alternative, 1997) and the ambitious quasi-concept Fiestas & Fiascos (2000).
The duo enrolled drummer Judd Counsell and bassist Galen Polivka, and coined
an old-fashioned, infectious mix of hard-rock, roots-rock and power-pop
drenched in semi-biogaphical themes of ordinary blue-collar life, like a
lighter version of
Bruce Springsteen or a harder version of
Tom Petty.
The gems of Almost Killed Me (French Kiss, 2004) were the grittier songs:
Positive Jam, The Swish and Hostile Mass.
Separation Sunday (2005), basically a rock opera centered
around a trio of characters from a provincial town (Charlemagne, Gideon and Holly),
marked Finn's transition to adulthood without reneging any of his street
poetry. Running the gamut from the anthemic
Hornets to the lyrical
How a Resurrection Really Feels, the songs painted a fresco of
disillusionment, dejection and acceptance.
Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant, 2006) revisits Finn's personal
mythology (including the characters from the previous album) while anchoring
it to solid hooks and riffs. His epic tales of frustrated suburban kids
(Stuck Between Stations, Party Pit,
You Can Make Him Like You)
evoke the Replacements.
Stay Positive (2008), that added
horns and harpsichord,
excels at the rockers.
Constructive Summer, Slapped Actress,
Stay Positive, Sequestered in Memphis evoke
Bruce Springsteen at his most bombastic and rousing.
Franz Nicolay debuted as a solo artist with Major General (Fistolo, 2009).
A Positive Rage (Vagrant, 2009) is two-disc (CD plus DVD) live album and a documentary.
Hold Steady's multi-instrumentalist Franz Nicolay debuted solo with the mediocre
Major General (2009).
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