Released September 11, 2007 Artist The Good Life Producer Mike Mogis Genre Indie rock | Length 40:13 Release date 11 September 2007 Label Saddle Creek | |
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Help Wanted Nights
(2007) Everybody's Coming Down (2015) Similar The Good Life albums, Indie rock albums | ||
On the picket fence
Help Wanted Nights is the fourth album by the Omaha-based band The Good Life, released on September 11, 2007 on Saddle Creek Records. Currently, frontman Tim Kasher has moved to Los Angeles and has written a screenplay entitled Help Wanted Nights. He has stated that the screenplay acts as a 'counterpart' to the album:
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I tried to have the songs be less storytelling, and less narrative...since I was writing this fictionalized counterpart to this thing, I kind of liked the idea of writing songs to [exist] more as ideas that complement something else that was written. I tried to focus less on narrative and more on those big ideas.
In regards to the content of the album, Kasher reveals that the new album involves:
"Roughly a week in a bar in a small town where a stranger's car breaks down...so, he fraternizes with the regulars, getting too wrapped up in their sordid lives. Something like that."
Track listing
- "On the Picket Fence" - 3:33
- "A Little Bit More" - 3:23
- "Heartbroke" - 1:56
- "Your Share of Men" - 2:32
- "You Don't Feel Like Home to Me" - 4:40
- "Keely Aimee" - 3:30
- "Playing Dumb" - 2:17
- "Some Tragedy" - 3:44
- "So Let Go" - 3:54
- "Rest Your Head" - 10:44
Songs
1On the Picket Fence3:33
2Little Bit More - A3:23
3Heartbroke1:56