The '59 Sound of the Jersey Shore
One critic wrote, "The Gaslight Anthem are like something out of speculative fiction: this is what pop music would be if Springsteen hadn't listened to his producer, let the Ramones record "Hungry Heart", and launched the C.B.G.B.'ers into megastardom." Not that the band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, distances itself from the Boss. In fact, homage to Springsteen is never very far from the surface. It's just that The Gaslight Anthem give those Jersey Shore themes (cars, girls, accidents) a slightly punkier spin. As in the superb '59 Sound.
"Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go / I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow." Hmmm.
