Taken from the superb album ‘Boys And Girls In America’, ‘Stuck Between Stations’ is a rolling guitar assault twinned with synth-music hall piano that’s like a firework display from beginning to end.
There’s no simmering or skulking here –this is as infectious and alive as grunge gets. With a powerful gravitational pull and a sense of blind panic, the potential for shape-throwing alone would have been enough to make me smile.
As always, the lyrics are as quotable as hell despite the lack of a central hook:
“She was a really cool kisser and she wasn’t all that strict of a Christian
She was a damn good dancer but she wasn’t all that great of a girlfriend” declares Craig Finn over the explosive concoction.
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The random-sounding words dodge huge thunderbolts of guitar as the wall of fuzzed out mock-grunge pokes gentle fun at itself. However, whilst THE HOLD STEADY don’t take themselves too seriously, their sharp observational account of U.S. teenage life is absolutely spot on.
Here once more, they have captured the hearts and blown the minds of the younger generation with their priceless rock n’ roll vision.
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