Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Rob's Best: #8: Gaslight Anthem - Sink Or Swim

Released: June 12, 2007

Wow!  The first direct overlap of the countdown!  I think that means this record has been scientifically proven to be the 8th best record of the decade.  Well done.

Trystan said it already, I'll say it again but different.  This record is awesome summer music.  And Brian Fallon is, by far, the best nostalgia lyricist to come out of our generation, and with Sink Or Swim he sang with a gruffness and a conviction that made his every word magical.
Honey, we came to dance with the girls with the stars in their eyes,
Do the jump back jacks, stop and slide to the right,
Never break their hearts, never make them cry, come on
Strike up the band, play a song that everybody knows,
If I'm not your kind, then don't tell a soul,
I'm not the one who hates being alone, so come on.

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