Hold Steady, The - Positive Jam Lyrics
Woke up in the '20s and there were flappers and fruits in white suits
It was right before the crash, we got thrashed throughout the '30s
Queuing up for soup with scabby sores
Then they sent us off to war
We poured it on the floor and we made love to the interstates
We got shiftless in the '50s, holding hands and going steady
Twisting into dark parts of the large midwestern cities
Tripped right through the '60s with some blissful little hippie
Some Kennedys got shot while you were screwing San Francisco
And the '70s got heavy, we woke up on bloody carpets
Got tangled up in gaslines, and I guess that's where it started
The '80s almost killed me, let's not recall them quite so fondly
And in the '90s we were wired and well connected
Put it all down on technology and lost everything we invested
We gotta start it off with a positive jam
We gotta start it with a positive jam, man
Gotta start it with a positive jam
All the sniffling indie kids: hold steady
And all you clustered-up clever kids: hold steady
And I got bored when I didn't have a band
And so I started a band, man
We're gonna start it with a positive jam
Hold steady
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Hold Steady, The Positive Jam Comments
over 90000
awesome
Who dislikes this?
So fucking crunchy. Great lyrics!
The hold steady best band of the 00's.
Lifter Puller best band of the 90's.
Jesus!
The oughts were a fucking great decade for indie music. Music like this shaped my existence.
“And that’s a Lifter Puller line for those without any game...”
It has that Pixies twist. Like it.
This album is listed as 99 on Rolling Stone top 100 albums of the 2000s.
JUST SO GOOD
More people need to listen to these guys.
They are amazing(:
Well ... It's one thing to start it with a positive jam. It's another thing to see it through.
There is a very good case to be made for the Hold Steady being the greatest band of the past decade. I'm not going to make that case because I'm far too lazy, but I just want to put that out there
I'll do it for you then, I think they came with a view that was both experienced due to the unusually advanced age of the band and also new because of their marginality. The singer sings in an unconventional rythmic and melodic pattern that seems off and on at the same time, the lyrics are smart, the vocabulary is rich and the energy and intensity of their performance is very high throughout their career.