Help Wanted Nights

Infobox Album
Name = Help Wanted Nights
Type = studio
Artist = The Good Life


Released = flagicon|USA September 11 2007
Recorded =
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 40:13
Label = Saddle Creek Records
Producer =
Reviews =
*AP # 231 Rating|2.5|5
*Blender Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=4727 link]
*Drowned in Sound rating-10|7.0 [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/10885 link]
*Lost at Sea rating-10|6.7 [http://lostatsea.net/review.phtml?id=20103598946f7b261891df link]
*Pitchfork Media (7.0/10.0) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/45457-help-wanted-nights Review]
*Prefix Magazine rating-10|7.0 [http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/cds/G/the-good-life/help-wanted-nights/3333 link]
*Rockfeedback Rating|2|5 [http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=5029 link]
* Twisted Ear Rating|2|5 [http://www.twistedear.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1262&Itemid=31 link]
Last album = "Album of the Year"
(2004)
This album = "Help Wanted Nights"
(2007)
Next album =

"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:

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. [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42347-tim-kasher-talks-good-life-screenplay-move-to-la Pitchfork Media.] ]

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." [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42347-tim-kasher-talks-good-life-screenplay-move-to-la Pitchfork Media.] ]

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

References