Stay Positive

by The Hold Steady

Stay Positive cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 July 2008
  • Label: Vagrant
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:55:01
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

For their fourth album, Craig Finn's Brooklyn-based rock band turns their focus toward the anxieties of aging gracefully within a youth-centric punk subculture. The record features the band's signature massive, Springsteen-esque guitar anthems alongside unusual additions like harpsichords and talk-boxes, delivering profoundly earnest lyricism regarding addiction and loyalty. It is widely considered their most cohesive and mature songwriting statement.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, party, conceptual, talk-singing, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Constructive Summer (2:55)
  2. Sequestered in Memphis (3:32)
  3. One for the Cutters (4:41)
  4. Navy Sheets (3:21)
  5. Lord, I'm Discouraged (5:08)
  6. Yeah Sapphire (3:36)
  7. Both Crosses (4:35)
  8. Stay Positive (2:58)
  9. Magazines (3:08)
  10. Joke About Jamaica (4:35)
  11. Slapped Actress (5:17)
  12. Ask Her for Some Adderall (2:48)
  13. Two Handed Handshake (4:13)
  14. Cheyenne Sunrise (4:12)
  15. Specters (3:42)
  16. 40 Bucks (3:54)
  17. This Isn鈥檛 Enough (3:31)
  18. You Tremble (2:19)
  19. Ballad of The Midnight Hauler (3:10)
  20. Sequestered In Memphis (Demo) (2:46)
  21. Yeah Sapphire (Demo) (3:57)
  22. Stay Positive (Demo) (2:45)
  23. Lord, I'm Discouraged (Demo) (5:14)
  24. Magazines (Demo) (2:41)
  25. Ask Her For Adderall (Demo) (2:44)
  26. Two Handed Handshake (Demo) (5:04)
  27. Joke About Jamaica (Demo) (5:31)
  28. Creepy Harpsichord Jam (One for the Cutters) (Demo) (4:40)
  29. 40 Bucks (Demo) (3:58)
  30. Phil Spector (Spectres) (Demo) (3:52)

Credits

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