Help Wanted Nights

Help Wanted Nights
Studio album by The Good Life
Released	September 11, 2007 (2007-09-11)
Genre	Indie rock
Length	40:13
Label	Saddle Creek
Producer	Mike Mogis
The Good Life chronology
Album of the Year (2004) Help Wanted Nights (2007) Everybody's Coming Down (2015)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	61/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Blender	[3]
Drowned in Sound	7/10 [4]
Lost at Sea	6.7/10 [5]
Pitchfork	7.0/10 [6]

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. ^[7]

In regard 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." ^[7]

Release

Help Wanted Nights was made available for streaming on September 5, 2007, prior to its release six days later through Saddle Creek Records. ^[8] Between September and December 2007, the Good Life went on a tour of the US, followed by a trek around mainland Europe. ^{[9] [10]}

Track listing

1. "On the Picket Fence" - 3:33
2. "A Little Bit More" - 3:23
3. "Heartbroke" - 1:56
4. "Your Share of Men" - 2:32
5. "You Don't Feel Like Home to Me" - 4:40
6. "Keely Aimee" - 3:30
7. "Playing Dumb" - 2:17
8. "Some Tragedy" - 3:44
9. "So Let Go" - 3:54
10. "Rest Your Head" - 10:44

References

1. "Help Wanted Nights by The Good Life Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
2. Brown, Marisa. Help Wanted Nights at AllMusic
3. Lim, Dennis. "The Good Life : Help Wanted Nights Review". Blender. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
4. Ross, Daniel (October 4, 2007). "Album Review: The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on June 14, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
5. Weiss, Dan. "The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights". Lost at Sea. Archived from the original on November 3, 2007. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
6. Harvey, Eric (September 10, 2007). "The Good Life: Help Wanted Nights Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
7. "Tim Kasher Talks Good Life, Screenplay, Move to L.A." Archived from the original on April 29, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2007.
8. Paul, Aubin (September 5, 2007). "The Good Life: 'Help Wanted Nights'". Punknews.org. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
9. Reinecker, Meg (August 12, 2007). "The Good Life (US, Europe)". Punknews.org. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
10. Paul, Aubin (September 8, 2007). "The Good Life (Cursive)". Punknews.org. Retrieved May 31, 2022.

External links

• Help Wanted Nights on Saddle Creek Records