Help Wanted Nights

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Help Wanted Nights
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Studio album by
The Good Life
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2007
Genre Indie rock
Length40:13
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
SourceRating
Metacritic 61/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [4]
Lost at Sea6.7/10 [5]
Pitchfork Media 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:

Contents

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 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." [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

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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. 1 2 "Pitchfork Media". Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
  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.



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