Help Wanted Nights

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Help Wanted Nights
Studio album by The Good Life
Released	September 11, 2007
Genre	Indie rock
Length	40:13
Label	Saddle Creek Records
Professional reviews
AP # 231 Blender link Drowned in Sound link Lost at Sea link Pitchfork Media (7.0/10.0) Review Prefix Magazine link Rockfeedback link Twisted Ear link
The Good Life chronology
Album of the Year (2004) Help Wanted Nights (2007)

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.^[1]

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."^[2]

[edit] 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

[edit] References

1. ^ Pitchfork Media.
2. ^ Pitchfork Media.