| Help Wanted Nights | ||||
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| Studio album by The Good Life | ||||
| Released | September 11, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 40:13 | |||
| Label | Saddle Creek Records | |||
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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."[1]