Help Wanted Nights
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]
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| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 40:13 | |||
| Label | Saddle Creek Records | |||
| Producer | Mike Mogis | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| AP # 231 |  |
| Blender | |
| Drowned in Sound | |
| Lost at Sea | (6.7/10) link |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.0/10.0) Review |
| Prefix Magazine | |
| Rockfeedback | |
| Twisted Ear | |
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]
Track listing
- "On the Picket Fence" - 3:33
- "A Little Bit More" - 3:23
- "Heartbroke" - 1:56
- "Your Share of Men" - 2:32
- "You Don't Feel Like Home to Me" - 4:40
- "Keely Aimee" - 3:30
- "Playing Dumb" - 2:17
- "Some Tragedy" - 3:44
- "So Let Go" - 3:54
- "Rest Your Head" - 10:44