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Boys and Girls in America
by Hold Steady
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Overall Rating:
3.3759
Avg. Critic Score:
3.3038
Boys and Girls in America Rank 3 Reviews
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BBC collective[Finn's] smart, poetic, unashamedly adult lyrics... almost guarantee this is the best arena band that’ll never play an arena. ...more
PopMattersBoys in Girls in America is one gargantuan anthem short of, and two bits of filler long on, the band’s Born to Run. ...more
Tiny Mix TapesThe band's strongest offering to date. ...more
PrefixMagThis is far from an album that will appeal to all, but it's a hell of a lot more fun than the Hold Steady's previous two efforts. ...more
Delusions of AdequacyThe songs are catchy, well written, anthemic, and fun. ...more
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UncutNamedrops keep falling on his head, so it's a wonder Lloyd Cole never found time to give Pauline Kael a cameo in the pomo-boho tangles of jangle and allusion that make up this 1984 debut. Because when she nailed Citizen Kane as a ...more
All Music GuideThis is a smoking little record. Its focus is small, its reach is large; it's a winner. ...more
ShakingThrough.netFinn’s examination of restless youth and wasted nights might not be as incisive nor as relevant as he clearly wants them to be, but there’s little question The Hold Steady has never sounded tighter. ...more
The PhoenixAs frontman Craig Finn tries singing instead of just reciting and the band hang tighter around their major-chord riffs, the music sounds older than ever, recalling beautiful-loser ’70s rock like Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town” and Bruce ...more
cokemachineglowA dozen listens through... and I can’t help but think the band has done better in past. ...more
Los Angeles TimesPacked with forceful, nuanced songwriting that makes room for face-melting guitar riffery, lovelorn Midwestern teenagers and even, by Hold Steady standards, a bit of actual singing. ...more
Stylus MagazineTHS’s move toward a purer aping of classic rock is mostly welcome and largely successful; the fallout is the loss of the band’s snaky, blunt riffing, their wit dissipating into a pool of honest rocking. ...more
E! OnlineSongs like "First Night" and "You Can Make Him Like You" conjure up a bit of Springsteen, a bit of Westerberg and far more catchiness than they should rightfully be allowed. ...more
StylusMagazineFinn sounds less like a drinking pal and more like the guy whose records play on the jukebox when you’re drinking, something Finn would probably be proud of. ...more
Billboard[Finn's] attempt to add more dimension to his whiskey-soaked vocals is striking. And for the most part it works. ...more
Rolling StoneOver two albums, the Hold Steady have staked their claim as America's best bar band, pulling ragged glory from boozy riffage and the oddly gripping splutters of frontman-storyteller Craig Finn.Boys and Girls in Americais a bit looser and brighter ...more
SpinThe Hold Steady's Craig Finn infuses his windy tales of youthful debauchery with a mixture of detective-fiction luridness and first-club-show romanticism. For the Brooklyn band's third album, Finn leans harder on the latter, sometimes ...more
Austin ChronicleFinn... has the poetic lovable-loser act down cold, but is too distracted by the ever-present "Party Pit" and "Southtown Girls" to expand his vision beyond the club parking lot. ...more
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