Help Wanted Nights
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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:
In regards to the content of the album, Kasher reveals that the new album involves:
Omaha
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-based band The Good Life
The Good Life (band)
The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek records.Started as a solo project of Cursive's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life quickly grew to become its own established group. The original intent of The Good Life was to provide Tim Kasher with a vehicle to perform songs that did not fit...
, released on September 11, 2007 on Saddle Creek Records
Saddle Creek Records
Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Conor Oberst and Justin Oberst in 1993 . Conor soon turned over his role in the company to Robb Nansel...
. Currently, frontman Tim Kasher
Tim Kasher
Tim Kasher is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska, and is the frontman of indie rock groups Cursive and The Good Life, both of which are on the Omaha based record label Saddle Creek Records. Prior to those bands, Kasher was in a band called Slowdown Virginia...
has moved to Los Angeles
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and has written a screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
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.
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."
Track listing
- "On the Picket Fence" - 3:33
- "A Little Bit More" - 3:23
- "HeartbrokeHeartbrokeThis article is about a single from the band The Good Life. For the country song click Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, George Strait, or Guy Clark, and 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