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Line 1: {{~~work~~creator}} {{quote\|''"I got bored when I didn't have a band, so I started a band, man. We're gonna start it with a positive jam."''~~\|'''Craig Finn'''}}~~ \|'''Craig Finn'''}} {{quote\|''Your songs are known for their kind of narrative arc, they're stories, you have characters who recur, you're telling these stories about Minnesotans...You realize that you've become a kind of younger, hipper [[A Prairie Home Companion\|Garrison Keillor]], don't you?"~~\|'''Peter Sagal''', ''[[Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (Radio)\|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' }}~~ \|'''Peter Sagal''', ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!\|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' }} A highly-acclaimed 21st-century bar-rock band, known for the complex and intertextual lyrical mythology woven throughout their albums, following the adventures of an (occasionally) apostate streetrat, a quasi-Rastafari delinquent, and a ne'er-do-well pimp, through the eyes of various narrators, mostly extreme hedonists, and built over old-school epic riffs. {{Discography}} * ''Almost Killed Me'' (2004) * ''Separation Sunday'' (2005) Line 12 ⟶ 15: * ''Heaven Is Whenever'' (2010) {{creatortropes}} ~~----~~ ~~'''The Hold Steady provides examples of: '''~~ * [[Age Progression Song]] * [[Anachronic Order]]: The [[Myth Arc]] Line 37: * [[Murder Ballad]]: The story arc of ''Stay Positive''. * [[Not Christian Rock]]: The Hold Steady write songs about Catholicism, but they're not a Christian rock band. It's all mixed up in drug taking, sex, and teenage rebellion anyway... {{quote\| "I guess I heard about original sin, I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake. I heard they were naked when they got busted, and I heard things ain't been the same since."}} * [[Rockstar Song]]: "Rock Problems." * [[Shout -Out]]: Lots. Referencing poets, books, old and current bands, and lines and characters from their own songs and others', often in the same song, is standard. * [[The Song Before the Storm]] - "Joke About Jamaica" is a soft, nostalgic ballad just before the climactic "Slapped Actress." * [[Title Drop]]: "And I got bored when I didn't have a band/So I started a band, man/We're gonna start it with a positive jam/Hold Steady" Line 45: ** Arguably, everything the band does. * [[The Woobie]]: Holly. * [[The Wiki Rule]]: A band this reference-heavy ~~needs one:~~ [http://holdsteady.wikia.com needs one]. {{reflist}} [[Category:Musicians]] [[Category:The Hold Steady]] [[Category:Music]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Hold Steady, The}}