''Help Wanted Nights'' is the fourth album by the Omaha-based band The Good Life, released on September 11, 2007 on

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 Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). Mogis soon turned over hi ...

. Currently, frontman

Tim Kasher Timothy J. Kasher (born August 19, 1974) is an American 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. Music Slowdo ...

has moved to

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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 xistmore 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."

Release

''Help Wanted Nights'' was made available for streaming on September 5, 2007, prior to its release six days later through

. Between September and December 2007, the Good Life went on a tour of the US, followed by a trek around mainland Europe.

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

References

External links

Help Wanted Nights on Saddle Creek Records
2007 albums The Good Life (band) albums Saddle Creek Records albums Concept albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub