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Certain Songs #602: The Hold Steady – “Chillout Tent”

July 25, 2016 by Jim Connelly

hold steady boys Album: Boys And Girls in America
Year: 2006

It seems to me that “Chillout Tent” is one of the more divisive songs in the Hold Steady canon.

After all, the story it tells is a combination of meet-cute and meet-gross, featuring a pair of singers — Dave Pirner and Elizabeth Elmore — voicing the thoughts of the characters in the songs, and the music is filled with dramatic piano flourishes and mariachi horns.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Boys and Girls in America, Certain Songs, The Hold Steady

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December 19, 2014 by Jim Connelly

My Spotify “Certain Songs” Playlist

Links to Individual Songs

  1. Aerosmith – “Sweet Emotion”
  2. Adam Schmitt – “Flow”
  3. Aerosmith – “Sick as a Dog”
  4. Against Me – “Dead Friend”
  5. Al Green – “I’m a Ram”
  6. Aimee Mann – “I Should’ve Known”
  7. Al Green – “Take Me to The River”
  8. Airborne Toxic Event – “Sometime Around Midnight”
  9. Altered Images – “Don’t Talk to Me About Love”
  10. Apples in Stereo – “Silver Chain”
  11. The Arcade Fire – “Rebellion (Lies)”
  12. The Arcade Fire – “No Cars Go”
  13. Archers of Loaf – “Greatest of All Time”
  14. The Avett Brothers – “Ten Thousand Words”
  15. The Band – “The Weight”
  16. The Bangles – “Hero Takes a Fall”
  17. The Bangles – “Going Down to Liverpool”
  18. The B-52s – “Dirty Back Road”
  19. Bananarama – “Shy Boy”
  20. Bash & Pop – “Friday Night (is Killing Me)”
  21. The Baseball Project – “Buckner’s Bolero”
  22. The Baseball Project – “To The Veterans Committee”
  23. The Beach Boys – “I Get Around”
  24. The Beach Boys – “God Only Knows”
  25. The Beach Boys – “Good Vibrations”
  26. The Beastie Boys – “Rhymin & Stealin”
  27. The Beastie Boys – “Lookin’ Down The Barrel of a Gun”
  28. The Beastie Boys – “I Don’t Know”
  29. The Beatles – “I Want To Hold Your Hand”
  30. The Beatles – “A Hard Days Night”
  31. The Beatles – “Paperback Writer”
  32. The Beatles – “Rain”
  33. The Beatles – “She Said She Said”
  34. The Beatles – “Hello Goodbye”
  35. The Beatles – “Dear Prudence”
  36. The Beatles – “I’ve Got a Feeling”
  37. The Beatles – “The Abbey Road Medley”
  38. Beck – “Jack-Ass”
  39. Belle & Sebastian – “If You’re Feeling Sinister”
  40. Belle & Sebastian – “I’m a Cuckoo”
  41. Belly – “Feed The Tree”
  42. Best Coast – “Who Have I Become?”
  43. Bettie Serveert – “Tom Boy”
  44. Big Audio Dynamite – “E=MC2”
  45. Biff Bang Pow! – “She’s Got Diamonds in Her Hair”
  46. Big Country – “Chance”
  47. Big Star – “The Ballad of El Goodo”
  48. Big Star – “In The Street”
  49. Big Star – “Thirteen”
  50. Big Star – “September Gurls”
  51. Big Star – “Stroke it Noel”
  52. Big Star – “Kangaroo”
  53. Bill Withers – “Lean on Me”
  54. Billy Bragg – “Levi Stubbs’ Tears”
  55. Billy Bragg – “Walk Away Renee (Version)”
  56. Billy Bragg – “Ingrid Bergman”
  57. Vince Guaraldi Trio – “Linus and Lucy”
  58. The Tryfles – “Gloria (in Excelsis DEO)”
  59. The Black Crowes – “Hotel Illness”
  60. Black Sabbath – “War Pigs”
  61. Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
  62. Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
  63. Black Sabbath – “Symptom of the Universe”
  64. Sonic Youth – “Skip Tracer”
  65. Black Sabbath – “Megalomania”
  66. Black Uhuru – “Youth of Eglington”
  67. Black Uhuru – “Solidarity”
  68. Bloc Party – “So Here We Are”
  69. Blondie – “Dreaming”
  70. The Blow Monkeys – “Forbidden Fruit”
  71. Blue Oyster Cult – “Hot Rails to Hell”
  72. Blue Oyster Cult – “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
  73. Bob Dylan – “Walkin’ Down The Line”
  74. Bob Dylan – “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
  75. Bob Dylan – “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
  76. AC/DC – “You Shook Me All Night Long”
  77. Bob Dylan – “Like a Rolling Stone”
  78. Bob Dylan – “Tombstone Blues”
  79. Bob Dylan – “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”
  80. Agent Orange – “Living in Darkness”
  81. Bob Dylan – “Visions of Johanna”
  82. Bob Dylan – “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)”
  83. Bob Dylan – “Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again”
  84. Bob Dylan – “She’s Your Lover Now”
  85. The Alarm – “Marching On”
  86. Bob Dylan – “Tell Me Momma (Manchester, 1966)”
  87. Bob Dylan – “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Manchester, 1966)”
  88. Bob Dylan – “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Manchester, 1966)”
  89. Alice Cooper – “School’s Out”
  90. Bob Dylan – “Tiny Montgomery”
  91. Bob Dylan – “I’m Not There”
  92. Bob Dylan – “Goin’ to Acapulco”
  93. Bob Dylan – “Drifter’s Escape”
  94. Alvvays – “Archie, Marry Me”
  95. Bob Dylan – “Tangled Up In Blue”
  96. Bob Dylan – “You’re A Big Girl Now”
  97. Bob Dylan – “Up to Me”
  98. Bob Dylan – “Isis”
  99. Bob Dylan – “Shelter From the Storm (Fort Collins, 1976)”
  100. American Music Club – “Johnny Mathis Feet”
  101. Bob Dylan – “Jokerman”
  102. Bob Dylan – “Band of the Hand (It’s Hell Time, Man)’
  103. Bob Dylan – "Brownsville Girl”
  104. Bob Dylan – “Delia”
  105. Artists United Against Apartheid – “Sun City”
  106. Bob Dylan – “Not Dark Yet”
  107. Bob Dylan – “Mississippi”
  108. Bob Dylan – “High Water (For Charley Patton)”
  109. Bob Dylan – “Cold Irons Bound (Bonnaroo, 2004)”
  110. Bob Marley & The Wailers – “Trenchtown Rock”
  111. Bob Marley & The Wailers – “Brain Washing”
  112. Bob Marley & The Waliers – “Concrete Jungle”
  113. Bob Marley & The Wailers – “Slave Driver”
  114. Bob Marley & The Wailers – “Put it On”
  115. Bob Marley & The Wailers – “No Woman, No Cry (Live)”
  116. Bob Mould – “All Those People Know”
  117. Bob Mould – “The Descent”
  118. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – “Night Moves”
  119. Bobby Sutliff – “Stupid Idea”
  120. Boston – “More Than a Feeling”
  121. Boston – “Hitch a Ride”
  122. The Boomtown Rats – “I Don’t Like Mondays”
  123. Boogie Down Productions – “My Philosophy”
  124. Bow Wow Wow – “Do You Wanna Hold Me?”
  125. The Brains – “Money Changes Everything”
  126. The Brains – “Heart in the Street”
  127. Bram Tchaikovsky – “Girl of My Dreams”
  128. Breeders – “Cannonball”
  129. Breeders – “Divine Hammer”
  130. Brian Eno – “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More”
  131. Brian Eno – “The True Wheel”
  132. Brian Eno – ‘You Don’t Miss Your Water”
  133. Broken Social Scene – “Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl”
  134. Bruce Springsteen – “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”
  135. Bruce Springsteen – “Backstreets”
  136. Bruce Springsteen – “Born to Run”
  137. Bruce Springsteen – “She’s The One”
  138. Bruce Springsteen – “Candy’s Room”
  139. Bruce Springsteen – “Growin’ Up (The Agora, Cleveland 1978)”
  140. Bruce Springsteen – “You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) (Live 1980)”
  141. Bruce Springstone – “(Meet The) Flintstones”
  142. Bruce Springsteen – “Born in the U.S.A.”
  143. Bruce Springsteen – “Glory Days”
  144. Bruce Springsteen – “One Step Up”
  145. Bruce Springsteen – “Local Hero”
  146. Bruce Springsteen – “Two Hearts (Live in NYC 2000)”
  147. Bruce Springsteen – “Radio Nowhere”
  148. Bruce Springsteen – “Land of Hope and Dreams”
  149. Buffalo Tom – “Mountains of Your Head”
  150. Built to Spill – “The Plan (Live)”
  151. Burning Sensations – “Belly of the Whale”
  152. Buzzcocks – “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)”
  153. Buzzcocks – “Why Can’t I Touch It?”
  154. Buzzcocks – “I Believe”
  155. Buzzcocks – “What Do You Know?”
  156. The Byrds – “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better”
  157. The Byrds – “5D (Fifth Dimension)”
  158. The Byrds – “Wild Mountain Thyme”
  159. The Byrds – “Eight Miles High”
  160. The Byrds – “So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star”
  161. The Byrds – “C.T.A.-102?
  162. The Byrds – “Why”
  163. The Byrds – “Lady Friend”
  164. The Byrds – “Change is Now”
  165. The Byrds – “One Hundred Years From Now”
  166. Caitlin Cary & Ryan Adams – “The Battle”
  167. Caitlin Cary – “Cello Girl”
  168. Camera Obscura – “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken”
  169. Camper Van Beethoven – “Take The Skinheads Bowling”
  170. Camper Van Beethoven – “Abundance”
  171. Camper Van Beethoven – “Life is Grand”
  172. Camper Van Beethoven – “All Her Favorite Fruit”
  173. Caitlin Rose – “Only a Clown”
  174. Carly Simon – “You’re So Vain”
  175. The Cars – “Just What I Needed”

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Previously on Medialoper

  • Certain Songs #2394: Soundgarden – “No Attention”
  • Certain Songs #2393: Soundgarden – “Burden in My Hand”
  • Certain Songs #2392: Soundgarden – “Blow Up The Outside World”
  • Certain Songs #2391: Soundgarden – “Ty Cobb”
  • Certain Songs #2390: Soundgarden – “Kickstand”

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