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Chips Ahoy!

Certain Songs #599: The Hold Steady – “Chips Ahoy”

July 22, 2016 by Jim Connelly

hold steady chips ahoy Album: Boys and Girls in America
Year: 2006

“Chips Ahoy” was the first single from “Boys and Girls in America,” and like “The Swish” and “Banging Camp,” Craig Finn is trying to fit all of his words in and around Tad Kubler’s big-ass power chords.

The result is one of those Hold Steady songs that sounds like one of of the rockers from The River had that album been made by a Springsteen influenced not by 1960s frat-rock, but rather, The Clash.

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

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