Help Wanted Nights

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Help Wanted Nights | type = studio | artist = The Good Life | cover = Help wanted nights.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|2007|9|11}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = Indie rock | length = 40:13 | label = Saddle Creek | producer = Mike Mogis | prev_title = Album of the Year | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = Everybody's Coming Down | next_year = 2015 }}

{{Music ratings | MC = 61/100<ref name=MC>{{Cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/help-wanted-nights/the-good-life |title=Help Wanted Nights by The Good Life Reviews and Tracks |website=Metacritic |accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000585180 |last=Brown |first=Marisa}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Blender'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=4727 |title=The Good Life : Help Wanted Nights Review |work=Blender |last=Lim |first=Dennis |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011081803/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=4727 |archivedate=October 11, 2007 |accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Drowned in Sound'' | rev3Score = 7/10<ref name=DiS>{{Cite web |url=https://drownedinsound.com/releases/10885/reviews/2424751- |title=Album Review: The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights |work=Drowned in Sound |date=October 4, 2007 |last=Ross |first=Daniel |accessdate=November 22, 2020 |archive-date=June 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614182711/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/10885/reviews/2424751- |url-status=dead }}</ref> | rev4 = ''Lost at Sea'' | rev4Score = 6.7/10<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lostatsea.net/review.phtml?id=20103598946f7b261891df |title=The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights |work=Lost at Sea |last=Weiss |first=Dan |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103121136/http://lostatsea.net/review.phtml?id=20103598946f7b261891df |archivedate=November 3, 2007 |accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Pitchfork'' | rev5Score = 7.0/10<ref name=Pitch>{{Cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10648-help-wanted-nights/ |title=The Good Life: Help Wanted Nights Album Review |work=Pitchfork |date=September 10, 2007 |last=Harvey |first=Eric |accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> | noprose = yes }}

'''''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: <blockquote>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.<ref name="Pitchfork Media">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42347-tim-kasher-talks-good-life-screenplay-move-to-la |title=Tim Kasher Talks Good Life, Screenplay, Move to L.A. |access-date=2007-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429214810/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42347-tim-kasher-talks-good-life-screenplay-move-to-la |archive-date=2007-04-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

In regard to the content of the album, Kasher reveals that the new album involves:<blockquote> "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."<ref name="Pitchfork Media"/></blockquote>

==Release== ''Help Wanted Nights'' was made available for streaming on September 5, 2007, prior to its release six days later through Saddle Creek Records.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/25405/media-the-good-life-help-wanted-nights|title=The Good Life: 'Help Wanted Nights'|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=September 5, 2007|access-date=May 31, 2022}}</ref> Between September and December 2007, the Good Life went on a tour of the US, followed by a trek around mainland Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/25048/tours-the-good-life-us-europe|title=The Good Life (US, Europe)|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Reinecker, Meg|date=August 12, 2007|access-date=May 30, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/25456/tours-the-good-life-cursive|title=The Good Life (Cursive)|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=September 8, 2007|access-date=May 31, 2022}}</ref>

==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

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==External links== *[https://saddle-creek.com/products/help-wanted-nights Help Wanted Nights on Saddle Creek Records]

Category:2007 albums Category:The Good Life (band) albums Category:Saddle Creek Records albums Category:2000s concept albums