The Hold SteadyBest The Hold Steady Albums Ranked
7.7
Avg Score
42
Opinions
11
Albums
10
Reviewers
Summary from 42 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated The Hold Steady’s catalog across 11 albums from 42 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated The Hold Steady album is Stay Positive (2007) with a 8.4/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Almost Killed Me and The Price of Progress. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2004 to 2023. Stuck Between Stations ranks as the highest-rated The Hold Steady song on Rate.fm with a 9.4/10 average.
Boys and Girls in America
“Like an American Jarvis Cocker, Craig Finn narrates tales of kids who dance and drink and screw cuz they've got nothing else to do-- and he does it all with a depth and scope rarely seen in contemporary rock.”
Thrashing Thru The Passion
“Since 2017, The Hold Steady have steadily been dropping singles like hints on a treasure map, including “Entitlement Crew,” “The Stove & The Toaster,” “Star 18” and “Confusion in the Marketplace/T-Shirt Tux.” At long last, we have found the treasure at the end of the journey: Thrashing Thru The Passion. And it is everything those hints promised it would be. With five new songs in addition to the”
Separation Sunday
“Second album from these Brooklyn boozehounds finds them molding the reckless shoutalongs of their debut into overdriven beer-soaked party anthems. Vocalist Craig Finn comes into his own here as a lyricist, and as a sweat-drenched and drunk back-alley bawler: His brazen caterwaul may be a brief obstacle for the unprepared, but the bar band blazing behind him is a uniter (not a divider), rapturously comandeering every trick in the rock'n'roll fakebook.”