The Hold Steady: "You Can Make Him Like You"

This was my favorite song on Boys and Girls -- one of my top favorites of 2006, in fact -- and judging by the audience reaction I suspect I'm not alone. At the beginning, Craig Finn roots the song in rock's fantasy nature, which I'd never really thought about before, but it fits the song in a heartbreaking way. The one spot in the chorus where they replace "There's always other boys" with "There's always other scenes" particularly sticks out that way, since, for Finn's characters, there are plenty of other boys, but there are never any other scenes. As much as the "you" in that song is stuck in a bad relationship, she's even more stuck in the scene.

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[ForSafetyReasons]

Love this song!

[leilaniland]

let your boyfriend deal with the dealers.

[spameister]

@seeyoulatertonight I'm none of those things. The Hold Steady make me feel good.

problem, officer?

[TheMysteriousMrZ]

So do you want to qualify your needless, inflammatory comments or do you just want to keep copy/pasting them onto every Hold Steady video you can find?

[seeyoulatertonight]

This band is great for fake-wannabe-blue-collar suburbanites who go to college in Boston and decided to wear scally caps. Or spoiled brats who move to Williamsburg and think that they are real New Yorkers as they encourage Wonder Bread gentrification. This is unrighteous.