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Boys and Girls in America by Hold Steady
Boys and Girls in America is an album by Hold Steady, released in 2006. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 26 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Stuck Between Stations”, on 19 lists with a best position of #117.
Boys and Girls in America, the Hold Steady's third album, arrived in October 2006 and is the one that brought Craig Finn's Brooklyn band to prominence. John Agnello produced, and he gave Tad Kubler's guitars and Franz Nicolay's keys the full classic rock treatment: big, bright and built for shouting along.
Finn still crams his verses with stories, the dense, novelistic kind this band is known for, but now the choruses are as big as the characters. The title comes out of "Stuck Between Stations", which borrows a thought from Sal Paradise, the narrator of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and the phrase turns up again in "First Night". "Chips Ahoy!" went out first as a free download on Pitchfork, and "Stuck Between Stations" found its way onto campus radio that November. Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner and the Reputation's Elizabeth Elmore sing backup on "Chillout Tent", and Dana Kletter adds her voice to 3 more tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Boys and Girls in America on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuck Between Stations | 19 | #117 | – | 2009–2026 | |
| 2 | Chips Ahoy! | 6 | #39 | – | 2006–2022 | |
| 3 | Massive Nights | 1 | #806 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.