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This Wiki is dedicated to one of the greatest rock bands on the scene, The Hold Steady, and has been set up with the following goals:

• Annotating references in lyrics
• Documenting facts relating to the band
• Profiling characters form The Hold Steady's songs
• Documenting The Hold Steady's live shows with photos, setlists, reviews, etc.

Please note this is a fansite and is not directly associated with nor necessarily endorsed by The Hold Steady, Vagrant Records or any other related party. Any views expressed are those of the general public and I'm afraid neither ConstantSun, theholdsteady.info or EditThis.info can be held liable for content.

Contents 1 What's New? 2 Never used a Wiki? 3 How you can help 4 Example Pages 5 Project Status 6 Future Marketing Plans 7 Contact Us

What's New?

• Words alone never could save us
• Girls lifting up their shirts when the cameras come on
• Savior
• When judas went up and kissed him
• I'd already moved out to new york city
• Stevie Nix (various references added)
• Cattle And Creeping Things#Live Version
• The Brokerdealer
• Category:Literary References
• Bless the beasts and the children

Never used a Wiki?

Check out the Help page. For further details this page should help.

How you can help

• Find a red link and click it to create a page
• Read the lyrics and identify references, then link them to a page explaining them
• Expand fact pages with any information you have on the band.
• Make suggestions on discussion pages
• Design us a new 150x150 gif logo for the top left corner
• Type up the setlist and/or link to some photos of a Hold Steady gig you went to

Example Pages

These pages show examples of completed pages for you to copy:

• Album: Almost Killed Me
• Character: Mary
• Track: The Swish
• Reference: Minneapolis
• Live Show: October 31 - Chicago, IL @ Metro

Project Status

Structuring: 100%

Lyrical Referencing:

• Almost Killed Me: 99%
• Separation Sunday: 60%
• Boys and Girls in America: 5%
• Live At Fingerprints: 22%
• AKM Bonus Tracks: 2%
• BaGiA Bonus Tracks: 25%
• Miscellaneous Other: 1%

Live At Fingerprints Transcripts: 12%

Character Profiling:

• Mary: 100%
• Freddy: 100%
• Hard Corey: 100%
• Holly: 1%
• Charlemagne: 0%
• Gideon: 2%

Analysis:

• Almost Killed Me: 45%
• Separation Sunday: 0%
• Boys and Girls in America: 0%
• Miscellaneous: 0%

Other:

• Consolidation from songmeanings.net: 0%
• Consolidation from forums.boysandgirlsinamerica.com[1]: 60%
• Consolidation from npr.org: 0%
• Consolidation from Beachwood Reporter: 0%

Biographies:

• The Hold Steady: 1%
• Lifter Puller: 0%
• Craig Finn: 65%
• Tad Kubler: 40%
• Franz Nicolay: 99%
• Galen Polivka: 35%
• Bobby Drake: 12%

Maps:

• More Cowbell's Twin Cities Map: 90%
• City Pages Twin Cites Map: 0%

Future Marketing Plans

• To increase the amount of space you have for uploads, add links to http://editthis.info from external sites, and go to the Link Quota Page to increase your uploads quota.
• Add this wiki to some external wiki indexs:

1. Wikipedia list of wikis
2. WikiIndex
   

• Read the User's Guide for other usage and configuration help.
• Add a message to the Feedback Page if you see anything that could be improved.

Contact Us

If you'd like to contact the Editor leave a message here with details of how I can get back in touch.