Help Wanted Nights

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{{Infobox album

| name = Help Wanted Nights

| type = studio

| artist = The Good Life

| cover = Help wanted nights.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 11, 2007

| 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{{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}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000585180 |last=Brown |first=Marisa}}

| rev2 = Blender

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{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}}

| rev3 = Drowned in Sound

| rev3Score = 7/10{{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 }}

| rev4 = Lost at Sea

| rev4Score = 6.7/10{{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}}

| rev5 = Pitchfork Media

| rev5Score = 7.0/10{{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}}

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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:

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42347-tim-kasher-talks-good-life-screenplay-move-to-la |title=Pitchfork Media. |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 }}

In regards to the content of the album, Kasher reveals that the new album involves:

"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."