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| From | The Suggestions <tigerpop1@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: sloan rankings |
| Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:21:03 -0700 (PDT) |
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My two cents:
I'm with many of you on this, although I usually put
"Twice Removed" at the top of my Sloan list--there's
something innocent and uncalculated and just plain
cool about that album--with "one Chord" and "Navy
Blues" tied for second. On "Twice," it doesn't sound
like they were trying to ape anyone, unlike everything
they did after that record. That said, I also want to
say that I'd put "Action Pact" just outside the top
3--it's the first record since "Twice" that sounds
honestly self-assured and like a real rock band, as
opposed to a nostalgia act. The songs aren't entirely
up to the bar set by those first three (yeah, I know
"Smeared" came first, but there was only an EP's worth
of good stuff there).
jb
np: Ed Gorch "Coward" (www.knotworking.net)
Jim wrote:
There are only 3 Sloan albums I care to rank. I like
the following:
1. One Chord to Another
2. Navy Blues
3. Twice Removed
I LOVED (and still LOVE) One Chord... I've had trouble
stomaching Sloan
sometime after Between the Bridges. As they moved away
from having what
I considered an original, homemade '60s-based sound
and just sounding
like any OK opening band on a 1976 Wings tour, I gave
up. I keep
expecting them to come clean and put out an album that
sounds like "classic"
Foreigner. And I don't mean that in the "good" way.
Jim
www.groovedisques.com
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