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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THE SUGGESTIONS
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