Jeff,

I'm with you on this one. When it's good it's great, but with so many of the 
songs clocking in at a minute and a bit, I can't help but feel they were 
half way to a good song and couldn't quite come up with the big finish, or 
chorus or whatever. Still, far better to have half a great album than the 
dross Red Hot Chilli Peppers managed to fill 2 discs with earlier this year.

Mike.



>From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: NSAIG...New Sloan
>Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:29:04 -0800
>
>While I agree most of Sloan's output is stellar...I'm a bit luke warm
>to this record. A good half of it is great...but with 30 tracks it's hard
>to find the cream from the filler. I kind of wish it was shorter.
>Maybe I need to listen to it 20 more times.
>
>Speaking of year-end faves...
>How bout The Fags?? "Light Em Up" is phenom, bombastic power pop of the 
>highest
>order!! Awesome awesome awesome. The new Jet record is very good as well.
>Anyone else disappointed w/ the new Lemonheads? After 10 years, I was 
>expecting
>something much more impressive.
>
>Jeff
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:40:51 -0500
> > From: "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
> > To: <audities@smoe.org>
> > Subject: NSAIG
> > Message-ID: <BAY113-DAV38D5BFCE3022101305932E3D90@phx.gbl>
> >
> > New Sloan album is great!
> >
> > An "Abbey Road" segue-riffic slab of short songs that have me thinking 
>of
> > several classic 60s AM and 70s power pop bands, XTC, Splitsville, 
>Spirit, T
> > Rex and even that freakin' Edwyn Collins hit fergodsakes. Thirty - count
> > 'em - thirty tracks and the majority of them are repeaters.
> >
> > Lucky Canadians have had this for a while. Lucky Americans will see it 
>in
> > five weeks. Sloan is back *strong*.
> >
> > cheers
> > b