So it’s a record that was less about variety and taking what we do best live and translating that into a record. There are basically no piano songs or acoustic songs, no ballads. We sort of knew this going in, but he was leaning more towards songs that leant themselves to being played on stage. The reason why it’s at the bottom is because it’s the one album where we gave the decision of which songs would be on the album to the producer, Tom Rothrock. Jay Ferguson: I almost feel bad because when I listen to it, I like it. I find sometimes an album isn’t my favorite, but I like all of my songs on that particular album. I don’t know how my picks stand, because it’s the kind of thing that could change tomorrow. “There aren’t any where I look back and cringe. Noisey put Jay Ferguson to the test to see if he could rank all 11 of Sloan’s full-lengths. the Beatles, the Beach Boys, etc.), but for 24 years, Sloan has always been about Ferguson, Murphy, Pentland, and Scott bringing their own songwriting flair to the table, oftentimes with a different concept in mind. They might not be the only band to achieve such a democratic state (i.e. On most of Sloan’s 11 albums, Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Andrew Scott all contributed equally to the songwriting process. What is unique about Sloan isn’t their longevity or their consistency, but the fact that this band features four talented singer-songwriters. After this, Sloan came to their senses and released eight good to great studio albums over the next 18 years. But circumstances led to making one more album, 1996’s One Chord To Another, which turned out to be both a critical and commercial success. Actually, it did kill them-at the end of 1994 they actually broke up. And despite insistence by their label not to, Sloan went and made what turned out to be their most endearing album, the jangly power/chamber pop of Twice Removed. Their 1992 debut album, Smeared, fit in nicely with both the grunge and shoegaze movements, but come 1994, they were ready to evolve. The East Coast music explosion may have been short-lived, but Sloan persisted by going against the grain. John’s) all found deals, ironically, with Seattle’s Sub Pop. The press began calling Halifax “the next Seattle” and “Seattle of the North,” and soon their friends in Eric’s Trip (Moncton), Jale (Halifax), the Hardship Post (St. After buzz began to travel from their hometown, Sloan were signed by Geffen Records, the label behind Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana, and Sonic Youth, and almost immediately turned East Coast music into a scene. Halifax, Nova Scotia’s Sloan may not have achieved the same amount of international recognition as said bands, but in 1992 they did what so few before them could: They made the rest of the world take notice of Canada’s burgeoning underground scene. Raspberry beret beatles.In Rank Your Records, we talk to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference.Ī good decade before Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, and Death From Above 1979 all became international stars, a band from a far less densely populated area put Canada on the indie rock map.
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