Never Hear the End of It

Sloan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 9, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yep Roc Records
• ASIN: B000JJRXG6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,907 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Flying High Again

2. Who Taught You to Live Like That?

3. I've Gotta Try

4. Everybody Wants You

5. Listen to the Radio

6. Fading into Obscurity

7. I Can't Sleep

8. Someone I Can Be True With

9. Right or Wrong

10. Something's Wrong

11. Ana Lucia

12. Before the End of the Race

13. Blackout

14. I Understand

15. You Know What It's About

16. Golden Eyes

17. Can't You Figure It Out?

18. Set in Motion

19. Love Is All Around

20. Will I Belong?

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Never before has a Sloan record generated such extreme reviews by critics and fans. The band's eighth studio recording, Never Hear the End of It, contains a whopping 30 songs on one disc, ranging from 50 seconds to just over five minutes in length. The bulk of those tracks average roughly two-and-a-half minutes and bleed into each other--at times rather abruptly. As a result, the disc feels like an eccentric art-project; even the strongest tracks prove to be more of an appetizer, leaving listeners longing for a main course. Stylistically, there are no surprises. The group's music tends to fall into Sloan's two traditional categories: Beatles-esque stylings or '70s-influenced rock tunes. Noteworthy highlights include disc opener "Flying High Again" with its Crosby, Stills & Nash harmonies, and the blisteringly old-school punk rock pacing of "HFXNSHC." Fans of this disc compare Never's nonstop onslaught of songs to Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville or the Clash's Sandinista, while naysayers find the short, fast melodies insufficient in length and substance. Like all music, beauty is in the ear of the beholder, so expect Never Hear the End of It to be on many critics' Best or Worst lists at year's end. --Denise Sheppard

Product Description

2006 album from this Canadian Power Pop band, their first full length album in three years and their eighth overall. The album, which is as experimental as it is straightforward, features a whopping 30 tracks and includes the single 'Who Taught You To Live Like That?'. Murderrock.

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Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Pop, February 17, 2007

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Kennth W. Gleason "music freak" (Valley Forge,Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Never Hear the End of It (Audio CD)

After a few years break, Sloan roars back with a pop/rock masterpiece. Brazenly displaying their Mersey/Beatles/Yardbirds influence, the quartet delivers a 30 cut disk that doesn't waste a track. This one is hard to get out of your cd player, and you'll be hard pressed to not be haunted by several of the tunes.
Dare I compare it to the White Album??
Christ, I just did!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never heard one quite like this before., April 21, 2007

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Jimbo54 (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

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I generally like my music to be either power-pop or catchy acoustic, rock 'n roll but not heavy metal, and do not like having to work hard to listen to it or absorb it. I was about 10 years old when the Beatles hit America in the 60's, and have heard a lot of music since. After a friend exposed me to "Try to Make It" off one of their recent albums, I have started to listen to Sloan only over the past couple of years, with my experience limited to a couple of collection-type CDs. There were a handful of songs I liked a great deal, a few fairly good ones, and a higher percentage I did not care for on this limited sample of Sloan's music I have in my collection. This CD changes all of that! This is an excellent CD that mixes pop, power pop, some acoustic stuff, a lot of great harmonies and production, and a great deal of variety from track to track due to the group having 4 distinct writers and singers. All of it is not good, but 80-90% of it is, and it is assembled and produced in a way that I have never heard for the entire length of the CD before. Though my favorite tracks are probably the two that open the CD and, especially, "Ill Placed Trust", a terrific power-pop rocker, there are well over a dozen other very good tracks of varying lengths and styles. All but perhaps 3 or 4 tracks are fairly good at worst, while most of the CD is comprised of very catchy or intriguing songs that make it a very enjoyable listen. The CD is best listened to as a whole, continuously, or in large chunks, just because you receive the full effect of the way the songs blend and flow as they interconnect. Like other reviewers, there are several tracks that are so good that I wish they were longer or more fully developed, but I feel that this CD is such a gift and joy of a listen that I can't complain too much. I'll definitely start exploring more of Sloan's full studio albums after hearing this one, because I'd like to hear more of this stuff!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Record of the Year 2007, January 11, 2007

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The Swinger (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Never Hear the End of It (Audio CD)

Sure, it's only January 11, 2007, but Sloan's "Never Hear the End of It" gets my vote for Record of the Year. It's as if those forgotten gems of early 1970s AM radio were resurrected with the added muscle of the post-heavy metal/grunge and every other genre of hard rock new millennium. And the harmonies--so yummy, yummy, yummy they taste like raspberries. Did I mention intelligent songwriting? How about the "movie of my life" cliché turned on its head in "Set in Motion"? Or would you believe a true, adult look at lessons learned through numerous relationships until you've figured it out and finally settle down with someone who's compatible, as in "Last Time in Love"? Unbelievable! And there are many other great songs here--"Listen to the Radio," "Fading into Obscurity," "Ill Placed Trust," etc. etc. Sure there are a bunch of 1- to 2-minute snippets--so what? Who says that every piece of fiction has to be a novel? This is pure, assured pop/rock by master craftsmen. P.F. should be proud of the latest Sloan.