One Chord to Another

Sloan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Murder Records
• ASIN: B00000DD4K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,556 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good in Everyone

2. Nothing Left to Make Me Want to Stay

3. Autobiography

4. Junior Panthers

5. G Turns to D

6. A Side Wins

7. Everything You've Done Wrong

8. Anyone Who's Anyone

9. The Lines You Amend

10. Take the Bench

11. Can't Face Up

12. 400 Metres

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sloan's Last Really Cool Album, August 21, 2002

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"kspecial2786" (Long Beach, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Chord to Another (Audio CD)

It's hard for me to evaluate One Chord To Another unbiased because I love Sloan, but then I realized thats really just as important as the music. The 90's were filled with power-pop, 60s/70s revivalists, Beatlesy, Brian Wilsony (that doesn't look right) bands and they're all pretty good but Sloan easily aces all of them. This is because Sloan have...Personality! They're four really cool, funny (in a shy, sardonic kinda way) guys from Halifax, can't beat that. And they are all very gifted songwriters. This album is actually one of their least consistent in quality (which is why I give it a four), but its a thoroughly enjoyable listen from beginning to end. And there's so much more to the songs then just great melodies and 60's musical arraingements, the lyrics are very playful, complex and deep, especially for a pop band. The Lines You Amend is bouncy number about a guy who's girlfriend committed suicide in a lake yet it never feels morbid and is actually funny. Nothing Left To Make Me Want To Stay is endlessly listenable due to its pleasingly complex chord progression and great lyrics. Take The Bench is a anthemic power-pop song about a little girl being forced to play piano for the adults and all the ironies, pathos, and insights involved in the situation. As you listen to this album (and others by Sloan) more and more you'll realize the amazing amount of subtle touches they have in their songs. All in all this album has a great feel that sadly I think they lost on Navy Blues in exchange for immediately catchy songs but thats another story...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars While I'm Skipping Stones/And I'm Listening To The Shells..., March 19, 2005

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winkingtiger ";oD" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Chord to Another (Audio CD)

In the movie 'High Fidelity', some of the characters list their favorite opening tracks of all time. If I were doing that, 'The Good In Everyone' from this, Sloan's third album, would be in the top five of MY list. This is everything a good opening (rock) track should be: aggressive, grand, & somewhat shambolic (remember 'Taxman'?) And it only gets better from there!

By this album, Sloan had left their grunge roots behind and made what was to be the style of all subsequent Sloan albums, 60's pop sensibility, 70's stadium rock presentation, and a very modern indie-rock wryness...especially in their lyrics. I actually like their grunge stuff, but albums such as this and Navy Blues, etc., show that they are capable of so much more. With all four Sloan members writing and singing, not to mention occasionally switching instrument roles, a huge variety of sounds are available...and Sloan uses them all. Grand stadium rock in 'The Good In Everyone', Brian Wilson-esque introverted pop on 'Junior Panthers', neo-grunge indie zoom on 'G Turns To D'...there's a little of everything here. Yet it all sounds consistent and it always sounds like.....Sloan! The songs may take a few listens to 'sink in', but they will, and they're worth it.

Of course, any good (male) pop band needs songs about girls, and Sloan are no exception...except that their perspective is very different. 'Take The Bench' is addressed to a young girl performing a recital for a less-than-receptive audience, 'Everything You've Done Wrong' is about a girl who is about to serve a prison sentence, and 'The Lines You Amend' (a brilliant pop gem) is about a girlfriend who just killed herself! Everything in Sloan's world is slightly skewed...

Sloan should be as popular as any indie artist you can name. Unfortunately, they are almost unknown in the U.S. I guess being from Halifax, Nova Scotia doesn't really put you at the center of the music industry. It's a shame, really, and if you like extremely well-crafted pop-rock with a certain 'retro' feel, yet unlike anything else going on right now, you owe it to yourself to get at least one Sloan album. And if you can get this CD with the bonus disc, 'Live At A Sloan Party', do so...it's a great example of their early 'basement' days with covers of everyone from the Hollies to Stereolab, and an acoustic Simon & Garfunkel -esque version of "I Am The Cancer' ( ! ). Lots of fun!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bonus CD is worth the price of admission, July 8, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: One Chord to Another (Audio CD)

One Chord to Another was originally released by a label called The Enclave, not Geffen, as listed here. It's since been re-released on Sloan's Murder Records. It's Sloan's 3rd full length and is excellent. This little gem includes a bonus CD of Sloan performing live at a house party. It's rough, it's sweet, it's tight, it's funny, it's energizing, it's intimate, it's everything a Sloan fan is looking for and includes a good mix of Sloan classics and some cool covers (including an interesting take on Roxy Music's "Over You").