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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
in my top 5 desert island discs!, June 11, 1999
By A Customer
This is one of the best albums i have ever heard-listen, and you'll fall in love, i'm telling you. You just wanna dance and sing, with the uplifting, catchy choruses, and the la-la melodies, it's sugary sweet, and masterfully done at that. Some of the greatest word puns ever, and the funniest lyrics-"if i had a funeral, would you even care? Would you wear your silver dress? Would you actually wear lipstick?"-(from bells on). "And your glasses, your hideous glasses, when you remove them i would rather skip my classes and be caught, then to entertain the thought, that someday you might put them on again."-(from deeper than beauty). This is just a sample of the fun of this cd-every song is great-all the guys sing, so there's vocal variety, and some of the songs are upbeat and fast paced, while some, like the beautiful "loosens", are slow and meandering. Either way, they're all gems. I love these guys-i saw them live and they were great, and a while ago, i wrote them a fan letter asking where i could get info on them, and a long while later, they actually wrote me back a real letter!! How many artists would do that?? "I can feel it" is a sweet, cute love song, and the female vocalist complements it perfectly. I love these guys, and for any sloan fan, it's common knowledge that this is their most wonderful album ever. This is THE ONE, guys. I'll never stop listening.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
As good as pop music gets, November 10, 2000
In 'Deeper than Beauty' -- an energetic pop masterpiece that suffers nothing from an absence of bass guitar -- the final refrain contains the lines: "We're like the rest of them with our thumbs up our asses/If you call I will come, but I'm about as thick as molasses/When I dream of you you're not wearing your glasses". If this kind of cheeky, smirky, but oh-so-pertinent lyrical style isn't your cup of tea, maybe Sloan is not for you.If Sloan is for you, then you probably like pop songs written from the point of view of East-Indian thirteen-year-olds whose English is kind of clunky ('Penpals'). Or melancholic songs -- with both chugga-chugga and jangly rhythm guitaring -- where the narrator at one point "saw his widow speak on her fortunes", and then later "saw her widow's peak on her forehead" ('Coax Me'; this song also contains the line: "It's not the band I hate, it's their fans"... sometimes I feel like I can quote Sloan lyrics all day long). Or sweet paeans to our innocent days on the school playground ('Snowsuit Sound'). Or an album stacked top to bottom with great pop songs written by four great pop songwriters with very distinctive pop songwriting styles. You probably like adventurous melodies that aren't afraid to be backed up by harmonious "La-la-la's". And punky/jazzy drumming. And bouncy, melodic bass playing. For my money, this is pure Sloan. Which means its about as good as it gets when it comes to alterna-pop music.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great, March 31, 1999
By A Customer
A classic, but not quite as good as "One Chord to Another." Power-pop at its best.
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