[.ca] Twice Removed

I'll Never Get Tired Of It:
This album has so many fantastic songs. The band members each wrote and sung lead vocals on different songs, which gives the CD a varied feel. It ranges from upbeat and poppy but oh-so-awesome to slower or rockier. It's all bright and enjoyable music, with intriguing lyrics and classic "ba ba ba ba da ba's". Highlights include: "Penpals" "I Hate My Generation" "People Of The Sky" "Coax Me" "Shame Shame" "Worried Now" There aren't any songs you'll want to skip. The entire thing is more than worthwhile. This is tied with NAVY BLUES as my favourite Sloan CD.

BUY IT!:
Quite simply, one of the greatest albums ever. Full of emotion, hooks, sing-along catch-phrases.... it's damn near perfect. Five (stars) out of five, no question.

Awesome~:
I think that this album is one of Sloan's best, if not, THE best. It has the perfect amount of up-tempo songs, and the mellow, heartfelt ones. "Bells On" and "Loosens" have to be some of my all time favorite songs, while "Coax Me" and "Deeper Than Beauty" have always been high on my list! One disappointment, however, was "Before I Do" that starts out awesome but takes a million years to end, resulting in a track over 7 minutes long. This is a minor detail in an amazing CD that I would listen to over and over!

in my top 5 desert island discs!:
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.

As good as pop music gets:
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.

• Pen Pals
• I Hate My Generation
• People of the Sky
• Coax Me
• Bells On
• Loosens
• Worried Now
• Shame Shame
• Deeper Than Beauty
• Snowsuit Sound
• Before I Do
• I Can Feel It