Sloan Albums -- Your Favorite Is ?

[crumbum]

"Don't You Believe A Word" is a classic.

Jay is the best.

And I think 'The Lines You Amend' is their best song on any album.

[methanolcereal]

"Don't You Believe A Word" is a classic.

Jay is the best.

True statement.

[sonicdork]

Maybe it was the conceit of having each song flow into the next, but the the songwriting just takes leaps and bounds on that album (not that previous albums were deficient). It absolutely has to be listened to in one sitting. It feels wrong to just listen to one song.

Taking in "Never Hear..." right now, and really enjoying it.

I had some "so called" friends swear off Sloan after Pretty Together and Action Pact... but they came back around after hearing Never Hear.. A classic album. I do agree with the statement that Parallel Play sounds like a cool b-sides collection from Never. Very true.

Seriously one of the best bands you will ever see live.

[Amplituden]

Its hard to overstate how important this band was to anyone living in Canada who wanted to form a band in the 90's. 

Smeared may sound dated now, but it was so inpirational to me and all my friends. For a while in Canada if a band was from Halifax they could basically tour the country no questions asked.

Now that I am done frothing at the mouth, One Chord is probably my favorite.  It sort of runs the course of what each member of Sloan is great at.  The song 400 meters is the best.

[JustSheaNo]

I am incredibly biased toward Pretty Together, probably because I was able to get the import version with the Live at a Sloan Party EP along with it. Easily one of the most essential discs of my youth, even if it is a little bit of a gimmick.  Navy Blues was the first Sloan album I ever heard. It was in  heavy rotation at my college radio station at a time when "format" was nu- and black metal. There were a few rebels among the djs, and eventually I was given my own time slot and the right to pick my own play list. Sloan was suggested by one of the others, and it stayed with me ever since. In fact I'm pretty sure the copy I have is a promo.

[Matthew_S]

Touching on a few topics mentioned above...


I've never listened to their official Best Of release, but any sampler should do.  Here is a new one from BestShow pal, Matthew Perpetua:

http://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/279117906/sloan-all-your-handsome-words


I would agree that there is a 'mid-career' quality dip but the band seems to have put it all back together with the last couple of albums.  

Smeared is much more 'of its era' than any other album they've released; I'd say most of their other work is better described as timeless (though critics might say this is because they simply ape older eras).


I know Live at at Sloan Party as an add-on to One Chord to Another, though I could easily be mistaken...

[tenni]

I use to be a huge Sloan fan but hadn't listened to them in a while. Put on "One Chord to Another" the other day and I love it as much now as I did when it first came out. Fantastic album.

[JustSheaNo]

Touching on a few topics mentioned above...


I've never listened to their official Best Of release, but any sampler should do.  Here is a new one from BestShow pal, Matthew Perpetua:

http://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/279117906/sloan-all-your-handsome-words


I would agree that there is a 'mid-career' quality dip but the band seems to have put it all back together with the last couple of albums. 

Smeared is much more 'of its era' than any other album they've released; I'd say most of their other work is better described as timeless (though critics might say this is because they simply ape older eras).


I know Live at at Sloan Party as an add-on to One Chord to Another, though I could easily be mistaken...

My understanding is Live at a Sloan Party was an add on to the Canada only release. It is also not actually at a party.  I got it as an import in the used cd section at Barnes and Noble way back in the day. My favorite track on it is the cover of Dignified and Old.

[Chris in Somerville, Mass.]

It wasn't until I saw them do "The Lines You Amend" at their Cambridge show on the 3rd that I decided it might be their best song of all.  A real crowd pleaser.

[DS1077]

"Pretty Together" is one of my desert island discs, even though it has two completely skippable songs ("If it feels good do it" and "Pick it up and dial it").  But to be fair, I haven't heard their entire oeuvre just yet.

[TheNationalInterest]

'The rest of my life' like many a fine Sloan offering has been playing in my head repeatedly since hearing it again for the first time a few days ago