Sloan

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Comprising three distinct vocalist, guitarists Patrick Pentland and Jay Ferguson, bassist Chris Murphy plus the drummer Andrew Scott, the Alternative-Rock Indie-Rock band Sloan formed in 1991 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, CANADA.

The group began to cultivate a dedicated local following through their energetic live shows and in early 1992 released an EP called "Peppermint" on their own Murder Records label.
Not long after DGC Records signed them and by October of that same year, the band released its major label debut, "Smeared". The record went gold in Canada and included the single "Underwhelmed" which reached the #25 position on the Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

The quartet returned in mid-1994 releasing the single "Coax Me" in advance of their sophomore effort, "Twice Removed"; although the album became a huge hit in their native Canada, DGC refused to support the release south of the border. "Twice Removed" was also ranked the top Canadian album of all time in chart reader polls in 1996 and 2005.

After Sloan split with their label, the band nearly broke up during 1995, but in June of 1996 resurfaced with their third LP, "One Chord To Another", released on its own Murder Records in Canada and later distributed in the rest of the world by EMI Records; the 12-song set featured the single "The Good In Everyone".

Two years later, "Navy Blues" rose to #5 spot on the Official Top Canadian Albums chart confirming the band as one of the leading power Pop-Rock acts in their homeland and spawning the successful singles "Money City Maniacs" and "She Says What She Means".

During 1999 the quartet issued the live double-CD set "4 Nights At The Palais Royale" and shortly afterwards recorded a new studio effort titled "Between The Bridges" which made top 20 in Canada upon its release in September; this album included three single cuts: "Losing California", "Friendship" and "Sensory Deprivation".

Exactly two years later, the band put out "Pretty Together"; the record, lead by the single "If It Feels Good Do It", brought them back into the top 10 of the Canadian Albums chart.

August 2003 saw the release of the group's seventh studio effort, "Action Pact"; prefaced by the single "The Rest Of My Life", the album became another top 10 hit for the band.

In May 2005 Sloan delivered a 16 well-crafted tracks retrospective compilation titled "A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005", the set contained two previously unreleased songs including the single "All Used Up".
The band's eighth studio recording, "Never Hear The End Of It", contained a whopping 30 songs from all four members of Sloan ranging from 50 seconds to just over five minutes in length; the CD was released in September 2006 and included the singles "Who Taught You To Live Like That?" and "Ill Placed Trust".

Sloan released its latest record, "Parallel Play", in June 2008 through Yep Roc in the United States, the album is a continuation of the musical concepts put forth on their 2006's 30-track, 76-minute opus and a further exploration of the band's four-songwriter dynamic. It includes the Canadian Rock radio hits "Believe In Me" and "I'm Not A Kid Anymore".

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Smeared

(1993)

1. Underwhelmed
2. Raspberry
3. I Am The Cancer
4. Median Strip
5. Take It In
6. 500 Up
7. Marcus Said
8. Sugartune
9. Left Of Centre
10. Lemonzinger
11. Two Seater
12. What's There To Decide?

 

Twice Removed

(1994)

1. Penpals
2. I Hate My Generation
3. People Of The Sky
4. Coax Me
5. Bells On
6. Loosens
7. Worried Now
8. Shame Shame
9. Deeper Than Beauty
10. Snowsuit Sound
11. Before I Do
12. I Can Feel It

 

One Chord To Another

(1996)

1. The 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

 

Navy Blues

(1998)

1. She Says What She Means
2. C'mon C'mon (We're Gonna Get It Started)
3. Iggy And Angus
4. Sinking Ships
5. Keep On Thinkin'
6. Money City Maniacs
7. Seems So Heavy
8. Chester The Molester
9. Stand By Me, Yeah
10. Suppose They Close The Door
11. On The Horizon
12. I Wanna Thank You
13. I'm Not Through With You Yet

 

Between The Bridges

(1999)

1. The N.S.
2. So Beyond Me
3. Don't You Believe A Word
4. Friendship
5. Sensory Deprivation
6. All By Ourselves
7. A Long Time Coming
8. Waiting For Slow Songs
9. Losing California
10. The Marquee And The Moon
11. Take Good Care Of The Poor Boy
12. Delivering Maybes

 

Pretty Together

(2001)

1. If It Feels Good Do It
2. In The Movies
3. The Other Man
4. Dreaming Of You
5. Pick It Up And Dial It
6. The Great Wall
7. The Life Of A Working Girl
8. Never Seeing The Ground For The Sky
9. It's In Your Eyes
10. Who You Talkin' To?
11. I Love A Long Goodbye
12. Are You Giving Me Back My Love?
13. Your Dreams Have Come True

 

Action Pact

(2003)

1. Gimme That
2. Live On
3. Backstabbin'
4. The Rest Of My Life
5. False Alarm
6. Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore
7. Hollow Head
8. Ready For You
9. I Was Wrong
10. Who Loves Life More?
11. Reach Out
12. Fade Away

 

A Sides Win
Singles 1992-2005

(2005)

1. Underwhelmed
2. 500 Up
3. Coax Me
4. People Of The Sky
5. The Good In Everyone
6. Everything You've Done Wrong
7. The Lines You Amend
8. Money City Maniacs
9. She Says What She Means
10. Losing California
11. Friendship
12. If It Feels Good Do It
13. The Other Man
14. The Rest Of My Life
15. All Used Up [NEW TRACK]
16. Try To Make It [NEW TRACK]

 

Never Hear The End Of It

(2006)

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 That 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?
21. Ill Placed Trust
22. Live The Life You're Dreaming Of
23. Living With The Masses
24. HFXNSHC
25. People Think They Know Me
26. I Know You
27. Last Time In Love
28. It's Not The End Of The World
29. Light Years
30. Another Way I Could Do It

 

Parallel Play

(2008)

1. Believe In Me
2. Cheap Champagne
3. All I Am Is All You're Not
4. Emergency 911
5. Burn For It
6. Witch's Wand
7. The Dogs
8. Living The Dream
9. The Other Side
10. Down In The Basement
11. If I Could Change Your Mind
12. I'm Not A Kid Anymore
13. Too Many

 

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