- Twice Removed
Infobox Album | Name = Twice Removed
Type =Album
Artist = Sloan
Released =August 30 ,1994
Recorded = 1994
Genre =Indie rock
Length = 44:48
Label =Geffen Records
Producer = Jim Rondinelli, Sloan
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:uau36jo871t0 link]
Last album = "Smeared "
(1992)
This album = "Twice Removed"
(1994)
Next album = "One Chord to Another "
(1996)"Twice Removed" was the second album by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released on
Geffen Records in 1994, and is considered to be one of their best albums. It was more melodic and catchy than their previous album, "Smeared ", and as a result Geffen did not promote it very well because it didn't fit the commercially dominantgrunge rock style of the time. The band was dropped from Geffen after "Twice Removed" was released. Although it was the record that made them famous in Canada, Sloan took time off from touring and writing after the troubles with Geffen, and they were rumoured to have broken up.In 1996, the music magazine "Chart" conducted a reader poll to determine the best Canadian albums of all time. "Twice Removed" topped that poll. When the magazine conducted a follow up poll in 2000, "Twice Removed" lost the top spot to
Joni Mitchell 's "Blue", but still placed third. In the third poll, in 2005, "Twice Removed" reclaimed the top spot. It was also ranked 14th inBob Mersereau 's 2007 book "The Top 100 Canadian Albums ".Jennifer Pierce fromJale once again appears as a backup singer on "I Can Feel It".Track listing
All songs were written by Sloan.
# "Penpals" – 3:08
# "I Hate My Generation" – 2:26
# "People of the Sky " – 3:37
# "Coax Me " – 3:26
# "Bells On" – 3:55
# "Loosens" – 5:26
# "Worried Now" – 2:40
# "Shame Shame" – 3:04
# "Deeper Than Beauty" – 2:40
# "Snowsuit Sound" – 3:47
# "Before I Do" – 7:04
# "I Can Feel It" – 3:28B-Sides
* "D Is For Driver" (JPN import)
* "Coax Me (Icks Nay On The Evie Stay Micks)" (Coax Me 7")
* "One Professional Care" (Coax Me 7")
* "I Can Feel It (demo)" (promo 7")
Singles taken from "Twice Removed":
Coax Me (1994)
People Of The Sky (1994)Trivia
*"Penpals" was born out of broken English letters written by fans to Nirvana, which the Sloan guys rummaged through when they were signed to Geffen in the early '90s [cite web
title = Entertainment Weekly Popwatch Blog
url= http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2007/03/sxsw_past_or_pr.html
accessdate = 2007-03-19 ] .References
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