Author: SemisonicBrand: Universal / IslandRelease Date: 17-03-1998Details: Product Description Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: Sculpture Garden (Not Listed on CD). Amazon.ca College rock's been done by everyone from literate romantics to heads-down bar bands to power-pop hooksmiths... but seldom by bands who can be all three--and score hit singles to boot. And in Semisonic's native Minneapolis, where the career of shambolic nearly-men looms over the music scene like the dead (drunk) hand of history, the success part of the equation is even less likely. Against the odds, then, this trio's gleamingly produced second album not only hit the charts in the States, where wryly-observed anthem "Closing Time" was tailor-made for festival audiences, but in the UK, where the purring, Hall & Oates-ish "Secret Smile" seduced radio listeners who'd barely heard of musical kindred spirits and . Beyond the singles, though, even album tracks here get the balance of bar-band crunch and pop kid swoon just right. Stuffed with /-style hooks and harmonies, Feeling Strangely Fine has a -like grasp of the joys of pop songs about pop in the compilation-cassette love story of "Singing In My Sleep" and the infectious self-deprecation of "This Will Be My Year". In a rare case of Minnesota guys finishing first, the latter's prediction even came true. --Jennifer NineUPC: 008811173326EAN: 0008811173326Languages: EnglishBinding: Audio CDItem Condition: UsedVeryGood
