While the first single from Feeling Strangely Fine doesn't necessarily show it very well, there is a lot of Ben Folds Five in Semisonic. Both employ a variety of different instruments, thus creating a sound that is sometimes very, very comparable. This is never more evident than on the fourth track, "Never You Mind." It doesn't help that Semisonic lead singer Dan Wilson adds his piano to many of the album's tracks, and that Semisonic and Ben Folds Five seem to share a dominant motif, sensuality. Track after track shows the considerable songwriting talents of Wilson, Jacob Slichter, and John Munson.
I was going through my bookshelf the other day and found this gem I read about a year ago. It's called So You Wanna Be A Rock'n'Roll Star:How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives, and Other True Tales From a Drummer’s Life by Jacob Slichter.Jacob is the drummer for Semisonic...remember Closing Time? It was a really great read but when I made my list of Fav books about music this got .
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I just heard his duet with NZ songstress Bic Runga for the first time in years today and have since dug out my Semisonic collection. Are there more than the 2 albums I have? *Feeling Strangely Fine* & *All About Chemistry*. I also have a digital version of the *Pleasure EP*... I was in a state of pure bliss that was only renewed by the announcement of a Stone Sour 2007 Australian tour!
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE (AP) - For a decade it appeared there was no such thing as too many Starbucks for U.S. coffee drinkers, whose willingness to buy its $4 lattes and dark drip brews rationalized a second green-and-white mermaid awning just down the street - and sometimes even a third. But in a sign that those days are over, Starbucks Corp. announced Tuesday it will close 600 company-opera...
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So like the scene from "Office Space" my boss comes up to me last week and tells me he had to fire some people and that we were going to have to "fill in some spots" on the schedule. so i had to work all day today. im a cook at a fancy little Italian restaurant, so that means open and close shifts squeezed next to 3 other guys 2 feet from an oven spitting out 426 degrees. mmm mmm toasty. this s...
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I was going through my bookshelf the other day and found this gem I read about a year ago. It's called So You Wanna Be A Rock'n'Roll Star:How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives, and Other True Tales From a Drummer’s Life by Jacob Slichter.Jacob is the drummer for Semisonic...remember Closing Time? It was a really great read but when I made my list of Fav books about music this got .
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I just heard his duet with NZ songstress Bic Runga for the first time in years today and have since dug out my Semisonic collection. Are there more than the 2 albums I have? *Feeling Strangely Fine* & *All About Chemistry*. I also have a digital version of the *Pleasure EP*... I was in a state of pure bliss that was only renewed by the announcement of a Stone Sour 2007 Australian tour!
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The ubiquitous nature of some one-hit wonder songs cannot be measured by singles charts or requests to Casey Kasem or Rick Dees. Take, for instance, "Mickey" by Tony Basil. A number one hit, yes, but the song has had staying power, showing up in all kinds of movies, TV shows, commercials, sporting events, and absolutely anything that has to do with cheerleaders, legitimate or not. It's a song t...
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| 1 Closing Time |
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| 2 Singing in My Sleep |
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| 3 Made to Last |
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| 4 Never You Mind |
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| 5 Secret Smile |
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| 6 DND |
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| 7 Completely Pleased |
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| 8 This Will Be My Year |
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| 9 All Worked Out |
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| 10 California |
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| 11 She Spreads Her Wings |
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| 12 Gone to the Movies |
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