Feeling Strangely Fine [Import] [PR]
Semisonic
レーベル： Mca UK
CD
発売日： 1998年3月24日(火)
画像： 大 中
◎関連『映画・ドラマ』タイトル
◎曲目リスト
- Closing Time
- Singing In My Sleep
- Made To Last
- Never You Mind
- Secret Smile
- DND
- Completely Pleased
- This Will Be My Year
- All Worked Out
- California
- She Speads Her Wings
- Gone To The Movies
◎レビュー (Amazon)
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 The Replacements 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 The Posies and Fountains Of Wayne. Beyond the singles, though, even album tracks here get the balance of bar-band crunch and pop kid swoon just right. Stuffed with Todd Rundgren/Big Star-style hooks and harmonies, Feeling Strangely Fine has a Wilco-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 Nine
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