Twice Removed

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Twice Removed
Studio album by Sloan
Released	August 30, 1994
Recorded	1994
Genre	Indie rock
Length	44:48
Label	Geffen Records
Producer	Jim Rondinelli, Sloan
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Sloan chronology
Smeared (1992) Twice Removed (1994) 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 dominant grunge 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 14^th in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.

Jennifer Pierce from Jale once again appears as a backup singer on "I Can Feel It".

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Sloan.

1. "Penpals" – 3:08
2. "I Hate My Generation" – 2:26
3. "People of the Sky" – 3:37
4. "Coax Me" – 3:26
5. "Bells On" – 3:55
6. "Loosens" – 5:26
7. "Worried Now" – 2:40
8. "Shame Shame" – 3:04
9. "Deeper Than Beauty" – 2:40
10. "Snowsuit Sound" – 3:47
11. "Before I Do" – 7:04
12. "I Can Feel It" – 3:28

B-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)

[edit] 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^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ Entertainment Weekly Popwatch Blog. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.

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