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"chester the molester" is on this record.
and it "borrows heavily" form a song you may know as "maxwell's silver hammer" by this band they may have heard called "the beatles"

The Beatles are the apex of pop music. Any worthwhile pop music is going to sound like the Beatles, in one way or another. When I'm not listening to the Beatles -- since music will continue to be made -- at least I'd like to hear something good, even if it's in the Beatles vein.

Plus, "Chester the Molester" is much more Ben Folds Five. There are a lot of Sloan songs that are way more Beatlesque than "Chester the Molester."

Meanwhile, the new Sloan album is amazing. And it's very Beatle-y.

I fucking love this album and love this band and offer absolutely no apologies for doing so.

Though I will warn folks that the new disc is not the best way to be introduced to their music. They could've used a decent editor in the studio to tell them when to hold back a little and that every song snippet need not be included on the final album.

There should never be any apologies for loving the Sloan. Though I still believe that "Never Hear the End of It" is their best offering, start to finish, since 1998. Which is somewhat unexpected from a band that I feared might not recover from the relatively disappointing "Action Pact."

I'm with DK10, and that's not just because she's in fact my wife offline. (My online wife is someone completely different, like Jennifer Ringley or the Wii panty girl)

As someone who's heard Abbey Road about 1,000 times and Navy Blues nearly 500 times (roughly, of course), I'd say that the only things the songs have in common is that they tell a story. In that sense, it's just like "Alice's Restaurant" -- although, I'll admit, I never got past that song's first few hours.

Navy Blues: Amazing party album. Four stars out of nearly as many. I bought this as an import when it came out, and didn't get past the lead track ("She Says What She Means"), for about a half hour, with that on repeat. Party in your earhole.

Never Hear the End of It: Fun record, too. Their best since Navy Blues, probably -- they'd lost me I thought for good halfway thru Pretty Together. And I'll say, I love the snippets. It's good to know a band can dare put out one minute-30 second songs still. Too much bloat in the pop songs out there sometimes.

And "Fading into Obscurity" (on the new record) -- Glad that a band has finally compared themselves to a cake batter and record companies to impatient parents. Now THERE's a good, Abbey Road-like story.

new Sloan eh?

please lord, let there be a store in the area with this in stock tomorrow...

"Fading Into Obscurity" is definitely one of the highlights on Never Hear The End Of It. That's some delicious irony where on one hand the band laments becoming less influential with age, and on the other hand they've released their strongest album in years.

Thanks for the link, guys.