Sloan - B-Sides (3 discs of 'em)

'Raise Your Glass to the B-Sides'
extensive 3-disc set

ROB SEZ: If you like the Canadian band Sloan, you're bound to find something here you haven't heard before. As with almost all ASH Tuesday posts, I am deeply indebted to Don at the old ASH blog. Speaking of Don, he has a new radio show featuring many artists that appear here and, of course, at his I Don't Hear a Single blog. Check out the radio show on Mixcloud.

MP3@160 (unfortunately, this bitrate is the best available; if anyone can share this in higher quality, I will gladly re-post it here)

ASH Tuesday post #77

Sloan - Best Live Sessions (2007-2014)

various live sessions

pre-FM & soundboard sources via web stream
 

4 for one: Sloan has been together 20+ years.

sound quality: VG++ to Ex-

ROB SEZ: Scott said I should check out Sloan. So I did. They've been big in Canada, where they're from, for many years. Sloan tried to break through in the "lower 48" some years ago, but no such luck. If you like Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, Posies, etc., then you should give Sloan a try. Thanks for the tip, Scott.

SAMPLE: "Carried Away" (live 2014)


01 Carried Away

Sloan is a Toronto-based rock group
photo by Lisa Mark

02 The Rest of My Life

03 Three Sisters

04 Keep Swinging (Downtown)

05 You've Got a Lot 
    On Your Mind

06 Misty's Beside Herself

07 Cleopatra

08 Worried Now

09 She's Slowin’ Down

10 Beverly Terrace

11 Laying So Low

12 If I Could Change Your Mind

13 Traces

14 Something's Wrong

15 Ill Placed Trust

16 Interview with Terre T (of WFMU)

MP3@256

 

TT: 1:00:42

Sloan: doing their live thing, Sept. 2013
photo by Dave Smith via Flickr

SOURCES:

1-4 = Studio 211, CBC 'First Play Live' Session, Sept. 2014

5-6 = The Current (live session), Minnesota Public Radio, Oct. 10, 2014
7 = "Q" live session, CBC Radio, Sept. 2014
8 = Chart Attack 'Noisemakers' session, Nov. 2012
9-11 = The Current (live session), Minnesota Public Radio, May 31, 2011
12-13 & 16 = WFMU-FM, Cherry Blossom Clinic live session, Oct. 15, 2011
14-15 = World Cafe Live, WXPN-FM, June 13, 2007

NOTE: CBC = Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Learn more about the music of Sloan from the band's web site. Their newest album, released just a few months ago, is Commonwealth. Get a free & legal sampler of Sloan singles at NoiseTrade.