02 Bed
03 Act Naturally
04 She's Got My Number
05 Follow
06 Sunshine & Chocolate
07 Who's Stopping You
08 I Wish
09 One True Love
10 Get a Grip
11 Surprise
12 El Matador
Release date: 03/13/01
Label: MCA Records Catalog#: 112 355
MCAR 25284 2
jewel case
02 album version
01 chemistry
02 bed (snippet)
03 act naturally (snippet)
04 she's got my number (snippet)
05 closing time (snippet)
all about
chemistry : cd sampler
card sleave
card sleave
(basement acoustic demo)
02 over my head
01 chemistry
(single edit)
02 over my head (non-LP)
03 chemistry (the drumhammer remix)
04 chemistry video
Chemistry
3 Trk EP
Label: MCA
Catalog#: MCSTD40248
Released: UK, 02/16/01
slimline
jewelcase
Catalog#: 1557922
01 chemistry
(Drumhammer Remix)
02 chemistry (Edit)
03 girlfriend
04 chemistry video
Catalog#: 766486836921
Released: 03/09/01
slimline jewelcase
Catalog#: 1557932
Released: 04/24/01
Released: UK, 06/11/01
Label: MCA
Catalog#: 1558372
Live Radio Session
Live Version
Video
02 Never You Mind (Dan Wilson live at the Cedar Cultural Center)
03 Get A Grip (Live Radio Session)
04 get a grip video
Catalog#: 766487658225
Released: 06/20/01
Released: 07/24/01
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Despite its title (All About Chemistry), Semisonic's latest--a radio-bright successor to the multi-million success of Feeling Strangely Fine--pulls down first class honours in different disciplines entirely. Lyrically, the latest collection of airwave-snogging pop from Dan Wilson is patently all about biology. Perhaps the album's greatest charm is, in fact, in its unabashed interest in matters mating-related, from life's daisy chain of sexual initiations (the cheekily contrived and practically flawless title track) to, well, masturbation (the even cheekier "Get A Grip") to redemptive, uxorious longing (the gorgeous Brill Building classicism of "One True Love", co-written with Carole King). The twist here lies in married, thirty-something Wilson's knack--one his wrinkly fifty-something rock predecessors have yet to learn--of obsessing about sex from (rather than in spite of) an adult perspective. Self-abuse and all. Sonically, however, this album's all about geometry--or, if you prefer, engineering. Precision-mixed by leave-nothing-to-chance heavyweights Bob Clearmountain and Tom Lord-Alge, the quirks and upfront guitars that peppered Feeling Strangely Fine have been smoothed out in favour of straight ahead, keyboard-led mid-tempo melodies ("Act Naturally", "She's Got My Number", "Follow") that read like a smarter, wryer Hall And Oates. And which may well be Semisonic's strongest subject on a pretty much error-free exam paper.
--Jennifer Nine