Released: 11/17/1998
Label: MCA Records
Catalog#: 55509
jewel case
02 closing time (basement acoustic demo)
03 delicious
04 erotic city
05 air that i breathe
01 closing
time (remix)
02 falling (live)
03 long way from home
Released : 10/25/99
Label: MCA
ASIN: B00003IQS0
Catalog#: MCSTD40221
slimeline jewel case
Closing
Time CD2
Release date: 10/25/1999
Label: MCA
Catalog#: MCSXD40221
slimeline jewel case
Release date: 10/25/1999
Label: MCA
Catalog#: MCSXD40221
slimeline jewel case
02 f.n.t. (live acoustic)
03 air that i breathe
04 closing time video
02 closing time (bob clearmountain mix)
03 f.n.t. (tom lord-alge mix)
Label: MCA
Catalog#: MCD-49071 Origin Australia
Catalog No. MCA49088
Origin U.K.
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01 secret
smile (remix)
02 completely pleased
03 erotic city
Released: 06/28/99
Label: MCA
ASIN: B00003Q468 Catalog#: MCSTD40210
slimeline jewel case
Released: 06/28/99
Label: MCA
ASIN: B00002DD1P Catalog#: MCSXD40210
slimeline jewel case
02 singing in my sleep (full remix)
03 take me with you (live)
04 secret smile video
02 secret smile (live)
03 secret smile (orb chillout mix)
Released: 04/25/00
Label: MCA
Catalog#: MCSTD 40227
limited edition digi-pak
Released: 04/25/00
Label: MCA
Catalog#:MCSXD 40227
slimeline jewel case
02 i'm a liar
03 makin' a plan
CMJ Review
Feeling Strangely Fine
ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIANS ASPIRING 10 POP craftsmanship beyond three-chord bashing face an uphill battle. Their songs must pack enough instant wallop to hold an audience until the subtler charms gradually seep in. Luckily for Semisonic, it's hit upon the digital equivalent of Now & Later candy. Instrumentation runs deeper than the band's three-man configuration implies; a string section makes multiple appearances, and electric piano plays nearly as prominent a role as guitar in the high-gloss mix. Frontman Dan Wilson has left behind the soaring harmonies and psychedelic excursions of his former band Trip Shakespeare (which included Semisonic bassist John Munson), but his angelic voice remains a formidable weapon. The handful of mid-tempo numbers driven by Wilson's pristine acoustic guitar reveals a Difford/Tillbrook-like knack for making a mature composition sound effortless. But Semisonic `s real strength is being a crunchy guitar band, suggesting Matthew Sweet's finer moments. The peak occurs on "Singing In My Sleep," a song about trading message-laden mix tapes as a courtship ritual, in which a simple Wurlitzer piano riff stubbornly contradicts lake Slichter's insistent backbeat. Feeling Strangely Fine has enough hooks to induce repeated listening, and enough meat to reward return visits.
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CDNow Review
Feeling Strangely Fine
(MCA)
"Closing Time"
On this sophomore effort, Minneapolis- based trio Semisonic comes off like a wiser, more sardonic Soul Asylum or a more marketable version of the Odds. Teeming with wry, lovely, endlessly hooky pop songs, Feeling Strangely Fine is filled with the same sort of clean, edgy- but- not- overly- so pop- rock songs that made the '80s bearable, with enough of a late-'90s sheen to ensure that Semisonic doesn't merely seem like a less- psychedelic version of the Posies (whom they would otherwise resemble). Semisonic is talented enough to breathe new life into the standard boy- loses- girl tracks which populate the record, but smart enough not to try too hard. That they manage to use the standard bass- guitar- drums instrumentation (give or take a string quartet or two) while still making each number seem sonically different is no small trick, either, and eternally to their credit.
Allison Stewart
March 24, 1998
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