by Michael Senchuk
Pop quiz: Name the album that was voted the No. 1 Canadian album OF ALL TIME by respondents to a Chart magazine poll.
The answer may surprise any but true Sloan fans – and there are lot of them, an entire generation moved by the iconic Toronto quartet’s ground-breaking 1994 album “Twice Removed,” which contains the most incisive rock lyric of all time: “It’s not the band I hate, it’s their fans.” So typically Canadian, eh?
Playing the Arden Theatre in St. Albert on Friday evening, the band brings more than 20 years of material and live experience to the stage. While like the Tragically Hip, none of Sloan’s songs have charted significantly in the United States, Canadian fans don’t care. Loyal to a fault, they come out in droves every time the band assembles a tour of the country. With good reason. Sloan’s stage shows are thunderous events, walls of sound cascading through the room in an evening rich in one quirky, catchy hit after another. The best include Underwhelmed – the Canadian answer to Smells Like Teen Spirit – along with The Good in Everyone, Money City Maniacs and The Other Man, the latter a great song about being the odd man out in a love triangle: “No one’s rooting for me. If I’m the other man, nature will abhor me.”
The original four founding members remain a part of the group to this day. Chris Murphy and Andrew Scott met at the Nova Scotia College of Art And Design in Halifax, with Patrick Penland and Jay Ferguson joining shortly thereafter. The rest is history.
--taken from: Gig City
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