Navy Blues: Sloan: Amazon.ca: Music

1. She Says What She Means

2. C'mon C'mon (We're Gonna Get It Started)

3. Iggy & Angus

4. Sinking Ships

5. Keep On Thinkin'

6. Money City Maniacs

7. Seems So Heavy

8. Chester The Molester

9. Stand By Me, Yeah

10. Suppose They Close The Door

11. On The Horizon

12. I Wanna Thank You

13. I'm Not Through With You Yet

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Within the first few cuts on their fifth release, Canada's Sloan again transcend the power-pop tag with a tune called "Iggy & Angus" that sounds more like "Itchycoo Park"-era Small Faces than either the Stooges or AC/DC, a Beach Boys-style epic ("Sinking Ships," which gives Navy Blues its title), and "She Says What She Means," a bazooka-rock stomper that recalls the best of Sweet. From those early highlights, the group continues its happily eclectic borrowing with a felicitous touch that puts the disc within shouting distance of plunderrific classics like Nick Lowe's Pure Pop for Now People and the Pooh Sticks's Great White Wonder. And their what-did-they-just-say? lyrics, which improve on the previous One Chord to Another's, push Navy Blues further into the realm of the gleefully subversive. --Rickey Wright

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Some tunes ... are as unabashedly Beatlesesque ... as anything put out by Badfinger, Squeeze, [or] Oasis....

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5.0 out of 5 stars What side of the Sloan street do you stand?, April 4 2002

By	John Bounds (los angeles, california United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are interested in Sloan and are looking for a body of work to try-out I would like to offer up "Navy Blues" as your inital outing. There are rabid Sloan fans out there who all fight tooth and nail over which Sloan album is the best. Some say "Twice Removed" which I rank as their 2nd best and some say "Between the Bridges" which I feel has little cohesion and ultimately fails as a "Long Player" which is also how I feel about their latest offering, "Pretty Together". That's why I feel so strongly towards this album. It works as a whole work where the sum parts smoothly create the whole. This is a buzzy late 70's California driving bubblegum fm radio album. From the very first guitar lick of "She Says What She Means" to the closing bars of "I'm Not Through With You Yet" this is feel good music at it's core. it has humor and heart and clever arrangements that homage it's inspirations and imbibes with originality. Track 1 is my absolute favorite mix cd track. I always get comments about that track. I don't know how true popularity eluded dear Sloan during the release of this album but it did. The world isn't ready for these prime time players. This is a strong album all in all but if I must highlight the standout tracks...
1. She Says What She Means
2. C'mon C'mon(We're Gonna Get It Started)
3. Iggy & Angus
6. Money City Maniacs
9. Stand By Me, Yea
12. I Wanna Thank You
I really love them all, but if you are looking for songs to sample...try these.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Modern Beatles!, Dec 5 2001

By	Caroline "weezer-pleezer54" (florida) - See all my reviews

Everyone who is around when this cd is on says "is that the beatles?". This is an excellent cd by the canadian 4-some. It's like the beatles meets the rolling stones meets elvis costello. Also, if you're into geek rock, most geek rockers love them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sloan at their very best !!, Jan 9 2001

By	David O'Brien (Dublin 18 Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sloan's "Between The Bridges" is probably their most immediate album but "Navy Blues" grows on you until you cannot help listening to it.It probably represents Sloan at their most rocking.The album opens with a real killer track "She says what she means" which contains a middle bridge which sound like a cross between Def Leppard and AC/DC.It really is one of the most heartstopping moments on the album.The second song "C'mon C'mon" is a lot more lighthearted but contains a tack piano reminiscent of 70's bands like Sailor."Iggy and Angus" is pure old fashioned rock a la Slade."Money City Maniacs" opens with a flurry of police sirens which set the scene for a frantic,heads-down rocker which is very catchy.The quality control rarely dips over the rest of the album either and there are numerous clever,catchy songs to follow. In all, this takes a while to get into but after a few repeated listens it becomes apparent that there are few bands who can match Sloan over this terrain.If brilliant guitar chops, marvellous harmonies and pop ingenue are what you are after,this is the place for you.My only advice is invest in a good quality CD player with a decent treble bass and crank up the volume if you want to do this wonderful piece of work any justice!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Most Underrated yet Inspired album of 1998
Navy Blues is a classic Canadian album fusing many styles together. This album almost depresses me because it has unrealized potential, especially in Britian. Read more

Published on Dec 8 2000 by Arnold Layne

5.0 out of 5 stars "Hey you! Come along for the ride..."
If John Lennon, Nick Lowe, Elliott Smith, and Keith Moon met along the space-time continuum and formed a Halifax-based pop-supergroup, it would sound an awful lot like Sloan. Read more

Published on Sep 26 2000 by Mike Stone

4.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly infectious 70's rock block...
...that is, it REMINDS me of 70's music; I read somewhere that their previous album "One Chord to Another" evoked the 60's, and "Navy Blues" progressed to the... Read more

Published on Jan 28 2000 by Marc Kloszewski

1.0 out of 5 stars Sloan's dirty little secret(Navy nothing but Blue)
Everybody in the Canadian music press screams praises from the rooftops for these guys, but the Canadian public haven't jumped on the Sloan bandwagon in any real significant way,... Read more

Published on Dec 22 1999 by Wade Tomlin