Get in to: Semisonic

So, this is weird, sitting here in just a pair of shorts and one of my waterstones tops (yup, was too tired to actually bother removing it last night...) at 1pm on a Friday. Hmmm. It gets weirder when you think i've got to go to work in 5 hours. My head cant handle this confusion! Oh well. I'll eat muchly before i go, and drink lots of tea, and other such cunning plans of awakeness. Anyway. What this means for YOU luck people is an earlier post than normal, so, lets rock 'n' roll with that.

Now, todays band are like, my all time favourites. It's soft rock at it's most awesomeness. Most of you will know them from their 'massive hit single' Secret Smile (or Closing Time if you're American) but they are far from one hit wonders, as those who bought the album Feeling Strangely Fine rapidly discovered. But one great album doesn't make a great band. However, following that with another fantastibloodymatic album, All About Chemistry, does. Especially when you add in their back-catalogued Great Divide album, which was also rather spiffing, especially with the openener F.N.T. (Fascinating New Thing). They're had a few songs feature in some pretty cool films (and by cool i mean teen-flicks) which have helped raise awareness of their potentential. Anyway, it still never really put their third album (well, fourth if you include the Pleasure EP) 'on the map', which is a shame because it, for me at least, was by far the best. You can now experience what i mean with one of my favouritist tracks on their.

# She's Got My Number - Semisonic

Now, after getting hold of the albums, i still wanted more from semisonic. Thanks to eBay, i could. I basically bought all the singles i could, and have therefore now collected a small collection of awesome b-side tracks. I was tempted to give you either a random acoustic or love track today, or even one of their strange covers (Erotic City anyone?) but instead i decided on a really cool track that was released on the Singing In My Sleep single (cd2 i think) that was sadly not included on any album.

# Makin' A Plan - Semisonic

Now, since this time, the only 'new' offering we've had was the Best Of, which was just someones personal pick of the three albums, with Over My Head included, due to its popularity in a film who's name evades me. Sadly however this wasn't even an unreleased track as it appeared on the single for Chemistry (damn good single btw) so i haven't actually bothered buying that yet. I undoubtably will, just in a vain hope to eventually own 'everything'. Although i know there's much more stuff to track down on the rarer side of things. But oh well.
Oh and Semisonic aren't really together any more. Heh. Good time to add that in. It's been a bit confusing. They never really 'broke up' as far as i'm aware, they just decided to work on different projects? *shrugs* I'll be waiting for a reunion. And maybe when i'm like 30-40, i'll get it? :D That'd rock. I'll hush now. Enjoy the songs.