#Semisonic closing time 45 movie#
Great Divide opens with “F.N.T.” a fun pop tune with a catchy guitar rift that was featured in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You. He thought it was funny not so much Wilson. Slichter recounts a meeting with their record executives and as they sat down he pretended to pull out a machine gun from his briefcase and mow everyone down.
And I have to plug drummer Slichter’s book So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star a poignant and sometimes hilarious look at the rise of Semisonic and rock stardom. The easy kick-back riffs return by the sounds of the first cut, “You’re Not Alone,” already out. Semisonic, by the way finally has a new EP coming this fall, their first new material in nearly 20 years. This “A” for effort debut prevents them from falling into the category of bands that release a platinum selling first album then crashing hard to earth shortly after but also explains the “lost factor.” Has anyone outside the diehards heard of Great Divide? The alternative pop trio have remained together ever since despite a long absence from recording and touring.īefore Semisonic’s great ascension and constant radio presence with the release of their smash hit “Closing Time” on their 1998 sophomore effort Feeling Strangely Fine, Semisonic already rolled the musical dice on their 1996 debut Great Divide, a 12-song 45 minute album that mostly embraced the essence of 90s alternative rock with some outliers.Īs for debut albums, the Great Dividesounds like a first release with Semisonic working on sometimes competing musical directions and the band perhaps laying down all the original songs in their repertoire, at the time, for this record. Semisonic began in 1995 from the ashes of Trip Shakespeare as singer/guitarist Dan Wilson and bassist John Munson founded the band bringing along drummer Jacob Slichter. Prior to becoming the band of 1998, Semisonic was a small outfit relatively unknown outside Minneapolis, MN, and maybe movie buffs.
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