Jim told me about a Canadian theme coming up and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss this one. Sloan is a great power-pop band that my two Canadian friends Deke and Dave told me about. The band never made a big impact on America and that was our loss. They formed in 1986 and still have the same band members.
When I found this song…the song and video are great. The video is a takeoff…a very good takeoff on the movie Easy Rider…the part where they buy the drugs at the airport from the Phil Spector character.
The song peaked at #6 in Canada in 1996.
It was released as the lead single from the band’s third studio album, One Chord to Another.
The music video for “The Good In Everyone” was filmed at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Band members Andrew Scott playing Billy (Dennis Hopper), Chris Murphy playing Wyatt (Peter Fonda), Jay Ferguson playing Connection (Phil Spector) and Patrick Pentland playing the Bodyguard. The entire introductory scene before the music begins is longer than the song itself.
Sloan
First off, here’s what you do to me
You get rough, attack my self-esteem
It’s not much, but it’s the best I’ve got
And I thought you saw the good in everyone
Ooh, the good in everyone
You see the good in everyone
You see the good in everyone
I close my eyes, I can’t give it up
I close my mind, I can’t get enough
I’m in no shape, I gotta turn it off
Just let it play The Good In Everyone
Ooh, the good in everyone
You see the good in everyone
You see the good in everyone
You see the good in everyone
Ooh, the good in everyone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_in_Everyone
What a brilliant start to the day coming across some Sloan via Nashville! Awesome. This song is so good and they still do it it now as it’s either a great set opener or closer. Last year they ended there set with this song and in 2016 they opened their set with this tune.
Shameless Plug…
https://superdekes.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/sloanlive-crocks-n-rollsapril-7th-2016/
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The song is great…the video is great also. I’m a huge Easy Rider fan and they nailed it.
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Pretty cool video that they financed themselves. The drums on that album were all done on a 4 track from the original demo.
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I don’t know if you have watched Easy Rider… but I love it… they nailed it.
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Have not seen it in years. I should stream it as some point.
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Thanks for joining in Max. This song features some hard driving rock and roll with really wild drumming, and you just made me a Sloan fan.
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Awesome Jim! They are pretty good. I picked them and The Clark’s up recently… both are similar.
Thanks for letting me join in.
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Max you are supposed to add your pingback https://powerpop.blog/2020/09/20/sloan-the-good-in-everyone/ to my post, so all the participants can see you choice and read what you wrote.
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I know and it’s completely my fault because I didn’t forget about this but I was running way behind. I knew I was missing something and it was so late…or rather early this morning.
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Thanks for sharing something I hadn’t heard before. Pretty cool stuff ☺️
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thanks for reading!
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It’s one of their best. That whole album was really good pop-rock with nary a bad song on it. Another one of those Canadian secret bands…hate to say it but by the early-00s they were perhaps a little overexposed up north but unknown down here.
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So odd that doesn’t slip across the border…a few miles away they are unknown and over exposed there.
When I heard The Clarks the other day they reminded me of Sloan.
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The video with planes going over is like my house most of the day. Plane after plane.
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They have Easy Rider down
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Very Beatle-ish. Not bad.
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Deke suckered you in to Sloan…oh my!! He has tried to do that to me as well, but I won’t bite. Kidding! Great stuff and there seems to be a lot of bands that were big there and never made it down here.
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Hey, Snowman don’t blow my cover!
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Sorry. I didn’t mean to. It just slipped out 😂
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LOL…I went willingly. Where ever there is power pop I’m there.
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I am not far behind.
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