Semisonic
Semisonic was an American alternative rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1995. The band had three members: Dan Wilson (lead vocals, guitar), John Munson (bass guitar, backing vocals, keyboard), and Jacob Slichter (drums, percussion, keyboard). They are perhaps best known for their 1998 single "Closing Time".
Career
Formation and debut album
After the breakup of Trip Shakespeare, Dan Wilson and John Munson joined up with drummer Jacob Slichter to form Semisonic in 1995. An EP, Pleasure, was released that year on Boston indie label CherryDisc, and the studio full-length Great Divide in 1996 on MCA.
Breakthrough and international success
Semisonic's breakthrough came two years later in 1998 when their second album, Feeling Strangely Fine, reached the Top 50 chart on the strength of the hit single "Closing Time", their biggest hit in the United States. In a 2008 performance at Dat Harvard's Sanders Theatre, Wilson made it known that it was originally written about the birth of his first child.
Podcasts:
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by Semisonic
In The Veins
by: SemisonicRed is the ocean which we ride
Carried along on a changing tide
Blind, blind rage and pure delight
Running in the current side by side
Waiting for whatever we haven't tried
Baby it's amazing all the tings a self contains!
Peace is in the veins, in the veins!
(Be careful what you put in there)
(Be careful what you put in there)
Heaven transcendence agels fly
Anger and vengence, blue, blue sky oh!
All injected from the mind
Down in the liquid world combined
And your prescription has been signed!
Search the wild green outside and inside is what remains.
Peace is in the veins, in the veins!
(Be careful what you put in there)
(Be careful what you put in there)
Wide open world there is no mind without you
And a little bit is not enough
Wide open mind divine world about you
And a little bit is not enough
And a little bit is not enough
Baby it's amazing all the things a self contains.
Peace is in the veins, in the veins
Peace is in the veins, in the veins
(Be careful what you put in there)
(Be careful what you put in there)