#semisonic

Wilson told me the song changed his life, but he didn’t spend the next 20 years trying to recreate it. He wrote with Adele, Taylor Swift, Halsey, and the Chicks, helped other artists find their own whirlwind, and kept chasing songs that might arrive in a dream or across a piano from Carole King. Semisonic didn’t implode in cocaine and leather pants. They got five hours of sleep and heard themselves while shopping for lumber.

Semisonic - Closing Time

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Week of 24/4/2026 to 1/5/2026

Release on March 24, 1998, "Feeling Strangely Fine" is the second studio album by the band Semisonic. The album was a moderate success. One of my favs.

Genre: Alt-Rock;

Peaked at No. 43 US Billboard 200 Weekly Charts and at No. 16 in the UK Albums Chart;

Certified Platinum In the US and the UK and certified Gold in Canada.

Singles:

"Closing Time" - March 10, 1998

"Singing in My Sleep" - August 18, 1998

"Secret Smile" - January 11, 1999

(those songs + "All Worked Out" are my favs of the album)

Back Cover:

Personally this album feels very nostalgic for me. I don't really know why. I think I remember listening to the song "Singing in My Sleep" in the radio around 2011. I was 2. I remember that as a kid, me and my family used to go out nearly every Sunday. The first thing I used to do after getting dressed was go running, while flapping my hands to the car, to turn the radio on. That didn't last long, as my dad died in 2012.

I always loved music. Actually I wanted to be a singer until I was 5.

I remember something from that time

Sources: Wikipedia and MusicBrainz