Feeling Strangely Fine by Semisonic

Pros: Secret Smile, and so much more!
Cons: People identify the band with their biggest hit.

It always saddens me when a band with great potential and good talent ends up becoming known as “one hit wonders.” Sadly, this is what is going to be the case for the Minneapolis-based Semisonic.” We all remember the band as having the...

Pros: Beautiful, Weezer-recalling songs.
Cons: They're not famous.

Semisonic's Feeling Strangely Fine is an album that took five years for me to listen to. My dad bought it when I was in fifth grade, and I think I listened through once or twice back then, and never again, until now. It was located around the ...

Pros: Cool, interesting music, fish might like it
Cons: Takes a while to get into it, fish have no hands

Last night I pulled an all nighter writing a paper on anadromous fish. Well, not quite. I slept maybe three hours. It is now nearly one in the morning and I am still up! So bear with me a little with this article.

I have come to the...

Pros: Nice variety. Not just guitars, but strings, piano and Dan's great vocals.
Cons: Well, to be honest I usually skip the last two songs!

This is definitely a must-have album for anyone who appreciates good music. Not too hard, but enough to make you want to turn it up and sing along. The opening number, "Closing Time", became Semisonic's signature song some three years ago, b ...

Pros: Soft, well focused sound; variety of instruments; variety of songs; good recording
Cons: Some songs are tedious, dull even.

There’s something hard to grasp about Semisonic, maybe the similarity between different singles, or the American style, or maybe the superb vocal flairs of lead singer Dan Wilson aided by the rest of the group, or should that be band. Which ever...

Pros: Music for whatever mood that guy/girl has thrown you into
Cons: "She Spreads Her Wings," the one clunker

Who would have guessed that from out of the frozen Minneapolis winter would come the hottest pop album of 1998?

Since rising from the ashes of the classic art-pop band Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic had shown their promise with earlier efforts...

Pros: Enticing ballads, strong songwriting
Cons: Disc contains a few misses

Although Semisonic's "Closing Time" has already made its way up and down Billboard's pop charts, the band's sophomore release, FEELING STRANGELY FINE, has much more to offer than the stale stamina of this overplayed radio-friendly single. The...

Pros: Good songs, great guitar work, amazing talent.
Cons: Some songs don't resonate as well as others.

I wasn't expecting much when I bought this album. I had heard the song "Closing Time" on the radio and had loved it's lyrics, it's piano in the background and it's guitar riffs. Then if that wasn't enough I was standing in the electronics...

Pros: Great driving music!! What the "repeat" button on your player is made for!
Cons: YOU don't own it...yet!

Here's the deal: You hear a song on the radio and you fall in love with it. You decide to buy the entire album assuming(hoping) all of the songs are as good as that one song. By the time you realize the rest of the album stinks, the radio stations have...

Pros: great songs
Cons: none

I knew a lot of people that have this CD and they all recommended it, saying it was one of the best. So I finally bought it and I now agree with them. Feeling Strangely Fine is one of my favorite CDs. It begins with their popular hit Closing Time. It was...

Pros: Closing Time
Cons: Most of the rest

I like most of Semisonic's music, but this took a while to get to the point of being tolerable. I liked closing time a lot, and that was the main reason for buying this album, but I was shocked to find that I liked maybe three or four songs off the...

Pros: It rocks
Cons: I am so sorry bit I cant think of any

Listening to Secret Smile on MTV first drew me to Semisonic. A joy to my ears it actually meant something. Then came Closing Time. Bouncing out of my radio giving Semisonc a whole new lease of life. Time to sample the album i thought. It was not a...

Pros: Great vocals and catchy melodies
Cons: Loses a little momentum at the end

On sophomore effort "Feeling Strangely Fine", Semisonic comes through with a scaled-down and basic melodic pop/rock sound that still manages to keep me coming back for more. Even though "Closing Time" and "Singing in My...

Pros: Very solid album
Cons: Most people already tired of "Closing Time"

Many people have probably already forgotten about Semisonic, and it is their loss. This band, in my opinion, is more than a mere one hit wonder. Unfortunately, their hit single, "Closing Time" was one of many overplayed songs during the...

Pros: Good range, a few tunes you'll recognize plus some great new ones
Cons: None

While I like the tune "Closing Time", it really isn't the reason to buy this album. I took a risk on this one having done a quick scan at the sound booth of a local music store. It was a risk well worth taking and I've enjoyed this album ever...