The Feeling Strangely Fine reissue is out 10/19 on UMe. We definitely weren’t thinking that these songs would still be played on the radio 20 years later. I wasn’t thinking that these songs would become the soundtrack for so many people’s lives.
I remember telling Jake I wanted to make a record that had the folk music simplicity of Simon & Garfunkel but also the loudness of U2 and Nirvana.
I had decided a while back that my best songs were about me and the people I loved or admired and our adventures and troubles, and the new songs really reflected that ideal. When I started writing songs for the album that would become Feeling Strangely Fine, John Munson and Jake Slichter and I were living in South Minneapolis. It was released in March 1998 as the lead single from their album Feeling Strangely Fine. It is track 1 in the album 20 1s: Alternative Rock. Closing Time is the title of a song by American alternative rock band Semisonic. Reading Wilson’s reflections on Feeling Strangely Fine, you can definitely understand how he became such a successful songwriter: Closing Time is a song by Semisonic released on 18th December 2015. We spoke to him about all that last summer. Semisonic’s “Closing Time” appeared on 1999’s Now That’s What I Call Music! 2, alongside other 90s classics like New Radicals’ “You Get What You Give” and Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You.” Looking for more stories behind music’s biggest hits? Check out the Now! That’s What I Call Music page.After Semisonic, frontman Dan Wilson went on to write songs for artists including Taylor Swift, Adele, and the Dixie Chicks. It was released in March 1998 as the lead single from their second studio album, Feeling Strangely Fine, and began to receive mainstream radio airplay on April 27. And in 2020, Semisonic reunited for the You’re Not Alone EP, marking their first set of new music in nearly two decades. 'Closing Time' is a ballad by American rock band Semisonic. In 2006, he took home Song of the Year for the Chicks’ Top 5 single “Not Ready to Make Nice.” He also won Album of the Year as one of the contributors of Adele’s 2011 album 21 (he co-wrote the chart-topping “Someone Like You”). Wilson also became a songwriter and scored Grammy wins in the process. He followed up with 2014’s Love Without Fear and 2017’s covers album Re-Covered.
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Throughout the band’s long hiatus, Wilson worked on his solo career, collaborating with famed producer Rick Rubin for his 2007 debut Free Life. It was even mockingly covered by Justin Timberlake in 2011’s Friends with Benefits when co-star Mila Kunis asked him to sing a Third Eye Blind song post-coitus.įollowing the success of “Closing Time” and the Platinum-selling Feeling Strangely Fine, Semisonic released its third album All About Chemistry in 2001 and re-released Feeling Strangely Fine on vinyl to commemorate its 20th anniversary in 2018. The single also became a pop-culture staple, popping up everywhere from The Office to The Simpsons. The catchiness and sincerity of “Closing Time” caught mainstream attention, topping Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart and earning a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song. I had birth on the brain, I was struck by what a funny pun it was to be bounced from the womb.” My wife and I were expecting our first kid very soon after I wrote that song. The leadoff track, the modern rock radio hit Closing Time, neatly encapsulates everything that makes Semisonic special, from its irresistibly catchy. If taken at face value, “Closing Time” is indeed a “last call” anthem, but Wilson intended for a double meaning: “It’s just, ‘Okay, you’ve got to go out into the light, make your way home, or wherever you’re going to be.’ Partway into the writing of the song, I realized it was also about being born. “Because all the bars that I would frequent in Minneapolis, they would yell out ‘closing time.’ There was one bar where a guy always would scream really loud, ‘You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here,’ and I guess that always stuck in my mind. So I set out to write a new closer for the set, and I just thought, ‘Oh, closing time,’” Wilson told American Songwriter in 2019. John and Jake were always impatient with ending the show with the same song. After 19 years, Semisonic returns right on time with Youre Not Alone Minnesotas 'Closing Time' hitmakers Semisonic release new music 19 years later but somehow right on time. “We had always ended with a song called ‘If I Run,’ and I really liked it a lot. The song grew out of a much-needed change to the band’s setlists. Soon, the drums come crashing down on the singalong-ready chorus: “I know who I want to take me home!”
“Closing Time” begins as an inconspicuous ballad, with Wilson’s modest vocals pouring over a tinkling guitar riff.
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