In 1996, the management company Coalition Entertainment took them on.
In 1995, the band released Self Title , which included a CD-ROM track promoting 30 of Treble Charger’s favourite Canadian indie bands, including The Inbreds , Change of Heart , By Divine Right , Hayden and Thrush Hermit .
1995’s 2preciious was a project record written with members of Sons of Freedom, in which she dropped the name “Lee Aaron” entirely and used her real name, Karen. Neither of these recordings was commercially successful, and shortly afterwards, the Sons broke up.
In January 1995, the band released ” The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead ” (a cover of XTC ‘s 1992 track) as a single and on the soundtrack of the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy Dumb and Dumber . The single, credited to “The Crash Test Dummies and Ellen Reid”,…
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Ray Coburn left the band again after the release of this album and was replaced on keyboards by Peter Nunn. Jorn Anderson also left the band during this time and was replaced by drummer Creighton Doane (from Harem Scarem ) for the Monsters Under the Bed Tour. Creighton continued to…
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They followed this in 1995 with their second LP, Content With Dying . This album contained “Not a Solution”, a vehemently pro-choice hardcore song.
The band released their debut album, Real McKenzies in 1995, a cheeky collection of short punky originals, interspersed among celtic classics, and deeply tongue-in-cheek, punk-infused covers like ” My Bonny “, ” Pliers ” ( Jimi Hendrix ‘s ” Fire “), ” Kilt ” ( Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias…
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In early 1995, rumours began circulating that Sloan was contemplating breaking up. Though they played a handful of shows in the summer of 1995, including a headlining gig at Edgefest , the band did indeed consider themselves broken up by late 1995. Even so, Sloan decided to release another album…
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after releasing four EPs, they issued the album Letters from Chutney (1995), which received generally favourable reviews.
In 1995, they released their second album Kicking in the Water , and shortly after were signed by major label MCA Records . Their 1997 release, Sold for a Smile , included the singles ” Downtime ” and “Watching the Girl”. All three albums were also released in Japan on…
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