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Track Listing
1. Stand up & Be Strong
2. Lately
3. Crazy Mixed up World
4. All Is Well
5. Bus Named Desire
6. Whatcha Need
7. Standing Water
8. Success Is Not So Sweet
9. Great Exaggerator, The
10. Oxygen
11. Good For You
12. Slowly Rising
| Details | | Producer: | John Fields | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Soul Asylum: Dan Murphy , Dave Pirner (vocals, guitar); John Fields (vocals, bass guitar); Michael Bland (vocals, drums); Jeff Victor (keyboards); Ken Chastain (percussion).
Recording information: Flyte Time, Minneapolis, MN.
After struggling to sustain the mainstream stardom they achieved in the early 1990s, and recuperating from the loss of original member and bass player Karl Mueller to cancer, Soul Asylum returned in 2006 with the appropriately named THE SILVER LINING. Longtime fans hoping for a sound more in line with the group's scrappy early work may be disappointed: This is still post-GRAVE DANCER'S UNION Soul Asylum, complete with well-polished production and bittersweet, radio-ready ballads. But Dave Pirner's songwriting is still sharp and heavy with memorable melodies (as on the album's lead-off single "Stand Up and Be Strong"), and the band can still pack a rock punch, proving there is some gas left in the tank.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- 'All Is Well' and 'Bus Named Desire' sound like a band that's discovered how to enjoy itself again.
3 stars out of 5 -- The sound of a band growing old comfortably, it tempers the garage punk of their youth with a more measured approach...
3 stars out of 5 -- 'Bus Named Desire' is a bright, well-wrought shout-along, and on the soul-smeared 'Good for You,' singer-guitarist Dave Pirner tugs heartstrings without getting too weak-kneed about it.
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