One of my favorite songs of all time. How a band as catchy as Sloan failed to break in the USA I'll never fully understand.... I just count my blessings that I grew up in Upstate NY (Albany) and that we got MuchMusic. When I saw this video in summer '96 my world was turned upside down. This was all pre-internet music, so I had to wait until a college trip to Ottawa to actually score this CD. ¡Viva Sloan!
I think it had to do with the fact that the US Geffen label wanted to sign Sloan and make albums that were similar to their first album Smeared (think sonic youthy, alt rock). They changed up their sound obviously and wanted to continue making power pop music and so Geffen ultimately didn't sign them and they faded into obscurity in the US.
I grew up in Albany, NY, where we had the good fortune of getting Muchmusic but the misfortune of being unable to buy Canadian import CD's. I remember taping this video and watching it endlessly. Incredibly hook-filled power pop! I finally got up to Ottawa a year later and was able to buy the CD. Happy to report that 23 years later, the band was incredible last night in San Francisco.
Thought Geffen distributed them in the USA.... No? They Didn't??? WILD!!! Sorry to Learn THIS... As I did hear them when I was traveling there ODD... Real ODD! 😮
@@jeffreybarkin3177 you're half correct! 😀 Geffen released the first two Sloan albums in the USA but they didn't pick up the 3rd album which featured "The Good In Everyone."
Sloan is the band Oasis could only dream of being. A couple of brothers that get along, and make great albums for 30 years with over 20 great hit songs (in Canada) I can remember by heart.
@@evansmith4489 I’m actually distantly related to some Sloans here here I live. Even one of the sheriffs in the late 80s last name was Sloan… which is why when I first discovered Sloan in 1998, I assumed there was someone named Sloan in the band. I was 19 years old and stationed in Korea when for my 20th birthday, my dad sent me a box. One of the items was a VHS tape with videos he recorded off this Canadian music video channel… I forget what it was called. But Money City Maniacs was one of the videos on the tape I listened once, and then spent the next few hours in my barracks room rewinding the tape to the beginning of that video, then listening over and over again. I was legitimately blown away
I think I’ve heard of them sometime when I was 10 years old, cause when hearing these songs they remind me of those times. Idk they just give me a sense of familiarity.
I remember seeing Oasis live in Toronto back in 2002 and Sloan was one of their opening bands then, it was the best... the only opening act that had as much enthusiasm at it as the main act from the audience
@@halohunter5217 No era in music was completely perfect. If it means taking Nickelback while also taking in Rusty, Our Lady Peace, Sloan, Change of Heart, Treble Charger, Moist, Limblifter, Age of Electric, Pure, and the Tea Party just to name a few, then yeah bring that sh** back!
Sloan-one of life's barely discovered treasures!!! Perfect Ear Candy right here! Like melody, harmony, and rockin' guitars with positive lyrics? Then proceed to purchase every damn album Sloan has produced!!!
I grew up hearing sloan. My mom played it in the car on our way to school and stuff. A few years ago, a band I was in played at a music festival in Toronto. A band with some members of Sloan (can't remember the name) was headlining. Almost nobody was there when we played. By the time the sloan guys' band went on the place was completely packed and people were freaking out. I think the flaming lips were playing on the other side of town but it seemed like everyone was at our venue. I had no idea Sloan was such a big deal in Canada. Nobody I knew had ever heard of them. 👍
When you think about it, a lot of Canadian musicians are forgotten. With a few exceptions like Drake, Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber, Etc. The rest are history.
@@duncefunce1513 Lvov. lady Seamstress for the band Pretty-eyed Pirate smile You'll marry a music man Ballerina You must've seen her Dancing in the sand And now she's in me Always with me Polish break dancer in my hand Jesus freaks Out in the street Handing tickets out for God Turning back She just laughs The boulevard is not that bad Piano man He makes his stand In the auditorium Looking on She sings the songs The words she knows The tune she hums But oh, how it feels so real Lying here, with no one near Only you and you can hear me When I say softly, slowly Hold me closer, polish break dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today Hold me closer, polish break dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today Blue-jean baby Lvov. Lady Seamstress for the band Pretty-eyed Pirate smile You'll marry a music man Ballerina You must have seen her Dancing in the sand Now she's in me Always with me Polish break dancer in my hand Oh, oh, how it feels so real Lying here, with no one near Only you, and you can hear me When I say softly, slowly Hold me closer, polish break dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today Hold me closer, polish break dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today
The best is Andy's crazy fake mustache. I've seen Sloan at least 7 times and loved them every show. They are definitely getting better with age. This is by far the greatest Canadian band ever produced.
@ According to the Wikipedia page for The Good in Everyone it was filmed on Conair Drive. And I quote: “The music video for "The Good In Everyone" was filmed at Toronto Pearson International Airport (on Convair Drive at the southwest end of runway 06L/24R at 43°39′35.2″N 79°37′31.1″W) and directed by Mike Andringa, who would later direct several more music videos for Sloan.”
@algonquin91 We need an investigation! Google Maps calls that portion of the street Range Road. Can someone go to Missassauga city hall to look at the official street map or seek clarification? 🤔
Typical 90s Canadian music video, no budget, filmed by the side of the road, they were probably just on tour and were like "yo we need a music video for The Good in Everyone, PULL OVER FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES."
***** Yeah, I'm not sure what I was talking about. I guess I vaguely remember "Canadian 90s videos often involved cars and roads and highways and shit", but I couldn't tell you which fucking ones lmao.
Sloan being from Halifax, I believe this video was shot at the end of the runway at Halifax International Airport. I work in one the hangers there and this area looks exactly like the scene in the video. This is also where that Air Canada flight crashed short of the runway a couple of years ago. The plane clipped the telephone pole wires running parallel with the road and bounced off the top of the embankment behind the band and ended up on the runway. Thankfully nobody was killed but the aircraft was totaled.
why did Vancouver radio stations torture us with endless Celine Dion, Jan Arden and Sarah Mc Laughlin when we could have been listening to this ?? baffled
So, skid row, Toronto, middle of a hot summer day I'm walking past the dudes with the B-Tooth spkrs. These are some fairly gangster guys. Not Jane and Finch, but you know. Someone got Jay-Z, next is playing Drake. Last guy he's playin', I hear "I. CLOSE. MY. EYES. I CAN'T GIVE IT UP. I. DOSE. MY. MIND. I CAN'T GET ENOUGH" I'm not really paying attention so I don't recognize it yet, but I'm thinking 'yeah, this sounds pretty gangsta' Then it clicks, these guys are listening to Sloan! I'm floored. Guys pushin' fent, coke, and heroin are listening to four white guys from Nova Scotia. Only in Canada. And it fit, at least for a few seconds. I walk away with a better opinion of both Sloan AND the druggies. Awesome.
Let's see how well I remember this from the MuchMusic Spotlight... Jay Ferguson: It's a scene near the beginning of the film, Easy Rider. It was an idea of Andrew's. He said, "Look how cool this looks!" and we said, "Yes, this is excellent!" so we decided to rip it off shot-for-shot. Chris sat through the whole video made sure every angle was the way it was in the movie. It's a cool exercise to me. Chris Murphy: And in the transfer we copied the colours, the way the colours were in 35 millimeter. Pretty elaborate, and I guess... confusing in the end for the... programmers.
these guys have so much class, they deserved to go way bigger, ppl like justin bieber get 3million views whe ngood talent liek this gets 91thousand, it amazes me!
One of my favorite songs of all time. How a band as catchy as Sloan failed to break in the USA I'll never fully understand.... I just count my blessings that I grew up in Upstate NY (Albany) and that we got MuchMusic. When I saw this video in summer '96 my world was turned upside down. This was all pre-internet music, so I had to wait until a college trip to Ottawa to actually score this CD. ¡Viva Sloan!
I think it had to do with the fact that the US Geffen label wanted to sign Sloan and make albums that were similar to their first album Smeared (think sonic youthy, alt rock). They changed up their sound obviously and wanted to continue making power pop music and so Geffen ultimately didn't sign them and they faded into obscurity in the US.
I agree! I’ve been preaching the Sloan gospel in Portland Oregon for 30 years. Made a few more fans for sure.
@colinclayton8042 Sad that the same audiences that ate up bands like Oasis, didn't get to hear Sloan
yea, they should have been huge. so many really really good songs
Maybe it's because they had a 2 minute silent, bordering on pointless, intro to their debut video. Great band though.
PS I'm from halifax.
I grew up in Albany, NY, where we had the good fortune of getting Muchmusic but the misfortune of being unable to buy Canadian import CD's. I remember taping this video and watching it endlessly. Incredibly hook-filled power pop! I finally got up to Ottawa a year later and was able to buy the CD. Happy to report that 23 years later, the band was incredible last night in San Francisco.
Thought Geffen distributed them in the USA....
No?
They Didn't???
WILD!!!
Sorry to Learn THIS... As I did hear them when I was traveling there
ODD... Real ODD!
😮
@@jeffreybarkin3177 you're half correct! 😀 Geffen released the first two Sloan albums in the USA but they didn't pick up the 3rd album which featured "The Good In Everyone."
Sloan is the band Oasis could only dream of being. A couple of brothers that get along, and make great albums for 30 years with over 20 great hit songs (in Canada) I can remember by heart.
There are no brothers in Sloan.
@@evansmith4489 I’m actually distantly related to some Sloans here here I live. Even one of the sheriffs in the late 80s last name was Sloan… which is why when I first discovered Sloan in 1998, I assumed there was someone named Sloan in the band.
I was 19 years old and stationed in Korea when for my 20th birthday, my dad sent me a box. One of the items was a VHS tape with videos he recorded off this Canadian music video channel… I forget what it was called. But Money City Maniacs was one of the videos on the tape
I listened once, and then spent the next few hours in my barracks room rewinding the tape to the beginning of that video, then listening over and over again. I was legitimately blown away
I think I’ve heard of them sometime when I was 10 years old, cause when hearing these songs they remind me of those times. Idk they just give me a sense of familiarity.
😂😂😂😂 wrong but ok
I remember seeing Oasis live in Toronto back in 2002 and Sloan was one of their opening bands then, it was the best... the only opening act that had as much enthusiasm at it as the main act from the audience
GIVE ME BACK MY CANADIAN 90'S PLEASE!!
Redge S why canadian music in the 90s sucked humungous stinky ass and sloane ws the biggest turd of them al
...he says, as he comes here to listen to some Sloan.
@@halohunter5217 No era in music was completely perfect. If it means taking Nickelback while also taking in Rusty, Our Lady Peace, Sloan, Change of Heart, Treble Charger, Moist, Limblifter, Age of Electric, Pure, and the Tea Party just to name a few, then yeah bring that sh** back!
@@DylanKempEntertainment Thank god for Drake eh
@@Me24Eric exactly! 🤣
One of the greatest Canadian songs ever! I remember seeing this on MuchMusic Countdown!
In June 28 1996!
I keep finding myself in a Canadian music rabbit hole.
Thank you. Here from Michigan.
You welcome from a fellow Canadian who loves underrated Canadian alternative music.
a moment in time, when four young men were cooler than you ever were or will be. I love them.
Sloan-one of life's barely discovered treasures!!! Perfect Ear Candy right here! Like melody, harmony, and rockin' guitars with positive lyrics? Then proceed to purchase every damn album Sloan has produced!!!
AAAAAAAMEN!
I worked on this video. It was shot in the spot that Air France jet crashed at Pearson Airport in Toronto last year.
Yeah i remember it was a good time.
The beginning is an ode to the beginning of the late 60s classic Easy Rider.
And you beat me by 6 years. And here I thought I was clever.
I just learned this in the Music Music book written by Christopher Ward. I also learned this was shot at Pearson Airport.
one of my favorite bands. Canada has some great bands and artists who are not appreciated or even known by most people. Love this song!
Canadian musicians are pretty forgotten. The only ones who even known are Avril Lavigne, Drake, Justin Bieber etc. The rest is history.
I never, ever, ever, get tired of this song. Hard to find a better riff...
i Love the sound that Sloan makes :) These dudes are Awesome !
I grew up hearing sloan. My mom played it in the car on our way to school and stuff. A few years ago, a band I was in played at a music festival in Toronto. A band with some members of Sloan (can't remember the name) was headlining. Almost nobody was there when we played. By the time the sloan guys' band went on the place was completely packed and people were freaking out. I think the flaming lips were playing on the other side of town but it seemed like everyone was at our venue. I had no idea Sloan was such a big deal in Canada. Nobody I knew had ever heard of them. 👍
When you think about it, a lot of Canadian musicians are forgotten. With a few exceptions like Drake, Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber, Etc. The rest are history.
Massive nostalgia for the days watching MuchMusic as a teenager, this was one of my absolute favourites
This was my introduction to Sloan back in the day and damn what a song!
They were all over muchmoremusic/ much music in canada!
Song seems obscure now, but it was huge if you lived in Canada during the day.
It should be huge always.
sloan is still huge they are releasing a new album in september i just got back from seeing them play live
Detroit, too.
Arrowhead true true...
Arrowhead Saw them in Wash DC when they were touring “One Chord....” and the crowd went completely bonkers when they played this.
Sloan were the best power pop band from Canada, period. I miss that era, but time passes on...not the music.
Yeah? Who's the greatest Polish breakdancer? Fuckn small beer.
@@duncefunce1513 Lvov. lady
Seamstress for the band
Pretty-eyed
Pirate smile
You'll marry a music man
Ballerina
You must've seen her
Dancing in the sand
And now she's in me
Always with me
Polish break dancer in my hand
Jesus freaks
Out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back
She just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad
Piano man
He makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on
She sings the songs
The words she knows
The tune she hums
But oh, how it feels so real
Lying here, with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly
Hold me closer, polish break dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Hold me closer, polish break dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Blue-jean baby
Lvov. Lady
Seamstress for the band
Pretty-eyed
Pirate smile
You'll marry a music man
Ballerina
You must have seen her
Dancing in the sand
Now she's in me
Always with me
Polish break dancer in my hand
Oh, oh, how it feels so real
Lying here, with no one near
Only you, and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly
Hold me closer, polish break dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Hold me closer, polish break dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Canada had a lot of great power pop or power pop adjacent bands in the 90's
I love the opening for no other reason than it stirred up a bunch of people on TH-cam.
89x Windsor, Detroit. Thank you.
use to listen to 89X when I lived in Leamington and Windsor but now I live in London and can't get it here
just discovered this band 2 minutes ago... love them already :)
Your life has just vastly improved!
You're in for such a treat.
How did you discover them?
One of the most underrated bands ever, anywhere
Kinda like most Canadian bands underrated always, everywhere, unfair
one of the most underrated bands in history
I love the way song keeps changing tempo
And I hate how it’s starts 2 minutes into the video.
I love the bassline to this song ! Not to mention its also such a catchy tune !
this is when muchmusic was so much better then it is now.
The funny thing is that people were saying the same thing back in the early 90s, that MuchMusic and MTV used to be so much better before.
Flying under the radar since...well forever!
The Real Band, The Best Band.
Great track. Very underrated band.
The best is Andy's crazy fake mustache. I've seen Sloan at least 7 times and loved them every show. They are definitely getting better with age. This is by far the greatest Canadian band ever produced.
These guys deserved to be wayyyyy bigger
Ikr, Canadian musicians are so obscure.
I mean this is pure straight up rock and roll....NUFF SAID !
The moment the guitar begins : pure rock.
What a fantastic song
It's a cheeky homage to the beginning of Easy Rider. Just enjoy it.
From the US...absolute love Sloan. Amazing pop tunes!!!
This music video was filmed on Convair Drive in Mississauga just outside Toronto Pearson Airport :-)
No. A quick use of Google Maps shows this was shot on Range Road southwest of the airport, past the end of the runway and near the ditch.
@ According to the Wikipedia page for The Good in Everyone it was filmed on Conair Drive. And I quote:
“The music video for "The Good In Everyone" was filmed at Toronto Pearson International Airport (on Convair Drive at the southwest end of runway 06L/24R at 43°39′35.2″N 79°37′31.1″W) and directed by Mike Andringa, who would later direct several more music videos for Sloan.”
@algonquin91 We need an investigation! Google Maps calls that portion of the street Range Road. Can someone go to Missassauga city hall to look at the official street map or seek clarification? 🤔
Sloan may be my biggest influence as a songwriter
still one of my favorite songs from CFNY!
Saw them in Vancouver! Sick show!!!
Awesome Sloan Rocks!
...and I like the intro! Never seen it before!
Great song Great Video glad I put it in my rotation!
Sloan had some pretty good songs, i always remember them for this absurd music video intro.
It was classic lol.
Typical 90s Canadian music video, no budget, filmed by the side of the road, they were probably just on tour and were like "yo we need a music video for The Good in Everyone, PULL OVER FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES."
***** Yeah, I'm not sure what I was talking about. I guess I vaguely remember "Canadian 90s videos often involved cars and roads and highways and shit", but I couldn't tell you which fucking ones lmao.
There isn't an airport at York. Shit man, you gotta at least try if your gonna B.S.
I actually prefer rock videos to be shot like this! The simplicity is beautiful!! Why do they need to make the music video like a movie?
Sloan being from Halifax, I believe this video was shot at the end of the runway at Halifax International Airport. I work in one the hangers there and this area looks exactly like the scene in the video. This is also where that Air Canada flight crashed short of the runway a couple of years ago. The plane clipped the telephone pole wires running parallel with the road and bounced off the top of the embankment behind the band and ended up on the runway. Thankfully nobody was killed but the aircraft was totaled.
So fucking true
I got to watch Much Music in Cleveland thanks to cox cable back then, Happy memories of yesteryear.
new fave power pop band!
Great show in Toronto last weekend!
Big Shiny Tunes 1!!!
Love it!
One of the catchiest tunes ever!!!!!!
why did Vancouver radio stations torture us with endless Celine Dion, Jan Arden and Sarah Mc Laughlin when we could have been listening to this ?? baffled
stop complaining, they had to make the song last to exactly 4:20
😂
OMG i hav'nt heard that song like ............4ever
So, skid row, Toronto, middle of a hot summer day I'm walking past the dudes with the B-Tooth spkrs. These are some fairly gangster guys. Not Jane and Finch, but you know. Someone got Jay-Z, next is playing Drake. Last guy he's playin', I hear "I. CLOSE. MY. EYES. I CAN'T GIVE IT UP. I. DOSE. MY. MIND. I CAN'T GET ENOUGH" I'm not really paying attention so I don't recognize it yet, but I'm thinking 'yeah, this sounds pretty gangsta' Then it clicks, these guys are listening to Sloan! I'm floored. Guys pushin' fent, coke, and heroin are listening to four white guys from Nova Scotia. Only in Canada. And it fit, at least for a few seconds. I walk away with a better opinion of both Sloan AND the druggies. Awesome.
great tune forever loved.
Quarter century later, still listening..
I like this song nice job boys
Great Vid incorporating the once iconic Canadian Airlines International.
fantastic song, cool video
it's an homage to the opening of 'easy rider' and is quite well done.
After 15 years you finally get a 👍 for this very observant comment
@@Mercury-Wells Thank you! Now I may rest peacefully.
This video takes me back. I love the buildup before the music kicks in.
Sloan rules.
Where did they film this video?
song begins @ 2:10
Just saw them in Detroit. Excellent band.
Signed disk from all of them..sloan is awesome!
this reminds me of the 60's. love this song
This song is awesome 💯
Excellent band. Glad to see a B-sides CD release..
Not only is Sips an awesome youtuber. He has good taste in music!
It never fails to piss me the fuck off how the song only starts 2 minutes into the video.
I'm jamming in 2024 in North Carolina 😎
First concert EVER! Palmerston, Ontario @ Norwell HS!! Circa....1997-8???
love that intro and outro
Let's see how well I remember this from the MuchMusic Spotlight...
Jay Ferguson: It's a scene near the beginning of the film, Easy Rider. It was an idea of Andrew's. He said, "Look how cool this looks!" and we said, "Yes, this is excellent!" so we decided to rip it off shot-for-shot. Chris sat through the whole video made sure every angle was the way it was in the movie. It's a cool exercise to me.
Chris Murphy: And in the transfer we copied the colours, the way the colours were in 35 millimeter. Pretty elaborate, and I guess... confusing in the end for the... programmers.
I L❤VE SLOAN
Bring back good ol Canadian rock n' roll
so great
I was 13 when I first saw this on MuchMusic, and I thought to myself, Why is Much playing a vid from the 60's in the Countdown?
Thanks for the up!
Song starts at 2:13
This is currently the opening theme song for the CBC late night show "The Hour"
with George Strombolopoulos.
Hallfax Nova Scotia Airport.So Cool.❤❤❤❤❤❤These Guy's
Excellent!
I drive by that spot a couple of times a year - it's on the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia border!
Sips, favouriting obscure music since 2011
Such an underrated track
This scene is taken from the Movie Easy Rider.
That's right.
these guys have so much class, they deserved to go way bigger, ppl like justin bieber get 3million views whe ngood talent liek this gets 91thousand, it amazes me!
Vintage SG's do smell fantastic...
SG Junior at that!
These guys were everything OASIS wanted (and failed) to be!!!
What an intro.
Fin eh man what a good song artistry at it's best
This is such a great pop song - no fat.
love sloan!!!
best rock band ever
this is the hardest rock song of all time
Going to see them tonight:)
God, I miss the 90s.
So many sips related comments, and a good track so you earned this sub xD
@melyannastormwind Excellent. Carry on, good sir.
It reminds me my Canadian days 2010/2011
Forgot that the non-song portion of the video is just as long as the song lol