Album · Sloan
Navy Blues by Sloan
Navy Blues is an album by Sloan, released in 1998. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Money City Maniacs”, on 6 lists with a best position of #33.
Navy Blues, Sloan's fourth studio album, came out on Murderecords in 1998, and it's the Halifax quartet turning the amps up a notch. The Beatles-y melodies and sticky hooks are all still there, but the guitars are beefier and the swagger borrows from '70s rock. As ever, the songwriting and lead vocals get passed around among Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson and Andrew Scott.
"Money City Maniacs" is the big one, a revved-up, fist-pumping blast that turned up in a beer commercial, cracked the Canadian top 10 and got hammered on the radio. The album went gold in Canada on June 12, 1998, had passed 70,000 copies by October, and earned a Juno nomination for Best Rock Album. Even the sleeve has a story: it's lifted straight from the poster for the 1959 Polish film Night Train.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Navy Blues on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Money City Maniacs | 6 | #33 | – | 1999–2012 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.