Song · Sloan
“Money City Maniacs” by Sloan
From the album Navy Blues (1998)
“Money City Maniacs” by Sloan appears on 6 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2012. It was first released in 1998 on the album Navy Blues. Its best result is #33 on The Top 200 Songs of the 90's According to 102.1 The Edge. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,100 alternative song of all time.
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"Money City Maniacs" led Sloan's 1998 album Navy Blues out onto the street on Murderecords, and it arrives like a fire drill: a looping siren, then a fat bassline and a wall of power chords that carry the intro and verses. Patrick Pentland has owned up to the bassline's family resemblance to AC/DC's "Live Wire", and the whole thing has that same no-nonsense strut, with Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy, Pentland and Andrew Scott sharing the writing credit.
For all the arena bluster, the chorus is about a prank: soaking a buddy in fizzing Coke. Canada took it to heart anyway. A 2000 poll run by Chart magazine put it 12th among the country's greatest songs ever, and from 1995 to 2016 it ranked eighth among Canadian acts' songs on the nation's rock stations.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 44 | CRNC 90.1 | CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of the '90s | 91 |
| 1999 | 338 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2009 | 33 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | The Top 200 Songs of the 90's According to 102.1 The Edge | 200 |
| 2009 | 130 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) | 200 |
| 2010 | 101 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of the 90's (September 2010) | 200 |
| 2012 | 77 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 New Rock Songs of All-Time | 102 |
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