Song · Sloan
“Underwhelmed” by Sloan
From the EP Peppermint EP (1992)
“Underwhelmed” by Sloan appears on 5 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1992 and 2010. It was first released in 1992 on the EP Peppermint EP. Its best result is #47 on the CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #158 alternative song of 1992 and #4,325 alternative song of all time.
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"Underwhelmed" was where it all started for Sloan: their first single, surfacing in 1992 on the DTK Records compilation Hear and Now '92 before landing on the band's debut EP, Peppermint, which got a video to go with it. The band then cut it again for their first full-length, Smeared, and sent it out ahead of the album.
Chris Murphy has pointed to the Minutemen's "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing", off 1984's Double Nickels on the Dime, as the model for the lyrics, and you can hear that talky, unvarnished approach: the words tumble out like a diary entry read aloud, over guitars that start slack and end in a fuzzed-up surge. It became their best-charting single outside Canada, reaching number 25 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1993.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 47 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992 | 102 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 165 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2009 | 69 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | The Top 200 Songs of the 90's According to 102.1 The Edge | 200 |
| 2009 | 192 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) | 200 |
| 2010 | 129 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of the 90's (September 2010) | 200 |
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