One Chord To Another - American and Japanese Releases

American and Japanese Releases

One Chord To Another was not released until 1997 in the United States on the independent label, The Enclave. It was originally released in an LP-style cardboard gatefold jacket rather than a traditional plastic jewel box, and included a 10-track bonus CD of material entitled Recorded Live At A Sloan Party! This bonus CD consisted of cover versions and re-recordings of previous Sloan songs; it was recorded in the studio but was overdubbed with miscellaneous party-type sounds to give the impression of being recorded live at an intimate gathering of friends (somewhat akin to the Beach Boys' Party! album). To this date the "Sloan Party" CD has not been released in the band's native Canada and has only been available as an American import.

  1. Let's Get the Party Started – 2:28
  2. I Can Feel It – 3:54 (Patrick Pentland / Sloan)
  3. Dignified and Old – 3:12 (Jonathan Richman)
  4. Glitter and Gold – 3:02 (Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil)
  5. Over You – 3:20 (Bryan Ferry / Phil Manzanera)
  6. I Am the Cancer – 3:22 (Chris Murphy / Sloan)
  7. I Can't Let Go – 2:35 (Al Gorgoni / Chip Taylor)
  8. Stood Up – 3:28 (Matthew Grimson)
  9. On the Road Again / Transona Five – 4:42 (Tim Gane / Floyd Jones / Laetitia Sadier / Alan Wilson)
  10. I Wouldn't Want to Lose Your Love – 5:45 (Myles Goodwyn)

(Notes: All of track 1 and the last 2:35 of track 10 consist of party sound effects only; track 8 is a different song from the 1995 7" single.)

One Chord To Another was Sloan's first album to be released in Japan. They secured a distribution deal with EMI who released the album with new recordings of Stood Up and Same Old Flame. When Navy Blues was released in Canada, however, Sloan's distribution deal with Universal Canada led to new Japanese distribution with Universal Japan. Universal then released Sloan's first three albums in Japan. The new Universal Japan version of One Chord to Another was a one-disc release featuring Live at a Sloan Party as bonus tracks, making the original EMI release with its two exclusive tracks a rarity in the Sloan catalogue.

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