“Closing Time”

The track “Closing Time” by the American rock band Semisonic got here out in March 1998. It hit #1 on the Different charts, and was nominated for a Grammy for Greatest Rock Song. It will get performed in stadiums, Bizarre Al coated it, and it’s the final track of the evening in numerous bars.

Since then, Dan Wilson, the lead singer and songwriter of Semisonic, has grow to be a powerhouse songwriter who has written or co-written for artists like John Legend and Taylor Swift. And he’s received Grammys for his songwriting with the Dixie Chicks and Adele. However over twenty years in the past, Dan and his bandmates John Munson and Jacob Slichter have been in Minneapolis, on the point of begin work on their second album, Feeling Unusually Superb. On this episode of Song Exploder, Dan breaks down how that course of led to “Closing Time.”

You should buy or stream “Closing Time” right here.


Illustration by Carlos Lerma.

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