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Navy Blues is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. Released on Murderecords in 1998, the album is slightly heavier than their two previous albums, showing an influence from 1970s rock mixed with their usual catchy, melodic, Beatles-esque sound. The album contains arguably their most popular song, "Money City Maniacs," which went on to be used in a beer commercial at the time. The song also became a top 10 hit in the band's native Canada and received heavy radio airplay. Navy Blues was certified Gold in Canada on June 12, 1998. By October 1998, the album had sold more than 70,000 copies. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 1999 Juno Awards.[3]

Navy Blues
Studio album by Sloan
Released	April 28, 1998
Recorded	November 1997 - January 1998
Genre	Rock, indie rock
Length	46:27
Label	murderecords
Producer	Daryl Smith, Sloan
Sloan chronology
Recorded Live at a Sloan Party (1997) Navy Blues (1998) 4 Nights at the Palais Royale (1999)
Singles from Navy Blues
"Money City Maniacs" Released: 1998 "She Says What She Means" Released: 1998 "Keep on Thinkin’" Released: 1998

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Pitchfork	6.3/10[2]

The album's cover art is a very direct copy of the movie poster for the 1959 Polish film Night Train (Polish: Pociąg).

Track listing

All songs credited to Sloan.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"She Says What She Means"	Chris Murphy	3:01
2.	"C'mon C'mon (We're Gonna Get It Started)"	Jay Ferguson	3:30
3.	"Iggy and Angus"	Patrick Pentland	2:49
4.	"Sinking Ships"	Andrew Scott	4:57
5.	"Keep on Thinkin'"	Chris Murphy	2:32
6.	"Money City Maniacs"	Patrick Pentland/Chris Murphy	3:53
7.	"Seems So Heavy"	Andrew Scott	4:08
8.	"Chester the Molester"	Chris Murphy	3:14
9.	"Stand By Me, Yeah"	Patrick Pentland	3:19
10.	"Suppose They Close the Door"	Chris Murphy/Andrew Scott	3:45
11.	"On the Horizon"	Andrew Scott	4:06
12.	"I Wanna Thank You"	Jay Ferguson	3:58
13.	"I'm Not Through With You Yet"	Patrick Pentland	3:15

Japanese Bonus Tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
14.	"Out to Lunch"	Patrick Pentland	3:37
15.	"Work Cut Out"	Chris Murphy	2:42

B-sides

• "Keep on Thinkin' (acoustic)" ("She Says What She Means" promo)

Trivia

• "She Says What She Means" was the last song recorded for the album. Chris Murphy wanted to make a hard rock song because he was jealous of Patrick Pentland's rock songs "Money City Maniacs" and "Iggy and Angus".[4]
• Murphy took the title of his song "Chester the Molester" from a name of a character in a Hustler magazine that his cousins used to call him. Murphy was reminded of the name by Mark Gaudet, the drummer from the Canadian band Elevator To Hell.[4]
• The lyrics for "I'm Not Through With You Yet" were the original lyrics for "Worried Now" from Sloan's 1994 album, Twice Removed. Pentland originally titled the song with the words "Cotton Picking" because of its supposed "Southern feel", but changed it out of fear that it might be taken as racist.[4]

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