Live at a Sloan Party!

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Live at a Sloan Party! was a rare album release by Sloan; it was released in the United States in 1996 as a bonus album to March Records' release of One Chord to Another. [In the US: packaged with initial pressings through The Enclave label]

Although the album is called Live at a...Party, and background noises and conversations between the songs suggest that the album was recorded during a party attended by Sloan and friends (including Jennifer Pierce from the band Jale), the four members of Sloan now admit that the album was recorded in a studio. The background noises were in fact recorded at a party where Sloan and friends were present, but the noises were simply dubbed over the music. The gimmick is given away in the middle of the 'Transona Five/On The Road Again" medley, where Patrick Pentland "walks outside" and talks to an over-enthusiastic fan in the middle of the song.

Sloan got the idea for the "Party album," as it is known amongst their fans, from a similar release by The Beach Boys.