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Candy from a Stranger

The eighth studio album, with I Will Still Be Laughing.
Soul Asylum, 1998

Released
12 May 1998

Candy from a Stranger was the eighth studio album from Soul Asylum, released on 12 May 1998 as the follow-up to Let Your Dim Light Shine. Pirner, Murphy, Mueller and Sterling Campbell made it as a four-piece. Blood into Wine was written by Murphy with Elizabeth Herman, and Lies of Hate by Pirner and Campbell.

I Will Still Be Laughing was played over the closing credits of the 1998 comedy BASEketball. It is the band's last single to appear on the Billboard Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts. Close was the other single.

Track listing

  1. Creatures of Habit3:23
  2. I Will Still Be Laughing3:46
  3. Close4:33
  4. See You Later4:46
  5. No Time for Waiting3:16
  6. Blood into Wine4:03
  7. Lies of Hate4:39
  8. Draggin' the Lake3:38
  9. New York Blackout4:05
  10. The Game4:27
  11. Cradle Chain4:45

More from Soul Asylum

Say What You Will... (1984), While You Were Out (1986), Hang Time (1988), And the Horse They Rode In On (1990), Grave Dancers Union (1992), Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995), The Silver Lining (2006)

Sources

  1. Candy from a Stranger, Wikipedia