Track Listing

1. Future Says Run
2. You Wanted More
3. Knock Down Walls
4. Mean To Me
5. Sugar
6. Stronger Than Mine
7. Queen
8. Waiting For The Light To Change
9. Waltz With Me
10. Sunflower
11. Drag Me Down
12. Top Falls Down
13. Love A Diamond

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19411 in Music
• Released on: 1999-11-09
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Sugar is the cure-all for your rock & roll blahs. The follow-up to 1997's platinum-selling Lemon Parade shows that the Los Angeles trio Tonic has taken a big step forward. Here they've forged a sound that's memorable and timeless, thanks to stellar songwriting matched by equally fine instrumentation and vocals. There's nary a bad song on this self-produced, self-assured 13-song collection. The more upbeat fare, including "Future Says Run," is open, catchy, and forceful. Ballads, such as "Waiting for the Light," are instantly appealing and beautiful without being sappy. Nearly all of Sugar's tunes have that hauntingly familiar feel. With the exception of "Jump Jimmy," which is redolent of the Tubes' "She's a Beauty," they're fresh, honest, buoyant, and gladdening. Here, at least, high doses of Sugar are beneficial to your psyche. --Katherine Turman

Customer Reviews

Awesome
After listening to this album only once, it went into my collection of all time favorites. Everyone song is a winner. I actually preferred this one to Lemon Parade. Usually, artists don't top their first album, but this one blows it away! Faves are "You Wanted More", "Mean to Me", "Waltz with Me", "Future Says Run". Heck, the whole dang album is my favorite!

A flicker in the dying embers of post-grunge...
It's a shame that Tonic aren't around any more. Perhaps it's because there isn't enough of a market any more for light rock with an emotional undertone that is significant enough to be evocative to its fans without resorting to saturating itself in a sense of sorrow, self-pity or pseudo-hardship. Tonic are much more subtle than that kind of stuff, but the principal strengths of Sugar are the melodically powerful riffs, and the vocal nuances that Emerson Hart adopts, particularly clearly in 'Queen' and 'Top Falls Down'. This was an underrated band and I highly recommend this album.

One of my favorite albums EVER. A Slam Dunk
This cd didn't leave my cd player for nearly a year. Every single song is solid as a rock. And not one of them sounds the same as the next. Stand out for me is the title track. You know how there are always songs you skip over on cds? Not on this one. Would buy it again and again. Miss you, Tonic.