The Feeling Strangely Fine reissue is out 10/19 on UMe. We definitely weren’t thinking that these songs would still be played on the radio 20 years later. Semisonic's Closing Time: Woman calls cops on man won't stop whistling 'I used to be in a band that wouldn't stop playing that thing,' tweets lead singer Dan Wilson By Melissa Locker Updated. This massive hit for Semisonic is fun to play and good for Beginners (Open chords), more advanced Beginners (Power Chords) and Intermediate players (Full Barre Chords). I wasn’t thinking that these songs would become the soundtrack for so many people’s lives. I remember telling Jake I wanted to make a record that had the folk music simplicity of Simon & Garfunkel but also the loudness of U2 and Nirvana. Then I read that it’s actually about newborn babies leaving the maternity ward to go home, and suddenly the time for you to go out to the places you will be ‘from’ line finally made sense lol. I had decided a while back that my best songs were about me and the people I loved or admired and our adventures and troubles, and the new songs really reflected that ideal. Like most people, I always assumed this song was about closing time at a bar. Why does everyone think Green Day covered 'Closing Time' by SemiSonic I always thought there was a Green Day cover, last night when my SO and I were listening to the song and went to look for the Green Day version I thought I listened to when I was younger we discovered it never existed. When I started writing songs for the album that would become Feeling Strangely Fine, John Munson and Jake Slichter and I were living in South Minneapolis. Reading Wilson’s reflections on Feeling Strangely Fine, you can definitely understand how he became such a successful songwriter: We spoke to him about all that last summer. After Semisonic, frontman Dan Wilson went on to write songs for artists including Taylor Swift, Adele, and the Dixie Chicks. American rock trio Semisonic injected post-grunge grit into harmonic power pop, a catchy formula that helped them score an enduring radio hit with 1998s Grammy-nominated 'Closing Time.' That single featured on their breakthrough sophomore effort, Feeling Strangely Fine, which helped them peak in the mainstream before they went on.