Dan Wilson

I just think Semi-Sonic has so many better songs.

Like, I can think of at least four songs off the top of my head that are better than Closing Time in their catalog, but they are, like, when you think of a 90s one-hit wonder song that did not go away and kind of became this impossible hurdle for the band to get over... closing time is at the top of that list of just i think they were ready to move on from closing time and instead this song just got overexposed and to a detriment i think it hurt this band i think that any single that they put out people were ready to hate because they were so done with hearing the song closing time at that point and it is severely unfair dan wilson's fine though he's gone on to be an incredible songwriter throughout music history so you know he got what he wanted i remember on the demakes episode he actually said i always wanted to be a singer songwriter anyway like i wanted to write songs for other people more than myself so this was a great foot in the door for him to fulfill that dream um please go and listen to semi-sonic that's my takeaway from this episode everybody go listen to their music it's great

And I feel like a broken record, but go listen to the Dan Wilson episode of Krista Makes a Podcast.

He talks about writing this song.

It's about how he was about to have a kid.

There's that famous scene from The Office where Andy sings it in the cold open.

I think it's really funny.

Dan Wilson has had an awesome career beyond this.

I'm J.Q.

My name is Dan Wilson.

I'm a singer and a songwriter and record producer.

When people hear your name, there's probably one song in particular they think of.

...

Adele and Dan Wilson wrote and produced this track.

Um, Dan Wilson is also playing piano on it, and he is, we've spoken about Dan Wilson before-

Have we now?

... 'cause he was the front man of Semisonic, who sung "Closing Time."

... a freakish way.

It's, uh, it's Dan Wilson playing on that one.

The guitar? Mm-hmm.

Aaron Sterling on drums.