Yeah, Harvey Danger is hyperliterate garage rock. The follow up albums are a little less raw than Where have all the Merrymakers Gone, but still fun to listen to as a background of your life kind of music.
Every song on Feeling Strangely Fine is terrific. The other albums have great songs but uninteresting ones too.
Sorry, I kinda screwed up my comment, meant second paragraph.
Think I have the Semisonic CD around here somewhere... might dust it off. ;-)