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« on: March 29, 2005, 03:33:25 pm »
http://www.theweakerthans.org/mp3/weakerthans-plea_from_a_cat_named_virtue.mp3

I've been enjoying this song by The Weakerthans quite a bit, and it occured to me that it's very much an Achewood tune.
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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2005, 04:46:27 pm »
This song frequently gets stuck in my head for no discernable reason. See also: Fett's Vette.
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2005, 01:43:59 pm »
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This song frequently gets stuck in my head for no discernable reason. See also: Fett's Vette.


Wait, sorry for the belated reply, but I somehow missed this post before...

So, Cort, you've actually heard this song before?  I totally thought the Weakerthans hadn't been heard by anybody outside Winnipeg.  Huh.
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2005, 02:42:33 pm »
It's getting stuck in my head now on a depressingly regular basis. Thanks, side_show. I think you may have finally replaced the headsong void left by my never re-downloading any Harry and the Potters MP3s.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2005, 04:34:59 pm »
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Wait, sorry for the belated reply, but I somehow missed this post before...

So, Cort, you've actually heard this song before?  I totally thought the Weakerthans hadn't been heard by anybody outside Winnipeg.  Huh.


My coworker is a big fan of theirs.  Ergo, I now listen to them.

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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2005, 04:51:22 pm »
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This song frequently gets stuck in my head for no discernable reason. See also: Fett's Vette.

Wait, sorry for the belated reply, but I somehow missed this post before...

So, Cort, you've actually heard this song before?  I totally thought the Weakerthans hadn't been heard by anybody outside Winnipeg.  Huh.

I was first exposed to them by the column Dancing About Architecture back when he was discussing the 2004 Shortlist Prize and I DL'd Reconstruction Site from eMusic. It's a really great album, especially Retired Explorer and A New Name for Everything. The SO is a fan of Benediction since she was already a Beth Orton mark.

And Ian Wright is Irish, so it's definitely not just Winnipegians who've heard of them.

I also have Left & Leaving but don't like it as much. How are their other albums?
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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2005, 04:26:09 pm »
It's a small web-world after all, huh.  I suppose 'cause they're the sort of band that's been slugging it out in the local bar scene for so long, I just imagined they were localized in a perminant sort of way, but looking at their CD a little closer I see they're on the Epitaph label... weird.  Anyways I listened to the song and the CD a couple of times yesterday, which suited the grey rainy day we had.
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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2005, 10:38:36 pm »
Yeah, I've been hearing about them a lot lately.  I saw them opening for another band a long time ago, and I used to be moderately into Propagandhi, which the singer used to be in/maybe still is or something, but never got so much into the Weakerthans.  It's still neat that they are making it big though.
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« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2005, 02:35:06 pm »
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Yeah, I've been hearing about them a lot lately.  I saw them opening for another band a long time ago, and I used to be moderately into Propagandhi, which the singer used to be in/maybe still is or something, but never got so much into the Weakerthans.  It's still neat that they are making it big though.


I didn't know there was any Propagandhi connection, but you're likely right, the music scene here is like the theatre scene - totally incest-y.

Propagandhi is perminantly tied in my mind to a sense of self-satisfied self-rightousness.  Being that they were lefties like myself I though I might like their music, but before I ever heard anything by them my path in life crossed with different band memebers several times, and I found their actual behaviour in public to be just totally repugnant.  All hanging out at the vegan restaurant, using tahani instead of butter and making a point to be sure that everyone was aware of it.  Jeeze, just let me half-enjoy my half-decent carobe brownie in peace.  

Also, I went to university with a girl who dated a guy in Propagandhi, and she was so snide, so very snide.  I remember her glimpsing a book I was reading, Douglas Coupland's "Girlfriend in a Coma," and just totally rolling her eyes.  I suddenly felt about a foot tall and like I was reading a Danielle Steel novel.   I'd run into the two of them on campus all the time and they'd just sneer at me.   I was totally puzzled by their dislike of me.
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