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Whale Music is a 1992 album by Canadian rock band Rheostatics. It should not be confused with the soundtrack to the film Whale Music, which was also composed by the band and released in 1994.
A performance from their concert tour to support this album was released in 2005 as The Whale Music Concert, 1992, a download-only album from Zunior Records.
The album cover is part of a painting by guitarist Martin Tielli.
In 1996, the Canadian music magazine Chart conducted a reader poll to determine the greatest Canadian albums of all time. Whale Music placed fifth in that poll (behind only Sloan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and The Tragically Hip.) When the magazine conducted a follow-up poll in 2000, Whale Music placed fourth (behind Mitchell, Young and Sloan), and was followed in fifth by the band's 1991 album Melville. In the magazine's third poll in 2005, Whale Music placed tenth. It is one of six albums to have ranked in the top ten in all three polls.
It was ranked 19th in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
Comments
8 years ago
Trevor Gray
Sometimes you get great lyrics; sometimes you get great performances; sometimes you get great production: but really- all in one song? It's almost too much to bear! Love all the Rheo's, but Martin's lyrics and his lead guitar put this song in a class of its own. "No one said this would be easy, but no one said this would be Hell." Love among the ruins; the hope of a new day; the journey through Hell. It is all here. Had this been all that Martin ever wrote, he would have succeeded.9 years ago
Bruce Runnels
Another fine Dcappe contribution to the world of music. :)10 years ago
TheNakism
Best Canadian album, ever.10 years ago
righter55
I'M THE ONE THAT KNOWS, THATS ALL I CAN SAY. BUT IT FITS LIKE A GLOVE.10 years ago
simbeau
Crazy how much of this album, and this song in particular, ended up in the music from the movie.10 years ago
jim james
no one knows art. nowadays. Canada's spoken gold already got dug, you dig,11 years ago
