Needles & Grooves AotM /// Vol. 41 - November 2022 /// The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
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Hemotep
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Nice, I'm gonna read this.This thread has been updated with further thoughts from me about the album. You can find them on the first page, or by clicking here.
Also, for any of you that might find such things interesting, Bronwyn Malloy put together a literary analysis of "One Great City" as a PhD student at the University of British Columbia a few years ago. Her research was centred on the poetics of subjectivity in contemporary alternative song lyrics.
Literary Analysis of The Weakerthans’ “One Great City!” | CanLit Guides
Using some of the scholarship and skills from the previous section, we will now begin to close read The Weakerthans’ song “One Great City!” Despite being only 2:57 in length, a well-written song like this could take up many pages of analysis. Here, therefore, we will mainly focus on the infamous...canlitguides.ca
avecigrec
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Albums that could have been :: No. 21
The Be Good Tanyas – Blue Horse
This feels particularly fitting to late-post today given that "Rain and Snow" was one of the bigger hits from this album, and is exactly what's going on outside my window as I type this. This album was a big boom in the Canadian folk music revival of the early oughts. Unified by tree-planting and a love of folk, country and bluegrass music these women burst big onto the scene for a few years, putting out three albums and making East Vancouver proud during their run. In addition to "Rain and Snow" this album found a big hit in the song "Light Enough to Travel," penned by fellow East Van musician Geoff Berner (who will pop up again in another of these remaining entries!)
Sorely in need of a repress, vinyl copies of this album are currently selling for $300+
The Be Good Tanyas – Blue Horse
This feels particularly fitting to late-post today given that "Rain and Snow" was one of the bigger hits from this album, and is exactly what's going on outside my window as I type this. This album was a big boom in the Canadian folk music revival of the early oughts. Unified by tree-planting and a love of folk, country and bluegrass music these women burst big onto the scene for a few years, putting out three albums and making East Vancouver proud during their run. In addition to "Rain and Snow" this album found a big hit in the song "Light Enough to Travel," penned by fellow East Van musician Geoff Berner (who will pop up again in another of these remaining entries!)
Sorely in need of a repress, vinyl copies of this album are currently selling for $300+
Jan
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The only one I am still missing
Jan
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I wonder why I missed this show.
Jan
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Although i agree with you that Reconstruction site is their best album., Left and Leaving is my personal favorite.
Everything must go was a song that really resonated when i spend some time abroad and far from my close friends
avecigrec
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Not my picture, but I couldn't for the life of me take a better one...
VIVAT VIRTUTE
I'd never looked to see what the etching was on Side D of Winter Wheat until I got my copy last night. A beautiful homage to the finest cat in song, whose triptych tale ends on this album.
And, here are a couple of essays about the Virtute Trilogy, should you be interested:
heartbreakingbravery.com
drunkinagraveyard.com
VIVAT VIRTUTE
I'd never looked to see what the etching was on Side D of Winter Wheat until I got my copy last night. A beautiful homage to the finest cat in song, whose triptych tale ends on this album.
And, here are a couple of essays about the Virtute Trilogy, should you be interested:
Pleas, Departures, and Reconciliations: The Virtute Trilogy
Not many things can interrupt this site’s regular coverage or alter its standard presentations but an unexpected resolution to one of the most affecting trilogies since the turn of the centur…
heartbreakingbravery.com
The Saga of Virtute the Cat: Canadiana, Folk Punk, and John K. Samson
Oh hey friends. How are you doing this week? Now that Halloween comes closer and closer, and the days have really begun to get colder, the chill of the Christmas season begins to grip tightly to t…
drunkinagraveyard.com
gafacaode
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BazookaTooth
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So did mine !
Jan
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So, Thanks to the incredible generosity o @avecigrec a late Christmas present arrived yesterday. Many thanks for the " live at Burton Cummings Theatre"
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Jan
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If you haven´t ordered yet
theweakerthans.kingsroadmerch.com
Reconstruction Site Lp Brownapple
Official Weakerthans merch and music
theweakerthans.kingsroadmerch.com
Fillip J Phry
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Not my picture, but I couldn't for the life of me take a better one...
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VIVAT VIRTUTE
I'd never looked to see what the etching was on Side D of Winter Wheat until I got my copy last night. A beautiful homage to the finest cat in song, whose triptych tale ends on this album.
And, here are a couple of essays about the Virtute Trilogy, should you be interested:
Pleas, Departures, and Reconciliations: The Virtute Trilogy
Not many things can interrupt this site’s regular coverage or alter its standard presentations but an unexpected resolution to one of the most affecting trilogies since the turn of the centur…
The Saga of Virtute the Cat: Canadiana, Folk Punk, and John K. Samson
Oh hey friends. How are you doing this week? Now that Halloween comes closer and closer, and the days have really begun to get colder, the chill of the Christmas season begins to grip tightly to t…
Missed this when it was originally posted. Didn't realized Samson concluded this story line, and now I'm sitting in my office fighting back tears.
avecigrec
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I haven't listened yet, but this is exciting:
exclaim.ca
Also completely missed that they released a mostly instrumental album back in February too!
The Weakerthans' John K Samson Releases Three New Songs as Vivat Virtute │ Exclaim!
It's the bandleader's new project with his partner Christine Fellows
Also completely missed that they released a mostly instrumental album back in February too!
Jan
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also john k samson and christine fellows are on a new song by your heart breaksI haven't listened yet, but this is exciting:
The Weakerthans' John K Samson Releases Three New Songs as Vivat Virtute │ Exclaim!
It's the bandleader's new project with his partner Christine Fellows
Also completely missed that they released a mostly instrumental album back in February too!