man aren't the rheostatics great.

mrwalkerb
mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
edited March 2007 in Other Music
casue they are, I just bough their double live album and it's fantastic. Dave Bidini is super cool, and a great author as well, Canadian music kicks ass
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  • Astird
    Astird Posts: 168
    Nice post! Definetely an underrated band. I don't have their double album, but I have just about everything else. I think I'll go put on 'Bad Time to be Poor'
  • bubbamackdaddy69
    bubbamackdaddy69 Posts: 576
    mrwalkerb wrote:
    casue they are, I just bough their double live album and it's fantastic. Dave Bidini is super cool, and a great author as well, Canadian music kicks ass


    Yeah I've been getting into them lately... They are good !
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    MurphyJesus wrote:
    Nice post! Definetely an underrated band. I don't have their double album, but I have just about everything else. I think I'll go put on 'Bad Time to be Poor'

    I was kind of upset that that song wasn't on the live album. but I do have the tag by the hip on live between us
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    k so I went and saw them Sunday night and monday went out and ordered a few or thier cds from work. SO much fun can't wait till they come back, so shamess bump for the Rheos
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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    the rheos are an inspiration to many canadian bands and have influenced a number of them. the double live cd is fantastic. i once got to hold the double neck maple leaf guitar on the cover!

    i love tunes like "bad time to be poor" (as mrwalkerb said...too bad it's not on the double live), "claire" (one of the best canadian tunes ever), "horses", "the ballad of wendel calrk I & II (canadiana eh?), "saskatchewan"...yeah the rheos rock! good thread...:)
  • Astird
    Astird Posts: 168
    The movie 'Whale Music' is worth watching just for the soundtrack done by the rheostatics.
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    This thread inspired me to put on the Tragically Hip's live album where the lead signer sings the only Rheostatics song I know of "Bad Time To Be Poor" during the end of the song, my favourite Hip song, Nautical Disaster. Love that song, and the live version from this CD
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    smarchee wrote:
    This thread inspired me to put on the Tragically Hip's live album where the lead signer sings the only Rheostatics song I know of "Bad Time To Be Poor" during the end of the song, my favourite Hip song, Nautical Disaster. Love that song, and the live version from this CD


    I had that Nautical Disaster tag in my head for months and slowly it convinced me to check out the Rheos, you should do the same I'm so glad I did.
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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    it is a bad time to be poor cause we don't give a shit no more...if you want help, don't look next door, the line's been drawn and staked outside...

    haven't i done enough to burn out...
    haven't i been there to help out...

    ...the wherewithal...
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    I stumbled upon a live version of "Every Irrelevance" by Gord with the Rheostatics a year ago. I think that version is really great...

    But I haven't had the chance to listen to any of their albums. Hmm, I really should check out that double live album then. :)
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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    mariposa wrote:
    I stumbled upon a live version of "Every Irrelevance" by Gord with the Rheostatics a year ago. I think that version is really great...

    But I haven't had the chance to listen to any of their albums. Hmm, I really should check out that double live album then. :)

    the double live is a great place to start! a live version of "bad time to be poor" would have been great to hear on it, but it's too bad it's not on there. there are a lot of other staples though...like "claire", "horses", "dead is the drunkest you can get", and "saskatchewan"...just to name a few faves...
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    the double live is a great place to start! a live version of "bad time to be poor" would have been great to hear on it, but it's too bad it's not on there. there are a lot of other staples though...like "claire", "horses", "dead is the drunkest you can get", and "saskatchewan"...just to name a few faves...

    Thanks Mookie, that's good to know! :) Seeing I don't really know which of their albums I should check out first.
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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    like mrwalkerb, the lines on nautical disaster were what got me intrigued about the rheos, so i started checking them out...i started with the double live. i've seen them live a few times now so i've delved a little deeper into their discography...some of it is "experimental" to say the least, and to be honest i don't care for a few of those tunes, but that's a good reason to listen to double live first, in my opinion.
  • Deeve
    Deeve Posts: 122
    mrwalkerb wrote:
    casue they are, I just bough their double live album and it's fantastic. Dave Bidini is super cool, and a great author as well, Canadian music kicks ass


    I can actually say I have never heard their music before. But Tropic of Hockey was quite possibly one of the best books I have ever read, Hockey related or not. He really has a way with words that grips you and makes you keep on reading. I just got his newest book for christmas, havent started reading it yet. Soon as I am done my current book.

    Anyways. Bidini is pretty cool :)
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Deeve wrote:
    I can actually say I have never heard their music before. But Tropic of Hockey was quite possibly one of the best books I have ever read, Hockey related or not. He really has a way with words that grips you and makes you keep on reading. I just got his newest book for christmas, havent started reading it yet. Soon as I am done my current book.

    Anyways. Bidini is pretty cool :)

    Hey, was that the book about hockey in Italy ??? Or Mexico ?
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    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
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    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
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  • Deeve
    Deeve Posts: 122
    smarchee wrote:
    Hey, was that the book about hockey in Italy ??? Or Mexico ?

    Tropic of Hockey?

    It was mainly about hockey in Siberia, Japan, UAE and Eastern Europe.

    Great book.
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    so I just got melville and it is one of the best albums of the nineties in retrospect, I mean this. Such a bloody travesty they are breaking up.
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  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    mrwalkerb wrote:
    so I just got melville and it is one of the best albums of the nineties in retrospect, I mean this. Such a bloody travesty they are breaking up.


    WOW - a Rheos thread (I started one a couple months back about their FINAL show and it dropped off the face of the earth pretty damn fast)

    .....one of my favourite bands (see the "Top 10" thread) - best Canadian band ever IMO

    .....Melville is definitely an amazing album - Christopher is probably one of my top 5 fav Rheos tunes

    .....only a few more weeks until their swan song at Massey Hall - gonna be a surreal night
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  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    The Music inspired by the Group of Seven is just amazing.

    I bought my boyfriend Maple Serum not too long ago and I must say that I love it sooo much. And my favorite songs are Introducing Happiness and Shaved Head.

    Bidini's book 'Five Hole Stories' is fucking brilliant.
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    Todd76 wrote:
    WOW - a Rheos thread (I started one a couple months back about their FINAL show and it dropped off the face of the earth pretty damn fast)

    .....one of my favourite bands (see the "Top 10" thread) - best Canadian band ever IMO

    .....Melville is definitely an amazing album - Christopher is probably one of my top 5 fav Rheos tunes

    .....only a few more weeks until their swan song at Massey Hall - gonna be a surreal night

    I'm so choked that they are breaking up I only got to see them once, I'm doubly mad because they were in Calgary for a week in Janurary and despite being on thier mailing list I didn't know baout it till after the fact. I wish I could go to that farewell but I guess I'll just have to hope for another record or maybe a live dvd.
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