Whale Music

Rheostatics | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 8, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000008JZF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,620 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Self Serve Gas Station

2. California Dreamline

3. Rain, Rain, Rain

4. Queer

5. King of the Past

6. RDA (Rock Death America)

7. The Headless One

8. Legal Age Life at Variety Store

9. What's Going on Around Here?

10. Shaved Head

11. Palomar

12. Guns

13. Sickening Song

14. Soul Glue

15. Beerbash

16. Who?

17. Dope Fiends and Boozehounds

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars what's going on?, June 4, 2006

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R. A. Wright "hip fan" (wheeling wv) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whale Music (Audio CD)

after hearing gord downie lament about the Rheo's on Live Between Us...."thanks to the Rheostatics, we are much richer for having seen them tonite" ...I figured I would give one of their CD'S a shot....tracks 1,2,3,9,13,17 are sublime.... and Shaved Head moved me in a way that only a handful of rock/alternative song have ... I played it seven or eight times before moving on to the rest...agree with the other opine...Guns could have stayed on the cutting room floor...the music gets stronger with each listen

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff!, October 21, 2004

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Anglobotomy (Las Vegas, Nv United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whale Music (Audio CD)

This is probably the best overall Rheostatics album I've heard (2067 won't be out for a few weeks). It is chock full of amazing musicianship and incredible songwriting. Dopefiends and Boozehounds is probably my favorite song, but there are no songs on this album that I don't like. There is an eerie quality to some of these songs, and a quirky sense of humor directed at the almost hopelessness exhibited by many of the characters in the songs, but I wouldn't say the album is negative. I'd say its a discussion of common problems that normal people have... kind of a 'we're in this together' sort of message. The Rheostatics, though, are always about finding happiness, friendships and love. They stand out from the mundane trash that's plagued modern music for far too long.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sounds fresh and focused, December 16, 2005

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loce_the_wizard "loce_the_wizard" (Lilburn, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whale Music (Audio CD)

What first attracted me to "Whale Music" (not the film score) by the Rheostatics was the wonderfully illustrated CD cover respendent in gold, crimson, dark blue---we need an image of that cover here! After an initial, casual playing of the first couple of songs on the CD, I put it aside for week.

Then on a lark, I decided to listen to CD. Three weeks later, it's at the top of my CD rotation. The songs, on the surface, seem like pop, country, rock-nothing too special until one starts noticing all the strange chords and treatments, odd changes in pace, and wonderful, image rich lyrics full of wordplay in tracks like California Dreamline. Add to that they these guys can rock out when they want or hold it down when making a point.

The interplay of guitars on Dope Fiends and Boozehounds is brash and fun; the drum duo on What's Going on Around Here? featuring a cameo by Neil Peart of Rush requires lots of volume; Sickening Song conjures up all kinds of creative imagery.

This rich collection of songs sounds fresh and focused-though it was released back in the early `90s. I'm not up to the task of trying to describe how the band sounds for I suspect this group rarely repeats itself, instead taking the time to craft music instead of spit out disposable pabulum. I'm looking forward to exploring more of the music from the Canadian band; in fact, some argue the best of many great bands from the north.