Whale Music
by Rheostatics

Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2026	junodog4	Best 100 of Canada	76/100	-
2024	EyeKanFly	AM Bubbling Under 1990s 1	11/100	-
2020	WayneMC	CBC Music's 100 Greatest Canadian Albums, Ever (2019)	99/100	-
2020	ghosttomost	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s	94/100	1
2019	Giant2015	Greatest Canadian Albums	56/100	-
2017	junodog4	Top 20 Music Albums of 1992	16/20	1
2016	jhuik	The Canadian 100	16/100	-
2015	Voxpoptart	Top 40 Greatest Music Albums	23/40	-
2015	Applerill	Top 25 Music Albums of 1992	25/25	0
2015	jhuik	Greater Toronto! Best Toronto-based Albums Ever	44/100	-
2014	junodog4	CanRock Renaissance - 1985-1995	17/100	-
2013	~SMiLE~	Top 27 Music Albums of 1992	19/27	2
		Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		12
		Total Rank Score: The total rank score.		5

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55/100 !	08/11/2025 16:45	EyeKanFly	8,756	65/100
70/100 !	02/13/2023 06:10	zags7000	20,468	64/100
85/100 !	01/06/2016 15:41	WillyMac	634	82/100
35/100 !	09/12/2015 22:50	newjlp	9,073	56/100
90/100 !	06/11/2015 13:49	KGB	195	80/100

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From KGB 06/11/2015 13:59 | #143569

Another excellent album from the pride of Etobicoke. They became critical darlings because their catalog contains intelligent, varied songs that continually reward persistent listeners -- this album being a great example.

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From Voxpoptart 01/04/2015 21:54 | #130844

Voted one of the ten greatest Canadian albums ever in a mid-00s Canadian critics poll (along with the Rheostatics' immediate prior album "Melville"), Whale Music" was a great transitional album. Stretching out from a folk-rock base full of vocal harmonies from their three songwriters (a poet, a bratty storyteller, a friendly protest singer), it saw them tinkering with unexpected rhythms, song structures, and other-genre borrowings. It was a little less wild, a little more normal, a little less gleefully unhinged than they'd later become, it was nonetheless an extremely smart, amiable, quirky, empathetic, and unpredictable album.

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junodog4 08/24/2012 16:01 | #49134

The most listenable of the Rheostatics... Somehow these guys became critical darlings in Canada. They were OK, but not standing above their peers. Decent alt-rock from the early 90s.

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