Whale Music
by Rheostatics
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Whale Music is ranked as the best album by Rheostatics.
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Whale Music track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (10 out of 17 tracks have been rated).
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Whale Music rankings
Whale Music rankings summary
Overall rank: 83,678th | 1990s rank: 12,133rd | 1992 rank: 1,082nd Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Best 100 of Canada | 76/100 | - |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1992 | 16/20 | 1 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/11/2025 16:45 | EyeKanFly | 8,848 | 65/100 |
| ! | 02/13/2023 06:10 |  zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
| ! | 01/06/2016 15:41 | WillyMac | 634 | 82/100 |
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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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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
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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