Whale Music
by Rheostatics

Whale Music by Rheostatics
Year: 1992
Overall rank: 82,040th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 9 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1992 (1,070th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (12,042nd)
Award Best albums of all time (82,040th)

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Rheostatics bestography

Whale Music is ranked as the best album by Rheostatics.

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This album (82,040th)
Whale Music
Lower ranked (82,574th) »
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Overall rank: 82,040th | 1990s rank: 12,042nd | 1992 rank: 1,070th

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08/11/2025 16:45 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,42765/100
 
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02/13/2023 06:10 zags7000  Ratings distribution  20,41064/100
 
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From 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 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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75/100
From 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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