“Sounds Familiar”
A song about childhood and growing up, which is good and sad and over before you know it. Will either make you want to build a treehouse or hide in your room for a couple weeks.
9 thoughts on “The Weakerthans – Fallow – Sub City/Hopeless – 1999”
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You’re web address in the title is missing an “r”. Frigging poets….not worried about spelling or punctuations.
Your “You’re” is spelled wrong. Frigging CEOs….not worried about spelling or punctuations.
i would like to register a complaint about the lack of posts concerning the vancouver island marmot.
the fine folks at forget care about the marmot, and this friday there will be an expose that will blow the whole lid off this situation.
ever since dorrell won the “micky” acorn award he’s been strutting around like a peacock posting about songs. well, mr dorrell, have you ever heard the vancouver island marmot sing a song? huh?
why don’t you reccomend the mountain mouse’s mating call – a unique sounding, high pitched whistle – on your fancy little website, you insensitive little poet.
you hear that squeal? it’s a vancouver island marmot trying to find a mate. but due to a dramtic decrease in the marmot population, there is no “whistle pig” to respond to the call.
do you hear that, dorrell??? it’s calling for YOU! reccommend that GD song, you marmot-hating jerk.
Going to see this band this week. In Van City. Will report then.
let me know if you see any marmots.
Two points, semi-relevant, semi-interesting:
Growing up on Vancouver Island you get to draw a lot of Vancouver Island Marmots for school projects highlighting the species ever-tumultuous existence.
Coincidentally, the Weakerthans, Fallow, was the instrumental soundtrack to our quebec city trip, which spawned my Forgetmagazine article and this: http://www.geocities.com/ftaadiary
I hadn’t heard the album before, though I’d seen the band many years ago open up for someone or other. I dig that album. I dig the line “I’m going to pull just this one building down.”
That, folks, was my first post to this here site. Thank you.
guess who saw the weakerthans last night at the Commodore in Vancouver? Yeah, thats right. Me.
I’m excited about seeing them next month in Winnipeg. What fun it will be!
Forgot to mention that I saw them in the fall at a ‘zine fair in Halifax. It was the middle of the afternoon, and the rocking was a bit subdued. I was disapointed, but they are still my vote for best contemporary Canadian band.