Artist Name
The Weakerthans
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5 users heart off The Weakerthans - The Reasons
4 users heart off The Weakerthans - Aside
4 users heart off The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
4 users heart off The Weakerthans - One Great City!
3 users heart off The Weakerthans - Watermark


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Tournament of Hearts
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Sun in an Empty Room
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Psalm for the Elks Lod...
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Civil Twilight
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Our Retired Explorer (...
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The Reasons
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The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by John K. Samson, after he left the punk band Propagandhi to start a publishing company. Samson joined forces with bassist John P. Sutton and drummer Jason Tait, both from Propagandhi's Winnipeg-punk-scene mates Red Fisher, and created The Weakerthans as a vehicle for a more melodic and introspective brand of songwriting than their previous projects.

One origin story for the band's name, as quoted in the liner notes of Fallow, is a line from the 1992 film The Lover: "Go ahead, I'm weaker than you can possibly imagine." The band's name may also refer to a Ralph Chaplin quote from "Solidarity Forever": "What force on Earth can be weaker than the feeble strength of one?" The band alludes to this line in the song "Pamphleteer" from the album Left and Leaving.
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19th Mar 2013

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