Artist Name

The Weakerthans

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Album CD Covers

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iTunes Session (2011)	The Falcon Lake Incident (2010)	Reunion Tour (2007)
Reconstruction Site (2003)	Left and Leaving (2000)	Fallow (1999)

Members
4 Male

Popularity

41

Followers
90,702

Origin
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Winnipeg

Genre
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Alternative Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

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Born

1996

Active
1996 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Youtube views	Loves
The Reasons	441,332	209,980 views	5 users
Aside	616,510		4 users
Left and Leaving	580,278		4 users
One Great City!	450,207		4 users
Watermark	396,501	12,076 views	3 users
Reconstruction Site	448,157		1 users

Music Video Links

Sun in an Empty Room	The Reasons	Psalm for the Elks Lod...
Our Retired Explorer (...	Watermark	Civil Twilight
Tournament of Hearts

Artist Biography
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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.