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Members
4 Male
Popularity
41
Followers
90,702
Origin
Winnipeg
Genre
Alternative Rock
Style
Rock/Pop
Mood
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Born
4 Male
Popularity
41Followers
90,702
Origin
WinnipegGenre
Alternative RockStyle
Rock/Pop
Mood
---
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 |
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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.
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