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The Weakerthans write and perform songs with voices,
guitars, and drums. Critically hailed and impossible to
categorize, they have developed a strong and dedicated
following that crosses the boundaries of genres and
fashions. Labels like Punk or Alternative or Rock may seem
appropriate, but they would hope Honest would do.

"We write the only songs we know how to write: songs that
reflect the place we come from, musically and
geographically, the community we live in, and the struggle
for any one person to connect with another in a More...




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Nope | Reviewer: Mo
    ------ About the song Plea From A Cat Named Virtue performed by The Weakerthans

It really probably isn't a cat to do with anyone in the band. The fact that they like cats probably allowed them write this, but it seems this song is about an Old woman/Maybe Man.

Things they miss- The Cold War ad card catalogues are hardly in the bands time frame. Parlour games - another reference.

This song is about a cat being honest with its owner about how it knows they are better than what they've become and how they're hiding behind lies so not to get hurt or regret their life. 'Sharp edge of a century' also suggest the person is older especially in the context of the surrounding metaphorical lines.

It is definately a retrospective look at someones life. Who's? I don't know.

Some of the comments on here scare me with how stupid they are.


Makes me MISS Winnipeg | Reviewer: Anonymous
    ------ About the song One Great City performed by The Weakerthans

This is an awesome song, and I listen to whenever I get homesick for family and friends that are still there. I moved to Vancouver because I felt Winnipeg was a s#$%t hole... but It will always be my home. I hate it... I love it.

Bring back the Winnipeg Jets!

VIRTUTE | Reviewer: Gawain
    ------ About the song Plea From A Cat Named Virtue performed by The Weakerthans

The cat's name is VIRTUTE not Virtue - I made the same mistake originally. It's pronounced Ver-tu-tay according to last.fm. So any references to 'virtue' are probably not relevant.

I love how the cat is recommending some of its own lifestyle habits, like 'lie down/lick the sorrow from your skin/scratch the terror'. It's quite amusing, and really cool. Great song.

My favorite song for where I'm at. | Reviewer: Cass
    ------ About the song Plea From A Cat Named Virtue performed by The Weakerthans

This song has a double meaning for every line, almost. The song represents what Sampson imagines what his cat would say to him, and simultaneously it's really him telling himself what he already knows: He's become weak-hearted, possibly depressed, and complacent with things he really doesn't enjoy (such as t.v., drinking, staying by himself and alone) instead of living his life as he know he should. Hence the cat being named "Virtue", or what he knows is right, yet not paying enough attention to his own sense of virtue, as echoed in the very first line, "Why don't you ever want to play?". I won't go line by line, but suffice to say the meaning is there if you look well enough. Truly an inspiring song.

Great song | Reviewer: Alec
    ------ About the song Plea From A Cat Named Virtue performed by The Weakerthans

It's a fantastic song, but you fellows know that it isn't really a song from a cat's POV, right? Think more inter-personal relationship. Perhaps old John Sampson had some girl troubles? As for the Girlie drinks & Parlour Games, he's trying to tell this woman to go out, stop being so introspective, and do what she once did. Live.

The Cat's point of view is just a brilliant way to achieve this fly-on-the-wall observation point for this troubled woman.

Or I could be wrong, and he just really connects with his cat. Could be, I suppose.

So | Reviewer: Michael
    ------ About the song Plea From A Cat Named Virtue performed by The Weakerthans

what's that bit in the middle about Cold War and card catalogues, do you think, and the girlie drinks and parlour games? Seems it drifts there somewhat, which is a shame in terms of artistic efficiency.

Michael II

its so raw | Reviewer: Charlotte
    ------ About the song Utilities performed by The Weakerthans

II love this song from the first time ii heard it ii just cant get over the lyrics; "ii just wish ii were a toothbrush or a soldier gun & got more faults than the state of california", they are so entrancing.

Maybe? | Reviewer: Chup
    ------ About the song One Great City performed by The Weakerthans

I don't think he actually hates Winnipeg. If all those people hate it, why are they still there? He hates it like I hate my hometown, only to complain, but really he likes it. The last verse is the about the only who really hates Winnipeg, the business man killing the North End and what it has to offer to bring "new better things." He is the only one who says he loves it, because he's turning a profit, but like the song says, his actions show how he really feels about the city. If he loved it he wouldn't be doing what he does, which is why I think the last "I hate Winnipeg" is so drawn out.

Sun in a empty room | Reviewer: Charles
    ------ About the song Sun In An Empty Room performed by The Weakerthans

Now that the furniture's returning to its goodwill home
With dishes and last week's papers
Rumors and elections,
Crosswords and unending wars
The black in our fingers smeared the prints on every door pulled shut
Now that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit

Take this moment to decide (sun in an empty room)
If we meant it, if we tried (sun in an empty room)
Or felt around for far too much (sun in an empty room)
For things that accidentally touch (sun in an empty room)

Hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the GST
The shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology
The shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry
The faces we meet one awkward beat too long and terrified

Know the things we need to say (sun in an empty room)
And said already anyways (sun in an empty room)
By parallelograms of light (sun in an empty room)
On walls that we repainted white (sun in an empty room)

Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room

Take eight minutes and divide (sun in an empty room)
By ninety million lonely miles (sun in an empty room)
Watch his shadow cross the floor (sun in an empty room)
We don't live here anymore (sun in an empty room)


winnipeg | Reviewer: Anonymous
    ------ About the song One Great City performed by The Weakerthans

I live in winnipeg.. and i living in winnipeg feels like a constant carride where you sit in the backseat staring out at the dead trees and snow,and cry because even in a city so dead, theres someone alive enough to break my heart


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