The Weakerthans Band • Page 10

Do we know what he is up to these days? New music anytime soon?

 

One of my favorite jks songs of all time

 

In 2006, he and his wife Christine Fellows recorded The Old House, an album intended as a Christmas gift for friends and family. They eventually released two songs, "Taps Reversed" and "Good Salvage", for airplay on CBC Radio 3 in 2007.

Saw this on John's wiki page, and I assume that album never made it online at all?

 

Reconstruction Site clicked with me for the first time this week.

I finally get why everyone likes this band.

 

The song that clinched it for me was Benediction. I don’t know why but that steel guitar is masterful, plus Amy Millan from Stars sings harmonies.

 

The dude made a heart-crushing 90 second song about a fictional cat. he's a legend.

 

RIP Virtute.

I almost changed my avatar the other day... decided to keep it.

 

keep it forever

 

vivat virtute

 

Please come back

 

John and Craig Finn have a song on this covers comp. They played this on their tour last year and it’s great.

 

!!!!!!!

 

This John K. Samson Song Will Keep You Warm Through the Winter

 

Is Reconstruction Site the greatest album of all time? Maybe.

 

If Left and Leaving didn't exist, maybe!

 

It's wild how much the Weakerthans make me look at almost every other band and wish that they could be this good at writing lyrics/songs, even bands I love.

EDIT:
Woah, I'm just realizing that the version of Everything Must Go that I've been listening to forever is apparently not the real album version?

 

I really thought I had tracked down every Weakerthans recording but I’ve never heard this before.

 

That's crazy, I'm playing the albums on bandcamp and have never heard the real version I guess

 

This is the version that’s on Apple Music, and the only version I’ve heard too.

 

That is definitely not the version that is on the LP and CD version.

 

what version have you been listening to? this is what I've always heard and I'm pretty sure what's on my LP too. I'll check when I get home.

means nothing but it's driving me crazy that the image for the video is Reconstruction Site

 

Thats the one I’ve been listening to. The one on bandcamp is new to me

 

yup, I was confused. holy shit, this is blowing my mind.

 

I've never heard this version before haha wtf