The WeakerthansBest The Weakerthans Albums Ranked
7.0
Avg Score
6
Opinions
5
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated The Weakerthans’s catalog across 5 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 7.0/10. The top-rated The Weakerthans album is Reconstruction Site (2003) with a 7.2/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Left and Leaving and Reunion Tour. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2000 to 2007.
Left and Leaving
“The stupidest preachment in popular culture: "Punk is dead."The second stupidest preachment in popular culture: "Punk lives." John Samson is a couple records deep into his career as strongest of the Weakerthans, a band who are punk politically, but emphatically pop aesthetically. Regardless, the "punk: dead or alive?" quandary will likely dog him forever. Samson played bass in Propagandhi who wer”
Reunion Tour
“Led by ex-Propagandhi bassist John K. Samson, this Canadian band shares the literary storytelling and slightly nasal vocals of such singer/songwriters as the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle and John Vanderslice.”
Reconstruction Site
“It's not the music that's the most notable aspect of *Reconstruction Site*, the third full length from sensitive Canadian rockers The Weakerthans: it's the album art, by fellow Winnipegian Marcel Dzama. His absurdist root-beer watercolors connect the quartet to an idiosyncratic landscape inhabited by reclining bears, drably dressed doppelgangers, and people in red without torsos; across the tan ex”