Biography:
Rheostatics are a Canadian indie rock band. Although they had only one Top 40 hit (Claire in 1995), they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and most unconventional rock bands in the 1990s, a band whose defiantly quirky, yet compelling, take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic.
They played their farewell concert to a sold-out house at Toronto's Massey Hall on March 30, 2007. Sound board recordings of that and many other shows are available (with permission) at http://rheostaticslive.
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Other songs:
- Aliens Christmas 1988
- Bad Time To Be Poor
- California Dreamline
- Claire
- Dead Is The Drunkest You Can Get
- Dope Fiends And Boozehounds
- Horses
- Introducing Happiness
- It
- King Of The Past
- Legal Age Life At Variety Store
- Lyings Wrong
- Making Progress
- Mumbletypeg
- My First Rock Concert
- Northern Wish
- Queer
- Record Body Count
- Saskatchewan
- Self Serve Gas Station
- Take Me In Your Hand
- The Ballad Of Wendel Clark
- The Harmelodian Anthem
- We Went West
- When Winter Comes
- You Are A Treasure
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Dope Fiends and Boozehounds
By: Dave Bidini, Janet Morassutti and Martin Tielli
On the albums "Whale Music" and "Double Live"
Both are pretty much the same:
1) Kevin's way:
E-----------------------------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------------------------|
G----8--------9-----------8---11--------8-------------------|
D-------9-------------9--------------9--------6-----7-----9-|
A----------7------7---------------7---------0-----0-----0---|
E-0---------------------------------------------------------|
2) Aaron's way:
E ---------0-----0-2-------0-0--------------|
B -------0-----0---------0-----0---------0--|
G -----1---------------1---------1-2-1-2----|
D ---2--------------------------------------|
A ------------------------------------------|
E -0---------0-------0----------------------|
E
A sick sense of memory
A
Runs a river near a road
E
That travels up the parkway,
A
Getting frozen in the snow
E
Where what you see is what you see...
And only some will know
A
Where the ragged people go.
Where the boozehounds bay,
D G
By the banks of the reservoir.
E
Crows climb higher
From their old familiar yard.
E
The best thing in heaven
Is supposed to be the sun
That shines between two mountains
And melts the Devil's gun,
And what you see is what you see...
And only some will know
A
Where the ragged people go.
A
Down here on Kipling,
D G
Where the streetlamps light the way, hey,
E
There's talk of a reunion
Of the ones who didn't stay.
E
Why didn't they stay here
A D G
And help me shovel the walk?
(Why didn't they stay here?)
E
A sick sense of melody
A
Is what I hear when I'm alone.
E
And I love it more than misery,
A
And I love it more than home,
And I cry 'cause I'm not with it,
C#5
Even though I've never been...
A
Where the dope fiends laugh
And say it's too soon,
E
And they all go home and listen to
The Dark Side of the Moon.
Dope Fiends ending
E-D
E-C#
E-C-B
E-D
E-C#
E-C
By: Dave Bidini, Janet Morassutti and Martin Tielli
On the albums "Whale Music" and "Double Live"
Both are pretty much the same:
1) Kevin's way:
E-----------------------------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------------------------|
G----8--------9-----------8---11--------8-------------------|
D-------9-------------9--------------9--------6-----7-----9-|
A----------7------7---------------7---------0-----0-----0---|
E-0---------------------------------------------------------|
2) Aaron's way:
E ---------0-----0-2-------0-0--------------|
B -------0-----0---------0-----0---------0--|
G -----1---------------1---------1-2-1-2----|
D ---2--------------------------------------|
A ------------------------------------------|
E -0---------0-------0----------------------|
E
A sick sense of memory
A
Runs a river near a road
E
That travels up the parkway,
A
Getting frozen in the snow
E
Where what you see is what you see...
And only some will know
A
Where the ragged people go.
Where the boozehounds bay,
D G
By the banks of the reservoir.
E
Crows climb higher
From their old familiar yard.
E
The best thing in heaven
Is supposed to be the sun
That shines between two mountains
And melts the Devil's gun,
And what you see is what you see...
And only some will know
A
Where the ragged people go.
A
Down here on Kipling,
D G
Where the streetlamps light the way, hey,
E
There's talk of a reunion
Of the ones who didn't stay.
E
Why didn't they stay here
A D G
And help me shovel the walk?
(Why didn't they stay here?)
E
A sick sense of melody
A
Is what I hear when I'm alone.
E
And I love it more than misery,
A
And I love it more than home,
And I cry 'cause I'm not with it,
C#5
Even though I've never been...
A
Where the dope fiends laugh
And say it's too soon,
E
And they all go home and listen to
The Dark Side of the Moon.
Dope Fiends ending
E-D
E-C#
E-C-B
E-D
E-C#
E-C
Rhii
Rhoma Irama
Rhonda Vincent
Rhose
Rhyman