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
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Queer
Written by Dave Bidini and Dave Clark
On the album "Whale Music"
[G] You woke the wrecking yard hounds when you [C] slammed the passenger [G] side.
And father watched you [Em] from the yard with his [D] knuckles wrapped in [G] ice.
[G] Now the screen door is still broken since you [C] kicked your Kodiacs [G] through it.
But we left the Christmas tree [Em] standing, in [D] case you turned a [G] round.
[G] Now I've heard you got a good job pitching [C] hay down in Salmon [G] Arm
Maybe I'll hike there [Em] from the coast when the [D] weather starts to [G] warm
[G] k.d. called on the weekend. She was [C] crying on the tele [G] phone.
'Cause Father said as far as [Em] he's concerned, you've been [D] stricken from our [G] home.
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head.
Sometimes [D] choices aren't so [C] clear.
[G] Father raged like a soldier. He put his [C] fist through the kitchen [G] door,
When I said it would have been [Em] better if you had [D] split on your own [G] accord.
[G] I don't care about the damage, but I [C] wish you were there to [G] see it
When I scored a hat trick [Em] on the team that [D] called you a fucking [G] queer.
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head.
Sometimes [D] choices aren't so [C] clear.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never feel.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never know.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never see.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never know.
Written by Dave Bidini and Dave Clark
On the album "Whale Music"
[G] You woke the wrecking yard hounds when you [C] slammed the passenger [G] side.
And father watched you [Em] from the yard with his [D] knuckles wrapped in [G] ice.
[G] Now the screen door is still broken since you [C] kicked your Kodiacs [G] through it.
But we left the Christmas tree [Em] standing, in [D] case you turned a [G] round.
[G] Now I've heard you got a good job pitching [C] hay down in Salmon [G] Arm
Maybe I'll hike there [Em] from the coast when the [D] weather starts to [G] warm
[G] k.d. called on the weekend. She was [C] crying on the tele [G] phone.
'Cause Father said as far as [Em] he's concerned, you've been [D] stricken from our [G] home.
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head.
Sometimes [D] choices aren't so [C] clear.
[G] Father raged like a soldier. He put his [C] fist through the kitchen [G] door,
When I said it would have been [Em] better if you had [D] split on your own [G] accord.
[G] I don't care about the damage, but I [C] wish you were there to [G] see it
When I scored a hat trick [Em] on the team that [D] called you a fucking [G] queer.
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head. (He's gone out of his head.)
[D] He's gone out of his [G] head.
Sometimes [D] choices aren't so [C] clear.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never feel.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never know.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never see.
Gonna find me another home; the things you'll never know.
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Rhoma Irama
Rhonda Vincent
Rhose
Rhyman
Riana Nel
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Ribelli
Ric Manrique Jr.
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