a coherent and unified vision. Bobby Baker of The Tragically Hip remarked in 1997, "I think maybe they're a little too good for their own good." Critical reception In a 1996 reader poll published by Chart to determine the 100 best Canadian albums, Whale Music placed fifth, behind only Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Tragically Hip and Sloan. Their album Melville placed sixteenth. When the magazine conducted a follow up poll in 2000, Whale Music placed fourth and Melville placed fifth. In the 2005 poll, Whale Music placed tenth, becoming one of six albums to place in the top ten all three times, and Melville placed 44th. In all of the magazine's three polls, Neil Young is the only other artist to have achieved the distinction of placing two albums in the top five in the same year. In Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums, Whale Music ranked nineteenth and Melville was ranked 38th. In June 2009, Rheostatics and Eric's Trip were the first artists to be inducted into Zunior's Independent Music Hall of Fame. The official illustration of the group, by Trevor Waurechen, depicts Bidini, Clark, Hearn, Kerr, Tielli, Vesely and Wojewoda. Member timeline Legacy Australian novelist Patrick Holland claimed the 'gas station' scene from his novel The Mary Smokes Boys was inspired by Whale Music'''s 'Self Serve Gas Station'. Discography Studio albumsGreatest Hits, 1987Melville, 1991Whale Music, 1992Music from The Motion Picture Whale Music, 1994Introducing Happiness, 1994Music Inspired by the Group of Seven, 1995The Blue Hysteria, 1996The Nightlines Sessions, 1998The Story of Harmelodia, 1999Night of the Shooting Stars, 20012067, 2004Here Come the Wolves, 2019 Live albumsDouble Live, 1997The Whale Music Concert, 1992, 2005Calling Out the Chords, Vol. 1, 2005Green Sprouts Music Week 1993, 2012Brave New Waves Session, 2017 Other releasesMy Generation/Satellite Dancing, 1981, 7" vinylRheostatics TV, Vol. 1, 1998, VHSRheostatics TV, Vol. 2, 1998, VHSMaple Serum: Rheostatics Live at the Horseshoe Tavern, 2003, DVDPornography, 2004, Digital audio Compilation inclusionsSMASH '83, 1983 ("Thank You")Brave New Waves, 1991 ("Dope Fiends and Boozehounds")Moose: The Compilation, 1991 ("Woodstuck")Borrowed Tunes, 1994 ("Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (with The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir))Truck Songs: Volume 1, 1995 ("Secret Red Canoe")CBC Radio 3 Sessions, Vol. 1, 2004 ("Harmelodia (Easy to Be with You)")The Rough Guide to the Music of Canada, 2005 ("Seven/Northern Wish")Superhero Suite'', 2019 ("Waiting for a Superman") References External links Rheostatics Rheostatics Live Musical groups established in 1978 Musical groups disestablished in