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 to date, 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.
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