Left and Leaving

Infobox Album
Name = Left and Leaving
Type = Album
Artist = The Weakerthans


Released = July 25, 2000
Recorded = February-April 2000
Genre = Indie-rock
Length = 51:46
Label = G7 Welcoming Committee Records
Producer = Ian Blurton
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oyd2vwria9yk~T1 link]
Last album = Fallow
(1997)
This album = "Left and Leaving"
(2000)
Next album = "Watermark EP"
(2001)

"Left and Leaving" is an album by The Weakerthans, released July 25, 2000 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records.

In "Chart" magazine's 2005 poll of the Top 50 Canadian albums of all time, "Left and Leaving" ranked in sixth place, behind only Sloan, Joni Mitchell, Broken Social Scene and two albums by Neil Young. It was also nominated for Alternative Album of the Year at the 2001 Juno Awards.

"Aside" appears on the soundtrack of the film "Wedding Crashers".

A punked-up alternate version of this album's "My Favourite Chords", retitled "My Favourite Power Chords", appears on G7 Welcoming Committee's 2005 promotional compilation "Take Penacilin Now".

Epitaph Records, the band's current label, announced plans to re-release "Left and Leaving" (along with Fallow) in Canada on November 6, 2007.cite web | last = Van Evra | first = Jennifer | title = Epitaph To Re-Release Weakerthans Classics | publisher = CBC Radio 3 | date = 2007-10-24 | url = http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2007/10/Epitaph-To-Re-Release-Weakerthans-Classics | format = Web | accessdate = 2007-10-25]

Track listing

#"Everything Must Go!" – 4:35
#"Aside" – 3:21
#"Watermark" – 2:38
#"Pamphleteer" – 5:16
#"This Is a Fire Door, Never Leave Open" – 5:07
#"Without Mythologies" – 3:12
#"Left and Leaving" – 4:45
#"Elegy for Elsabet" – 6:20
#"History to the Defeated" – 3:55
#"Exiles Among You" – 5:11
#"My Favourite Chords" – 4:27
#"Slips and Tangles" – 3:00

References