Artist · chart history
I Mother Earth
Band Toronto Canada Canadian rock band
I Mother Earth formed in Toronto, Canada. I Mother Earth has 27 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2012. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “One More Astronaut”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #29. The station that charted I Mother Earth most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 22 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
I Mother Earth came out of Toronto with a sound too restless to sit neatly in the alternative rock bin: loose-limbed grooves, guitars that wander off into long, spacey detours, and choruses that snap back just in time. The founding core of Christian Tanna and Jagori Tanna, with Edwin alongside them and Bruce Gordon joining in 1993, made their first statement with Dig that year, which carried "So Gently We Go" and "Not Quite Sonic".
Scenery and Fish, in 1996, is the high-water mark, the record where "One More Astronaut", "Used To Be Alright" and "Another Sunday" all found their way onto the radio, and between 1996 and 2016 they ranked among the top 40 best-selling Canadian bands at home. Edwin was out by 1997 and Brian Byrne came in for Blue Green Orange in 1999, with "Summertime In The Void", and The Quicksilver Meat Dream followed in 2003 with "Like The Sun". After an eight-year break they reunited in 2012, and "We Got the Love" marked the return.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by I Mother Earth on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One More Astronaut | 6 | #29 | – | – | |
| 2 | Used To Be Alright | 4 | #95 | – | – | |
| 3 | Another Sunday | 3 | #149 | – | – | |
| 4 | Not Quite Sonic | 6 | #168 | – | – | |
| 5 | So Gently We Go | 2 | #175 | – | – | |
| 6 | Summertime In The Void | 2 | #58 | – | – | |
| 7 | Rain Will Fall | 1 | #595 | – | – | |
| 8 | Raspberry | 1 | #693 | – | – | |
| 9 | Like The Sun | 1 | #72 | – | 2003 | |
| 10 | We Got the Love | 1 | #43 | – | 2012 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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