Artist · chart history
Mother Mother
Band Vancouver Canada Formed 2005
Mother Mother formed in 2005 in Vancouver, Canada. Mother Mother has 9 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2021. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Get Out the Way”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #18. The station that charted Mother Mother most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Mother Mother came together in British Columbia in 2005, originally calling themselves just Mother, and their self-titled debut, with a three-headed rooster on the cover, came back in 2007 under the new name as Touch Up, now with a five-headed rooster and some new songs. That taste for the gleefully weird has been with them ever since. Ryan Guldemond leads on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin handle vocals and keyboards, and Ali Siadat drums; Jeremy Page held down the bass for a decade before Mike Young took over in 2016.
Their indie rock is all nervy angles and sudden swerves, jittery guitars, stacked-up vocal harmonies and hooks that pop out of nowhere. O My Heart brought "Body of Years" in 2008, Eureka in 2011 had "The Stand" and "Baby Don't Dance", and The Sticks in 2012 served up "Let's Fall in Love". Very Good Bad Thing, released in November 2014 and in America through Def Jam the following spring, gave them "Get Out the Way", as twitchy and catchy as anything they had done.
They kept going with No Culture and Dance and Cry, home of "It's Alright", and then in late 2020 something strange happened: their songs went viral on TikTok and streams shot up. Inside, in 2021, rode that second wind with "I Got Love", and Grief Chapter and Nostalgia have followed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Mother Mother on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get Out the Way | 1 | #18 | – | – | |
| 2 | Monkey Tree | 1 | #37 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | The Stand | 1 | #50 | – | 2011 | |
| 4 | Body of Years | 1 | #59 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Baby Don't Dance | 1 | #70 | – | 2011 | |
| 6 | It's Alright | 1 | #71 | – | – | |
| 7 | Let's Fall in Love | 1 | #39 | – | 2012 | |
| 8 | I Got Love | 1 | #18 | – | 2021 | |
| 9 | Love Stuck | 1 | #79 | – | 2017 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | I Got Love | 102.1 The Edge The Top 21 of 2021 |
| 2020 | 18 | Get Out the Way | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s |
| 2020 | 71 | It's Alright | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s |
| 2017 | 79 | Love Stuck | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2017 |
| 2015 | 37 | Monkey Tree | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 |
| 2012 | 39 | Let's Fall in Love | 102.1 The Edge Top 50 New Rock Songs of 2012 |
| 2011 | 50 | The Stand | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 |
| 2011 | 70 | Baby Don't Dance | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 |
| 2009 | 59 | Body of Years | 102.1 The Edge The Top 102 of 2009 |
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