“The Stand” by Mother Mother

"The Stand" led the charge for Eureka, the third album by Canadian indie rockers Mother Mother, as its lead single on Last Gang Records in 2011, and it's Ryan Guldemond's song through and through: he wrote it, plays guitar and produced it with Mike Fraser, who also mixed. Jeremy Page is on bass and Ali Siadat on drums, Shawn Penner engineered, and the whole band takes the arranging credit.

It became the first Mother Mother song to reach the Canadian Hot 100, peaking at 76. The video stages a therapy session in a white room: Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin, in odd outfits and wild hairdos, counsel Ryan from the facing couch while the things they discuss appear as pictures on the walls.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.