Can-rock 90s: Pluto – “When She Was Happy”

An odd hobby of mine is trying to find old 90s Can-rock videos on youtube. These are the bands they used to play all the time on the Vancouver rock station 99.3 “the Fox.” Listening to these songs now, I can’t believe a lot of these bands got record deals, but man did I ever love them back then. It should be noted that Nickelback could have easily fallen into this category had they not, you know, sold ass-loads of records. I saw them play free gigs in various record shops around Vancouver and they were lucky if more than a couple dozen people showed up.

This is the second single from the Vancouver band Pluto’s major-label debut. They were one of the first bands signed to Mint Records, along with cub and Tankhog. But somewhere along the way Virgin signed them and they put out a self-titled record that did pretty well on radio, and this video, along with their one for “Paste,” did alright on Much Music as well. They released one last album, that kind of sucked, but had the excellent song “The Goodbye Girl” on it. You can download it all via their myspace page.