You Were Here is the second self-financed/self-released solo album from Sarah Harmer, though it became her first to be released on a major label when Universal Music picked it up. Many of the songs on You Were Here were previously recorded by her earlier bands, The Saddletramps and Weeping Tile, including the singles "Don't Get Your Back Up," "Basement Apt." and "Weakened State" (the middle of which is also included on this list of Great Canadian Songs).
You Were Here ranked #35 in Chart Magazine's 2005 poll, #24 in Bob Merserau's The Top 100 Canadian Albums from 2007 and #56 in CBC Radio's 2013 list of the Greatest Canadian Albums Ever, and was greeted warmly by the critics:
My friend Frank Huntley first introduced me to Sarah Harmer when he went off to Queen's University in the late 80s and discovered The Saddletramps. I was hooked by the Yardsale cassette, so followed Harmer's career into Weeping Tile, and then, a decade on, when she went solo. (This fascination with Harmer also led me to Luther Wright and the Wrongs, and their marvellous recreation of Pink Floyd's The Wall, but that's a story for another time.)
| Hometown: | Burlington |
| Label: | Cold Snap Records |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2000 |
| Producer: | Sarah Harmer, Peter Prilesnik |
| Style: | folk rock |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not exist |
| Mar*Star 150: | 27 |
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