Moxy Früvous

Moxy Früvous was a socially conscious and politically satirical folk-pop band from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. The band was founded in 1989, and was active throughout the 1990s. Common themes in Früvous songs include Canada and the "human experience". The band formed in 1989 when Jian Ghomeshi, Murray Foster and Mike Ford, former classmates at the local Thornlea Secondary School and playing in a pub band called The Chia Pets at the time, joined w... more

Moxy Früvous was a socially conscious and politically satirical folk-pop band from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. The band was founded in 1989, and was active throughout the 1990s. Common themes in Früvous songs include Canada and the "human experience". The band formed in 1989 when Jian Ghomeshi, Murray Foster and Mike Ford, former classmates at the local Thornlea Secondary School and playing in a pub band called The Chia Pets at the time, joined with David Matheson to busk in Toronto. They drew unusually large crowds, and, eventually, the attention of Toronto-based CBC Radio, which commissioned songs about political and local issues for the radio show Later the Same Day. Some songs written for the show later appeared on their albums; these songs include "The Gulf War Song" and "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors", which was written for a Toronto authors' festival. They cut a six-song demo tape in 1992, and their first major-label album, Bargainville, was released the next year. Its... less