Sam Roberts - Where Have All The Good People Gone？

What this video is

Released in 2003 as the lead single from 'We Were Born in a Flame' (Universal Music Canada), this video arrived at a pivotal moment for Canadian rock. MuchMusic's CanCon mandate created a domestic ecosystem where acts like Sam Roberts — emerging from the Montreal indie circuit — could achieve genuine national mass exposure. The song had originally appeared on Roberts' independently released debut EP 'The Inhuman…

Why it matters

A landmark artefact of the early-2000s Canadian indie-to-mainstream pipeline. 'Where Have All The Good People Gone?' charted as the 12th most-played song on Canadian rock radio across a two-decade span, making this video a primary visual document of that cultural moment. It exemplifies the…