"There is, without a doubt, no better book on the rise of popular Canadian music in the 1980s and 90s than Have Not Been The Same. . . . The exhaustively researched and referenced text gives readers a front- row seat to the spectacle of the burgeoning Canadian rock and pop music scene as it began to exert significant influence internationally for the first time ever. . . . Have Not Been The Same tells the story of a country learning to love the sound of its own voice. Recommended."