The Northern Pikes - She Ain't Pretty (SUPERSCALED TO 4K) 🇨🇦

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From their platinum album "Snow In June" and written by Bryan Potvin, he said, "I actually came up with the hook for that song at Doug Chappell’s house. His daughter and I were later married, but we were still dating at that time, and the Chappells were always super nice about having me stay at their house when I had some time off. (Chappell was the A&R rep from Virgin records that signed the band)

“That particular evening I was tucked into my little hide-a-bed in Doug’s guest room,” he recalls with a laugh, “just flippin’ channels, and I came across an episode of Rhoda, which of course was a spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

“In a very general sense, there was a conversation going on between an attractive woman and a not so attractive woman. One woman said, ‘Look at you. What could possibly be wrong with your life?’ And the other woman replied, ‘I’m not really beautiful, I just look that way.’

“Well, I thought that was pretty funny, so I wrote it down in my little notebook and went to bed. Later, one day while I was sitting at home, I took out my notebook, saw that line again, and it sort of jumped out at me. I jammed it out pretty quickly, and what I wound up with was “She Ain’t Pretty.”

When it came time for the Pikes to discuss new demos, Potvin was initially reluctant to share the song with his bandmates.

“I remember when we had our pre-demo meetings, we’d go to someone’s house, bring some acoustic guitars, and kind of swap what we had been working on. I almost didn’t play it for the guys because it’s kind of goofy and I think I was embarrassed by it back then. I mean, the song is pretty rollicking, and it’s just got that bar room rock thing to it, which we weren’t really doing a ton of yet. Anyway, I did play it for them and luckily they thought it was great. We took it to the label, everyone there agreed that it was the obvious hit, and so we all sort of looked at each other and said, ‘Okay, let’s roll with it!’”

Certified platinum in Canada, “She Ain’t Pretty” was a massive success. Nominated for 3 Juno Awards in 1991 (Group of The Year, Single of The Year, and Best Video), the song ultimately became the biggest hit of the Pikes’ career.