Best of Canada

Oh, Nickelback. Yay.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/msiart/0000813/0000813132_170.jpg

http://www.folktrax.com/truenorth/TND323.jpg

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/W/Wold/Screech%20Owl/Screech%20Owl.jpg

Yay Saskatchewan!

http://www.yorku.ca/ylife/2006/03-March/03-20/images/David_Mott.jpg

(Favourite thread ever, for a couple reasons.)

Oh, and...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GkoYn1eHL._AA240_.jpg

Can't forget this:

http://dawn.cbcr3.com/nmc/22/22492/Images/tired_uk_45.jpg

http://www.headpins.net/ccr/roster/photos/harlequin.jpg

(swimming with the tide for a moment)

(BTW, were you actually hoping for more responses from non-Canadians? I can fuck off.)

Well I figured mostly Canadians would post.
But I wanted to find out some Canadian bands are highly popular worldwide.
Excluding the obvious.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg200/g279/g27986e9yd5.jpg

(If you can't read the album title, it's "Stand Tall")

I'm not Canadian at all, and most of the posts in this thread are from me, so I wouldn't worry about it.

I just thought it would be fun to see what it was like to be Scott Seward.

http://www.vinylzart.com/images/AlbumCovers-AldoNova(1982).jpg

Does this guy count?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d738/d73824r175m.jpg

For Phil:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c619/c61968iwv8l.jpg

Here's a classic Baz pic from his Toronto scenester days, from an old issue of Metallion:

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb104/LongBlondAnimal/KidWikkidBaz.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e699/e69918tq2ri.jpg

Awesome!

What was supposed to go in the "one of the greatest Canadian metal albums of all Time" broken image, Adrien?

I hate hate cryptopsy mainly for the singer, and IF you could understand what he says, the lyrics also.

Oops, that's Simply Saucer's Cyborgs Revisited. An unbelievable album, part of which was recorded live on the roof of a Hamilton, Ont. shopping mall...and produced by Daniel Lanois.

Whoever sings on Once Was Not

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d011/d01105qg5ab.jpg

All music calls it "an earth-shatteringly important record," but unfortunately it's going for between $40 and $70.

They had a rather interesting synth scene for a while:
Men Without Hats
Kon Kan
Anything Box

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d073/d073246fh4k.jpg

Get it? Get it?

Anything Box are from New Jersey. That's in the United States. Not Canada.

Yeah! Hat's are overrated.
The fashion accessory that is.
The band is kick ass.

Simply Saucer's out there for cheap, it was reissued by Sonic Unyon in 2003 or so. Well worth it!

So it was! I'll keep an eye out.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg600/g697/g69745x0nxs.jpg

This thread is a lot of fun. Unearthing a lot of cool stuff. Who knew Canada was such a fertile country for ROCK?

I most certainly didn't!
Quite an eye-opener for me.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/60/da/6a5f4310fca0c30baae55010._AA200_.L.jpg

Voivod

DOA (Hardcore 81 anybody?)

Broken Social etc feisty
Weakerthans - Propagandhi
SNFU

The Nils (somebody on heare will tell you that the Foo Fighters ripped these off big style - doing 'it' way before Grohl was even in Scream)

The Constantines

CANADA'S A GREAT BAND

Heh, I wouldn't put Slik Toxic among great Cdn bands. Ugh. The early 90s were a dark period.

Whoops, Slik Toxik. Should brush up on the sleaze spelling.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f946/f94637vh5g6.jpg

I wouldn't either, Adrien. They're just funny.

Please accompany band suggestions with images. Thank you.

Yeah, what he said.

visual stimulation is much better

NOMEANSNO!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg200/g279/g27986e9yd5.jpg
My parents used to party with these guys and the lead singer's girlfriend babysat me (aka shoved me in her bedroom while they partied downstairs).. oh the 1980s, I miss you so!

FWIW my favourite Canadian musician is a friend, Lindi Ortega, who has a sort of Regina Spektor/Fiona Apple thing going on. We have lots of happy, peppy females with nice voices, Feist, Joni Mitchell, umm.. Peaches...

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Arcade Fire, Stars, The Dears, Wolf Parade, GYBE!. Not that I like any of them.

My vote goes to Bran Van 3000.

Nomeansno. But Rush had 10 pretty great years in 'em. (Maybe more - I haven't paid attention in years.) And I second the Voivod/Max Webster/Simply Saucer love.

And now: Home to my Kraft Dinner and Labatt Blue!

Sloan.

My favourites are (in no particular order):

DOA
Porcelain Forehead
Rent Boys, Inc.
King Cobb Steelie
Dave Howard Singers
Godspeed...
Broken Social Scene
Tim Hecker
Holy Fuck

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