Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.
Faites votre choix.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 08:30 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-t8W4X8Obo
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 28 March 2015 11:02 (nine years ago) link
funny, I came here to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofChsLBfBp0
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Saturday, 28 March 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/kS138NuLRzU
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 March 2015 11:29 (nine years ago) link
I think 'This Is The Ice Age' by Martha & The Muffins has played a large role in determining what comes to my mind when I think of Canada, but I don't know much about Canada and have never been there
― soref, Saturday, 28 March 2015 11:48 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard that!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga9UPYNfpqM
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 March 2015 13:28 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 March 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IokkPlY2HOY
― ρεμπετις, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCPYO-qzLTs
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFPt001PYU
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4cFMVfnCE
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlEqO_MA04
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Kroll's Canadian accent is p. classic.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young's "Journey Through the Past"Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind"Ian & Sylvia's "Four Strong Winds"Bruce Cockburn's "Goin' Down the Road"
There are Lightfoot songs more specifically Canadian. But they're not as good.
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 March 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxJvrD80nJ4
― MarkoP, Saturday, 28 March 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f389hIxZAOc
― jmm, Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8
― MarkoP, Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Good an excuse as any to post this from SCTV.
https://youtu.be/kZlrrwUIwcE
― that's not my post, Monday, 30 March 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvNk52mXiU
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 30 March 2015 04:02 (eight years ago) link
Re: Lightfoot on SCTV... is that really Rick Moranis? That's up there with Jim Carry as Clint Eastwood. Spooky.
― Adam J Duncan, Monday, 30 March 2015 08:21 (eight years ago) link
northwest passage
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Monday, 30 March 2015 11:41 (eight years ago) link
Rheostatics - Northern Wish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkcqGxtbBtQ
― softspool, Monday, 30 March 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
I thought it was "Helpless," but what do I know?
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
Sorry to hijack your thread, but it is kind of on-topic.
Does anyone remember a song by a popular (Canadian) band that references IGA? I thought it might've been Rheostatics, but I don't recall.
Anyway, when I first heard it, that sounded like the most Canadian thing to me at that time, even though I now realise IGA is not really Canadian.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 30 March 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Can't find a more suitable thread...Coming back from Toronto tonight, I was listening to one of those "'70s at seven" shows and they played something I hadn't heard for almost 50 years: "Linda, Put the Coffee On." The DJ didn't say who it was, so I was very impressed with myself for retrieving Ray Materick's name from some synapse up there. Wasn't in the Doors--checked Wikipedia and he's from Brantford (still alive), which I passed on the way home.
I don't think I hated it in 1974; I was 13, so more likely it was a complete blank. It wasn't K-Tel or Alice Cooper or the Guess Who or anything else that caught my ear back then. Sounded pretty good tonight: kind of a rough-hewn vocal falling somewhere between singer-songwriter and country crossover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzTRyD5k8t0
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
Something about his particular vocal timbre (plus the era, of course) makes me think that this sounds like something that could've been on Tumbleweed Connection.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
The most Canadian song is bilingual, obv.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm622tnjmjM
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
(xpost) Canadians sometimes blatantly imitated stateside artists (cf. Joey Gregorash's CCR imitation, "Jodie"), so that's as good a guess as any as to what he may have been aiming for.
This is really puzzling: no listing for him in the The CHUM Chart Book. That's the only possible way I would know the song. It was definitely played on there, but evidently not enough to make their Top 30.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
"Johnny Go" is trilingual if you count "amigos"!
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
I came up with an argument once for why Lawrence Gowan is the most Canadian artist: born in the UK, currently working for Americans, bilingual with an accent, overeducated and moderately progressive but blatantly commercial
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
successful but a bit player in international terms
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
He's a strange...never mind.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
That's what I know.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
You almost convinced me, Sund4r.
As is widely known, however, the real answer is Céline Dion.
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
I thought this thread was going to be about this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQF5xuLrjpY
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
No offense if you're a fan, Sund4r, but long ago, when I was writing for Nerve in Toronto, the editor--a punk, Jesus & Mary Chain-type guy--interviewed Gowan for another publication, one that paid, after which Gowan and awakening the giant became a long-standing inside joke.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Just makes him all the more Canadian
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
(I do have an affection for bubblegum prog and loved his hits when I was in elementary school but wouldn't describe myself as a big fan.)
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Moses Znaimer's Zoomer (ugh)station is a repository of minor Canadian hits I haven't heard for almost 50 years (see above). Coming home tonight, two back-to-back:
"Dunrobin's Gone," Brave Belt"Passing Time," Bearfoo
Came up with the title of the first, but not the artist (I might have with some more time--it was a post-Guess Who, pre-BTO Randy Bachman band); drew a complete blank on the second (started thinking it was Elvin Bishop for some reason).
The fact that these songs got onto CHUM and other Canadian Top 40 stations, and hung around for a few weeks on their playlists and charts, precludes calling them obscure--they were a little more visible than some buried track on a Pebbles compilation. But they sure are forgotten.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 October 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
Bearfoot...
When I was a kid, my mom always had CFRB AM radio on (70s MOR). The only Randy Bachman associated songs I remember them playing were the Brave Belt song you mention and Looking Out for No 1 by BTO, it gave me a distorted soft-rock picture of Randy's oeuvre.
Never heard or even heard of Bearfoot, this song might as well be from 1873 for all the current resonance it (doesn't) have.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 24 October 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
Another old Canadian, alright...Another one from that moment I associate with the Guess Who/BTO/Brave Belt is Scrubbalo Caine's "Feelin' Good on Sunday"--the Guess Who's Jim Kale was in the band, and I saw them open for the GW at Exhibition Stadium circa 1974.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
That song and band I only know because it was the theme song for Psychedelic Psunday on Q107. CFRB and Q107 are the two poles of my knowledge of pre-1980 Canrock.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 24 October 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhEA4vGbvBs
― earlnash, Saturday, 24 October 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
Come on you all, it's obviously "The Rodeo Song"
― Lee626, Friday, 30 October 2020 06:16 (three years ago) link
Heard this the other day for the first time in ages: Steel River, Toronto band circa 1970, better known for "Ten Pound Note" and "Southbound Train." I thought at first it was Bob McBride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kW0OfXdSVI
― clemenza, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
I know the two songs you mentioned, but never heard this one. It does indeed sound most Canadian.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 27 March 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
Dunno, the obvious missing artist here would be the Hip: I don’t love either song, but “Ahead by a Century” or “Bobcaygeon” seem like obvious picks.....
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
those are great and everything but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9wW9ENBPlQ
because "You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey/And I never saw someone say that before" is the most Canadian thing I've ever heard.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
Heh, I too would be very curious to know what the exact criteria are here. Angèle Dubeau is *the* classical crossover act par excellence in Quebec btw, or so it seems to me. A massive step up from the likes of André Rieu in Europe. Irvin Blais does not ring a bell, but that’s to be expected given my usual blind spots.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 March 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link
Has anyone already made a definitive playlist of "[this Canadian city/province] sucks" songs?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, March 27, 2021 4:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i can get into this, ha!
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 28 March 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_r5zXOnKio
― Kim, Sunday, 28 March 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
My man Stan Rogers:
Ontario, y’know I’ve seen a place I’d rather beYour scummy lakes and the city of Toronto don’t do a damn thing for meI’d rather live by the sea.
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Sunday, 28 March 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
In "Thoughts on a Rainy Afternoon", Bruce Cockburn asks "Jesus don't let Toronto take my song away".
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 28 March 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
Joel Plaskett dumps on Kelowna in “I Love This Town”
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, March 27, 2021 4:45 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
isn't grapes of wrath's backward town also about kelowna?
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 28 March 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
this all reminds me that the arrogant worms must have a few contenders for the thread concept
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Sunday, 28 March 2021 03:15 (three years ago) link
also, it seems like most songs about vancouver being crap are about e hastings, so my vote goes to hot hot heat's yvr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOeTRurNG6E
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 28 March 2021 03:15 (three years ago) link
Weakerthans One Great City seems almost insincere in its hate, but it still fits the sub theme here I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlsjEP7L-k
Main topic - Besides Mitsou, there was also The Box with a few hits that bridged the language border.
― Kim, Sunday, 28 March 2021 04:01 (three years ago) link
One Great City is obviously a love letter disguised as a hate letter. Def still fits the sub theme.
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 28 March 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
Similar conflicted hate vein from Spookey Ruben - Leave The City. I assume it’s about Toronto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPSk92DiwU
― Kim, Sunday, 28 March 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
Some days this one feels most Ontarian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ
― Kim, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
it definitely would not be a french song!
― xzanfar, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
Glad one of the Three Dead Trolls could join us.
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Monday, 29 March 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
― Lee626, Thursday, October 29, 2020 11:16 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
i agree with this one
alternatively log driver's waltz
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 March 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
"Log Driver's Waltz" ("La valse du maître draveur") might actually satisfy both pom and my Albertan friend!
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
If we’re going animated, “Black Fly”.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
xp And girls. It pleases them completely.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
OTM
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
I'm definitely out of my league here, but for me, this one that Kim posted must be the Most Canadian song.
https://i.imgur.com/isvPOwC.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 02:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJemHKzRQY
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
Questionable track really but it's got some poetic moments, kudos to its songwriter:
Mississauga peopleCarry the weight of common evilAnd go about their lives with a whisper and a whineAbout Mississauga goddam
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
C'est the season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0r0_urwo8
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
I think we found it.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
powerful stuff
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
+1 we're done here!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
holy shit
― rob, Friday, 2 April 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
absolutely voting for this in the 77, come back and fp me if I don't
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 2 April 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
i didn't think the perfect song existed.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
Was Northwest Passage posted?
Because it is Northwest Passage.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
Did you watch 'Income Tax' tho?
Because it is 'Income Tax'.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
I never vote for tracks in the 77 but next year I will post a ballot containing only this song, come back and FP me if I don't.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
Yeah it's Income Tax
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Lol
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:25 (two years ago) link
Sublime guitar solo, to boot.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
this is like if bill wurtz wrote a good song
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:37 (two years ago) link
Friggen A
― Kim, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:46 (two years ago) link
I think the song is from 2020, unfortunately.
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSffz_bl6zo
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 3 April 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
year of impact! xp
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 April 2021 02:16 (two years ago) link
acadian boy summer
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 April 2021 02:17 (two years ago) link
Jesus that song is amazing
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 3 April 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
P'tit Belliveau record is p good!
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 April 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
I couldn't figure out where the best place to post this, but somehow I did not know until today that the Canadian supermarket chain No Frills put out a rap album late last year:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDipchuzGnI
― MarkoP, Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
I did know about this, wish I didn't
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 May 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link
Someone at head office is trying to take advantage of having to buy public performance licences for their stores. I've never heard this while I've been shopping there, though; grocery shopping is basically my only exposure to the music that most people listen to.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 27 May 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3ubZ6fu3I
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 May 2021 09:07 (two years ago) link
I don’t think it’s going to be a title winner in this thread, but kinda want to give a shout out to the multiple songs by Maestro Fresh Wes that incorporate/sample specifically Canadian rock hits (Haywire, Guess Who, Gowan, maybe more?)
― Kim, Thursday, 27 May 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
i try to avoid no frills - crap produce, the local one is owned by an infamous slumlord family - although it is the closest grocery store to me and my immediate neighbourhood is a slight food desert, but i do end up going there for necessaries once in a while, toilet roll or that sort of thing. have definitely never heard this music before.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 May 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
I spoke too soon, I heard "Bag It Up" at No Frills this morning, and I realized I had heard it there before.
I never realized that Maestro's "Drop the Needle" samples "Dance Desire" by Haywire. Though I am not and never have been a Haywire fan, I always thought that it was neat the way the guitar riff and bassline play off of each other in the intro of that song.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 28 May 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link