Best of Canada

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.

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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.

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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!

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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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Old skool `Puppy, bitches!

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I am gonna consider these guys Canadian.

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Has to be Broken Social Scene. Closely followed by Arcade Fire.
A worthy mention to Trans-X for "Living in Video", a song that sounded as if it came from the future AND STILL DOES.

this isn't working. other frequent plays:
junior boys
manitoba
king khan/bbq
deadly snakes
propagandhi (seconded)

Yeah Broken Social Scene is one of the best.
I don't like the whole "Broken Social Scene Presents..." thing though.
They should stop pussyfooting and make another full force album.

That new Black Mountain album is also swell.

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These guys are severely underrated, this album in particular.

I would buy this record for the cover alone.

I would buy this record for the cover alone.

LOL, exactly the opposite for me.

Bootsauce ... there's a name I haven't heard in awhile. Howabout some other failed attempts at 90's commercial alt-rock? Crash Vegas? Frozen Ghost?

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How can you not like that cover?

holy hell, how hasn't anybody mentioned leonard cohen yet? leonard cohen, i think he should be the next governor general. or the mayor of montreal. our overabundance of singer-songwriters are not fit to touch the hem of his garment. oh, leonard.

Holy crap, LaMonte, that was what I was going to say. 8 minutes, like that one movie with that one guy from 90210.

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3 Inches of Blood = fail.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Arcade Fire, Stars, The Dears, Wolf Parade, GYBE!.

holy hell, how hasn't anybody mentioned leonard cohen yet?

These are reasons why I said this was my favourite thread!

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are amazing.

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 saw her at NXNE in 2005 -- good stuff.

Also saw Melissa McClelland that same week (at the launch party for the Six Shooter store) -- I'm surprised her last CD didn't make it to the U.S., because it's, well, it's in the same vein as Sarah Harmer but more ambitious and playful.

Also, I think Sam Roberts is really good as far as melodic rock -- structurally, lyrically, etc.

So all of that, coupled with an attraction to Sarah Slean that might take some defending, I'm basically a counterculture American who would be throughly happy living in mainstream Canadian culture.

Bootsauce ... there's a name I haven't heard in awhile. Howabout some other failed attempts at 90's commercial alt-rock?

The Odds were pretty darn good for at least half of one LP. Bootsauce was an utter abomination. (Even the Barenaked Ladies are preferable.)

It's been said before, but NOMEANSNO

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Who's that other hard-rockin/heavy metal band that hand two eponymous albums, each one with just the band name on a solid background a la Bad Company, one in black (the first album), and one in red (the second)? Think they were in Stairway to Hell. Dammit! It's pissing me off! I think trhey were Canadian and they'd fit in with Jeff's awesome trail of records.

I'll second Shadowy Men, and add Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem.

John Oswald, Brian Ruryk, Gastric Female Reflex, Philip Werren... and the Nihilist Spasm Band!

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Gnarly Sceptre, you're talking about Moxy. Black debut, red follow-up. (I don't think they were in "Stairway To Hell" tho.)

Moxy! Nice one. Thought there was an x in there somewheres. Cool name.

This is not a vote, but can I express my surprise that neither
Joni Mitchell or Richie Hawtin has been mentioned yet?

Or the Young Canadians. Or the Band. Or Pointed Sticks. Or Keanu Reeves.