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.
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Sloan.
― ellaguru, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― peepee, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://hemmingsson.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/skinny.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Old skool `Puppy, bitches!
http://nextgr8twriter.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/buffalospringfield240.jpg
I am gonna consider these guys Canadian.
― our work is never over, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
hope this works: http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/646201.jpg http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/347387.jpg http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/1046284.jpg
― francisF, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/116632.jpg http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/40583.jpg
― francisF, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/40583.jpg http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/163519.jpg
― francisF, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
this isn't working. other frequent plays: junior boys manitoba king khan/bbq deadly snakes propagandhi (seconded)
― francisF, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― our work is never over, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/K/klaatu_hopef.jpg
These guys are severely underrated, this album in particular.
― our work is never over, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I would buy this record for the cover alone.
― our work is never over, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL, exactly the opposite for me.
― daavid, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/LoveJunk.jpg
― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
How can you not like that cover?
― our work is never over, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― LaMonte, Thursday, 7 February 2008 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy crap, LaMonte, that was what I was going to say. 8 minutes, like that one movie with that one guy from 90210.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 7 February 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/3IOB_advance.jpg/200px-3IOB_advance.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
3 Inches of Blood = fail.
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 7 February 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Sundar, Thursday, 7 February 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are amazing.
― adamj, Thursday, 7 February 2008 06:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eazy, Thursday, 7 February 2008 07:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 7 February 2008 08:15 (sixteen years ago) link
It's been said before, but NOMEANSNO
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― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 7 February 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll second Shadowy Men, and add Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem.
― peepee, Thursday, 7 February 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
John Oswald, Brian Ruryk, Gastric Female Reflex, Philip Werren... and the Nihilist Spasm Band!
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 7 February 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.brainwashed.com/common/images/covers/krank043.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/cover/3021670_ts_200.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cdn.scratchrecords.com/images/SwanLake_300.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.gibson.com/Files/AllAccess/cover_features/gordon_lightfoot.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Gnarly Sceptre, you're talking about Moxy. Black debut, red follow-up. (I don't think they were in "Stairway To Hell" tho.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 7 February 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Moxy! Nice one. Thought there was an x in there somewheres. Cool name.
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 8 February 2008 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
This is not a vote, but can I express my surprise that neither Joni Mitchell or Richie Hawtin has been mentioned yet?
― peepee, Friday, 8 February 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Or the Young Canadians. Or the Band. Or Pointed Sticks. Or Keanu Reeves.
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 8 February 2008 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Destroyer_-_Trouble_In_Dreams.jpg This is my favourite album of '08 so far.
― our work is never over, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
We have lots of happy, peppy females with nice voices, Feist, Joni Mitchell,
Not sure if Joni = happy but I think I know what you're talking about.
Until the recent "Torn" thread, I'd always just assumed Natalie Imbruglia was Canadian. I still kind of refuse to believe that she isn't. (I guess Australian works too, though. Do they give government funding to pop musicians as well?)
(I do love Joni Mitchell and GYBE and like Arcade Fire. I just thought it was awesome that Kataklysm and Helix got mentioned like 300 posts sooner than them or Leonard Cohen or Neil Young.
And did I really forget Richie Hawtin/Plastikman??)
― Sundar, Friday, 8 February 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Skinny Puppy
I remember hating The Tea Party ("Hey, let's pretend we're The Doors!")
The Dream Warriors
Honeymoon Suite
Platinum Blonde
Cowboy Junkies
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
The Guess Who
Alanis Morissette
Tom Cochrane
Sarah McLachlan
The Tragically Hip (another band I never really cared for, although I will admit to kinda liking "Ahead By a Century")
Gino Vannelli
Nick Gilder ("Hot Child in the City")
Streetheart
The DeFranco Family
Colin James
Biff Naked
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Cockburn
Doug & the Slugs
5 Man Electrical Band
Glass Tiger
Gowan
Harlequin
The Headpins
Martha and the Muffins (later M+M)
Jeff Healey
Our Lady Peace (another band I can't stand....I hated, hated, HATED "Superman's Dead")
The Payolas
Orphan/The Pumps
― eeyore19, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
man, that's a lot of drek!
― peepee, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Fucked Up Cub The Haunted Forgotten Rebels
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j181/j18127z86nt.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
In Digital surround!
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e376/e37645bwjbf.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d600/d60093611ea.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d675/d67596451c5.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Consider the signal separated from the noise in Eeyore's list.
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
man, that's a lot of drek!-- peepee, Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:27 AM (16 hours ago)
-- peepee, Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:27 AM (16 hours ago)
Hey, I never said they were good bands...they were just what was all over the radio when I lived in Canada...
― eeyore19, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link