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is there any? what other holidays are neglected without (choose as appropriate) jolly/dour/nostalgic tunes?

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cue anthony: "it's NOT thanksgiving." (fine talk from a country who's main musical export was pop will eat itself and the barenaked ladies.)

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Pop Will Eat Itself'!? From the little-known Midlands on the prairies?

― dave q, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perhaps i've confused them with some other crap act. in any event canadia does not = music.

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If people don't stop dismissing Sarah McLachlan as soft rock palabum, I'd going to get upset.

― David Raposa, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd like to ask everyone to disregard my partners last post there as the mucous has obv. backwashed into his brane-pan area rendering him a jibbering gibbon.

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah McLachlan is a soft rock palabum.

― RickyT, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jess- you can't say that canada's music sucks if you've heard mary margaret o'hara. also, need i mention:

swollen members

twilight circus

dream warriors

sloan

kid koala

kardinal offishall

rheostatics

pursuit of happiness

jale

hayden

bob wiseman

hawksley workman

smugglers

do make say think

godspeed you black emperor!

new pornographers

need i go on?

― cybele, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no thats quite enough evidence in my favor. (my sadly well- documented love-hate affair with godspeed! aside.) and sarah mclaughlin is some wicked soft rock pabablum.

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in your favour?

your email is "dubplatestyle" and you don't like twilight circus??

― cybele, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've seen some sidetracked threads in my time, but is the first to get fatally done in by the questioner before anyone had a chance to answer?

So tell me about kardinall offishall. Seems to be the name to drop 'round here at the moment. Tracer?

― Jeff, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kardinal Offishall is from Toronto (or as he calls T-dot) and he is basically an mc, but he's got Jamaican roots. This makes for a terrific combinations of hip hop, ragga, and reggae.

Unlike Shaggy, he doesn't use crappy old pop samples, but will instead lift (in style) from old Jamaican riddims and tunes. Check out his single "Ol' Time Killin" or the magnificent B-side "Maxine."

There really should be more stuff like this.

― cybele, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've seen some sidetracked threads in my time, but is the first to get fatally done in by the questioner before anyone had a chance to answer?

no.

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Canada has The Tea Party.

― Jordan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meat is murder seems the perfect soundtrack for digging in. that list actually does confirm canada's craptitude as far as music goes, outside of zumpano and chicklet it's pretty barren.

― keith, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I HAD going to get upset. Both for Jess giving Canada the high hat (DESTROYER, hot damn it!), and for you people dissin' Sarah Mc (at least give her stuff like "Sweet Surrender" & "Angel", you heartless bastards). I don't think I know you people anymore.

― David Raposa, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Sweet Surrender" sucks ass and you know it, David. I still don't mind her earlier stuff, though. But anyhow, this pointless bitching about Canadian artists leads me to believe that most of the people claiming that Canada is "barren" haven't bothered to listen to any of the artists in question, let alone even having heard of them. Nothing can be said to change that kind of attitude.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Happiest Guys In the World - The International Holiday of Thanksgiving! "Today's thanksgiving day, it's not just for the USA, you can celebrate it everyday and anywhere"

― james, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Canada also has Sum 41, Cub, Huevos Rancheros = pretty cool.

― james, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wilf Carter,Ian Tyson,Leonard Cohen,Oscar Peterson,Ashely McIsaac,Melissa Auf De Mer(sp),Jann Arden,1/2 of the lollies.Loudon Wainwright,Rufus Wainwright,Kate McGarigle,Anna Mcgarigle.

That Should Do it !

― anthonyeaston, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

geezuzzz......

what about richie hawtin/plastikman,skinny puppy,mitch akiyama,tomas jirku,shalabi effect,neil young,glenn gould......

any country can be accused of producing crap,ie::n'sync,backdoor boys,whitney,kenny g......at least give a little thought to your postings.

― william harris, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David adds kd lang and MAureen Forrester

― anthonyeaston, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i would like to point out that james is the only one who actually answered the question, since this thread seems to have degenerated into canadia pride day. and meatball, you keep that mclaughlin love in check or next thing i know i'm gonna wake up one morning and find you extolling the virtues of paula cole on the blog.

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Neil Young.

As for Thanksgiving, Scott Walker's "Tilt" is a perrenial favorite at my house.

― dan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That would be a "perennial" favorite. "Annual" favorite would have made more sense. I'm illiterate.

― dan, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no one is saying the US doesn't produce more crap than anyone else, just that mostly that is all Canada produces. i remember growing up in detroit being subjected to the canadian content law on the alternateen station and beng stuck with machines of loving grave and our lady peace and the gandharvas(cringe!) on constant rotation. anthony's list is less impressive when you consider half of it is from one family.

― keith, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, it's good to know that such a shallow scrape along the obviously radio-friendly surface of Canadian music is enough to condemn the country's whole output. Of course, we know that radio is OH SO DEEP. Keee-rist.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Machines of Loving Grace (along with Loudon Wainwright) are a US abomination. Canada produces enough garbage without getting credit for every half assed electro-rock band (also see the PWEI credit) that isn't ours, thank you very much.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the meantime, Cybele wisely notices the existence of the godlike Twilight Circus to Jess who RESPONDS NOT AT ALL. You false dub lover, Jess, hie thee hence. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cybele is surely a woman of acutely discerning taste.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i claimed no lurve for the dub (even though i do), my email address comes from a jungle track by the esteemible marvellous cain, one of the maddest mashups ever pressed to wax as any damn fule knows.

dub is a genre which i can't be arsed to care about much these days except in an overarching cultural-process sense, in which case it is still extremely relevant. unless of course you count some of the ~scape, etc. stuff as "true" dub.

in any event, i think we've successfully proven there is no thanksgiving music. and canadianans and their supporters take themselves too seriously.

― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and yes, before some rasta-pedant comes rollin in, i know that dub plate style is a reggae/dancehall phrase which has been bandied about for sometime, snaking its way through the uk hardcore continuum, and used as a track title by everyone from m. cain to chris mac to kid- fucking-606.

― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

So why isn't there any Thanksgiving music? Isn't it like the second biggest US holiday?

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the idea of Thanksgiving carols.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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