Best of Canada

Obligatory reppin' for Buck 65 and The Weakerthans here (note: I really do
love both).

Weakerthans, yeah. Always a good choice.
So many bands here (Canada) are sub-par knock offs of their sound.

RUSH

I wanna hear some Klaatu lovin'

But thats doubtful.

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^^^had a crappy board game inside the gatefold...

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That's awesome! I totally need to get that if I see it at a record store.

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Lets not forget these two!

That was a joke.

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Can Québécois be considered?

If not, Neil Young.

Oh, I'm not joking.

Well, except for maybe Slik Toxik.

Quebecois wouldn't want to be considered.
But yes, let's consider them.

I have seriously head of non of those bands...
Shows how much I know about Canadian music.

Wait, accept Toronto.

(Why would Quebecois not be considered?)

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Lock thread.

OK, most of those bands are metal bands, so I can understand that you haven't heard of those -- but you haven't heard of RUSH?!

Okay sorry. I figured Rush was a given.

Anyone know these guys?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MaxWebster.jpg

Emily Haines
Metric

...and whoever hoped for some Klaatu love upthread, please pay 'ttention now, for i'mma emailing in my 2 cc o'Klaatuluv right here.

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WTF, MAX WEBSTER, picture.

try all music, pretty stable image server there.

Anyway, everyone knows that Rush is the best Canadian band ever. No contest.

Damnit, I think you are correct.

About everything!

hey, time to go for a soda!

Emily Haines
Metric

Ugh. No time for either her or her band.

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THERE WE GO, MAX WEBSTER.

I love The Rheostatics. I mean, really love them.

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Best album name, for their first release!

Come on!:
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There are days when I think "Lonely Child" is my favourite piece of music.

Dude! How'd I miss Voivod? *hangs head in shame*

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One of the greatest Canadian albums of all time...

As for underrated 80s metal...

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Remote Linking Forbidden ROCKS.

No Quebecois means no Cryptopsy or Gorguts, right? So clearly, that rule must go right out the window.

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"I'm not giving anyone a fuckin' R."
- Bubbles, Trailer Park Boys

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.

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This is my favourite album of '08 so far.

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??)

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

man, that's a lot of drek!

Fucked Up
Cub
The Haunted
Forgotten Rebels

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In Digital surround!

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Consider the signal separated from the noise in Eeyore's list.

man, that's a lot of drek!

-- 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...

I MOTHER EARTH

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Colonel is spot on

Fucked up - great Canadians

How does Colonel Poo rate the non-UK Subs?

WTF??!?! Why no mention of Skip Spence??!?!!?

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OTM!

No Mind
Living Proof
SLOW
Madhouse
Leather Uppers
The Wammee
Fail Safe
Slutarded
Headpins
and more currently...
Rozasian
Mantler
Geoff Berner
Stabby Dancers

the grapes of wrath had that nice record they did with john leckie. it's possible they did more than one with him but that was all i ever heard.

Gino Vanelli

Anyone actually heard him live recently? The dude's a-coming to play at a festival in my neck of the woods this April...

I'm fond of the Demics.

NOMEANSNO and Klaatu are among the best things ever, Canadian or otherwise, so I'll second (or third or 4th) both of them.

I plugged her here long ago, but Lindi Ortega's new album is out on iTunes. Echoes of Sun records, Dolly Parton.. loving it. Anyone else?

Aaaaand, that album (Little Red Boots) got her a Juno nomination for Best New Artist as well as "Roots & Traditional album of the year"!

Settled, once and for all.

http://m.music.cbc.ca/blogs/2015/6/The-100-best-Canadian-bands-ever

I only looked at the Top 20, but supposedly no Moxy Fruvous. (Two years ago, they would have been ranked #17.) Guessing no Thundermug, Fludd, or Viletones, either.

plenty of good bands in there, but the order is absurd

Another list: Toronto songs.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2018/03/15/we-picked-torontos-top-100-songs-now-tell-us-why-were-wrong.html

I count seven that I love; I'm probably unfamiliar with a quarter to a third of the list, including the song by the ILM poster. By including the Dan Hill and Parachute Club songs (both truly awful), among others, the implication is that these are the 100 songs most identified with Toronto, not necessarily the best. By including the Rolling Stones, the implication is they weren't too particular about rules.

More like 40% I've never heard.