Best of Canada

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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.

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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!