Best of Canada

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.