Best of Canada

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

http://www.blastitude.com/15/ss-cyborgs.jpg

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

As for underrated 80s metal...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NCVY54ZYL._AA240_.jpg

Remote Linking Forbidden ROCKS.

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

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G71N3Y7VL._AA240_.jpg

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

Quebecois are perfectly acceptable.

Where's Moist?

(I'll spam the thread with image after image of Quebecois electroacoustic composer if anyone's going to make a point of it.)

Where's Moist?

Almost as unbearable as Bootsauce.

http://cdbaby.name/b/e/betrayer.jpg

Image spamming is fun!

Where's Moist?

Almost as unbearable as Bootsauce.

-- A. Begrand, Friday, February 1, 2008 4:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Just outside Terrebonne, Quebec is a warehouse that holds nothing but resold copies of The Brown Album culled from used CD shops across Canada.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh900/h965/h96571p0pkv.jpg

These guys are underrated but very good. At least, that album is.

Yes, those guys are great.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/42034.jpg

http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/2197498.jpg

http://funkysouls.com/img/venetian_snares_rcas.jpg

Toronto, definitely. Get It On Credit and Head On as stated earlier over on Rolling Hard Rock. They had the mid-80's classic rock sheen down to a fine art.

The first album by Teaze, at the least.

Teenage Head's premier disc. Very Doll's influenced, very rock and roll snotty.

Trooper -- the first one. Contains great hammerdown stuff like "General Hand Grenade" and "Roller Rink," about rocking on roller skates, which is mostly playin' and no singin', anyway.

And no one will want to miss Helix's Wild In the Streets.

And there's even a new indie film documentary on Anvil and their intrepid struggle in the face of relentless failure, perhaps coming to your town. At least LA, since someone wrote about it in the Times a couple weeks ago.

http://www.dickdestiny.com/teaze.jpg

fuckin' CHILLIWACK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE

http://www.room101.net/buildingcastles/releases/bcomblue.jpg

Yeah, that Anvil doc got a ton of praise at Sundance a short while back.

"Metal on Metal" is right up there with Razor's "Evil Invaders", as far as influencing a generation of Canadian metal fans in the 80s.

Head Phone Over Tone - Solar Sails (can't find good img)

At least part-Cdn:

http://chuckbrown.com/media/albumcovers/heart-dreamboat-annie.jpg

#2 is one I know and love:

http://www.utoronto.ca/icm/molscha.jpg

http://media.canada.com/a373a9c0-95d4-4a46-a780-e930d6c76147/070116-billy-talent.jpg

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/35739.jpg

"Devil's Deck" and "Monkey Bars" kill.

http://paulhodgeaudio.com/ccmc.jpg

Adrien, don't forget Moxy and Goddo!

I think we're forgetting someone...

http://www.alien8recordings.com/artist_image/name/96/size600/SamShalabi.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e932/e93259cdmsg.jpg

There they are!

http://www.cbc.ca/apropos/images/lussier2.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/4b/220px-DanBejar.jpg

Him?

Oh, Nickelback. Yay.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/msiart/0000813/0000813132_170.jpg

http://www.folktrax.com/truenorth/TND323.jpg

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/W/Wold/Screech%20Owl/Screech%20Owl.jpg

Yay Saskatchewan!

http://www.yorku.ca/ylife/2006/03-March/03-20/images/David_Mott.jpg

(Favourite thread ever, for a couple reasons.)

Oh, and...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GkoYn1eHL._AA240_.jpg

Can't forget this:

http://dawn.cbcr3.com/nmc/22/22492/Images/tired_uk_45.jpg

http://www.headpins.net/ccr/roster/photos/harlequin.jpg

(swimming with the tide for a moment)

(BTW, were you actually hoping for more responses from non-Canadians? I can fuck off.)

Well I figured mostly Canadians would post.
But I wanted to find out some Canadian bands are highly popular worldwide.
Excluding the obvious.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg200/g279/g27986e9yd5.jpg

(If you can't read the album title, it's "Stand Tall")

I'm not Canadian at all, and most of the posts in this thread are from me, so I wouldn't worry about it.

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.