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.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f177/f177024f3zd.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j179/j17906hxdrb.jpg

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http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg600/g632/g63244khcg3.jpg

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

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

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

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg600/g698/g69847k52jo.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh100/h180/h18023ch3u3.jpg

http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/017/253/17253813.jpg

http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2041175-5463217?loc=http%3A//music.search.ebay.com/Slik-Toxik-Doin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/My_Heart_Will_Go_On_Single_Cover.jpg/200px-My_Heart_Will_Go_On_Single_Cover.jpg

http://usfkforums.com/karaoke/summer-of-69.jpg

Lets not forget these two!

That was a joke.

http://www.heavyharmonies.com/cdcovers/S/SLIKTOXIK_SAD.JPG

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?)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f534/f53407xo5ff.jpg

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.

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

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.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg300/g303/g30317cxuox.jpg

THERE WE GO, MAX WEBSTER.

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Greatest_hits_%28Rheostatics%29_album_cover.jpg

Best album name, for their first release!

Come on!:
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Voi-NF.jpg

http://collection.rossperrin.net/images/claudevivier11b.jpg

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

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 just thought it would be fun to see what it was like to be Scott Seward.

http://www.vinylzart.com/images/AlbumCovers-AldoNova(1982).jpg

Does this guy count?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d738/d73824r175m.jpg

For Phil:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c619/c61968iwv8l.jpg

Here's a classic Baz pic from his Toronto scenester days, from an old issue of Metallion:

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb104/LongBlondAnimal/KidWikkidBaz.jpg

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Awesome!

What was supposed to go in the "one of the greatest Canadian metal albums of all Time" broken image, Adrien?

I hate hate cryptopsy mainly for the singer, and IF you could understand what he says, the lyrics also.

Oops, that's Simply Saucer's Cyborgs Revisited. An unbelievable album, part of which was recorded live on the roof of a Hamilton, Ont. shopping mall...and produced by Daniel Lanois.

Whoever sings on Once Was Not

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d011/d01105qg5ab.jpg

All music calls it "an earth-shatteringly important record," but unfortunately it's going for between $40 and $70.

They had a rather interesting synth scene for a while:
Men Without Hats
Kon Kan
Anything Box

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d073/d073246fh4k.jpg

Get it? Get it?

Anything Box are from New Jersey. That's in the United States. Not Canada.

Yeah! Hat's are overrated.
The fashion accessory that is.
The band is kick ass.

Simply Saucer's out there for cheap, it was reissued by Sonic Unyon in 2003 or so. Well worth it!

So it was! I'll keep an eye out.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg600/g697/g69745x0nxs.jpg

This thread is a lot of fun. Unearthing a lot of cool stuff. Who knew Canada was such a fertile country for ROCK?

I most certainly didn't!
Quite an eye-opener for me.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/60/da/6a5f4310fca0c30baae55010._AA200_.L.jpg

Voivod

DOA (Hardcore 81 anybody?)

Broken Social etc feisty
Weakerthans - Propagandhi
SNFU

The Nils (somebody on heare will tell you that the Foo Fighters ripped these off big style - doing 'it' way before Grohl was even in Scream)

The Constantines

CANADA'S A GREAT BAND

Heh, I wouldn't put Slik Toxic among great Cdn bands. Ugh. The early 90s were a dark period.

Whoops, Slik Toxik. Should brush up on the sleaze spelling.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f946/f94637vh5g6.jpg

I wouldn't either, Adrien. They're just funny.

Please accompany band suggestions with images. Thank you.

Yeah, what he said.

visual stimulation is much better

NOMEANSNO!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg200/g279/g27986e9yd5.jpg
My parents used to party with these guys and the lead singer's girlfriend babysat me (aka shoved me in her bedroom while they partied downstairs).. oh the 1980s, I miss you so!

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'm surprised no one's mentioned Arcade Fire, Stars, The Dears, Wolf Parade, GYBE!. Not that I like any of them.

My vote goes to Bran Van 3000.

Nomeansno. But Rush had 10 pretty great years in 'em. (Maybe more - I haven't paid attention in years.) And I second the Voivod/Max Webster/Simply Saucer love.

And now: Home to my Kraft Dinner and Labatt Blue!

Sloan.

My favourites are (in no particular order):

DOA
Porcelain Forehead
Rent Boys, Inc.
King Cobb Steelie
Dave Howard Singers
Godspeed...
Broken Social Scene
Tim Hecker
Holy Fuck

http://hemmingsson.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/skinny.jpg

Old skool `Puppy, bitches!

http://nextgr8twriter.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/buffalospringfield240.jpg

I am gonna consider these guys Canadian.

hope this works:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/646201.jpg
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/347387.jpg
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/1046284.jpg

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/116632.jpg
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/40583.jpg

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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.

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/K/klaatu_hopef.jpg

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?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/LoveJunk.jpg

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.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/3IOB_advance.jpg/200px-3IOB_advance.jpg

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

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/462917923_b434090a40_o.jpg

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!

http://www.brainwashed.com/common/images/covers/krank043.jpg

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/cover/3021670_ts_200.jpg

http://cdn.scratchrecords.com/images/SwanLake_300.jpg

http://www.gibson.com/Files/AllAccess/cover_features/gordon_lightfoot.jpg

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.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Destroyer_-_Trouble_In_Dreams.jpg
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

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j181/j18127z86nt.jpg

In Digital surround!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e376/e37645bwjbf.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d600/d60093611ea.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d675/d67596451c5.jpg

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??!?!!?

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/2133/maestromj5.jpg

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.