ILM's Top 100 Canadian Albums

In a perfect world, the Rheos would have all ten of the top ten spots, really.

What did I ever do?

Let see, others

if EPs accounts
Young Canadians - Hawaii
if not
Young Canadians - No Escape
along the same lines
Pointed Sticks - All Part of The Noise

Eric's Trip - Love Tara

Fine, for the South Pacific fan on this list that isn't me Constance
Sloan - Smeared
GYBE - F# A# oo
DMST - DMST [leather PANTS!]
More Plastic - Last of the Silver Specials
Mean Red Spiders - Starsandsons
Bonaduces - Democracy of Sleep
Beef Terminal - The Grey Knowledge
Tragically Hip - Day For Night
Thrush Hermit - Clayton Park
The Band - Music From The Big Pink

My Tragically Hip pick is 'Music @ Work, by the way.

My friend renovated Sar#h MacLach$an's house on the island and said she was a total bitch.

what about men without hats, "pop goes the world"!?!
I love Pop Goes the World but someone should mention Rhythym of Youth.

Spirit of the West - Save This House needs mentioning.
Julie Dorion & The Wooden Stars as well.
And as much as I'd want to say Angel With a Lariat for all the whinners who'd complain otherwise KD Lang's Shadowland hasn't been mentioned.

Hoffenheimer's Frieren (on Kelp Records) is quite possibly the best album to arise from Canada's capital city. And no, they're not German. This is slo-core that edges the local heroes, Kepler.

There cannot be enough adoration of Michelle McAdorey's Whirl.

What about the Montreal avant-garde (Empreintes Digitales, Ambiances Magnetiques)?

Owning fewer than ten doesn't make you (or me) a bad Canadian, Mark - it just means you have taste! But I'm sure I can think of ten to be proud of:

1. NoMeansNo - Wrong
2. Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
3. Tea Party - The Edges Of Twilight
4. Voivod - Killing Technology
5. NoMeansNo - The Worldhood Of The World (As Such)
6. Neil Young - Decade
7. Joni Mitchell - Hits
8. The Best Of Max Webster
9. Voivod - The Outer Limits
and, inevitably...
10.Rush - Chronicles

royal city
neil young- harvest

and my brain is crowded with others

Yeh yeh, sorry, though to be fair the gigantic lettaz on the front threw me.

Words cannot describe how much I think the Tea Party is a waste of perfectly good food and air.

And has anyone mentioned the Constantines Shine a Light yet. Or Stars Heart?

Ned seems to like it. I didn't even know she had a solo album. I'll have to check it out.

(Thinks: I wonder if they want an update for completeness' sake).

Ned's AMG review captures it well. But the release date given is wrong (it was originally issued in 1999 on Queen of Cups.) I've seen her live twice since then but have no idea of what she's been working on lately.

*cries*

Ah, but the Crass and Au Pairs suggestions for similar titles are spot on!

I witnessed Thor play this last night. I must say, of all the artists I thought I'd never see play, he's right up there.

No mention of Fludd anywhere...Listening to their first two albums, '71 and '72 (neither of which contains "Get Up, Get Out and Move On," also '72, not their biggest hit--"Cousin Mary" was--but I'd say their best). They're like the Canadian Buffalo Springfield: Greg Godovitz formed Goddo (the good), other members went on to Saga and Trooper (the not-so-good). Their second album, Cock On!, had its title changed to ...On! at the time; I'm sure buyers were suitably perplexed. It was rewatching New Waterford Girl, which uses "Ticket to Nowhere" from the second album, that triggered my interest. Immediately recognized "Turned 21" from the first LP as one of those useful fillers stations would always play to fill their Cancon requirements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vXzz1ymDA

There was actually a book a few years ago--two books, actually; there's a companion volume for singles--that polled this very question.

http://bookmanager.com/bni/9780864925008/jacket_med.jpg

#1: Harvest. Should have been #1 (but #3 instead): After the Gold Rush.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Canadian_Albums#The_List

Setting up to discuss the upcoming Canadian Music poll

Maybe I can reserve a spot for the Canadian poll right after that finishes.

― clemenza, Saturday, 25 February 2023 17:06 (yesterday) link

Very much open to an Aphex poll with a long voting period Moka

Would give me (& others I presume) time revisit the soundcloud dump

― groovypanda, Saturday, 25 February 2023 20:36 (yesterday) link

I'd certainly participate in a Canadian songs poll, but I'd be concerned that, with a relatively small number of voters with wide-ranging tastes, it might end up atomized - dozens and dozens of single votes for interesting artists from 70 years from all ends of the country. On the other hand, if we impose a limitation (such as "only underrated songs" or only from a certain time period), that's probably going to further limit the amount of ballots that could come in. So, a conundrum.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:51 (yesterday) link

So a poll where we can vote for the complete works of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Carli Rae Jepsen, Rush, Grimes, Feist, Shania Twain, deadmau5, Michael Bublé AND Drake?

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 25 February 2023 22:04 (yesterday) link

Plus Oscar Peterson, Dream Warriors, Deja Voodoo, Skinny Puppy, Anne Murray, New Pornographers, Martha and the Muffins, Tanya Tagaq, Harmonium, Triumph, Gilles Vigneault, AND the Rankin Family!

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 25 February 2023 22:07 (yesterday) link

And Organized Rhyme.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:49 (yesterday) link

I think there's a wealth of stuff for a Canadian poll. (Though I'll admit to being at least a decade out of touch.) I'd try to gently suggest that voters limit themselves to one or two Neil/Joni songs--that would be the biggest danger if left unchecked, I think, that it becomes Neil vs. Joni--but, obviously, vote for whatever you want.

― clemenza, Sunday, 26 February 2023 04:05 (fifteen hours ago) link

Or Neil/Joni/Carly Rae Jepsen--she seems to be popular around here.

― clemenza, Sunday, 26 February 2023 04:05 (fifteen hours ago) link

i'm not in a position to tell ppl what is canadian and what isn't, but for myself there's a difference between those, like neil and joni, who decamped to california 50 years ago, and those, like the hip/sloan/~RUSH~, who did not

― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 February 2023 05:41 (thirteen hours ago) link

Bob & Doug McKenzie should win, however it shakes out.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 February 2023 06:09 (thirteen hours ago) link

that wasn't even funny 35 years ago

― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 February 2023 06:21 (twelve hours ago) link

Take off, eh

― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 February 2023 06:52 (twelve hours ago) link

https://i.giphy.com/media/l0K4aGQF9DmJsvPRS/giphy.gif

― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 February 2023 08:32 (ten hours ago) link

This is underway:

POLL of Many Colors - ILM Artists Poll #117 - Women of Country Music

I'd like to claim the next spot in line for a Canadian poll.

― clemenza, Sunday, 26 February 2023 15:40 (three hours ago) link

Half of my list will be arcade fire and skinny puppy.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 26 February 2023 16:36 (two hours ago) link

Open the Canadian noms thread asap lest this thread become it

― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 February 2023 16:45 (two hours ago) link

A certain TV theme song will be my #1 in that one.

― Chris L, Sunday, 26 February 2023 16:54 (two hours ago) link

Sure, The Littlest Hobo.

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 February 2023 16:58 (two hours ago) link

The Trouble with Tracy had a theme song?

I don't want to interfere with the other poll, but will open everything up right after.

― clemenza, Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:01 (two hours ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxH98aWjmI

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:06 (two hours ago) link

That theme song (kith) is literally playing at the diner I am currently sitting on!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:09 (two hours ago) link

And with luck maybe this will spur a rolling Canuckistani Music thread

An album I wanna rep hard for is Sam Larkin’s Ransom. Cobbled together out of two earlier tapes plus some new recordings, it’s chock full of amazing songs and great performances, even if it’s not an audiophile dream. Sam was a singular & idiosyncratic singer-songwriter who never had it together to gain even moderate indie fame, but those who know know.

Bob Wiseman Sings the Songs of Wrench Tuttle

me mom & morgentaler, montreal 90s ska band. honestly one of the sickest bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSZDW5npLIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y227Vbp_4Ls

100% co-sign on Wrench Tuttle! It’s already on my albums list.

I was planning on doing a song poll...nothing to do with albums.

Well!

songs poll >>>

Yay songs!

Should we then move this conversation to 100 Can-Pop Classics?

You could...honestly, I'd just wait till the country poll's finished. I'm confident the splendor of Canadian music can withstand the three-week wait.

Don't mean to act like this is a grievous problem, but does anyone share my misgivings above (and have any suggestions), or am I a voice crying in the Canadian wilderness?

The thing you outlined could very well happen, but if it does, it does. It's just a poll. If you can get over 20 voters, certain things do tend to accumulate votes, even when the field is wide open--that happened with me with the video poll, and with the road-films and political-films polls.

100 Can-Pop Classics

If we're talking about Canadian ska I'd be remiss to not post this, one of the first songs I loved when I started exploring music more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8IR7kBuQs

More lists--I'll input them all.

https://www.zed989.com/the-top-100-canadian-songs-of-all-time-hosted-by-rick-mercer/

https://globalnews.ca/news/3539103/canadian-songs-music-artists-canada-day/

https://www.pentictonherald.ca/news/article_5d3cefea-bb34-11ea-be9b-1f1e67d2bb90.html