ts/ Chilliwack vs. Arcade Fire

REGGAETON!!!!!!!!!

were these guys huge in canada??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE

wow that sucked. i like the late 60s album i have

I don't like Arcade Fire much, but Chilliwack? Seriously? "Fly By Night" is a good song, mind you, but the rest I've heard is embarrassing. That said, glad to see a shout-out here for Thundermug, whose "Africa" is a million times better than all of the above.

No dissing the "My Girl"

No offense, but that song is just the worst!

TS: the reflex that says 'of course Arcade Fire are better than Chilliwack' vs. the reflex that says 'of course Chilliwack are better than Arcade Fire.'

I honestly have no opinion whatsoever about Arcade Fire.

I like Chilliwack. Here is what I wrote about them on another thread a few weeks back:

Chilliwack "I Must Have Been Blind"/"Chain Train" (Parrot, year unknown) Are Chilliwack mysterious enough for this thread? They don't seem as unknown as most of the acts whose 45s I'm pulling off myself, seeing as how they actually had a hit once in the United States (the diddybopping semi-acapella soft-rock pop song "My Girl [Gone, Gone, Gone]," which I get the idea might be from after they kinda mellowed out), plus it is common knowledge that they were Canadian. But not being Canadian myself, that is pretty much all I really know about them, even though I also have two albums by them on my shelf (1981's Wanna Be A Star, which has "My Girl" on it, and 1982's "Opus X." Judging from those album covers, they are a trio.) Anyway, on the 45, the A-side is a very likeable country-rockish choogle (by which I mean easily rolling rustic rock not mellow or aimless enough to be Grateful Dead-style hippie music but, um, too unmacho to be redneck Southern rock, or something like that), and the B-side starts off with a Chuck Berry riff then gets a wee bit tougher and proggier. Judging from this music, they were very friendly guys. But not wimps by any means. Which would put them in the same Canadian genre as Bachman-Tuner Overdrive and the Guess Who, probably.

Wha? How you gonna dis "My Girl" (classic Four Freshmen update) Scott?! Chilliwack had worse hits. (And better ones too.)

Chilliwack weren't popular with US rock critics like Arcade Fire. That gives them some extra points.

Shared a member with Headpins -- Brian "Too Loud" MacLeod -- which is probably when they rocked the hardest.

Headpins did a Canadian take on early Eighties LA-metal, woman fronted. Can't remember her name off the top of my head although the LP was reissued last year on Wounded Bird. Where did she go?

Darby Mills is still around, for sure.

I'm more on the Sons of Freedom/54-40/Matthew Good tip when it comes to Vancouver rock, so I'm voting for Arcade Fire.

I'll take Chilliwack over the Arcade Fire absolutely every time.

I only heard their minor American hit single on Casey's Top 40 countdown a few weeks ago.

Chilliwack weren't popular with US rock critics like Arcade Fire. That gives them some extra points.

Ugh, I can only repeat myself here: people elevating one band because they dislike another band is an annoying substitute for criticism, sorry.

Like I said, I think "Fly By Night" is a pretty great single (and far better than the Rush song of the same title), but the others I dont' care for at all, and I only know their singles.

This thread isn't about criticism, like most of ILX. It's about taste and cheering on horse races/football games. You know Chilliwack by its singles. Arcade Fire has no singles.

The Chilliwack song is actually "Fly at Night." There was a TS here: Taking Sides: "Fly At Night" vs "Fly By Night"

I might actually take the Rush song now but I really like both.

I never heard "My Girl" until now. It doesn't sound very good. I think the only other Chilliwack song I know is "There's Something I Like About That."

I like the Arcade Fire.

"taste and cheering on horse races/football games"

um, that IS criticism. one kind, anyway. regardless, I try not to hold what critics think of certain bands against the bands themselves; I've no problem with holding it against the critics, but I'd rather just hear the band through my own ears in the end. call me naive.

I only know Arcade Fire by their singles also. They do have them, I just don't love any of them.

Yeah, actually, their singles get a lot of play in Canada.

i like how you could basically do a "[insert anyone here] vs. arcade fire" and it would be the same thread. people get a kick out of not liking arcade fire.

Nash the Slash>>>>Chilliwack>>>>Sheriff>>>>Aldo Nova>>>>Arcade Fire

i have a nash the slash record it's pretty good/weird

not to derail, but what's the deal w/nash the slash. i saw a record of his/theirs this weekend and didn't know if i should pick it up.

also, here's a pretty amazing Chilliwack song. tribal psych w/a bit of a native american feeling.
http://robotsinheat.com/temp/Seventeenth%20Summer.mp3

I saw Nash open up for Gary Numan, back in the "Cars" days...I was frightened and allured by his strange get-up...a true original...

Some of that early Slash is great, kinda Krautrock-y with some treated violin. "Deadman's Curve" is not a bad cover. I've seen him live twice (twenty years apart no less) and it was the exact same show. He even looked the same (joke 'coz the bandages had not changed natch). I'm kind of a sucker for his version of "American Band," too.

his "Baba O'Riley" is great, too...those bandages!...

so "krautrock-y with some treated violin" is an apt description?

I still get Nash the Slash mixed up with Wazmo Nariz. And Skafish. (Who weren't even Canadian, I don't think.)

I don't think Skafish was particularly ska, either.

X-post - Slash's early stuff was, but not so much the later material. See if you can't find "Children of the Night." Check this:

http://adashingblade.blogspot.com/2006/11/nash-slash-children-of-night-vinyl-rip.html

that's the one i saw! thanks.

Just to shake things up a bit...

Nash the Slash

Here's the irrefutable deal: Chilliwack was an unpretentious pop rock 'n' roll band. Arcade Fire does not rock and roll in the least.

>>not to derail, but what's the deal w/nash

Nash the Slash has nothing in common with this. Neither does Arcade Fire. Chilliwack was a traditional rock band. Arcade Fire is not a rock band.

people get a kick out of not liking arcade fire.

I get no kick from champagne
Mere alcohol doesnt thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of not liking the Arcade Fire