I honestly do not know which bands are popular outside this large cold place.
What are the best artists to come out of Canada, in your eyes? Paul Anka to Nelly Furtado...
(I hate them both)
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Obligatory reppin' for Buck 65 and The Weakerthans here (note: I really do love both).
― Tantrum The Cat, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Weakerthans, yeah. Always a good choice. So many bands here (Canada) are sub-par knock offs of their sound.
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
RUSH
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I wanna hear some Klaatu lovin'
But thats doubtful.
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f177/f177024f3zd.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j179/j17906hxdrb.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg700/g707/g70737a339a.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh800/h809/h80944kb541.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg600/g632/g63244khcg3.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^had a crappy board game inside the gatefold...
― henry s, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.dickdestiny.com/getitoncredit.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh100/h180/h18023ch3u3.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/017/253/17253813.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2041175-5463217?loc=http%3A//music.search.ebay.com/Slik-Toxik-Doin
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
That was a joke.
http://www.heavyharmonies.com/cdcovers/S/SLIKTOXIK_SAD.JPG
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Can Québécois be considered?
If not, Neil Young.
― Mr. Goodman, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, accept Toronto.
(Why would Quebecois not be considered?)
― Sundar, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f534/f53407xo5ff.jpg
Lock thread.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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?!
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay sorry. I figured Rush was a given.
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone know these guys?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MaxWebster.jpg
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― t**t, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF, MAX WEBSTER, picture.
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
try all music, pretty stable image server there.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, everyone knows that Rush is the best Canadian band ever. No contest.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Damnit, I think you are correct.
About everything!
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, time to go for a soda!
― henry s, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh. No time for either her or her band.
― Tantrum The Cat, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg300/g303/g30317cxuox.jpg
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
THERE WE GO, MAX WEBSTER.
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I love The Rheostatics. I mean, really love them.
― Christopher Davis, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Greatest_hits_%28Rheostatics%29_album_cover.jpg
Best album name, for their first release!
― our work is never over, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Come on!: http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Voi-NF.jpg
― Sundar, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://collection.rossperrin.net/images/claudevivier11b.jpg
There are days when I think "Lonely Child" is my favourite piece of music.
― Sundar, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude! How'd I miss Voivod? *hangs head in shame*
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.blastitude.com/15/ss-cyborgs.jpg
One of the greatest Canadian albums of all time...
― A. Begrand, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
As for underrated 80s metal...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NCVY54ZYL._AA240_.jpg
― A. Begrand, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Remote Linking Forbidden ROCKS.
― libcrypt, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
No Quebecois means no Cryptopsy or Gorguts, right? So clearly, that rule must go right out the window.
― unperson, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G71N3Y7VL._AA240_.jpg
"I'm not giving anyone a fuckin' R." - Bubbles, Trailer Park Boys
― A. Begrand, Friday, 1 February 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
How can you not like that cover?
― our work is never over, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― LaMonte, Thursday, 7 February 2008 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy crap, LaMonte, that was what I was going to say. 8 minutes, like that one movie with that one guy from 90210.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 7 February 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/3IOB_advance.jpg/200px-3IOB_advance.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
3 Inches of Blood = fail.
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 7 February 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Sundar, Thursday, 7 February 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are amazing.
― adamj, Thursday, 7 February 2008 06:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eazy, Thursday, 7 February 2008 07:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 7 February 2008 08:15 (sixteen years ago) link
It's been said before, but NOMEANSNO
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/462917923_b434090a40_o.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 7 February 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll second Shadowy Men, and add Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem.
― peepee, Thursday, 7 February 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
John Oswald, Brian Ruryk, Gastric Female Reflex, Philip Werren... and the Nihilist Spasm Band!
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 7 February 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.brainwashed.com/common/images/covers/krank043.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/cover/3021670_ts_200.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cdn.scratchrecords.com/images/SwanLake_300.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.gibson.com/Files/AllAccess/cover_features/gordon_lightfoot.jpg
― our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Gnarly Sceptre, you're talking about Moxy. Black debut, red follow-up. (I don't think they were in "Stairway To Hell" tho.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 7 February 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Moxy! Nice one. Thought there was an x in there somewheres. Cool name.
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 8 February 2008 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
This is not a vote, but can I express my surprise that neither Joni Mitchell or Richie Hawtin has been mentioned yet?
― peepee, Friday, 8 February 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Or the Young Canadians. Or the Band. Or Pointed Sticks. Or Keanu Reeves.
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 8 February 2008 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Destroyer_-_Trouble_In_Dreams.jpg This is my favourite album of '08 so far.
― our work is never over, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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??)
― Sundar, Friday, 8 February 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― eeyore19, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
man, that's a lot of drek!
― peepee, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Fucked Up Cub The Haunted Forgotten Rebels
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j181/j18127z86nt.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
In Digital surround!
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e376/e37645bwjbf.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d600/d60093611ea.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d675/d67596451c5.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Consider the signal separated from the noise in Eeyore's list.
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
man, that's a lot of drek!-- peepee, Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:27 AM (16 hours ago)
-- 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...
― eeyore19, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I MOTHER EARTH
― mayhaps, Sunday, 10 February 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jadetree.com/images/bands/fucked_up/bio_photo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jadetree.com/news/article/70/660&h=260&w=400&sz=20&hl=en&start=30&sig2=l1iJOMWPV9BZDxW3qQje3A&um=1&tbnid=_n61WuW-uY4WFM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=124&ei=84uvR-LjKJvmwgHctfB6&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfucked%2Bup%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN
Colonel is spot on
Fucked up - great Canadians
― Fer Ark, Sunday, 10 February 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
How does Colonel Poo rate the non-UK Subs?
― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 11 February 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF??!?! Why no mention of Skip Spence??!?!!?
― Tom D., Monday, 11 February 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/2133/maestromj5.jpg
― ken taylrr, Monday, 11 February 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
OTM!
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
No Mind Living Proof SLOW Madhouse Leather Uppers The Wammee Fail Safe Slutarded Headpins and more currently... Rozasian Mantler Geoff Berner Stabby Dancers
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― keythkeyth, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― t**t, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm fond of the Demics.
― babyalive, Thursday, 14 February 2008 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
NOMEANSNO and Klaatu are among the best things ever, Canadian or otherwise, so I'll second (or third or 4th) both of them.
― John Justen, Thursday, 14 February 2008 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Aaaaand, that album (Little Red Boots) got her a Juno nomination for Best New Artist as well as "Roots & Traditional album of the year"!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
plenty of good bands in there, but the order is absurd
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 16 March 2018 06:56 (six years ago) link
More like 40% I've never heard.
― clemenza, Friday, 16 March 2018 07:11 (six years ago) link