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Search: Who needs sleep? Destroy: Conventioneers. This is for my son David.

― Chris Hawkins, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

search: nothing

destroy: canada. maybe we'll manage to take out the crash test dummies with them.

― ryan schofield, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm

― Kevin Enas, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Canada

Destroy: On Sight

(I think that one's funnier)

― JM, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Could I persuade you to spare the rest of us if we offered up Quebec without a proper bloodbath? (The blood I'm referring to is ours of course) I mean, after all, Quebec did produce Celine...

― Kid Eh, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quebec's the best part of Canada though. Besides, Celine did that video with the motorbike and the mansion and etc. On a tv interview the other day I heard her explain how "It's never emotional enough. I want it more over the top" w/r/t such things. Celine: Classic. Barenaked Ladies: Search -- Gordon (I mean, I guess, if a choice had to be made) Destroy -- ah, g-damn it, destory canada.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BASTARDS!! Canada has some great bands, but most of them don't really translate past our glorious borders. What about Eric's Trip or the Super Friendz? What about early Big Sugar, Sloan, Matthew Good Band, Treble Charger or Hayden? Or later Age Of Electric? Danko Jones? SIANSpheric? The Odds? It's not like we just listen to Celine, Shania Twain and fucking Brian Adams for god's sake. Or Barenaked Ladies for that matter. I hope none of you people posting anti-Canadian stuff are from countries that produced, oh, I don't know, Ocean Colour Scene? Kula Shaker? The Manic Street Preachers? ELTON JOHN?!? Or perhaps, Matchbox 20? Hootie And The Blowfish?? NEIL DIAMOND??

As for BNL, destroy just about everything except "King Of Bedside Manor", "Crazy", "Be My Yoko Ono", "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" and the original version of "Brian Wilson". Also that song "Jane", because I like the wordplay.

― Dave M., Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Diodes: so we spare them.

― mark s, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And please let's destroy anyone who brings macaroni and cheese or other "cute" props/missiles to Barenaked Ladies shows.

― Scott Plagenhoef, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I so love Sloan, even if they aren't the best live act in the world.

Dave, you forgot the Inbreds, Skinny Puppy, GYBE, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Spookey Ruben, Mean Red Spiders, Hhead, the Gandharvas, Run Chico Run, Thrush Hermit, Ron Sexsmith, Blue Rodeo, King Cobb Steelie, Art Bergmann, TPOH, the Rheostatics ('Claire' is genius), Grapes of Wrath/Ginger, the Flashing Lights (post Super Friendz), Weeping Tile/Sarah Harmer, Crash Vegas, Modabo, Daniel Lanois, Tristan Psionic, Blinker the Star, Stompin' Tom(!), Front Line Assembly, Gordon Fucking Lightfoot, and um.. the Hip.

As for BNL, I totally hate their hypocritical asses, but it's true - 'Wrap Your Arms' is a beautiful song.

― Kim Grim, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh and not to mention that Spirit of the West wrote the best rowdy drinking song EVER in 'Home for a Rest'. When it's played in the pubs here, you can very often see us pogo-ing away and screaming the lyrics from the very bottom of our lungs (yes, even if we are still at our tables).

― Kim Grim, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All these Canadian bands mentioned (and some of which I do very much enjoy, like Skinny Puppy and SIANspheric -- GYBE I'll pass over in silence), and not one mention of either the glorious NoMeansNo or the equally so Jane Siberry. You people, I swear. ;-)

And whoever mentioned the Diodes had something there. "Uncle Bill! Uncle Bill! I took some pills!"

I'm thinking, though, that a lot more truth could be had from those admitting their Rush love. I know you're out there! I know I'm not alone!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best single ever by a Canuck: Rick James, "Superfreak." (Er, if he was Canadian, I seem to think so.)

Most good songs (amid a pile of duds) by a Canuck who sorta pretends he's not: Neil Young.

Lousiest albums I've owned by Canadians: DOA, Slik Toxik.

Best memories of Canadian music when I lived there for four months: debut Sons of Freedom single, a couple Mitsou videos, video for "Let's Tango" by Iforgetwhom but she had cool cheekbones and eye make-up, "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles.

Best lewd Canadian punk song: Subhumans, "Slave to My Dick."

One timid hand raised in defence of Bryan Adams: Sure, his ballads tap the universal cringe (esp. that Robin Hood bit), but the rockers (esp. "Run to You," "One Night Love Affair," "Summer of 69") are chest-high in entertainment value, faultless in hook, melody, and riff.

Who the fuck are BareNaked Ladies?

― AP, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like hockey.

― JM, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How the hell did I forget Thrush Hermit and Shadowy Men? You're so right...

And standing on tables for Spirit Of The West is de rigeur, as far as I'm concerned (especially if you're at the Brunswick House and fucking plastered). Also, honorable mention for the Hanson Bros. punk version of Stompin Tom's "The Good Ol' Hockey Game".

I have an amusing Slikk Toxikk story. The lead singer famously had a nipple piercing and a nose ring, as well as a chain joining the two. Well, during the exaggerated-lead-singer-I-am-Thor-chest-beating moments of their first video shoot, you can imagine what happened. I think the nose ring gave in first.

― Dave M., Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The "destroy Canada" comments are...well, amusing, because it shows just how far Canada has to go to promote bands worth hearing. BNL is Canada's answer to They Might Be Giants, in a lot of ways. I make no judgements on this. But I second Kim's list, especially the Rheostatics. Also NoMeansNo and Jane Siberry, wholeheartedly. Geeze. It's like us saying: DESTROY ENGLAND BECAUSE OF RICK ASTLEY.

As for the Rick James comment: Rick James was born in Buffalo, New York, but moved to Toronto, where he formed a band called the Mynah Birds with Neil Young (no shit). By the time he released "Superfreak", though, he was well back in the US. Other Canuckleheads of note: Change of Heart/Blurtonia, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails, Dan Bryk, Doughboys, some 54:40, Bob's Your Uncle, Me Mom and Morgentaler, The Nils, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Stan Rogers, John Southworth, HAWKSLEY WORKMAN, Andy Stochansky, Kurt Swinghammer, Bob Wiseman, Lenny Breau, and Neko Case. Way more, but this is slipping into overkill.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

By the way, I think the "Let's Tango" song was probably by Lisa Dalbello, judging by AP's description.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay, I was decisively wrong about Rick James (he still in jail for cocaine or something?). So, AMENDED best single ever by a Canadian: Neil Young, "Like a Hurricane."

― AP, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not to forget Plume Latraverse, Mara Tremblay, Bran Van 3000, Michel Pagliaro, Lili Fatale, Steve Faulkner, Robert Charlebois, Jean Leloup and tons of others, I'm sure (I haven't been paying all that much attention lately).

― Patrick, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay. Good music does come from canada. But don't go throwing Bran Van 3000 and Sloan and the whole hideous canadian indie-scene around like yer proud of them. The Flashing Lights, I've found are a notable exception to the usual "canadian indie is crap" rule. Of course, they're on spinArt. Oh yes, don't throw out Treble Charger like that's a good thing either. And don't get me started on GYBE. I'd take Celine over most of those listed. And certainly the best of Neil Young and Bryan Adams.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sterling, you must understand. It's just so dissapointing to me that all our bands can't be as phenomenal as Len, Our Lady Peace, The Tea Party, Prozzak and Alanis. I weep nightly. So sad.

― Grim is Kim, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sloan's early stuff still rocks. These days, a friend of mine close to the band says they're really fucking bored with the whole thing. Early Treble Charger is excellent, and bears absolutely no resemblence to their major label stuff. There's plenty of good Canadian indie stuff, as well as a bunch of shit, but it's the same as everywhere else. If we get judged by Bran Van, then you guys have to use Sukpatch and Yo La fucking Tengo as exhibits A and B in your country's defence, and we'll see whose face has the most pie dripping off it.

― Dave M., Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, good god. Tea Party. I had tried so hard to forget them... Hey, I live in California. Go ahead and judge us by Ugly Kid Joe. And Skanking Pickle. And NOFX. And Papa Roach. See if I care. Just don't tell me that California has a good punk, ska, or hard rock scene.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten years pass...

Chickety china?! LMAO

― billstevejim, Monday, 11 July 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago)


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