Most Canadian Bands

Honoury mention for my time out east to Stan Rogers, the writer of Barrett's Privateers which is the anthem of drunken Blue Nosers everywhere.

Just as long as no one says The Band I'll be happy.

Plus if you listen to Whale Music there's something that makes them supremely Canadian even barring the occasional namedropping of landmarks and towns. They can do a song about fucking on the beach in California and have it be the most Canadian thing you've ever heard. I dunno.

the evaporators.

why? the cover art + "i'm going to france", "winnipeg 64" and "united empire loyalists". three songs respectively about going to france, winnipeg + neil young, and americans throwing bricks at each other -> i.e. misplaced canadian identity.

The only thing BNL did better then Rheos was mention a cooler part of town like The Danforth rather then, shudder, Kipling.

And they have yet to release a clunker unlike BNL.

anyways i was going to try to defend vancouver (which i love) but then i remembered how hard it is to find a donut in the city -> you are correct, vancouver is not like the rest of canada.

also, toronto == provincial v. of new york? hello space needle could we try a little harder?

Well thats why we all wanna go to New York City, cause they tell us thats the place to be.

uhhhh remember DOA?

Wadda about them?

http://www.musicbymailcanada.com/PlatinumBlonde/vid4sm.JPG

Sorry automated response, I couldn't contain that phrase.

and yes, it takes a really fucking long time to drive from one place to another. the realities of being a musician in canada are far different than any other country on earth (except potentially russia, but i haven't heard any good russian music other than the theme from tetris).

because they all end with 'eh'

But if you don't get those moonlight desires, if they dont haunt you then you are a lucky person cause they turn you into a wild animal.

Buck 65: Im not sure Buck65 is the best example of Canadiana, he is off on his own little island style wise and I love him for it. I feel bad cause I have no idea how the major label is going to market him, but he'll bounce if it doesn't and I'd love to see him do well. I still dont know about his moving to Europe and Im wondering what role Peaches had in that on her recent trip to Halifax with Chicks On Speed which are the closest thing I can think of to peers, though not close musically.

Yeah just go on pretending the birth and later avalanche of argentinian and brasilian rock in the early 80s never happened and that somehow you dont know what Germany is, sure

One of these days Sean will teach the world to sing Surfin On Heroin.

I'm swimming in a sea of puke.
Lend me a quarter play myself on the
juke. Got my kid brother hooked
yesterday. Pimping him pays for my
habit today.

I m surfin' on heroin. I'm surfin' on
heroin. Get a needle gonna stick it in.
I'm surfin' on heroin. I'm so drugged up,
I'm so fucked up. I'm surfin' on heroin.

I know about Germany, hell they're a home away from home for the Smugglers and North of America it seems but I sure as hell haven't heard anything out of the historically interesting Os Mutantes from Brazil. The only country Id have fun arguing against is Australia.

Better then the Pitchfork review (which I will finish reading...)
Top 100 Singles from 1996.
Top 100 Albums from 1996.
Top 50 Canadian Albums in 2000
All from the usualy popist Chart magazine.

Get this guy a history book. Has he not heard of the Yukon?

Its typical Pitchfork, dismissing Twice Removed as Shoegazer.

#. band Name - Album name
I like album by band. There was a kite. The kite soared high like guitars. The band can play guitars. Did you know those guitars were played by Canadians on album? Snide remark about bands other material.
(see #18 for best example, I dont even think he owns or ever did own the album, just downloaded shit from napster)

guys from Propagandhi never went on to form a banal new-wave pop band.

Thank god he hasnt head of the Weakerthans, I heart them very much and would be terribly upset.

was no Canadian Bandstand.
We had video hits and that was more then enough thank you.

If I get the energy I should comment on each entry. But RAW is showing Hot Lesbian Action which sounds like a slightly better waste of my time.

I like all their singles (or their one single with 15 different titles). Is there a good album to search? Alternatively is there a good comp that includes "A Midsummer's Daydream", "Lay It On the Line", "Fight the Good Fight", and "Follow Your Heart"? Actually I heard "Rock N Roll Machine" some time ago and was surprised that they used to be much heavier. I have trouble believing that these guys were more technical than Rush though.

I think to qualify as a proper Canadian band, really, the artist in question should be fundamentally unheard of South of the Great Divide. Also, to be most Canadian, they must be willing to take the Tragically Hip off the stereo to play them at the Maple Leaf, Covent Garden.

My vote goes to:

SLOAN. Duh.

Though the Rheostatics are pretty damn Canadian, so they get honourable mention.

Platinum Blond, tee hee hee hee hee. Every Canadian girl I know of a "Certain Age" has a weakness for them. God, it's like four John Taylors. Help!

Oh, and by the way, Southern Ontario is actually part of New York State. It's offical, we traded it for Minnesoter.

HARMONIUM...easily the best non-rush canadian band

Why doesn't anyone care about The Spoons anymore? 'Arias and Symphonies' and 'Nova Heart' are absolute synth classics.

John Mann RIP

Such a shame, that documentary was pretty heartbreaking.

I had to look him up. It's kind of amazing how impermeable Quebec can be to key elements of ROC culture.

Anyhow, RIP. Alzheimer's is a fucking blight.

This one hurts a bit. RIP

RIP, way too soon. He was such an incredible performer, it was really rough seeing him struggling in that concert documentary

I was having morning coffee in Tims yesterday, and the manager was standing close by and talking to a couple of people who he evidently hadn't seen a while. They were catching up, and I heard the manager say that his one son was working as a roadie for Honeymoon Suite (who, checking, actually put out an album earlier this year). Posted here because I don't think there's a "Most Canadian Moment" thread.

Was one of them named Gordon?

Not sure--but the coffee I was drinking was with No Sugar.

Despite being extremely Canadian myself, I've never heard of this band until this moment. (Does that make them even more Canadian?)

Depending on your tolerance for bubble-wave, their one pretty good song that I know of (with a perfectly vintage horror-show video to match):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK0AmgDGpPo

Oh I like that. I do feel like "a band that sold millions of records in the 70s or 80s that nobody remembers now" is a very Canadian aesthetic. Gowan, i.e. I really like Gowan! *googles*. Oh wow I didn't realise he's been the lead singer of Styx for twenty years now. Never mind.

A Canadian bands that sold millions of records in the '70s that nobody remembers now vs. Canadian bands that sold millions of records in the '80s that nobody remembers now bracket would obviously be epic. Moxy vs. Brighton Rock. Ocean vs. Glass Tiger. Brave Belt vs. the Spoons. Etc.--might have to allow a few tens-of-thousands-of-records participants in.

Wow I would love to read more about that. I only gained awareness in the 90s, so 70s and 80s Canrock is something of which I'm entirely ignorant, except, like, Rush and Harmonium

I wish I could point you to a book that narrowed in on those two decades...There's Oh What a Feeling and Before the Gold Rush, but they're both on the whole of Canadian pop history. Drawing a blank after that.

https://i.postimg.cc/9MCFbbMV/book-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/prdVbdz6/book-2.jpg

(Actually, the second looks to be '60s-focused.)

Michael Barclay’s “Have Not Been The Same” picks up in ‘85. I read it years ago, I should read it again.

I don't know much about The Rheostatics but a friend suggested I read David Bidini's book, On A Cold Road, It was pretty enjoyable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Cold_Road

Bidini wrote one specifically on 1972, too (haven't read it): Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972. He's a big hockey guy, so I assume there's lots on the Canada-Russia series in there.