Canadian Rock

[Jim Campbell]

Yep - I'm not a fan of Canadian pop in general. I find it bland for the most part (The Tragically Hip would be a prime example). Don't get me wrong - I'm not slamming all Canadian music, but when it comes down to it, none of my favourite artists come from Canada. I've always been much more into what has come out of the U.K. and the U.S. (And Jamaica, and West Africa, and Brazil, and...). But yeah, I thought Feist's first album was brilliant and very well-produced.

you may be onto something there....i think it's the absence of american roots influences....blues,gospel,country etc were missing here.....as well in the early days of rock/pop a lot of american music never saw airplay here and i think a lot of influences with them...

..a rack jobber guy once told me that if something only looked to sell a hundred or so thousand in the us,they could only expect 10% of that here and would not bother with a canook release....

 

[4001]

SAGA

http://www.youtube.com/v/rH7XWkwggsM&hl=en_US&fs=1
http://www.youtube.com/v/gx7XbV82JfQ&hl=en_US&fs=1
http://www.youtube.com/v/7J0QdXBY0wo&hl=en_US&fs=1

 

[Richland123]

levon helm is from arkansas

Yes, he was from Arkansas but since he was so influential in Canadian music, he is quite often claimed as a Canadian musician as well since he lived there. Helm met fellow Arkansan, Ronnie Hawkins and at age 17, Helm began playing in clubs and bars around Helena, AR. After graduating from high school, he was invited to join Hawkins's band, The Hawks, who were a popular bar and club act across the South and also in Canada, where rockabilly acts were very popular. Soon after Helm joined The Hawks, they moved to Toronto where, in 1959, they signed with Roulette Records and released several singles, including a few hits. In the early 1960s, Levon Helm and Ronnie Hawkins recruited an all-Canadian lineup of musicians: guitarist Robbie Robertson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson- although all the musicians were multi-instrumentalists. In 1963, the band parted ways with Hawkins and started touring under the name "Levon and The Hawks," and later as "The Canadian Squires" before finally changing back to "The Hawks." They recorded two singles, but remained mostly a popular touring bar band in Texas, Arkansas, Canada and on the East Coast where they found regular summer club gigs on the New Jersey shore. They, then became The Band

 

[Solarmist]

METRIC starring the beautiful Emily Haines.

 

[Jim Campbell]

she's based in austin now but sue foley is from canook

 

[stratovani]

Hey, let's not forget some of the Quebecois bands. After all, they're still part of Canada (so far)!

Offenbach
Okoumé
Kermess
Harmonium
Beau Dommage
La Chicane
Les Trois Accords
Les Chiens
Garolou
Ville Emard Blues Band
Simple Plan

 

[78bass]

Harmonium are wonderful. I think Rheo's were heavily influenced.

 

[geeza]

MAX WEBSTER!!!

Max W. has been one of my favorite bands since their first album came out (and I still listen to them pretty often). Too bad they were so under appreciated. Kim Mitchell's solo stuff is pretty good too.

 

[MtManiac]

you may be onto something there....i think it's the absence of american roots influences....blues,gospel,country etc were missing here.....as well in the early days of rock/pop a lot of american music never saw airplay here and i think a lot of influences with them...

..a rack jobber guy once told me that if something only looked to sell a hundred or so thousand in the us,they could only expect 10% of that here and would not bother with a canook release....

Ummm... Canada doesn't have roots music?? Maybe not southern Ontario, but I guarantee the rest of Canada has it. Most of it is French (Norman or Acadian) or Celtic, but out west they definitely have a solid "country" base.

 

[gkbass13]

neil young
the band
the hip
matthew good
finger eleven
aaaaand the arcade fire.

some of my favoUrite canadiEn bands and artists.

 

[Jonyak]

Wintersleep (my fav)
Constantines
Sloan
Matt good
kathleen edwards

these are some of my favorite bands.

seems to be alot of hipster crap out there nowadays though.

 

[Jonyak]

The Arkells.

Simply fantastic group from Hamilton, Ontario IMO. Everybody should check them out.

My band opened for these guys, they were awesome and great guys as well!

I really don't get the whole BSS/Feist/Metric/a thousand other sound alike bands thing going on in ontario right now.

 

[gkbass13]

regardless of your stance on "hipsters", The Arcade Fire are amazing.

forgot about Alanis Morrisette, "Jagged Little Pill" was a pretty amazing album in the mid 90's.

 

[Jonyak]

regardless of your stance on "hipsters", The Arcade Fire are amazing.

forgot about Alanis Morrisette, "Jagged Little Pill" was a pretty amazing album in the mid 90's.

haha.. I didn't even mention the arcade fire.

 

[gkbass13]

Haha, I know man, but they fit that mold in a big way. Still though, amazing.



"Funeral" is one of my favorite albums of the last 10 years.

 

[dalkowski]

^^^ See you, and raise you:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=239650&page=4

 

[the_hook]

I saw Tea Party a few years ago at the Mod Club. Awesome, tight performance, decent sized crowd (I was on the balcony with a great view of the whole stage).

Sadly, shortly after that concert the band broke up.

 

[Jonyak]

I saw Tea Party a few years ago at the Mod Club. Awesome, tight performance, decent sized crowd (I was on the balcony with a great view of the whole stage).

Sadly, shortly after that concert the band broke up.

thats such a great venue to see a band at, and to play at.

 

[Jim Campbell]

Ummm... Canada doesn't have roots music?? Maybe not southern Ontario, but I guarantee the rest of Canada has it. Most of it is French (Norman or Acadian) or Celtic, but out west they definitely have a solid "country" base.

different kind of roots,and the rock we have come to know is rooted in blues,gospel,and forms of american music that were not common here in the early days......if you think that the pioneers of rock music were influenced by don messer you misread what i wrote

 

[MtManiac]

different kind of roots,and the rock we have come to know is rooted in blues,gospel,and forms of american music that were not common here in the early days......if you think that the pioneers of rock music were influenced by don messer you misread what i wrote

Lol, no, but I think that would be funny. My point is that although rock was not invented here (in Canada), Canadian rock is certainly "in-formed" by our culture and our heritage, just like German rock is, and Brit rock is, and Japanese rock is, etc. They all seem to have some pretty exciting stuff, and like us they certainly lack the same musical roots that American rock is blessed with.

IMO, Canadian rock is too Canadian, in that we don't appreciate what we have until it makes it big somewhere else. Eg. include Rush, Neil Young, Brian Adams, Leslie Neilson, Mike Myers, Pamela Anderson, Jim Carrey, Bob and Doug, Shannon Tweed, Keifer Sutherland, Portia White, Shania, Superman, Leonard Cohen, Keanu Reeves, etc. Then we're all "hey, did you Americans know that he/she/they're Canadian?" All those people (including Superman lol) had to leave here to make it big. Making it big here first is like the kiss of death.