I was thinking the same thing. Clearly, the biggest Canadian band of all time.
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From Italy. Of the name on the list I know:
Crowbar (found them searchin for the Usa band... ), Lee Aaron, Helix, Triumph, Kick Axe.
Though in the list are missing a lot of bands, especially metal. Anvil, Rush, Razor, 3 inches of blood, Annihilator, Cauldron, Sword...
Crowbar (found them searchin for the Usa band... ), Lee Aaron, Helix, Triumph, Kick Axe.
Though in the list are missing a lot of bands, especially metal. Anvil, Rush, Razor, 3 inches of blood, Annihilator, Cauldron, Sword...
For some real highlights, checkout:
April Wine's version of "21st Century Schizoid Man"
and
Point Blank's version of "Highway Star."
Edit: Just learned that Point Blank is from Texas. Not sure why they are on the list. Seeing lots of inaccuracies.
April Wine's version of "21st Century Schizoid Man"
and
Point Blank's version of "Highway Star."
Edit: Just learned that Point Blank is from Texas. Not sure why they are on the list. Seeing lots of inaccuracies.
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This is a problem some of the time, especially with Modern Rock radio stations... If you have play 35% Canadian Content and all that's out now is Sum41, you have little choice but to play them.
Also, this includes subscription TV stations as well (like HBO, Oprah, FX, etc). We can pay to have the station, but we get the Canadian version which also has to play 35% (I believe) TV shows, many of which are available on other networks, or they make a quick, cheap reality TV show to suit... I'm paying extra money for this station, please give me all of the shows I expect to see. Also, this doesn't include basic cable stations (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, or HLN), just the subcription type.
But, there are some great TV shows:
Trailer Park Boys
Corner Gas
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Cowboy Junkies
Ronnie Hawkins
Uncle Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues Band
King Biscuit Boy
Ronnie Hawkins
Uncle Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues Band
King Biscuit Boy
I'm surprised that anyone wouldn't have heard of Gino Vannelli - I've been buying his albums since the first one in about 1973. "People Gotta Move" got a lot of airplay and my band covered it back in '73. All of my friends (I mainly hung out with jazz musicians) were big fans and always talking about the latest Gino album - especially around the time of the "Brother to Brother" album - but I still listen to the first album regularly, it's one of the best albums of all time. That first album was made before polyphonic synths and it's just Gino and Joe playing all the instruments layered up - engineering/mix/master is superb and this album was used by high end audio stores to demo the most expensive stereo systems. Hmmm I think I'll put that album on right now 
it never gets old.
it never gets old.
The Tragically Hip were pretty popular down here . I'm vaguely familiar with Triumph and Big Wreck. My daughter had one of those pop compilation cd's that had Tal Bachman's She's So High on it. I must have heard that song a thousand times.
Have records by Blue Rodeo, Bruce Cockburn and Moxy Fruvous. Have heard of Tragically hip, Glass Tiger, Big Wreck, Big Sugar, Moffats and Sky. Some others sounded familiar, but I wouldn't swear to any of them.
The Tragically Hip are one of my favorite bands, own everything they've put out. Helix and Kick Axe were cool when I was in eighth grade now they are laughable at my current age. Triumph.
Ok. Hold the phone...
Can't believe the list didn't include Joni Mitchell. IMHO the absolute best thing that ever emerged from the Canadian music scene. That woman is a musical genius. And like a fine wine, she just got better with age. Great technical lady too. She was one of the first to get involved with MIDI for guitar. She's also the only player I ever heard (other than Joe Gore) who seems to really know how to do something with a Fishman TriplePlay. Check out her one-woman ensemble performance on Letterman:
I figure if she's good enough to have gotten this crew (Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays, Don Alias) to back her on one of her tours, she definitely had some fairly serious "street cred" in the jazz community as well:
Can't believe the list didn't include Joni Mitchell. IMHO the absolute best thing that ever emerged from the Canadian music scene. That woman is a musical genius. And like a fine wine, she just got better with age. Great technical lady too. She was one of the first to get involved with MIDI for guitar. She's also the only player I ever heard (other than Joe Gore) who seems to really know how to do something with a Fishman TriplePlay. Check out her one-woman ensemble performance on Letterman:
I figure if she's good enough to have gotten this crew (Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays, Don Alias) to back her on one of her tours, she definitely had some fairly serious "street cred" in the jazz community as well:
I do stand corrected , for some reason I thought they were out of Vancouver
I love the Tragically Hip! "Canada's REM" .... The lead singer is one of the best front men out there, period! They even wrote a song about a hockey player. You can't get any more Canadian than that!
I've got Hawksley Workman's Meat, For Him & The Girls, and Treeful Of Starling, Bruce Cockburn's Inner City Front, Stealing fire (everyone should check out "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" from this one), and The Trouble With Normal and David Wilcox's Assorted Wilcox and Over 60 Minutes with...
I've heard of Tragically Hip and Triumph, and you missed out The Barenaked Ladies, but I guess they're too "famous" for your list, like Tal Bachman's dad and my all time favourite Burton Cummings.
I've heard of Tragically Hip and Triumph, and you missed out The Barenaked Ladies, but I guess they're too "famous" for your list, like Tal Bachman's dad and my all time favourite Burton Cummings.
There's also a hip hop band from Toronto named Point Blank.
Theres so many great canadian acts you guys missed. What about some new music like
Metric
Alexisonfire
Death from above 1979
Broken social sence
The new pornographers
Sloan
Hot hot heat
Arkells
Mother mother
Black mountian
Yukon blonde
Billy talent
Metric
Alexisonfire
Death from above 1979
Broken social sence
The new pornographers
Sloan
Hot hot heat
Arkells
Mother mother
Black mountian
Yukon blonde
Billy talent
Tragically Hip - 50 Mission Cap
One of my favourite Hockey stories... He scored an OT goal in the Stanely Cup finals against Montreal, which one the Leafs the cup. In the off-season, he took a small airplane to Quebec to go fishing. The plane crash landed in a swamp and wasn't found for 11 years. While his body laid in the swamp, the Leafs did not win the cup (this was in the "original six" era when they won the cup often). A journalist then made up the "Bill Barilko Curse", where he said the Leafs wouldn't win the cup until Barilko's body was discovered. Later, his body was found during an off-season. Leafs won the cup the following season (and I think won it a few years in a row too).
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Yes, there's some great acts in these posts... Sometimes it's hard for me to think outside our borders and realize some of these people aren't heard of elsewhere.
Its hard to say rush is the biggest. They have there fans but i would say tragically hip is a better canadian band.
Can con is responsible for some seriously awful 'artists' being rammed down the throats of the Kanuckistani people. Looking at you, 54-40. It also extends to film & television, the awfulness of which cannot be overstated. 
