Canada rocks! Lets hear it for the canuck bands

[kained&able]

nomeansno have allready been mentioed so ummm errr....

abdominal, propagandhi and ummm....


dave

 

[Silva]

I miss DFA1979.

If you don't mind the frenchness, Malajube are rather good, when they're not trying to prog-rock.

 

[matt m]

I used to like Nomeansno, SNFU and the Dayglo Abortions. All Canadian hardcore punk bands I liked when I was a teenager. Though Nomeansno were kind of hardcore prog punk.

I listened back to some Nomeansno albums recently. They were terrible. Some good basslines though.

 

[stavros]

Got to be honest and say I think the only Canadian music I've got is Venetian Snares, and he hates the place (well, Winnipeg at least).

 

[savoloysam]

Rush

 

[El Jefe]

jesus fuck, no.

 

[savoloysam]

Can't say I've heard of them.

 

[lights.out.london]

Rush

Great up to Exit Stage Left

 

[ivebeenhigh]

great lake swimmers

eta: this - a song using the physical geography of canada and comparing it to a lovers body.

 

[Andy the Don]

Great Cannucks..

• The Band
• BareNakedLadies
• Jeff Healey
• Steppenwolf

Tis all good..

 

[The Groke]

great lake swimmers

eta: this - a song using the physical geography of canada and comparing it to a lovers body.

Yus!

Just came across these guys yesterday.

Like.

 

[pk]

you can never be safe with me about

just turn your back for a moment and i'll fill yer threads with crappy Jappy drawings that are meant to titillate 11 year old boys and sexually malnourished Asian businessmen who dig child porn

Fixed that quote for you.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

you forgot about the bestaility

 

[Schmeegal]

Metric are my favourite Canadian band. Very catchy energetic rock/pop sound.

Check these 3 tracks from their 2003 album "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?"

 

[brokenyolk]

The Weakerthans

bum, they played nova scotia last week when i'd never heard of them.......

but i'm going to see neil young next week

i like final fantasy and holy fuck......

 

[perplexis]

Godspeed You Black Emperor/A silver Mt Zion/Set Fire to Flames/Black Ox Orkestar/Hrsta/Molasses/that whole Montreal thing... it's one of the best things that ever happened to music.
Stars- I really like a few of their tunes, "Going Going Gone" is particularly lovely
Ghislain Poirier- used to be awesome but then he's gone all hiphop and lost the breakcore/basstep.
Weakerthans are fun.
Buck 65 is Canadian, he's ace.
Kid Koala, bit meh now, but he was great live about 10 years go.
Canada is great for music, we can ignore Nickleback. They don't make music.

 

[Idris2002]

Neko Case, both solo and with the New Pornographers.

 

[twistedAM]

Neko Case, both solo and with the New Pornographers.

Erm, she's American. She did spend a few years in Vancouver, home of the excellently-monikered Vancougar.

 

[matt m]

Leonard Cohen.

Hank Snow.

That's it for Canada.

Oh, actually I quite liked Sets Fire To Flames, a Godspeed spin-off. But Godspeed YBU themselves are tres boring.

 

[Lea]

Robert Charlebois - he's my favourite old Canadian rocker!

 

[twistedAM]

Lots coming out of there at the moment but recent favourites include:

Women
The Wilderness of Manitoba
Leif Vollebekk
Black Mountain

And when I think of Canada I always think of big dumb FUBAR stuff and this:

 

[stavros]

Holy Fuck aren't bad.

 

[Cloo]

I like Stars, and I don't normally like that sort of thing at all (usually find that kind of sound too fey and boring), but I heard them first live at a festival and was so impressed by their downright... I dunno, commitment, I suppose.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

There are lots of good canadian musicians. I'm mostly familiar with the English speaking ones; but during a trip to Quebec this summer, I learned that there's a whole universe of really good Quebecois musicians as well.

 

[stupid dogbot]

And when I think of Canada I always think of big dumb FUBAR stuff and this:

Fucked Up

 

[8ball]

Last weekend I was at a festival that could have been curated by the Canadian tourist board (apparently most years there's a lot of Swedish stuff too, though).

Was good.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

As it is with any country, there's a wide range of music appealing to a lot of different tastes.

 

[trevhagl]

some good stuff from Canada but none of the bands mentioned above of course

The Fallout
Emergency
Forgotten rebels
Class assassins

now thats more like it

 

[flypanam]

Godspeed You Black Emperor/A silver Mt Zion/Set Fire to Flames/Black Ox Orkestar/Hrsta/Molasses/that whole Montreal thing... it's one of the best things that ever happened to music.

And Fly Pan Am and Do Make Say Think

I think the whole Canadian thing might have worn thin, there were alot of mediocre bands like wolf parade getting records out doe to the Canadian State investing so hard in it's music industry.

For instance Broken Social Scene...