i would like however to rep for a record outside the timeframe of this poll: in 2012 our lady peace, having produced two uneven stadium-directed albums with bob rock and one really abysmal album by themselves (burn burn, a remarkably empty rock record), did a "return to our roots" record, though it was more of a "return to the experimental impulse that drove spiritual machines." it's a really dark and cloudy but very catchy record called curve; if you like prime olp at all you'll find something to like there imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link
this got me to look up an old this is the thread where we talk about muchmusic threadit's interesting. lecoq mentions partying with rainbow then complains about muchmusic being too "socially conscious"
it features a very post from a much music insider, too long to quote
rainbow sun franks: a cunt. easy.bradford how: just a total joke and a symptom of a dying station. exhibits the typical overcompensating, annoying personality of small town folk who move to the big fucking city.hannah sung: the girl will fuck anything that moves yet masks it all with her boring persona. i know way too many girls like her.sarah taylor: saw her eating lunch in yorkville about 2 weeks ago. seems kinda listless.
bradford how: just a total joke and a symptom of a dying station. exhibits the typical overcompensating, annoying personality of small town folk who move to the big fucking city.
hannah sung: the girl will fuck anything that moves yet masks it all with her boring persona. i know way too many girls like her.
sarah taylor: saw her eating lunch in yorkville about 2 weeks ago. seems kinda listless.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
also i'm voting limblifter based on "tinfoil"
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
Another band/song from this era that I remember getting quite a bit of airplay that surprisingly didn't show up on a Big Shiny Tunes compilation was The Watchmen with Stereo.
― MarkoP, Friday, 5 April 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
That's an interesting list. Always annoys me that "I'm an Adult Now" is the TPOH song people remember since it's so monotonous and says nothing to me. Much prefer "She's So Young" or "Beautiful White".
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:59 (five years ago) link
TIL Big Wreck have more monthly listeners on Spotify than Sloan.
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
TS: Guitar Player vs Pitchfork
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
Wow at that IME Snowjob video
Edwin perfectly encapsulating a now-extinct version of “hunk”
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 April 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
Like they look like Lisa Simpson’s favourite band
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 April 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Hey, early shoegazey Len is pretty good. I love this video too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1EUfNFL8vk
― jmm, Friday, 5 April 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
wasn't there some story about them swiping a copy of Pro Tools from some famous producer?
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Lol @ that Snowjob video, what a find!
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
our lady peace intimate & interactive 2000great chance to get up close and personal with the band and hear their best songs in a stripped down environment "the guys are looking forward to it," announces rick "the temp" rick campanelli.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
Did Jean Leloup get any airtime in anglo Canada?
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
I don't remember much French-language music on English radio at all, sadly. MuchMusic tried to make Mitsou's "Bye Bye Mon Cowboy" happen in 1988.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
OLP were absolutely inescapable the summer of 1997, so it's hard to pick anything else
incidentally i'm about to drive up north for my cousin's funeral, with whom i spent a LOT of time listening to this stuff in that era; about the only upside of this whole situation is that i'll be within range of ottawa rock radio; chez 106 is more or less permanently stuck in the summer of 1997, which i suspect i will greatly appreciate
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
That's too bad. Mitsou is best forgotten but I'll easily take Leloup's 90s albums over just about any CanCon. And I say this as someone who absolutely hated almost all music sung in French at the time (I still don't know why).
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
xp, obv.
I think OLP were ruined for me the day that I was at my painting job and we listened to an OLP mix about ten times. I never need to hear "Innocent" again.
― jmm, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
As a side note, I'm amazed that 99.9 The Buzz is still around. For a US-based radio station, they played a surprising amount of Canadian alt rock.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
I dimly recall being at this
https://www.setlist.fm/festival/2000/summersault-2000-halifax-43d6ebd7.html
the Pumpkins were shockingly awful
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
Catherine Wheel, eh? Interesting.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
a note for brad re: the Catherine Wheel's set
The only sign of life came when Our Lady Peace guitarist Mike Turner joined the band on stage for a tune. They bid farewell to Halifax stating “We will never, ever see you again.” Good riddance!
so there was a brief OLP/Catherine Wheel crossover
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
For a US-based radio station, they played a surprising amount of Canadian alt rock.
I felt like kids in Buffalo, NY, might have been even more passionate about Canadian bands than Canadians were. It seemed to have aome kind of cachet. People would eagerly want to talk to me about Matthew Good, Tea Party, or the Hip when they found out I was Canadian. (I lived there 05-08, during my PhD!) OLP played our uni's Fallfest one of those years
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
loool, this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHu3ZKXZrf4
― jmm, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
god, Edwin was such a prat
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Just for the sake of balance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gljv7NNgQD0
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
And of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5gidM31MCM
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
We do get some good French radio in Ottawa. In my more enlightened middle age, I really enjoy listening to trad French country on CHUO every Thursday morning to get into a French headspace for that day's teaching.
(Portentous, Live 88.5 and Rebel 101.7 are both also happy to dip into the 90s alt vaults.)
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
Sund4r I was at that OLP show, haI’m think a lot of it might have been that those band played Buffalo/Upstate New York a ton, and felt like “big” bands, when other touring bands from farther away in the US hardly ever came through, so the fan bases got huge. Like I remember going to see BNL play the hockey arena before “one week” was a thing.
― One Eye Open, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
Heh, you're definitely more Québécois than I am if you can listen to country in French. I'll get there some day.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
weirdest bit of trivia related to this poll that I've dug up so far: MGB's "Omissions of the Omean" ('95) supposedly contains the first recorded use of the expression "first-world problems"
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
!
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
(Sorry for your loss, btw, portentous.)
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
Pomenitul, it helps a lot that the words are p much always crystal clear, and that it makes it harder to fall asleep on a longish morning drive, but I'm also somewhat fascinated by this show: I didn't think a French twang was possible beforehand, and the host of this show manages to come up with four new hours of music in a fairly specific vein every week.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Thanks, I'll check it out.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Prob goes without saying that it's super hokey.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
(no idea what the PGMG connection is?)― Simon H., Wednesday, April 3, 2019 9:08 AM (two days ago)
― Simon H., Wednesday, April 3, 2019 9:08 AM (two days ago)
None, other than both were Matador labelmates at the same time for a brief moment.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
That's alright, being abroad has a way of making even such things appear exotically palatable.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
not really poll-relevant but this is my fave pre-NPs AC Newman tunehttps://youtu.be/TvTltNhTy-E― Simon H., Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:24 AM (two days ago)
https://youtu.be/TvTltNhTy-E
― Simon H., Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:24 AM (two days ago)
Same, might even be my favorite of his including NPs.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
This is probably way too under the radar for Big Shiny but this was one of my fave Canadian songs of the specified era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWq4J4GzLA
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
Yes! I thought I was alone on this. I'm an Adult Now drags so much compared to the rest of the album.
Also - is this the place where we can discuss how awesome the first Lowest of the Low album is?
― Will (kruezer2), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
im an adult now is a shitty song.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
I like those Doiron records a lot
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
I don't know that I've ever consciously heard Lowest of the Low.
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
this is the LotL song that got much music play...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t06Kg3LwyE
I love it and the rest of the album, Ron Hawkins is one of my favourite songwriters.
― Will (kruezer2), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
ah now I see why you just referred to it as "the first LotL album" and not by name lol
I'll check it out!
― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
haha, yeah brutal album name.
― Will (kruezer2), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
Heh, I just put on Radio-Canada in the van and they were playing Jean Leloup's "Joue de la Guitare".
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah that album is loaded with hits, top 10 Canadian albums ever for sure
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link