holy shit this thread is too much
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Monday, 8 April 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
keep clicking songs and having intense flashbacks to childhood
fucking i mother earth lmao
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Monday, 8 April 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
Def the most ridiculous of these bands
― Simon H., Monday, 8 April 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 19 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
re the convo upthread, as a rural boy in 90s ontario i can tell you with absolute confidence that leloup, colocs, etc had zero penetration in my tiny circle, and in fact i did not really hear any of these artists/bands until the past couple of years bc of dating francophone person. like, even living in mtl and largely hanging out w/ anglos i still didn't get any exposure. but all of these BST bands i was at least very intimately familiar with their heavy rotation muchmusic/bst offerings.
still really split on who to vote for, OLP or Moist prob the most honest to me at the time (in that order chronologically, i think?), kinda wanna vote bran van for the most interesting career to me retrospectively, and kinda wanna vote holly mcnarland because numb just fuckin bangs
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Friday, 19 April 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
BV3000 had that one wild song where the video was just people making out for like 4 minutes. i think i liked the song but i was far too repressed to not feel deeply uncomfortable watching the video. maybe that was the point!
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Friday, 19 April 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
UHH matthew good covered cloudbusting in 2015, feat. holly mcnarland????????????????? ok im voting for her
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 20 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Next to no discussion about the Odds and they sneak in for second place. Good band, occasionally great, and there's nothing embarrassing in their catalogue (even "Wendy Under The Stars" holds up) like any of the other acts that I was familiar with in this poll , so that's why they got my vote.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 20 April 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
The only song I remember by them is "Heterosexual Man" tbh, which I do think of as a bit embarrassing.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 April 2019 00:59 (five years ago) link
It did have Kids in the Hall in the video tbf.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 April 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
I guess it's a bit embarrassing, but I never took it as anything more than Gen X irony, and the video reflected that.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 20 April 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
It was definitely ironic. I just don't think the by-the-numbers rock track or the joke have held up that great. Tbf, though, I doubt they were going for timelessness. It did give me a smile at 14.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 April 2019 01:17 (five years ago) link
told you who would win any why, Simon.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 20 April 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
xp It's a safe bet that the by-the-numbers rock sound was imposed upon them by record company higher-ups (We'll let you self-produce but there had better be a radio-friendly hit)...they still managed to get Robert Quine and Warren Zevon to guest on the album.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 20 April 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
Hm, maybe I should listen to more of the album.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 April 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
A Tea Party song came on when I was out in the car today ("Temptation"). I reflexively reached to turn it off as always, thought of this poll and left it on. As they say in Newfoundland, lord thunderin' Jesus.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Oor was right, it's true
anyway 6 people voted for MGB in an ILM poll so my work was worthwhile
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/r_i_p_big_wreck_guitarist_brian_doherty
Big Wreck guitarist Brian Doherty has passed at only 51. Crank "That Song" this weekend in his honour.
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 June 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
:(
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 June 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
sadly it took the prompt for me to listen to their well-thought-of album from 2017 and it's quite a bit proggier, more psychedelic and colorful than the stuff they got famous with
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
if I thought anyone but brad and I would vote in it I would do a Matt Good singles poll. it's like a semi-secret history of alt-rock.
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 September 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
In the wilderness the only place to find freedom is in the dictionaryUnder "F"
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 September 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
1. Odds won this poll righ?2. Ton of cdn indie music at this time but not in this particular marketing strategy worthy of a thread?
― everything, Thursday, 26 September 2019 06:36 (four years ago) link
Almost certainly!
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 September 2019 06:39 (four years ago) link
In fact a fair number of bands that would presumably qualify were cited itt
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 September 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i found me a reasonso check me tomorrow
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
honestly i have no idea what i'd vote for? "future is x-rated"?????
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
"indestructible"??? "carmelina"??? "load me up"????
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
I even love "Rico" which, iirc, he completely hates.
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
everybody's gotta be somethingme i'm garbage!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
also love "Anti Pop" which instantly joins the pantheon of "singles tossed off spitefully when the band was told their album did not have a single" which is one of my favorite genres of song and I am thinking of polling
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
*sends my manager an e-mail* "Do I have to pretend to like Matthew Good? I do? OK thanks"
I guess he does a pretty reasonable Foo Fighters impression
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 26 September 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
lol
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 September 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s64LD9K-Fy0
rusty on rita and friends in late 95? 96?, doing "misogyny"
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
We heard the Tea Party's "The River" on the radio the other day. Weirdly, although I still hear the obvious Zep influence, I didn't hear Jim Morrison at all, although that's what it seemed like at the time and it's who Martin was always slammed for imitating. The vocals just sounded like post-Vedder alt-rock. Single holds up well enough.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Friday, 25 September 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
J englishman + Late 90's + Canadian = Not Jenny Englishman alias Esthero, surely?
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 25 September 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
Quick discogs search revealed that it's Esthero's brother.
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 25 September 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
OLP's Is Anybody Home? has become one of my pandemic anthem. Happiness is one of the very first albums I bought.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
thinking about "carmelina" again
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link