Best of Canada

Wait, accept Toronto.

(Why would Quebecois not be considered?)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f534/f53407xo5ff.jpg

Lock thread.

OK, most of those bands are metal bands, so I can understand that you haven't heard of those -- but you haven't heard of RUSH?!

Okay sorry. I figured Rush was a given.

Anyone know these guys?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MaxWebster.jpg

Emily Haines
Metric

...and whoever hoped for some Klaatu love upthread, please pay 'ttention now, for i'mma emailing in my 2 cc o'Klaatuluv right here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MaxWebster.jpg

WTF, MAX WEBSTER, picture.

try all music, pretty stable image server there.

Anyway, everyone knows that Rush is the best Canadian band ever. No contest.

Damnit, I think you are correct.

About everything!

hey, time to go for a soda!

Emily Haines
Metric

Ugh. No time for either her or her band.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg300/g303/g30317cxuox.jpg

THERE WE GO, MAX WEBSTER.

I love The Rheostatics. I mean, really love them.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Greatest_hits_%28Rheostatics%29_album_cover.jpg

Best album name, for their first release!

Come on!:
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Voi-NF.jpg

http://collection.rossperrin.net/images/claudevivier11b.jpg

There are days when I think "Lonely Child" is my favourite piece of music.

Dude! How'd I miss Voivod? *hangs head in shame*

http://www.blastitude.com/15/ss-cyborgs.jpg

One of the greatest Canadian albums of all time...

As for underrated 80s metal...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NCVY54ZYL._AA240_.jpg

Remote Linking Forbidden ROCKS.

No Quebecois means no Cryptopsy or Gorguts, right? So clearly, that rule must go right out the window.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G71N3Y7VL._AA240_.jpg

"I'm not giving anyone a fuckin' R."
- Bubbles, Trailer Park Boys

Quebecois are perfectly acceptable.

Where's Moist?

(I'll spam the thread with image after image of Quebecois electroacoustic composer if anyone's going to make a point of it.)

Where's Moist?

Almost as unbearable as Bootsauce.

http://cdbaby.name/b/e/betrayer.jpg

Image spamming is fun!

Where's Moist?

Almost as unbearable as Bootsauce.

-- A. Begrand, Friday, February 1, 2008 4:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Just outside Terrebonne, Quebec is a warehouse that holds nothing but resold copies of The Brown Album culled from used CD shops across Canada.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh900/h965/h96571p0pkv.jpg

These guys are underrated but very good. At least, that album is.

Yes, those guys are great.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/42034.jpg

http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/2197498.jpg

http://funkysouls.com/img/venetian_snares_rcas.jpg

Toronto, definitely. Get It On Credit and Head On as stated earlier over on Rolling Hard Rock. They had the mid-80's classic rock sheen down to a fine art.

The first album by Teaze, at the least.

Teenage Head's premier disc. Very Doll's influenced, very rock and roll snotty.

Trooper -- the first one. Contains great hammerdown stuff like "General Hand Grenade" and "Roller Rink," about rocking on roller skates, which is mostly playin' and no singin', anyway.

And no one will want to miss Helix's Wild In the Streets.

And there's even a new indie film documentary on Anvil and their intrepid struggle in the face of relentless failure, perhaps coming to your town. At least LA, since someone wrote about it in the Times a couple weeks ago.

http://www.dickdestiny.com/teaze.jpg

fuckin' CHILLIWACK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE

http://www.room101.net/buildingcastles/releases/bcomblue.jpg

Yeah, that Anvil doc got a ton of praise at Sundance a short while back.

"Metal on Metal" is right up there with Razor's "Evil Invaders", as far as influencing a generation of Canadian metal fans in the 80s.

Head Phone Over Tone - Solar Sails (can't find good img)

At least part-Cdn:

http://chuckbrown.com/media/albumcovers/heart-dreamboat-annie.jpg

#2 is one I know and love:

http://www.utoronto.ca/icm/molscha.jpg

http://media.canada.com/a373a9c0-95d4-4a46-a780-e930d6c76147/070116-billy-talent.jpg

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/35739.jpg

"Devil's Deck" and "Monkey Bars" kill.

http://paulhodgeaudio.com/ccmc.jpg

man, that's a lot of drek!

Fucked Up
Cub
The Haunted
Forgotten Rebels

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j181/j18127z86nt.jpg

In Digital surround!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e376/e37645bwjbf.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d600/d60093611ea.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d675/d67596451c5.jpg

Consider the signal separated from the noise in Eeyore's list.

man, that's a lot of drek!

-- peepee, Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:27 AM (16 hours ago)

Hey, I never said they were good bands...they were just what was all over the radio when I lived in Canada...

I MOTHER EARTH

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jadetree.com/images/bands/fucked_up/bio_photo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jadetree.com/news/article/70/660&h=260&w=400&sz=20&hl=en&start=30&sig2=l1iJOMWPV9BZDxW3qQje3A&um=1&tbnid=_n61WuW-uY4WFM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=124&ei=84uvR-LjKJvmwgHctfB6&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfucked%2Bup%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN

Colonel is spot on

Fucked up - great Canadians

How does Colonel Poo rate the non-UK Subs?

WTF??!?! Why no mention of Skip Spence??!?!!?

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/2133/maestromj5.jpg

OTM!

No Mind
Living Proof
SLOW
Madhouse
Leather Uppers
The Wammee
Fail Safe
Slutarded
Headpins
and more currently...
Rozasian
Mantler
Geoff Berner
Stabby Dancers

the grapes of wrath had that nice record they did with john leckie. it's possible they did more than one with him but that was all i ever heard.

Gino Vanelli

Anyone actually heard him live recently? The dude's a-coming to play at a festival in my neck of the woods this April...

I'm fond of the Demics.

NOMEANSNO and Klaatu are among the best things ever, Canadian or otherwise, so I'll second (or third or 4th) both of them.

I plugged her here long ago, but Lindi Ortega's new album is out on iTunes. Echoes of Sun records, Dolly Parton.. loving it. Anyone else?

Aaaaand, that album (Little Red Boots) got her a Juno nomination for Best New Artist as well as "Roots & Traditional album of the year"!

Settled, once and for all.

http://m.music.cbc.ca/blogs/2015/6/The-100-best-Canadian-bands-ever

I only looked at the Top 20, but supposedly no Moxy Fruvous. (Two years ago, they would have been ranked #17.) Guessing no Thundermug, Fludd, or Viletones, either.

plenty of good bands in there, but the order is absurd

Another list: Toronto songs.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2018/03/15/we-picked-torontos-top-100-songs-now-tell-us-why-were-wrong.html

I count seven that I love; I'm probably unfamiliar with a quarter to a third of the list, including the song by the ILM poster. By including the Dan Hill and Parachute Club songs (both truly awful), among others, the implication is that these are the 100 songs most identified with Toronto, not necessarily the best. By including the Rolling Stones, the implication is they weren't too particular about rules.

More like 40% I've never heard.