the Big Shiny late-90s/early-00s CanCon poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KJDl-T-y4

JENNI
KILLED HER DAD WITH HER CAR
NOW SHE'S A MILLIONAIRE

idk i love the sound of those mgb records. they definitely sound like the '90s though

I tried to listen to Limblifter this morning but I just get nothing out of that guy's voice.

holy shit this thread is too much

keep clicking songs and having intense flashbacks to childhood

fucking i mother earth lmao

Def the most ridiculous of these bands

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

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!

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.

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.

The only song I remember by them is "Heterosexual Man" tbh, which I do think of as a bit embarrassing.

It did have Kids in the Hall in the video tbf.

I guess it's a bit embarrassing, but I never took it as anything more than Gen X irony, and the video reflected that.

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.

told you who would win any why, Simon.

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.

Hm, maybe I should listen to more of the album.

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.

Oor was right, it's true

anyway 6 people voted for MGB in an ILM poll so my work was worthwhile

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.

:(

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

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.

In the wilderness the only place to find freedom is in the dictionary
Under "F"

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?

Almost certainly!

In fact a fair number of bands that would presumably qualify were cited itt

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., Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i found me a reason
so check me tomorrow

honestly i have no idea what i'd vote for? "future is x-rated"?????

"indestructible"??? "carmelina"??? "load me up"????

I even love "Rico" which, iirc, he completely hates.

everybody's gotta be something
me i'm garbage!

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

*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

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s64LD9K-Fy0

rusty on rita and friends in late 95? 96?, doing "misogyny"

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.

J englishman + Late 90's + Canadian = Not Jenny Englishman alias Esthero, surely?

Quick discogs search revealed that it's Esthero's brother.

OLP's Is Anybody Home? has become one of my pandemic anthem. Happiness is one of the very first albums I bought.

thinking about "carmelina" again