Canadian bands I should check out?
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Lowest of the Low - An incredible band...period! Three amazing studio albums...start with their first one 'Shakespeare My Butt' and go from there.
As for the Rheostatics, go get 'Melville' and 'Whale Music'...their finest two hours.0 -
#1 New Canadian bands is
Tokyo Police Club
http://www.tokyopoliceclub.net
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub0 -
northernwave wrote:Lowest of the Low - An incredible band...period! Three amazing studio albums...start with their first one 'Shakespeare My Butt' and go from there.
As for the Rheostatics, go get 'Melville' and 'Whale Music'...their finest two hours.
a friend of mine was a huge lowest of the low fan. i think they have a lot of fans among their fellow canadian musicians as well.
good call on those rheostatics records too. double live is also amazing.
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Besides the Hip, which is a given...
my favorite canadian band from the 90's was Moist!
mmm... David Usher...
and also... i'd be remiss if i didn't mention, as I always do, Holly McNarland. :cool:
edit... the weakerthans!~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~0 -
and of course the cowboy junkies"shes stoned said the swede, and the
mooncalf agreed" THe BANd0 -
By a Thread. i think they broke up though. their debut was on Revelation and then they did a split with some band who sucked. they cut their second LP but it's still unreleased. awesome band.0
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Big Wreck and Finger Eleven...both don't get the credit I think they deserve.
And of course Rush!!0 -
THE TEA PARTY. Truly an amazing 3 piece band. Broke up a year or so ago
I also like Finger 11.0 -
there's a canadian singer called Marshall Tully whose released a couple of albums, both of which are no longer available ( http://cdbaby.com/cd/tully ). I cant find any info about him on the web, has anyone ever heard of this guy?0
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Definitely the first 2 I Mother Earth albums.
Broken Social Scene, the Tragically Hip, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Sloan, Blue Rodeo, Matt Mays, The Dears, Buck 65, Death From Above 1979 (although they have broken up), and Ron Sexsmith to name a few.Shows:
Montreal 2003
Boston (1&2) 2004
Montreal 2005
Ottawa 2005
Halifax 2005
Boston (1&2) 2006
Hartford 2008
Mansfield (1&2)20080 -
Let me add to the votes for:
Neko Case
The New Pornographers
Broken Social Scene
Feist
Stars
The Dears
Tegan & Sara0 -
Weird, I could've sworn I already posted in this thread, but my post seems to have disappeared. Anyways, here are a few brilliant bands/artists from the Great White North that everybody should check out:
The Tragically Hip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtqCXpqhsMI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEGyKECUh80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsj9fXH2Psw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4xasPhGic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg01BU_S4zI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_rdaq2S7A
Wintersleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZapSEzUJjg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wM8mu1ZR8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE8O_Zo0srY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noERk-Bf5MM
The Weakerthans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1WxZ4w7NFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A927zcSSw2s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQY599iIsOc
Sarah Harmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vXPZAkDug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN2TL59FCQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPJRSbmoh2M
Sam Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh9EClH_wso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjaK_UHqEd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrzXJkQJdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCClbR1ZORo
Rheostatics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM7eA0HSb2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvIJs5_2PD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTiWHObOZ7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPDQ7u6BlZw
Matt Mays & El Torpedo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEIe3IBEBzI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKCReMTe0jY
The Constantines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30yEWwQEYIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbhirNAmYww
The New Pornographers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvqU2cmK8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAUQaj6EJo
Kate Fenner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmgpxrLz7c
K-OS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602F1Db-uLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZsUkYGq5k
Lowest of the Low
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI3YGC8UcfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6cJm5jM7w
Feist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZZ1Gd5qjc4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPQbqw7UjY"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
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you always kick ass, direwolf! 0
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What everyone here has mentioned...
as well as Wolf Parade is good and an old band that is broken up now but awesome is called Superfriendz
Oh as well...LOL...Organized Rhyme..(With TOM GREEN)...not really but 1 catchy hitMaster of Zen0 -
Why is there two of these threads?
Anyways, I just realized I forgot to mention Ron Sexsmith. Fantastic songwriter!"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
-Tom Waits0 -
harmless_little_f*** wrote:I've been hearing rumours of a lot of great bands coming from Canada. I'm already obsessed with Arcade Fire. Can anyone list some more?
Tragically Hip0 -
superdeluxe wrote:Tragically Hip
Go with The 'Hip my friend.....you won't regret it. I'm a newcomer to thier music and I am loving it
They blow your Arcade Fire out of the water! A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.
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Big Sugar - Their album Hemi-Vision is an amazing blend of hard rock, dub reggae, and blues. The also have a smoking cover of Traffic's Dear Mr. Fantasy.0
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some goodies that saddly aren't together though yuo sould check out are the headstones,rusty and junk house.it goes without saying thier erly stuff only0
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The Vacant wrote:Big Sugar - Their album Hemi-Vision is an amazing blend of hard rock, dub reggae, and blues. The also have a smoking cover of Traffic's Dear Mr. Fantasy.
oh yeah, they used to blow the doors off any venue they played! and dear mr. fantasty live was one of the best. definitely one of the loudest bands i have seen live, but in a very, very good way. good call. 0
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