1990’s bands - Canadian edition

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  • iammine16
    iammine16 Vancouver, BC Posts: 856
    Static In Stereo
    Vancouver, BC - 2005
    Vancouver, BC - 2009
    Vancouver, BC - 2011
    Vancouver, BC - 2013
    Mountain View, CA - 2014
    Mountain View, CA - 2014
    Quebec City, QC - 2016
    Ottawa, ON - 2016
    Pemberton, BC - 2016
    Seattle, WA 1 - 2018
    Seattle, WA 2 - 2018
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Fifthelement said:
    Streetheart
    Whoops!  I guess that was more 80s (although they did reunite in ‘99)
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  • Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking Toronto-ish Posts: 2,762
    edited July 2019
    No mention of Glueleg? 

    I'll also add Wide Mouth Mason.
  • Longueuil
    Longueuil Posts: 2,224
    edited July 2019
    rattzey said:
    Lagwagon and Sons of freedom
    Lagwagon are not Canadian

    The Planet Smashers
    Post edited by Longueuil on
  • wasa1971
    wasa1971 Calgary, Canada Posts: 2,144
    The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

  • ST66483
    ST66483 Posts: 886
    Stinkin’ Rich / Buck65  and Hip Club Groove were also some fun back in the day.

  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited July 2019
    wasa1971 said:
    The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

    “I’m an adult Now” is fantastic! 

    A lot of cool bands mentioned, so many I’ve seen live. 
    I’d like to add a few bands I haven’t seen on the thread that I liked in the 90s (forgive me if any are a repeat) 

    SNFU
    Dayglo Abortions
    FurnaceFace
    Wagbeard
    The All-Woman Brothers Band
    Sex With Nixon
    Hothouse Flowers
    Junkhouse
    D.D.T.
    Eric’s Trip
    Voivod
    Doughboys 
    Captain Tractor 



    Post edited by 1ThoughtKnown on
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    rattzey said:
    Lagwagon and Sons of freedom
    Sons of Freedom are a forgotten band.  Still have “The Criminal” in heavy rotation on my playlists. 
    I still say SOF and (especially) Slow were big influences on the Seattle music scene in the late 80s

  • maynardsux
    maynardsux Posts: 1,100
    heard Honeymoon Suite today on the radio, living in Canada and our mandatory "Canadian Content" and then thought of a few more (some more of a tail end 80's success):
    Glass Tiger
    Sass Jordan
    Alannah Myles
    Billy Talent
    Lee Aaron
    '93 Toronto
    '94 Detroit
    '10 Columbus
    '11 Detroit (Eddie solo), Toronto 1 and 2, Ottawa, Hamilton
    '13 London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    '14 Detroit
    '16 Ottawa, Toronto 1 and 2, Chicago 1 and 2
    '18 Chicago 1 and 2
    '22 Hamilton, Toronto
  • wasa1971
    wasa1971 Calgary, Canada Posts: 2,144
    I forgot about National Velvet! 
  • chitty
    chitty Posts: 610
    Zod said:
    chitty said:
    I will get alot of flack for this, but Nickelback in 1998 and 1999/00 had two really good rock albums: Curb and The State
    I would agree.  A friend of friend used to be the dummer of nickelback.  I saw a few shows in their early bar days, and playing a few bigger local shows during those first 2 albums.   I really did like them.  Then they got a little more polished.  I think they broke through internationally on the 3rd album.

    Funny thing is I have an autographed cd copy of the original curb release on my shelf, as I got them all to sign it when we checked out a bar show when they opened for the barstool profits at UVIC.  Gets me zero bragging rights.. lol....
    Definitely seeing them in small bars during the cycle of those two albums was a complete different experience from what they are now. I saw them probably 15 times in a 3 year span in small clubs with a thought they were going to be big, little did I know it would be with a lot of cheesy generic rock
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    The thing that I miss, or maybe I’ve just aged out, was all the Canadian bands that would tour all the small and large cities across the whole damn country.  It seemed like every second week there was some band that you were hearing constantly on the radio, but they were playing small halls/clubs/arenas/student unions, etc.  This was particularly true in the 80s and early 90s.
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,896
    Fifthelement said:
    The thing that I miss, or maybe I’ve just aged out, was all the Canadian bands that would tour all the small and large cities across the whole damn country.  It seemed like every second week there was some band that you were hearing constantly on the radio, but they were playing small halls/clubs/arenas/student unions, etc.  This was particularly true in the 80s and early 90s.
    I got a little taste of that this last few years with Headstones, I Mother Earth, and Tea Party doing to bar shows out here.   Pretty fund...

    I remember a time in my last few years of high school.  We are at UBC for a volleyball tournament and walked into a Watchmen show.   That was pretty fund.
  • erebus
    erebus Posts: 612
    Just glanced through quickly...

    the tea party
    thirteen engines
    kon kan
    the box , more 80's ish
    1996: Toronto
    2003: St. Paul
    2005: Thunder Bay
    2008: West Palm Beach, Tampa
    2009: Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010: Boston
    2011: Toronto I, Toronto II, Winnipeg
    2012: Missoula
    2013: London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014: St. Paul, Milwaukee
    2016: Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto I, Toronto II
    2022: Hamilton, Toronto 
    2023: St. Paul I, St. Paul II
    2024: Vancouver I, Vancouver II
  • jhager79
    jhager79 Woodstock Ontario Posts: 294
    ST66483 said:
    Stinkin’ Rich / Buck65  and Hip Club Groove were also some fun back in the day.

    Was definitely some good Canadian hip hop in the 90's. Corey from HCG was also on Trailer Park Boys. 
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  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    edited July 2019
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    wasa1971 said:
    The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

    “I’m an adult Now” is fantastic! 

    A lot of cool bands mentioned, so many I’ve seen live. 
    I’d like to add a few bands I haven’t seen on the thread that I liked in the 90s (forgive me if any are a repeat) 

    SNFU
    Dayglo Abortions
    FurnaceFace
    Wagbeard
    The All-Woman Brothers Band
    Sex With Nixon
    Hothouse Flowers
    Junkhouse
    D.D.T.
    Eric’s Trip
    Voivod
    Doughboys 
    Captain Tractor 



    FurnaceFace! Awesome find! doughboys, too!
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited July 2019
    rummy said:
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    wasa1971 said:
    The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

    “I’m an adult Now” is fantastic! 

    A lot of cool bands mentioned, so many I’ve seen live. 
    I’d like to add a few bands I haven’t seen on the thread that I liked in the 90s (forgive me if any are a repeat) 

    SNFU
    Dayglo Abortions
    FurnaceFace
    Wagbeard
    The All-Woman Brothers Band
    Sex With Nixon
    Hothouse Flowers
    Junkhouse
    D.D.T.
    Eric’s Trip
    Voivod
    Doughboys 
    Captain Tractor 



    FurnaceFace! Awesome find! doughboys, too!
    FurnaceFace were a good live act from Ottawa!  “Just Buy It” was the album that did pretty well if I remember. Some MuchMusic airplay etc.
    Saw them at the Rev in Edmonton in probably ‘94.  I think Pansy Division opened and then Irish band Therapy? played (they were awesome).
    Then out walks FurnaceFace in prom dresses lol. Was a fun show in a small club. 
    Post edited by 1ThoughtKnown on

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