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Best songs by Canadian Musicians
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happeningthang



Joined: 26 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buck 65


Godspeed You Black Emperor
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cuckoo for kimchi



Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: somewhere lost in time and space...or korea

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Qinella wrote:
Well, here's my recommendation:

Be Good Tanyas: Lakes of Pontchartrain or The Littlest Birds.


Incredible songs. Anyone who enjoys good music, feel free to d/l them.

Q.

good call on that one....
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Panic Button



Joined: 15 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Plastickman (richie Hawtin)- Spastik

Can't believe that Richie Hawtin hasn't been mentioned yet on a thread about the best Canadian music!
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SuperHero



Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suggest the theme song to corner gas. and the first verse to the song...
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You can tell me that your dog ran away
then tell me that it took three days
I�ve heard every joke
I�ve heard every word you say
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Chow



Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Cheongju

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't be bothered to read every post, so forgive me for any repeats.

How about:

The Grapes of Wrath -- Backward Town, Oh Lucky Man, All the Things I Wasn't (etc)
The Pursuit of Happiness -- I'm an Adult Now
Nothern Pikes -- Wait For Me, She Ain't Pretty
Shuffle Demons -- Spadina Bus, Cheese and Bread
Skydiggers -- I Will Give You Everything, Leslie (etc)
Rheostatics -- Record Body Count, Saskatchewan
Wide Mouth Mason -- My Old Self

Hmmm . . . so much good stuff out there . . . .
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Corporal



Joined: 25 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Northern Pikes and Great Big Sea (already been mentioned by others). Also Blue Rodeo.
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blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:
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Joni Mitchell is less annoying than people who think she's annoying by far!


Au contraire, Mr. Kirk. (You've been demoted.)

With a voice like fingernails on a chalkboard, the woman should have her lips sown shut. (She can write OK. No complaints there.) But that voice. Yikes.


And WTH is 'Nanaimo' anyway? I'm in a PC bang with that name and someone on this thread mentioned it. (The NANAIMO: A new culture for the noblians)


Ever had a Nanaimo bar? Oh my god there good eating.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobody has mentioned the most listened to Canadian in the history of music. (You Snobs!)

Here is at least one of her many tunes you might find palatable (it's not one of my top-20 favs of hers, but whatever, it's one tune that even some music snobs have found acceptable).

Celine Dion's My Heart will Go On (Titanic theme):

Every night in my dreams
I see you. I feel you.
That is how I know you go on.

Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on.

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never go till we're one

Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

There is some love that will not
go away

You're here, there's nothing I fear,
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VanIslander wrote:
Nobody has mentioned the most listened to Canadian in the history of music. (You Snobs!)

Here is at least one of her many tunes you might find palatable (it's not one of my top-20 favs of hers, but whatever, it's one tune that even some music snobs have found acceptable).

Celine Dion's My Heart will Go On (Titanic theme):

Every night in my dreams
I see you. I feel you.
That is how I know you go on.

Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on.

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never go till we're one

Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

There is some love that will not
go away

You're here, there's nothing I fear,
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart
And my heart will go on and on


Now you're just taking the piss.
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captain kirk



Joined: 29 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yata Boy what are you some kind of redneck misogynist you don't like Joni Mitchell? I agree she's a bit much sometimes. Screechy maybe. The hippie cook from near Kelowna B.C. at a bush camp used to play Joni Mitchell so much it began to seem like a kind of female anthem, Helen Reddy ('I am woman, hear me roar....'). And if I heard 'catch me I think I'm fallin'...in love againnn...when I get that crazy feelin' I KNOW I'm in trouble again..'.one more time I'd say, 'Joni, you're screechy'. It's that high, screechy note at KNOW that gets you, right?
I know what you mean.

But she pulls it off. Like Schwa says she a genius, was a prodigy, her writing is poetry...

You gotta be yankin' my chain making me look like Mr Sensitive Dearly defending Joni Mitchell, argh! But I'll bet that genius horse faced woman genius can open a beer with her teeth....big, equine chompers....
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joyfulgirl



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

be good tanyas are great.

funny that bruce cockburn get's bleeped. when a cock falls in the forest, does anybody hear?

blue rodeo was good. are they still singing? daniel lanois too. he's good.

there was a song i heard once, eons ago, on the Video show on CBC, with that samantha person. anyways, it was about someone climbing up on a block of ice, but falling asleep before they died. that was the last line of the song. what is that? i'm sure it was a canadian band.
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Newbie



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some of you are way too artsy. If someone wants to check out Canadian music for the first time, start with stuff that will tickle their nibblets, and then if they're into, go a bit more "deep"

CANADIAN MUSIC FOR THE MASSES

1. American Woman - Guess Who
2. T.C.O.B - BTO
3. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
4. Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
5. Heaven - Bryan Adams
6. Sunglasses at Night - Corey Heart
7. $1,000,000,000 - Barenaked Ladie
8. After the Rain - Blue Rodeo
9. Bad Timing - Blue Rodeo
10. Fireworks - The Hip
11. Bobcaygeon - The Hip
12. Sister Awake - Tea Party
13. Save Me - Tea Party
14. Home for a Rest - Spirit of the West
15. RANDOM CRAP - Alanis Morisette
16. RANDOM CRAP - Celine Dion
17. RANDOM CRAP - Shania
18. RANDOM CRAP - Sarah McCachlan
19. Crabbucket - K-Os
20. Let Your Back Bone Slide - Maestro
21. Hey Man - Nelly Furtado
21. I'm Like a Bird - Nelly Furtado
22. The Hockey Song - Stopmin Tom
23. Basement Apartment - Sarah Harmer
24. SOMETHING - Diana Krall
25. SOMETHING - Michael Buble
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jacktar



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

joyfulgirl wrote:

there was a song i heard once, eons ago, on the Video show on CBC, with that samantha person. anyways, it was about someone climbing up on a block of ice, but falling asleep before they died. that was the last line of the song. what is that? i'm sure it was a canadian band.


Video Hits with Samantha Taylor?

The song is Record Body Count by the Rheos.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Screechy maybe.


MAYBE???

If I ever had the misfortune to meet the woman, I'd put my hand down her throat and pull her vocal cords out. She is the world's single greatest argument in favor of mimes.

I think L. Cohen is second only to Dylan in great number of songs written so cannot be accused of insisting on 'great vocalists'. All I can say is that every time I heard Big Yellow Taxi I wanted to yank the radio out of the car and toss it out the window. The woman should be strangled with her guitar string. Slowly.

If I were ever stranded on a deserted island and had a choice of an endless loop of Lover Boy or Joni Mitchell to listen to, I'd pick Lover Boy without hesitation--then beat myself to death with a coconut.

PS: There is a rumor that Sartre wrote 'No Exit' while listening to Joni 'sing'.


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Bulsajo



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I second, or third (or whatever) any posts which put forward Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn, and Bare Naked Ladies songs.
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