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Last Post 6/30/2005 12:38 PM by  Una
Oh Canada
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Una
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6/30/2005 12:38 PM
    How many great Canadian bands are there at the mo? Crikey. Great Lake Swimmers Stars (you can get their album 'Set Yourself on Fire' on regnyouth) Arcade Fire and my personal favourites Alexisonfire and Danko Jones another nominations? www.kickinthehead.com is a good source for all things maple.
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    6/30/2005 12:40 PM
    Personally i think the constantines are quite good, although others on this board arent quite as enthusiastic :)
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    6/30/2005 12:42 PM
    haven't heard anything from them. wazzitlike?
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    6/30/2005 12:48 PM
    The Band are my favourite Canadian band, (although Levon Helm was from the Southern States) Then there's Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell though i'm not a huge fan of hers, blue is a great album though
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    6/30/2005 12:49 PM
    and Leonard Cohen ;)
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    6/30/2005 1:29 PM
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    6/30/2005 1:53 PM
    God Speed you black Emperor! After a few spliffs.
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    6/30/2005 1:58 PM
    god yeah, forgot about old leonard, only have two of his albums, (well 3 but one is pretty s**t), hes a good sort though i lived there a few years ago and there was this real big band over there at the time, that i cant really remember now, our lady peace or summat? does anyone know them, wouldnt mind checking them out for a wee spot of nostalgia
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    6/30/2005 2:05 PM
    Broken Social Scene Feist Unicorns are OK as well.
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    6/30/2005 2:34 PM
    Yeah, Our Lady Peace. If no one has heard Danko Jones, you should really check out the album 'Born A Lion'. It rocks.
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    6/30/2005 3:37 PM
    What about The Dears, there from canada arent they? Great band, gig at whelans earlier this year was great, the lead singer sounds exactly like damon albarn, its quite scary actually!
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    6/30/2005 6:42 PM
    Cowboy Junkies
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    6/30/2005 7:04 PM
    quote:
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    How many great Canadian bands are there at the mo? Crikey. Great Lake Swimmers Stars (you can get their album 'Set Yourself on Fire' on regnyouth) Arcade Fire and my personal favourites Alexisonfire and Danko Jones another nominations? www.kickinthehead.com is a good source for all things maple.
    how f**kin excellent are The Great Lake Swimmers ??? love both those albums and am physically itching to see them live ! great call !
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    6/30/2005 7:16 PM
    Lets add some country singers to that list shall we ? Shania Twain Terri Clark kd lang and the late, great, three chords and the truth Hank Snow
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    6/30/2005 8:39 PM
    Two more to mention: Sarah Harmer Sarah McLachlan
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    6/30/2005 8:49 PM
    Death From Above 1979, The Hidden Cameras, Buck 65, Hot Hot Heat and The Stills all have their moments as well.
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    6/30/2005 10:37 PM
    Metric - hookier than the Strokes an then some. http://www.ilovemetric.com/ Solvent and Lowfish - two quality Electro/IDM artists who manly release their stuff on Suction records but also have a few releases on the Detroit based Ersatz Audio label http://www.suctionrecords.com/
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    7/1/2005 8:57 AM
    Do Make Say Think
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    7/1/2005 9:15 AM
    Crash Test Dummies mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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    7/1/2005 5:10 PM
    It's got to be Caribou (or Manitoba if you ignore the lawyers). And he's playing Whelans tonite. Hoorayyyyyyyy, get your crayons out.
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    7/1/2005 5:19 PM
    didnt know he was playing, the caribou album is pretty good though
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    7/4/2005 11:54 PM
    hmmmn... is this a list canadians off thread? is it? cos no-one said Bryan Adams. but the arcade fire are great, in a slow burny lovely lovely kinda buzz.
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    7/5/2005 11:47 AM
    anyone on the secretly canadian label?... ahem
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    7/20/2005 1:06 PM
    To resurrect this topic... I was just in Canada and my mate there has become super-proud of his native land of late due to the large amount of great bands. He's a big Constantines fan, they live near him. Yesterday I listened to The Pink Mountaintops, from Vancouver, pretty cool. Also The New Pornographers from Vancouver (front woman is Neko Case). Apparantly a band called Sloan are a national treasure.
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    7/20/2005 2:33 PM
    Anyone else like The New Pornographers? Canadian power pop act...
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    7/20/2005 3:03 PM
    just been listening to Stars, they're from montreal and "Set Yourself On Fire" is glorious.
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    7/22/2005 11:20 PM
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    Apparantly a band called Sloan are a national treasure.
    Sloan : are s**te. ah. that felt constructive.
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    7/25/2005 11:22 AM
    After all Canada's good work, along comes Daniel Powter....jesus.
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    7/25/2005 11:52 AM
    Stars are playing the Sugar Club soon. yay. I think we forgot the two Canadian's who actually BRING a lot of indie music to Irish people - Alison Curtis and Jenny Hewson. Must be something in those polar ice cap melted waters.
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    7/25/2005 2:20 PM
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    Originally posted by Una I think we forgot the two Canadian's who actually BRING a lot of indie music to Irish people - Alison Curtis and Jenny Hewson. Must be something in those polar ice cap melted waters.
    ....and sinister pete on phantom, and karl tsigdinos who did 'river of soul' on today fm, both from canada too, I understand. fair play to them.
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    7/25/2005 2:51 PM
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    Originally posted by aidan karl tsigdinos who did 'river of soul' on today fm
    I think he's actually from Boston, He's mainly known as respected motoring journalist, writes for Auto Ireland, couple of newspapers I think and used to present RTEs attempt at a top gear type program called Drive.
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    7/25/2005 6:59 PM
    random factoid
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    7/25/2005 8:38 PM
    Nothing random about it, the guys a pretty good at what he does, able to write good stuff outside of one specific area, even if he has occasionaly visited the dark side by contributing to hot press. I miss the river of soul too.

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