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Mike Tessier
Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 06:36PM
I loaded up my CD player with Canadian music today, what is your favourite and I will spell that with the U Canadian band. Mine of late would be By Divine Right.
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erikalbany
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 06:44PM
Gotta have some Sadies on there.
Blue Rodeo is a blue chip.
Luke Doucet.
Sloan.
Our Lady Peace.
Trag. Hip
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 06:50PM
New Pornos
Cowboy Junkies
The Dears
Cockburn
Neko Case, an honourary Canadian
Shatner
Cohen
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erikalbany
Re: Cockburn
July 01, 2008 06:51PM
OK, all you DJs out there in radio land, pronounce after me:
COE-burn.
COE-burn.
Got it?
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diskojoe
Re: Cockburn
July 01, 2008 07:08PM
If I wasn't working myself, I would fire up the old video machine & play me some SCTV or the Red Green Show. Remember, if the ladies don't find you handsome, at least they can find you handy & always keep the puck on the ice.
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erikalbany
RED GREEN on Canada Day...
July 01, 2008 07:22PM
Here's one of my favorites:

[www.youtube.com]
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Mike Tessier
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 12:37AM
Have had the five disc-er on all day. Modernettes. Young Candians, Doughboys, Hot Hot Heat Pointed Sticks in at the moment.

Will get some records and some punkrock out after dinner Personality Crisis and SNFU.



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satchmykels
Re: Hey it is Canadia Day
July 02, 2008 02:36AM
Quote

Mike Tessier wrote:

> Young Candians,


heck yeah! can't be canadia day without some art bergmann music!
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Mike Tessier
Re: Hey it is Canadia Day
July 02, 2008 05:32AM
Don't you mean it can't be Canada Day without him falling over drunk!
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michael baker
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 08:03PM
his name is neil young.
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M. Johnson
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 11:40PM
Never been fond of the Rheostatics, but I'm guessing they're our greatest overlooked band.

Don't forget about Joni

Mary Margaret O'Hara

Daniel Lanois

54-40

The Poppy Family- Susan and Terry Jacks

Pagliaro

Hell I Got

Lovin' You Aint Easy

Some Sing Some Dance

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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 08:33PM
Neil Young, 1st four Blue Rodeo albums, Sloan, some Tragically Hip, New Pornographers, the Black Halos, Chinatown (R.I.P.), Leonard Cohen, Nash the Slash...I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.

I'm also fond of the FM album Black Noise.

Nobody's mentioned the Payola$ or D.O.A.
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rhettlawrence
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 09:02PM
Nomeansno
The Schmenge Brothers
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blasmo
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 09:34PM
The Pursuit of Happiness -- they were some fun.
Recess Monkeys -- great cover of a Chilliwack tune.
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 09:40PM
I was very fond of kd lang's Ingenue.

Teenage Head
Pointed Sticks
The B-Girls

Is there no love for the Broken Social Scene collective? I'm actually asking - that's been a whole hoopla that I've thought was pleasant enough, but never been bowled over by any of it.

And let's not forget everyone's favorite demure coquette, Peaches.



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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 12:54PM
Agreed on BSS. Not bad, but hardly the be-all end-all of pop music.

Peaches I'm trying hard to forget.
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diskojoe
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 01:26PM
Speaking of Rush, how about Bob & Doug McKenzie, you hosers?
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 02:23PM
Watch what you say about Bryan Adams on this board. He's Ira's favorite guilty pleasure.

And I did quote Rush several posts back.
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 12:53PM
Goddammit, I knew I forgot someone totally obvious...totally agree on TPOH. I still adore their first three albums.
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satchmykels
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 10:53PM

shearing pinx
demon's claws
king khan and bbq
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 01, 2008 11:44PM
WE ARE THE PRIESTS
OF THE TEMPLE OF SYRINX
OUR GREAT COMPUTERS
FILL THE HALLOWED HALLS!

WE ARE THE PRIESTS
OF THE TEMPLE OF SYRINX
ALL THE (something) OF LIFE
ARE HELD WITHIN OUR WALLS!

'nuff said.



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hoip chiggs
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 01:14PM
You can't forget the Five Neat Guys.
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hoip chiggs
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 01:16PM
Voivod

and since nobody's mentioned them - Rush.
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 02:14PM
I was a dedicated Rush fan in high school. Not so much now (once I started getting laid regularly, the band suddenly didn't make as much sense), but I still have enough fondness for them to keep a best-of and a live DVD around. Besides, with the Mars Volta and Coheed & Cambria running around, Rush can legitimately claim to be an influence on alt.rock.

Oooh, and I thought of another Canadian band I like a lot: Crash Kelly. Great glam rock/power pop.
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jothoma
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 01:27PM
What??? No Rush or Bryan Adams? You guys don't know how to live (he he)
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 02:15PM
And how can we forget Honeymoon Suite or *cough* Platinum Blonde? (Is that their name?)
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hoip chiggs
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 06:51PM
I never knew we invaded Canada. When did that happen? I'm thinking it had to do with us grabbing Alaska for ourselves.
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hoip chiggs
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 06:53PM
While were at it - Chilliwack. I know absolutely none of their songs. Only their name sticks in my head.
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ratboy
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 06:58PM
Chilliwack did that "Gone, gone, gone/she's been gone so long/she's been gone, gone, gone so long" song that was briefly ubiquitous circa 1982. That's the only one of theirs I remember.

Somehow in my head that song is forever linked (for no clear reason) with Diesel's "Sausalito Summernight."
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 09:09PM
We invaded them during the revolution to try to get them to join up with us, and they basically said "Screw off, eh" and kicked us back over the border. Then we tried again in the War of 1812 with the same results.

We didn't grab Alaska. We bought it fair & square offa the Russkies. We could've had British Columbia, too, if a U.S. railroad company would've agreed to build a railroad to Vancouver. But the Robber Barons, who owned all the southern rail routes, squelched the deal, so BC went Canuck, since our friendly neighbors to the north would send the trains.



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Mike Tessier
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 04, 2008 08:16AM
Alaska was purchased from the Russians and I see it has been mentioned already. The stand on guard comments are funny. Yes Canadian's kicked the American's all the back to Washington and then burned down the Whitehouse in 1812.



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erikalbany
Squeezing the Canada Day sponge
July 02, 2008 02:26PM
I loved the Odds' "Someone Who's Cool" in the mid-'90s:
[www.youtube.com]

And don't forget the Crash Test Dummies, who I just plain didn't like.
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ratboy
Re: Squeezing the Canada Day sponge
July 02, 2008 03:06PM
Jane Siberry
Arcade Fire (sorta)
Broken Social Scene
Gordon Lightfoot



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ira
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 05:42PM
the (now sadly defunct) SMUGGLERS
and did anyone mention RON SEXSMITH?
JONI MITCHELL?
BT-EFFIN-O?
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madisdadi
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 06:13PM
diodes
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 06:31PM
I've always wondered about the Canadian national anthem. All that "We stand on guard for thee" business.

Who exactly are they standing on guard against? The only country that's ever invaded Canada, as near as I know, is the U.S. We invaded them twice that I know of and they kicked our asses back out both times.

So just what is "O Canada" all about? Who are they talking to, and should we in the U.S. take offense?
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larryepke
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 07:01PM
I've got to mention The Band. They weren't perfect, but they had a lot going for them.
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 08:39PM
I love the Band. But somehow, despite a 4/5 Canadian membership, I never think of them as Canadian. I always think of them as American, which is probably unfair.
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erikalbany
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 09:29PM
DAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNG! Look at the big brain on breno. Someone paid attention during those gen. ed. courses! My knowledge of such fare is limited to what the wikipedia community can provide me.
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 09:31PM
If I hadn't squandered all my potential by being an art major, I would've squandered it being a history major.
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diskojoe
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 02, 2008 10:13PM
Breno, speaking of history, I'm currently reading a book about the 1934 Cardinals called the Gashouse Gang by John Heidenry & it's a pretty interesting read, even though the author screwed up a couple of times on some historical dates (WWI did not end in 1919 for example). That Dizzy Dean seems like a TP kind o' guy from what I've read so far. You see, my interest in baseball extends beyond Fenway Park & Yankee Stadium.

I did squander my potential by being a history major & compounded it by going to law school. In the words of The Waitresses, I could have ruled the world if I found all the parts.
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 12:09AM
Well, now, technically speaking WWI did officially end with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, although hostilities ended in 1918.

Sorry. I'll stop now.



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erikalbany
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 06:07PM
I think of The Band as Upstate New Yorkers! Levon has lived here longer than anywhere else (longer than his home state, Arkansas), as did/have Rick (deceased) and Garth. Richard lived here at least 15 years before his death.



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M. Johnson
Anyone read this?
July 04, 2008 05:33AM
Have Not Been The Same

I'm Canadian and 1985-1995 were my developmental listening years. I can tell you, things were different then.
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dj45rpm
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 12:50AM
Have to break out the Smash The State book (book on Canadian punk).
And let's not forget DOA! (plus another shout-out for the K-Tels/Young Canadians)
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Nile
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 07:07AM
And since you brought up Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, how about The Guess Who?

Also:

Steppenwolf
Jeff Healey
The Tea Party
Alanis Morissette
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madisdadi
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 04:58PM
the hated April Wine, Trooper and Mahgany Rush used to open for everyone in the late 70's

don't forget Thor!



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ratboy
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 05:08PM
Ghandarvas were kind of a Canadian Jane's Addiction clone, but their song "First Day of Spring" is a keeper.
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Jermoe
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 05:15PM
Recent vintage:

Stars
Hidden Cameras

Is Triumph a poor man's Rush?

The Odds were really good.

Notably not mentioned: Glass Tiger, April Wine, Saga, Red Rider/Tom Cochrane, Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, Sum 41 and, of course, Celine Dion.
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 05:47PM
I saw Glass Tiger once, opening for Journey in...1986? Even by the standards of slick, commerical AOR rock, they were awful.

I probably shouldn't have admitted that in public.
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ratboy
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 06:05PM
I think you're on safe ground admitting that Glass Tiger is awful.

All right, I know that's not what you meant. One of my favorite things on this board is when people say nice things about unlikely bands. I was surprised and pleased, for example, by the praise of Brad Delp when he passed away.

"Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment." -Kurt Vonnegut from Bluebeard.

One of my favorite quotes, though a friend pointed out that the quote only applies to those who have enough conscience or, perhaps, self-awareness to feel embarassed.
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STEVE
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 09:01PM
speaking of embarrassment, loverboy!
And I'm pretty sure that 'O' in BTO was for either overweight or obese. Man those guys were some hefty hosers.



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Shizzle
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 09:47PM
Corey Hart

Um, the singer, not the Brewers outfielder.
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STEVE
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 03, 2008 09:56PM
the demics

P.S. Let us know when are you guys up there are ready to play hockey again. Whats it been 15 years?



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erikalbany
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 04, 2008 02:18PM
Yeah, but all of our hockey best players in the US are Canadians. I'm a second-generation Canuck (New Brunswick in the heeeeouuuuusseee. And I don't mean NJ.) So I've gotta stick up for the ancestors.
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Aitch
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 07, 2008 12:56AM
Great Lake Swimmers
Propagandhi
Weakerthans (though have not sampled the current one)
Greg Macpherson
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 07, 2008 01:33AM
Hey Aitch. Long time, no hear from. How's winter treating you down there?
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Aitch
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 07, 2008 02:12AM
Am good thanks. Have been ushering newest family member (it's a girl!) into the world and been in the resultant lockdown that follows.

Winter here is beautiful when there's no wind - today there's wind.

Commiserations for the Lucinda Williams mention.
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 07, 2008 08:08PM
Hmmm - an Australian who just had a daughter....

Aitch is really Keith Urban!!!!!!

Say hello to Nicole and little baby Sunday for us.
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Aitch
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 08, 2008 01:14AM
That's weird, people have been making Keith Urban jokes even since I got my hair cut, especially my wife and what's even weirder is the Kurbans went to the same obstetrician as us when they were in Sydney.
There's no escaping Keithy!
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rhettlawrence
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 07, 2008 03:56PM
Congrats, Aitch!
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Delvin
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 07, 2008 04:39PM
> I was a dedicated Rush fan in high school. Not so much now (once I started
> getting laid regularly, the band suddenly didn't make as much sense) ...

You mean, Rush's music didn't make as much sense, in & of itself? Or it didn't make as much sense to play it, since you had a girl coming over?

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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 07, 2008 08:51PM
The lyrics, which had once seemed brainy and poetic, suddenly started sounding pseudointellectual and cold, like these were guys who had never kissed a girl, let alone had any kind of meaningful relationship with another human being. Which is, of course, not true, if you know anything about Neil Peart's tragedy in the 90s.

I actually appreciate the lyrics better now with a little distance, at least in the sense that I think they fit the music.
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blasmo
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 12:14PM
Rush is one of those bands that remembered to rock hard enough to earn its progressive chops, unlike, say ELP, or GTR, or ELP. I borrowed a copy of Power Windows the other day and it is the missing link between The Ramones and decent-70's-era Yes (Revolver, Close To The Edge). Or am I committing sacrilege for even mentioning Yes in a positive manner on this board? I mean, they had to have some decent stuff at one point for them to fall far enough to become an example for other bands not to follow.

Seriously, Tormato? What a piece of s**t.
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 12:43PM
I love Yes to this day, both the 70s (well, early 70s) incarnation and the 80s one. Mention them positively all you want. Though I'm a bit mind-boggled that you can find a connection between them and the Ramones.
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 12:59PM
I've never been a Yes fan, but I've mentioned several times on this board that it's ridiculous to have a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and for Yes to not be in it, nor even to have been seriously considered at any point, as far as I know.
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blasmo
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 01:57PM
I'm telling you, Power Windows is the missing link. Try "Big Money", which has a great ending, with Peart bashing the hell out of his kit while Liefson blasts power chords away behind him.

Wasn't the 90125 album supposed to be a Trevor Rabin solo project that they eventually made into a full blown Yes record? It's such a difference in sound and approach (except maybe "Changes") that it doesn't seem like a Yes record.

My friend Bert, who was in a band with me, is a huge Yes fan, and let me borrow their stuff to listen to. Really couldn't get into anything after Fragile/Close to the Edge (to correct an earlier post, which had Relayer in it instead of Fragile), although Going For The One has a couple of decent songs on it. Tormato and Drama were both too bad to listen to all the way.
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 02:44PM
90125 was originally supposed to be a project by Cinema, the new band formed by Rabin with Chris Squire and Alan White as the rhythm section. Jon Anderson was added later to make it a "Yes" album. Tony Kaye is listed as the keyboardist, but didn't actually play on the record. So yeah, in a way it's not really a Yes record. But I love it anyway. Big Generator too. Union and Talk, the final two Rabin-steered albums, both suck pretty badly, except for a song or two.

I have a certain fondness for some of the Drama songs, just because they're so un-Yeslike and odd. But you're right about Tormato. I quite like Going For the One, but it's not as good as Fragile, Close to the Edge and The Yes Album.

The band put out a record called The Ladder about 10 years or so ago that's pretty great - mostly derived from their 70s work, but with some 80s stuff thrown in as well. More cohesive than you think and with some great Yes songs. They've been pretty much a nostalgia act ever since.

How did the Canadian band thread get hijacked by Yes? There's gotta be a connection...oh yeah, The Ladder was recorded in Vancouver with the late Bruce Fairburn as producer. There we go.
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Michael Toland
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 05:01PM
Oh, and I should mention that Power Windows was one of my favorite Rush albums, when I was still buying their records. Maybe this missing link thing is why (though I didn't hear the Ramones until a couple of years later).

I saw them on that tour, too. (My second concert ever.) They were really good.



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MrAl
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 08, 2008 06:05PM
late to the topic:

DOA
Forgotten Rebels
Subhumans
Viletones
Fucked Up
Career Suicide
After the Bombs
Born Dead Icons
NoMeansNo
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breno
Re: Hey it is Australia Day
July 08, 2008 08:09PM
I've never really followed Keith Urban's music, but he was hip enough to hire Brad Rice away from Son Volt for his touring band, so he must keep his ears open.
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breno
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 17, 2008 08:24PM
Mutherfuggin' MEN WITHOUT HATS!!!!!!!!
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STEVE
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 20, 2008 07:29PM
I think that that first yes album, called, 'the first...'

is one right along the side a genesis' "foxtrot" stop.&tubular/Mike Oldfield as
a matter of fact. see good things come in threes.

Rush.
As R. Totale once said today is sunday...or something er other to the same effect.
Rush once held THE FUCKING LIVE BANANNA!

There I've gone andunnit again, held your suspence...ah you love it!
And yes, I still love those three guys.

But...

Rivendale stands alone as the bands finest moment.
The Necromancer like bush/cheny is downright scary.



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Delvin
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 02:39PM
90125 started as a Trevor Rabin solo project. It became a "band" project when Alan White, Chris Squire and Tony Kaye joined in. The band called itself Cinema; they wanted Trevor Horn to sing lead. When Jon Anderson got on board, they decided (with Rabin's reluctance) to make the effort a Yes album. Horn signed on as producer, and Bob's your uncle.

> I borrowed a copy of Power Windows the other day and it is the missing link between
> The Ramones and decent-70's-era Yes.

Funny, Rolling Stone almost agrees.



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blasmo
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 03:08PM
I'm sure my description is either influenced by or quoted directly from an old review David Fricke did when it came out (probably from Rolling Stone at the time), but it's very accurate. Besides having Rush crammed down my throat by every other drummer I knew in high school, that was how I was aware of the album's sound. The production seems to sound like Trevor Horn's, but without the "Wham! Boodleuh-boodleuh-bom!" orchestral samples. I haven't listened to anything of theirs since Roll The Bones, so I don't know how accurate the whole list is, but it's interesting to see how Rush's reputation grows, wanes, and then grows again every to years.

And it wouldn't be the first time I've used someone else's words to describe an album. I'd hate to think how many times I've used the line "toppled over wedding-cake" to describe something that's too ornate for its own good. I first read it in TP's review of XTC's English Settlement, and thought it was darned clever. I do give credit where it's due, though. I mean, I don't want to be the Carlos Mencia of the music world...
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Delvin
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 06:13PM
I was very amused by Blasmo's Yes-to-Ramones-missing-link description, and its closeness to Fricke's 1985 comment. I remembered reading that review in RS, and I thought it was a funny coincidence. It honestly never occurred to me that Blas might have been referring indirectly to Fricke's review.

Blas, if it came across that I was trying to "call" you on it, or embarrass you in any way, please accept my apology.

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blasmo
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 06:27PM
Oh, no problem at all. When I started reading that list (it's a link to Rolling Stone reviewing every Rush album ever made, BTW) and got to Power Windows, it surpised me, as I'd forgotten where I read the initial version. I thought I read it in Musician, since it sounded kinda like J.D. Considine, who used to do those small blurb reviews in the back. I did used to buy most of what Fricke recommended, back in the day. He got me into Richard Thompson and Robyn Hitchcock, so I owe him one. But that review of Skid Row's second album? Meh. I assume someone else is going to start the "critics I trust/used to trust so much I'd buy whatever they recommended" thread now. If anything, I want to go back and re-read some of those reviews, before Rolling Stone completely fell out of legitimacy. For the record, I cancelled my subscription the moment Wilson Phillips appeared on the cover, with a story by Chris what's-his-name from Premiere magazine, the film reviewer. He just couldn't understand why more critics didn't like them, given that they used three-part harmonies in their music.
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Delvin
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 07:07PM
The feature article on Rush in the lastest RS is very good reading.

I've kept up with the Canadian gents since high school. Roll the Bones is the last truly great album they had, IMO. Test for Echo is the last album they released that I liked beginning to end.

Their last two albums both get pretty samey ... although they don't sound a lot like each other.

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erikalbany
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 18, 2008 07:45PM
...That Rush article was a good one. I think I mentioned it here recently.
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Nile
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 19, 2008 06:36AM
Rush played "Tom Sawyer" on The Colbert Report (on Comedy Central) Wednesday night...the first time they played on television in over 30 years.

I first saw Rush as an opening act for Robin Trower back in 1974 and remember telling the guy who accompanied me "these guys are pretty talented, but their lead singer (Geddy Lee) makes my ears bleed."

I had absolutely no idea how successful they would be.
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blasmo
Re: Hey it is Canada Day
July 19, 2008 10:53AM
Yeah. That was a hoot. The line about them having a song that was so epic and long that it wound up influencing the band itself by the time it was over was hilarious. They sounded great. Really liked the mix they had for the show. They sounded a lot like the missing link between The Damned and Giles, Giles, and Fripp. (sorry)
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