This Canadien Thing (3 Viewers)

[Jill Hives]

The Tragically Hip are where it is at mofaux.

Worst band ever, okay maybe not but pretty damn close.

 

[classic seanc]

Is that all? But the country is HUUUGGGE. The US has 10 times more people than that.


Make some babies you lazy Canadians.

When bands stick to the “no riding your bandmates” rule, and all the bands have 50 people in them, and all the bands are offshoots of other bands, then there’s no one left to ride.

Sorry everybody.

 

[therealjohnny]

Worst band ever, okay maybe not but pretty damn close.

If Friends was made in Canada they would have listened to The Tragically Hip while drinking moose milk in the coffee shop

They're the Canuck version of Hootie and The Blowfish/Counting Crows

 

[Jill Hives]

If Friends was made in Canada they would have listened to The Tragically Hip while drinking moose milk in the coffee shop

They're the Canuck version of Hootie and The Blowfish/Counting Crows

Exactly. Jesus, they were played on the radio all the bleedin' time to boot. My skin crawls when I hear their songs.

 

[Goodbye]

Sorry, was looking for the I have the horn for thread.

Is that Shania?
Looks like I'm going to have to reassess some of my opinions...

 

[Lili Marlene]

Apparently they've had some arts grant for years which means that anyone who wants to start a band gets loads of money or something.

I personally blame Spencer Krug and his billion projects

 

[Goodbye]

Apparently they've had some arts grant for years which means that anyone who wants to start a band gets loads of money or something.

I personally blame Spencer Krug and his billion projects

Surely they would opt for the less band member thing then and not have to spread the "grant" so thinly

 

[Lili Marlene]

take it up with them, i'm just misquoting an article I half browsed the other day

 

[Goodbye]

juss speck youlatin' is all

 

[Jill Hives]

I personally blame Spencer Krug and his billion projects

Watch it now, you're talking about my future husband there.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Watch it now, you're talking about my future husband there.

your future husband is like 3 foot tall and the weediest person I have ever laid eyes upon

still though

I'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING

 

[Vinnie]

Best Canadian band ever

 

[Vinnie]

 

[Jill Hives]

your future husband is like 3 foot tall and the weediest person I have ever laid eyes upon

still though

I'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING

SHUT UP, I AM DREAMING.

 

[Vinnie]

Lots of people's dreams involve weedy dwarves. Watch Twin Peaks if you're having doubts.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Sorry Hayworth, Sorry Vinnie.

 

[Unicron]

Apparently they've had some arts grant for years which means that anyone who wants to start a band gets loads of money or something.

I personally blame Spencer Krug and his billion projects

In order to get the grant you have to be sort of semi established, it sorts out the people who are serious about it from the wasters who just want some free money.

I won't have a bad word said about Spencer Krug, none of his bands have more than 5 people in it and that's a perfectly acceptable number of people in a band. Was listening to "Apologies To The Queen Mary" this morning incidently. On a related note I'm very much looking forward to tomorrow evening but can't say anymore about it here.

 

[Unknown Convict]

Best Canadian band ever

 

[Vinnie]

Heard of but not heard. Will check that out. I bet they're not better than Voivod though.

 

[Unknown Convict]

Heard of but not heard. Will check that out. I bet they're not better than Voivod though.

they satisfy the 'more members than is reasonable' criterion - 9 guitarists in some line-ups, including one called 'he who is named'. have gone on to various better known bands (zumpano, new pornographers, destroyer...). their 'hit songs for girls' cd is a good place to start but if yr looking for 'bushpilot' (best song ever), it's only on that heavy w/puppy cd single.

from aquarius site, of their second/final album:

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2]SUPERCONDUCTOR

Bastardsong

(Boner)

lp

13.98

Back in stock again, an old time favorite that has strange ties to some of our current faves!

Not a new release, but we figured fans of the New Pornographers / Zumpano school of fantastic pop just might want to take a trip back to some pre-New Porn Carl Newman-penned weirdly wonderful hits. Superconductor were a veritable crowd of Vancouver indie rockers who were known to annually perform an honorable tribute to Neil Diamond with great aplomb, and who all too often were dismissed as simply a quantity-not-quality, eight guitar, maximum volume, hairy, screwy supergroup bunch of guys (which they indeed were earlier on), In later days they seemed to become much more of a Newman-dominated group. Brilliantly covering Donovan's "Colors" and The La's "There She Goes" (long before the dreadful Six Pence None The Richer's horrendously bland version). His mighty grand pop songwriting skills seeped into the works of the 'Conductor making for a much more melodic and crafted album than previous noisier efforts. That's not to say that they're no longer hefty nor immensely retarded as hell at times. No way! Case in point, "Gimp Stroll" and the lil' twinkie sounds of "Merry Tune Of Seduction". That said they also kick ass on many current electronic-rock bands such as Trans Am with tracks like "Computer Stroll" then leap into some weepy-eyed, melodramatic balladry on "Mary Ann". And you can even catch a glimpse of his formerly more frequently heard shriek on "Goddess of Fire, Poetry, Handicrafts And Metalwork". With a few exceptions, most tracks are mere sonic spurts rarely stretching past a couple minutes a piece, wasting not a moment before proceeding on to their next musical mission. Awesome. [/SIZE][/FONT]