Favorite Canadian Bands/artists

[Quammy]

There are a lot of great bands/artists out there right now hailing from the Great White North. Who are your favorites?

 

Here's a few of mine (in no particular order):

 

Eric's Trip

Death From Above 1979

Wolf Parade

Matt Good/MGB

The Remains Of Brian Borcherdt

The Arcade Fire

Holy Fuck

Huevos Racheros

The Dears

Bad Luck #13

Limblifter

Spookey Ruben

The Super Friendz

Wax Mannequin

[mrjones]

The Constantines

Wintersleep

The Weakerthans

Metric

Stars

The Stills

The New Pornographers

Tegan and Sara

 

 

To add to your list... which isn't half bad.

[borntohula]

elliot brood are fantastic

 

sarah harmer

i mother earth

rufus wainwright

melissa auf der maur

new pornographers

sarah slean

shadowy men on a shadowy planet

godspeed you! black emperor

a silver mt. zion

 

 

there are more

[darynalexander]

Barenaked Ladies

The Dears

Matthew Good

 

hell, there are more. Just too drunk to think of them and I'm an anglophile anyway.

[davidw]

Favorite Canadians?

 

Hmm... well

Matt Good and all that entails...

Arcade Fire... awesome new~ish band

Holly McNarland... some compare her as a female Matt...

Limblifter...

Sam Roberts

 

There are a few more.. but damned if I can think of them...

[mrs jesus]

i wish chore was still together

[Shortcut To Moncton]

The Tea Party (especially the early is brilliant stuff)

The Age Of Electric (who are BETTER than Limblifter)

Static In Stereo

Headstones

Glueleg

The Killjoys

The Watchmen

Sloan

Moist

Finger Eleven (mostly just Tip)

Headstones

[Matt]

Ryan Dahle writes better Limblifter songs than AoE ones, though apparently him and Todd Kerns are writing together again...

 

Anyways some of my favourites are

Limblifter

Air Traffic Control/Madhat

Broken Social Scene

Holly McNarland

Moist

Rye

Any Craig Northey project

etc.

Edited February 15, 2006 by Matt

[Prometheon]

I'm shocked and appalled that only one person has mentioned Barenaked Ladies so far. They absolutely rock.

 

BNL

Matty

Limblifter

David Usher

etc etc

[Jarrod]

the hip!!!

 

matt good

moist/david usher

bif naked

ummmm... there are tons of others, too sleep deprived.

[Matt]

Sorry to rag on you here Jarrod, but David Usher didn't have all that much to do with Moist's songwriting, most of that was done by Jeff Pearce (Bass Player), and part of the reason one of his albums sounded similar was because Jeff Pearce co-wrote it...

[Jarrod]

really? damn. i feel really down now...

 

could that possibly be why hallucinations sucked?

[glo]

I liked Moist too. That's cool about the basist.

 

BNL

Tea Party

Tragically Hip

Finger Eleven

SweetSalt

Hedley

just to name a few...I'm prob forgeting a bunch

[saturnine]

moist

ime

chore

alive & living

sylvie

warsawpack

bss

dfa1979

aoe

limblifter

metric

tea party

the watchmen

the hip

skinny puppy

frontline assembly

hayden

k-os

[darynalexander]

so many of these people I liked but had no idea they were from Canada. Anyone else?

[Seanathon]

I haven't seen Blue Rodeo mentioned yet. Y'all suck.

[benneb]

matthew good

hayden

hawksley workman

BNL

the weakerthans

[shenanigans87]

Big Wreck / Thornley

I Mother Earth

Limblifter

Matthew Good (Band)

Michael Buble

Sam Roberts

Sloan

The Tea Party

The Weakerthans

Edited February 16, 2006 by shenanigans87

[Moonlight_Graham]

Neil Young

Tom Cochrane (so underrated)

Matt Good

Sum 41

Big Wreck

Tea Party

Bryan Adams (older stuff)

Holly McNarland

Chantal Kreviazuk (sp?)

Moist/David Usher

the Hip

BNL (pre-USA)

Rush (nobody's mentioned Rush???)

Blue Rodeo

Sarah McLachlan (sometimes)

alexisonfire

54-40

[glo]

In reply darynalexander, I'm with you. I love this thread.

Oh ya Totally forgot about RUSH! Add this one to my list.

[Matt]

really? damn. i feel really down now...

 

could that possibly be why hallucinations sucked?

Yes, he's got a new band now too though called Rye (www.ryerye.com), apparently Moist is still "together" though.

 

Also I pretty much stopped listening to David Usher solo after Little Songs so...

[fantasticsteve]

you guys should really give Matt Mays a listen... if you dont wanna buy the album, download these songs: On the Hood, Cocaine Cowgirl, What are we gonna do come september... all his stuff is great though

 

another one that pops into mind are the Ladies and Gentlemen... they opened for MG in London and they're pretty cool!

[hucklel3erry]

Wow not one Stabilo mention... that's kinda crappy

 

Don't think I saw the Trews either... hmmm who else...

 

Oh shit... Nine Mile... amazing stuff... I think everyone already got the rest of the big ones. Yes even the Hip!

 

Anyway... Stabilo and Nine Mile... well worth checking out

[darynalexander]

oh shit. Hot Hot Heat is from Canada, right? Them's got some good power pop, those boys do.

[shenanigans87]

another one that pops into mind are the Ladies and Gentlemen... they opened for MG in London and they're pretty cool!

Yeah...I never really liked them to begin with and then I just kind of lost what little respect I had for them when the lead singer tried to convince me and my friend to enter an ammature strip competition after the Matt Good concert.

Edited February 17, 2006 by shenanigans87