Best Musical Imports from Canada - Rush & Neil Young

[LynneSin]

Worse Musical Imports from Canada - Nickelback & Justin Bieber

Discuss!

[sharp_stick]

1. Great Timing

I've been listening to a lot of CBC Radio3 and Iceberg on Sirius/XM. There is some fantastic new music coming out of Canada.

Recent Favorites

Hey Ocean!
Fucked Up
Metric
Neko Case (Honorary Canadian)
Wintersleep
Besnard Lakes
Beatrice Martin

On edit: I have to add Tokyo Police Club who have become a favorite.

Older Favorites

Leonard Cohen
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Sarah McLachlan

Worst - Can't argue with you there, but I'd add Corey Hart because only raging assholes actually wear sunglasses at night.

[hifiguy]

2. I'd add Joni Mitchell to that list.

Just sayin'.

[DFW]

50. I would have had Joni Mitchell at the TOP of the list!

But what do I know?

[bluesbassman]

3. Good call Lynne. I'd like to add Jeff Healey.

March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008. RIP to a great musician and all around good guy.

[LynneSin]

20. Jeff Healey wins best Canadian musician acting in a dumbass Patrick Swayze movie

Gotta wonder how they managed to put a talented musician in a crappy movie like Roadhouse

[Joe Shlabotnik]

51. funny,

I lived in the same neighbourhood that Neil Peart grew up in (Port Dalhousie) and when I went to college, I lived on the same street that Jeff Healey grew up on (Bonnyview Dr. in Etobicoke).

[opiate69]

4. Replace Neil Young with The Tragically Hip and I`m down with ya.

I know... sacrilege to disparage Neil.. but, while I always liked his lyrics, musically he always just left me wanting.

[ceile]

5. Cowboy Junkies

Margo Timmons- voice of an angel.

[KamaAina]

6. Best: add Arcade Fire, k.d. lang. Worst: add Celine Dion!

[TwilightGardener]

10. Arcade Fire is awful, I hate to say. I saw them on Austin City Limits--

out of something like 10 people on stage, they can't find one good singer, one person who's really good on an instrument, one good songwriter? "Overrated" does not begin to describe them--and I really wanted to like them, too. Edit to add: only time I wish I could return something and get our money back from iTunes--my husband downloaded them.

[KamaAina]

13. Well, maybe they're awful live.

Sort of the opposite of the Dead: terrific live, never really could get it done in the studio.

[TwilightGardener]

15. The crowd was very enthusiastic, but after the entire show, I couldn't

remember one song--they all seemed variations of the same tune. And they have all sorts of unnecessary players on stage. TWO violinists, playing background-filler violin parts? TWO drummers pounding out beats that any decent garage-band drummer could play in his sleep? Just weird and disappointing.

[sharp_stick]

17. I think they kick ass live

saw them in NYC two years ago and it was fantastic.

But to each his own.

[geardaddy]

7. Add to worst

Barenaked Ladies

[taterguy]

41. Most misleading name ever

[geardaddy]

44. Totally.

[Dr. Strange]

8. Where does Triumph fall?

[TwilightGardener]

12. Down the memory hole? I remember them, though--

"I'm young now, I'm wild now, I want to be FREEEEE!!"

[OriginalGeek]

24. They are on my good list

Fight the good fight every moment!

[sadbear]

35. They fall in the best of category.

They rocked the US Festival back in '83.

[lame54]

9. Pat Travers Band

[Throd]

29. +1

[lame54]

34. sweet...

i new there were more out there

[TwilightGardener]

11. Alanis Morrisette. That gal had some talent.

[KamaAina]

14. Yay: Gordon Lightfoot. Bloorg: Shania Twain.

"bloorg" is hoser slang for "yuck".

[TwilightGardener]

18. Gordon Lightfoot--don't want to forget him. Another talented man.

I grew up singing "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

[HarveyDarkey]

30. Is Gordon Lightfoot on the best or worst list?

Worst for me, but that's my personal taste. I find him incredibly boring as a performer, but excellent as a songwriter.

[KamaAina]

49. Best, hence "Yay!"

[KamaAina]

16. Tack Rufus Wainwright onto the best list

even if he was born in the Lower 48, eh?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

19. Lenny Breau

One of the greatest guitarists that you've probably never heard of.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

46. Astonishing guitarist - a true pioneer and one of the all-time greats!

He'd probably be with us today if he hadn't been murdered in 1984, in a crime never solved. I do think however he was born in the US, but of French-Canadian parents and he lived much of his life in Canada. He played the guitar like a piano and could play single lines with partial chords underneath, sounding like two guitars. And no one pioneered the use of harmonics like he did. He could make the the guitar sound like a harp. His 7 string guitar with the short scale and the high A on top was revolutionary.

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[Joe Shlabotnik]

47. Ya, us Canucks kind of claimed him

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in the 60's and 70's (not sure what his official citizenship status was). I remember him getting lots of airplay when I was a kid, on CBC late-night; probably in part to the CRTC's Canadian content rules. Oscar Peterson too, and of course Gil Evans; master arranger of cool and modal jazz and beyond.

[KamaAina]

21. Bob and Doug McKenzie

Take off, you hoser!

[LynneSin]

22. Don't forget who else sang in their song 'Take Off'

None other than legendary Rush bassist & vocalist Geddy Lee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_White_North_(album)

The song "Take Off" (identified on the album as "the hit single section&quot , featured guest vocalist Geddy Lee of Rush. It was indeed a hit, peaking at number 16 on the Billboard 100 singles chart in March 1982 and proved to be a bigger hit single than anything Lee ever recorded with Rush.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. The late great Oscar Peterson

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who is consistently mentioned among the greatest jazz pianists who ever lived. I could also mention the outstanding jazz guitarist from Canada, Ed Biekert. And Lorne Lofsky is another Canadian giant of the jazz guitar.

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[kwassa]

52. Oscar Peterson is the best on this list. Amazing.

[Blue_Tires]

25. Whatever happened to that Chuggo guy?

He was all right, I thought?

[LynneSin]

31. I think after he endorsed Lee Mercer Jr. for President

His career failed (all three)

[Dr. Strange]

32. Aw, c'mon fuckin' guy!

[Bertha Venation]

26. k.d. lang

No one singing today can match her.

[pscot]

27. William Shatner

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[taterguy]

40. Seconded

You'd think LynneSin would appreciate someone who adds puts this much cowbell in a 30-second ad.

[Throd]

28. Nomeansno

[dorkulon]

33. The Band (except Levon). Best. Worst? I'll agree with Nickelback.

[sadbear]

36. April Wine rocked a few hits back in the 80's.

[dawg]

37. Saga and FM are two great lesser-known Canadian bands.

Loverboy, not so much. (Although a few songs are guilty pleasures.)

[Bigleaf]

39. Saga is/was popular in Europe and I saw FM open for Rush back in I believe 78 at Varsity Stadium in

Toronto. I have a couple of albums from each band.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

38. Best?

Best? Devin Townsend. Hands down.

Worst? Well, I guess Avril Lavigne should probably be somewhere on that list.

[Tobin S.]

45. That was awesome! How have I not heard of The Devin Townsend Project?

I must be leading a sheltered life.

[hunter]

42. William Shatner -- Rocket Man

[Bigleaf]

43. I agree with your choices and I'll add The Guess Who/Tom Cochrane & Red Rider to the great side.

[warrprayer]

48. the D.U. theme song by Joni Mitchell

goosebumps....

[kwassa]

53. Rick James, superfreak, and draft-dodging temporary Canadian.

The Mynah Birds, his band, including a young Neil Young in the line-up at one point.

[Doc_Technical]

54. The Collectors