Best Canadian band?

[Dogmaphobe]

Either Arcade Fire or New pornographers among bands that are actually current.

Also, and for the record, Buffalo Springfield was a Southern California band. Neil young was from Canada but the rest weren't.

 

[Lewdog]

Bare Naked Ladies... and the band too.

 

[Toro]

The Pursuit of Happiness

 

[Toro]

Econoline Crush

 

[Toro]

Trooper



I'd have covered this in my metal band.



If I were in a metal band.

 

[Toro]

Rush

 

[Toro]

Arrogant Worms

 

[Larsky]

Either Arcade Fire or New pornographers among bands that are actually current.

Also, and for the record, Buffalo Springfield was a Southern California band. Neil young was from Canada but the rest weren't.

The Hip are current, and prolific. Too bad they may be on their last tour.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Aside from Rush, you mean?

I don't like Bryan Adams a whole lot, but he has some good songs. Triumph rocks way better than him IMHO.

 

[Mac1958]

Aside from Rush, you mean?

I don't like Bryan Adams a whole lot, but he has some good songs. Triumph rocks way better than him IMHO.

Yeah, Triumph was a great power trio.
.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Aside from Rush, you mean?

I don't like Bryan Adams a whole lot, but he has some good songs. Triumph rocks way better than him IMHO.

Yeah, Triumph was a great power trio.
.

Oh, I didn't know they were a trio also. Very interesting.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

The Tragically Hip.

The best Canadian band, it's quite simple, that would be Godspeed You! Black Emperor from Montréal.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They are a Post-Rock band, like most Post-Rock bands, they're 98% instrumental, but they'll use field recordings and various found sound tape loops or deliberately recorded tape loops.

Post-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think Pogo being a man of musical taste will appreciate them.

If you like mainly 3 minute pop songs or 3 minute rock songs, then Godspeed You! Black Emperor won't be for you, what they do is all very intricate, but it's pretty much genius on all levels.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "The Dead Flag Blues", this is Part I and Part II (Intro and Outro) from their album "F♯ A♯ ∞" (which means F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity) released in 1997 on Constellation/Kranky Records. This album is full of their eschatological tape loops.

The monologue at the beginning is a sampled recording of the Canadian actor Lee Marvin, at this moment in time I can't remember what film this is from



I've previously posted about them in my own Music thread, this is a direct copy and paste from my thread, mainly to explain the tune and the writing on the front artwork.

My post # 364 for the original.

What are you listening to?

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Moya" from their EP "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" released on 12" in 1999 on Constellation/Kranky Records.

"Moya" contains a partial re-working of Henryk Górecki's "Symphony No.3, Op. 36" aka "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs", which will be partially recognisable if you're familiar with Górecki's incredible work.

The front cover as pictured, Hebrew, in transliterated form is Tohu wa-bohu (formless and empty), used in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former describing the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter describing the Earth after the Lord's Day.



Edited to add comment.

 

[Mr. H.]

Guess Who with Burton Cummings. Maybe not a Canadian band but he is.

 

[Pogo]

The Tragically Hip.

The best Canadian band, it's quite simple, that would be Godspeed You! Black Emperor from Montréal.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They are a Post-Rock band, like most Post-Rock bands, they're 98% instrumental, but they'll use field recordings and various found sound tape loops or deliberately recorded tape loops.

Post-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think Pogo being a man of musical taste will appreciate them.

If you like mainly 3 minute pop songs or 3 minute rock songs, then Godspeed You! Black Emperor won't be for you, what they do is all very intricate, but it's pretty much genius on all levels.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "The Dead Flag Blues", this is Part I and Part II (Intro and Outro) from their album "F♯ A♯ ∞" (which means F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity) released in 1997 on Constellation/Kranky Records. This album is full of their eschatological tape loops.

The monologue at the beginning is a sampled recording of the Canadian actor Lee Marvin, at this moment in time I can't remember what film this is from



I've previously posted about them in my own Music thread, this is a direct copy and paste from my thread, mainly to explain the tune and the writing on the front artwork.

My post # 364 for the original.

What are you listening to?

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Moya" from their EP "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" released on 12" in 1999 on Constellation/Kranky Records.

"Moya" contains a partial re-working of Henryk Górecki's "Symphony No.3, Op. 36" aka "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs", which will be partially recognisable if you're familiar with Górecki's incredible work.

The front cover as pictured, Hebrew, in transliterated form is Tohu wa-bohu (formless and empty), used in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former describing the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter describing the Earth after the Lord's Day.



Edited to add comment.

Now that's what I'm talking about.
The music itself in this case isn't sweeping me away but at least it's more creative than the tired, trite three-chord three-minute corporate rock thingy. It is thought provoking. Will definitely check out more from them.

And Oosie you may be the only poster here besides myself who can type the name of the city of Montréal correctly.

I've been to Montréal a lot. The first thing I do, sometimes the only thing, is take an armful of US music to the shops and trade 'em in for Quebecois. A whole treasure going on right over the border.

 

[Pogo]

Guess Who with Burton Cummings. Maybe not a Canadian band but he is.

Yeah they were all Canadian. Well they still are but they're not a band.

Randy Bachman has a show on CBC Friday nights where he spins old rock records on some kind of theme. It's lame.

 

[Pogo]

The Tragically Hip.

The best Canadian band, it's quite simple, that would be Godspeed You! Black Emperor from Montréal.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They are a Post-Rock band, like most Post-Rock bands, they're 98% instrumental, but they'll use field recordings and various found sound tape loops or deliberately recorded tape loops.

Post-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think Pogo being a man of musical taste will appreciate them.

If you like mainly 3 minute pop songs or 3 minute rock songs, then Godspeed You! Black Emperor won't be for you, what they do is all very intricate, but it's pretty much genius on all levels.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "The Dead Flag Blues", this is Part I and Part II (Intro and Outro) from their album "F♯ A♯ ∞" (which means F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity) released in 1997 on Constellation/Kranky Records. This album is full of their eschatological tape loops.

The monologue at the beginning is a sampled recording of the Canadian actor Lee Marvin, at this moment in time I can't remember what film this is from



I've previously posted about them in my own Music thread, this is a direct copy and paste from my thread, mainly to explain the tune and the writing on the front artwork.

My post # 364 for the original.

What are you listening to?

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Moya" from their EP "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" released on 12" in 1999 on Constellation/Kranky Records.

"Moya" contains a partial re-working of Henryk Górecki's "Symphony No.3, Op. 36" aka "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs", which will be partially recognisable if you're familiar with Górecki's incredible work.

The front cover as pictured, Hebrew, in transliterated form is Tohu wa-bohu (formless and empty), used in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former describing the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter describing the Earth after the Lord's Day.



Edited to add comment.

Now that's what I'm talking about.
The music itself in this case isn't sweeping me away but at least it's more creative than the tired, trite three-chord three-minute corporate rock thingy. It is thought provoking.

And Oosie you may be the only poster here besides myself who can type the name of the city of Montréal correctly.

I've been to Montréal a lot. The first thing I do, sometimes the only thing, is take an armful of US music to the shops and trade 'em in for Quebecois. A whole treasure going on right over the border.

Ça par example:

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[Muhammed]

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

The Tragically Hip.

The best Canadian band, it's quite simple, that would be Godspeed You! Black Emperor from Montréal.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They are a Post-Rock band, like most Post-Rock bands, they're 98% instrumental, but they'll use field recordings and various found sound tape loops or deliberately recorded tape loops.

Post-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think Pogo being a man of musical taste will appreciate them.

If you like mainly 3 minute pop songs or 3 minute rock songs, then Godspeed You! Black Emperor won't be for you, what they do is all very intricate, but it's pretty much genius on all levels.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "The Dead Flag Blues", this is Part I and Part II (Intro and Outro) from their album "F♯ A♯ ∞" (which means F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity) released in 1997 on Constellation/Kranky Records. This album is full of their eschatological tape loops.

The monologue at the beginning is a sampled recording of the Canadian actor Lee Marvin, at this moment in time I can't remember what film this is from



I've previously posted about them in my own Music thread, this is a direct copy and paste from my thread, mainly to explain the tune and the writing on the front artwork.

My post # 364 for the original.

What are you listening to?

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Moya" from their EP "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" released on 12" in 1999 on Constellation/Kranky Records.

"Moya" contains a partial re-working of Henryk Górecki's "Symphony No.3, Op. 36" aka "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs", which will be partially recognisable if you're familiar with Górecki's incredible work.

The front cover as pictured, Hebrew, in transliterated form is Tohu wa-bohu (formless and empty), used in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former describing the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter describing the Earth after the Lord's Day.



Edited to add comment.

Now that's what I'm talking about.
The music itself in this case isn't sweeping me away but at least it's more creative than the tired, trite three-chord three-minute corporate rock thingy. It is thought provoking. Will definitely check out more from them.

And Oosie you may be the only poster here besides myself who can type the name of the city of Montréal correctly.

I've been to Montréal a lot. The first thing I do, sometimes the only thing, is take an armful of US music to the shops and trade 'em in for Quebecois. A whole treasure going on right over the border.

"Now that's what I'm talking about.
The music itself in this case isn't sweeping me away but at least it's more creative than the tired, trite three-chord three-minute corporate rock thingy. It is thought provoking. Will definitely check out more from them."

It is thought provoking, a lot of intricate effort goes into Godspeed You! Black Emperor's music and you have to listen carefully and concentrate, it's not background music.

"And Oosie you may be the only poster here besides myself who can type the name of the city of Montréal correctly. "

Perhaps it's because I'm European darling

"I've been to Montréal a lot. The first thing I do, sometimes the only thing, is take an armful of US music to the shops and trade 'em in for Quebecois. A whole treasure going on right over the border."

I've never visited Canada, but Montréal has always appealed to me, I think we should visit.

This excellent Chamber Orchestra are I Musici de Montréal, they were formed in 1983 by a Russian émigré Yuli Turovsky, he died a few years ago, but his Chamber Orchestra lives on.

This is a recording of them performing Alexander Glazunov's "Op. 71: Chant du Ménestrel for cello and piano" which he composed in 1900, he also wrote a composition for cello and orchestra, which is performed below.

The composition and the performance are both exquisite.

Alexander Glazunov, himself an émigré, leaving Russia in 1929 to live in Paris, he died in 1936 at the age of 70 years-old in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb, just West of Paris city centre.

I Musici de Montréal "Op. 71: Chant du Ménestrel for cello and orchestra"



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[Pogo]

Yeah of course it's because you're European darling. Or at least not a part of the Cult of Ignorance here.

From here Montréal is a great thing to have because it's accessible by car and once you get there it's a place that has one foot in Europe and the other in North America. Best of both.

And everybody there is Bi. Upon speaking to a stranger you greet them in both French and English and let the other person choose which way to continue. Second-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.


This guy used to run a very good prog-rock band called Harmonium, took a couple of decades off and then did a solo album recently:

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[Pogo]

Yeah of course it's because you're European darling. Or at least not a part of the Cult of Ignorance here.

From here Montréal is a great thing to have because it's accessible by car and once you get there it's a place that has one foot in Europe and the other in North America. Best of both.

And everybody there is Bi. Upon speaking to a stranger you greet them in both French and English and let the other person choose which way to continue. Second-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.


This guy used to run a very good prog-rock band called Harmonium, took a couple of decades off and then did a solo album recently:

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Earlier work --- this would be about 1973:

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Nice original approach to composition.