Playlist: Canadian Rock - Page 8

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• 1 - Mary K. Williams

  Aug 17, 2005 at 7:20 am

  Thanks for sharing the history (and geography!) behind some of the most popular songs and musicians of the last 50 years or so.
  
  

• 2 - Chas

  Aug 17, 2005 at 10:32 am

  These two came to mind:
  
  Doug and the Slugs - Real Enough
  Jane Siberry - Mimi on the Beach

• 3 - Chas

  Aug 17, 2005 at 10:33 am

  one more:
  
  Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

• 4 - Paul Roy

  Aug 17, 2005 at 11:42 am

  Glad to see Rush at the top of this pretty comprehensive list of Cunucks, but you completely forgot Triumph.

• 5 - Cdn Cowboy

  Aug 17, 2005 at 11:52 am

  The Rheostatics are sorely missing from this list. They have produced the most "Canadian" music of every band you have listed.

• 6 - Aaman

  Aug 17, 2005 at 12:36 pm

  What - no Celine Dion? May your iceberg melt!

• 7 - Victor Plenty

  Aug 17, 2005 at 1:24 pm

  Yeah, no Celine Dion and no William Shatner either.

• 8 - El Bicho

  Aug 17, 2005 at 2:13 pm

  How can you have no Neil Young on this list??

• 9 - uao

  Aug 17, 2005 at 3:05 pm

  I left Neil Young off the list because he's been California based since the Buffalo Springfield days; I also left off Joni Mitchell for the same reason.
  
  I also didn't include Alanis Morissette, although I probably should have.
  
  Triumph would have been a good inclusion; I forgot Martha and the Muffins, and never heard any of Jane Siberry and Doug and the Slugs' stuff.
  
  Sorry to the Celine Dion fans. Glad I'm not on an iceberg...

• 10 - EZ

  Aug 17, 2005 at 3:08 pm

  And Sloan! Where's the Sloan??

• 11 - yyzyy

  Aug 17, 2005 at 3:59 pm

  Rush is the best pick to be #1. But no Triumph? Or Saga?
  
  But Rush...definetely a #1 in my books!

• 12 - Mark Saleski

  Aug 17, 2005 at 4:07 pm

  Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

• 13 - Mark Saleski

  Aug 17, 2005 at 4:08 pm

  Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
  (sorry, it needed to be said)

• 14 - Mark Saleski

  Aug 17, 2005 at 4:12 pm

  Saga - On The Loose

• 15 - uao

  Aug 17, 2005 at 8:25 pm

  Thanks for the suggestions Mark, and everyone else.
  
  Fact is, this list could be double its length, and I'm sure some deserving artists would be left out. I always cut my lists at twenty; otherwise, I'd never get any sleep at all...
  
  ;-)
  
  However, for those who were hoping to find an exhaustively conclusive list of Canadian artists, here it is!
  
  

• 16 - Phil

  Aug 18, 2005 at 12:59 am

  Wow. Good picks...Rush is perfect at #1 even though i am biased b.c rush is my fav band....but ya arcade fire....i heard of em through my gf and they arent to shabby.. glad to see them up there!

• 17 - BADfan

  Aug 18, 2005 at 4:19 am

  how is it possible Bryan Adams is so low on the list? He's one of the (read THE) greatest Canadian musicians!
  
  And where is Shania Twain?
  
  this aint a good list!

• 18 - eEL

  Aug 18, 2005 at 2:22 pm

  SKINNY PUPPY info is incorrrect ::
  "Keyboardist Wilhelm Schroeder joined up in 1985"
  
  it was Dwayne R. Goettel who joined up after the 1985 tour and "added dimension"... Bill Leeb didn't even know how to play a keyboard when he joined PUPPY, let alone "added dimension"...

• 19 - uao

  Aug 18, 2005 at 3:17 pm

  Sorry, eEl, I morphed Schroeder and Goettel into the same guy--
  
  Schroeder DID join in 85 and appeared on the Bites disc, but then Goettel replaced him.
  
  Goettel is the one who had the impact.
  
  Thanks for the correction.
  
  

• 20 - RockGeezer

  Aug 18, 2005 at 3:58 pm

  Thanks for being one of the few to mention Max Webster.
  
  They remain one of my all-time favorite groups (I'm also a big Rush fan) to this day. Don't think I'll ever get sick of listening to them!
  

• 21 - yvonne

  Aug 18, 2005 at 7:32 pm

  Bryan Adams middle name is Guy..not Fawkes.

• 22 - uao

  Aug 18, 2005 at 8:37 pm

  Thanks yvonne, that was just retarded typing on my part, I fixed it.
  
  RockGeezer: I had never heard of Max Webster until a few years ago when a Canadian turned me on to them. They deserved a bigger audience

• 23 - Rob

  Aug 19, 2005 at 11:47 am

  Thanks for including Blue Rodeo on your list. They're one of Canada's gems. It was also nice to see Max Webster on there. I always thought they never got the respect they were due and were always forced to take a back seat to Rush by their record label. Kim Mitchell did go on to have a successful solo career in Canada and is now hosting the afternoon show on Q107 in Toronto.

• 24 - Gareth edwards

  Aug 22, 2005 at 12:05 pm

  What an eclectic list. Some great sounds.
  
  I also liked the Headpins, Toronto and Boys Brigade.
  
  Gareth
  

• 25 - Tube

  Aug 27, 2005 at 9:01 pm

  Uao, great post. No Sarah McLachlan?