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Didn't need CanCon but CanCon needed him. As a result, CanCon nearly killed him for a generation of listeners. Heart of Gold and Old Man are still difficult to swallow at times because of the unrelenting overplay they recieved.
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Bar none the most Canadian Band ever. Who else would do the Ballad of Wendell Clark?
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Sometimes I wish they'd stop before they cheapen what they've already accomplished. is still one of the best powerpop albums ever made.
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Slow
"I will always thanks this band for being the cause of a party that destroyed a fern that had always annoyed me." - paraphrased Discorder/CITR review of the album Against the Glass. They also shut down the independant Music series at Expo 86 because they showed their bums. Slow rocks.
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Copyright
One of the Slow spin offs.
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I freely admit I'm mainly giving it to her because she worked with Eno and Micheal Brook. Chief, on the other hand, gives her full artistic marks.
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They seem very dated now. Back in the day they seemed pretty subversive.
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Not the greatest punk band in the world but one of the few note worthy ones Canada really had.
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Yes there is the silly Tolkien lyrics, Lifeson endorsing every guitar part and string possible, Peart's fast yet soulless drumming, Geddy Lee's "voice". But I'm giving them their due because in the 80s in Canada you had a choice of Adams, Cochrane, or Rush. Rush looks very very palatable in that context.
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a fan. They always seemed more humourous than gothic to me but at least they were doing something different at a time when they could have been belting out Adams-like schlock.
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Can't really justify it, but what the hell I'm giving it to her anyway.
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David Wilcox
He really doesn't deserve it but what the fuck, let's give it to him. A "master" of metaphor (Laying Pipe? What ever could he mean?) and because he looks like your dad playing the blues and he's always looked like your dad playing the blues.
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For Chinatown Calculation and the fact that deep down in side Doug is bitter and twisted.
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Me and debated this for a while. Looking back, not that interesting, not that talented, not really that good. But given the alternatives at the time, they still beat Images in Vogue.
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Nash the Slash/Fm
It's been so long since I even heard one of their albums so I may change my mind if I do again. Until then.
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Hey he offered to change his name to Prince when the Artist gave it up. Plus he altered the sound of a piano with vegitables.
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Not for the morally uptight. Can be incredibly juvenile. Been the source of some obscenity charges here in Canada. But there are some days in life where songs like "Hide the Hamster" can be mildly entertaining if only to upset morally uptight fuckups that might be lurking about.
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It could be considered a close call given the CBC play they got on "Kids in the Hall". But they were entertaining damn it and don't forget.
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Yes a little fucked up personally at times and yes early in career beloved by CBC. Regardless, he's an amazing talent. He can also end traditional maritime fiddle songs without the "Shave and a haircut" meddley.
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I'm going to say this simply. I find the political activism of most Rock Stars tiresome, ungenuine, and cheap self-absorbed self-promotion (not to mention completely uneducated). Cockburn is one of the few I'd actually trust at a news conference. Not to mention he's a pretty good guitarist. Warning - he can be preachy.
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I'm still horrified by the CBC production of "I am Hotel" with Toller Cranston. On the other hand he does a lot of stuff about sex and god which is kind of cool like Sufis.
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K.D. actually died around 1987 and was replaced by a double (remember what happened to Paul McCartney in the late 60s). Up until then she thought she was Patsy Cline's re-incarnation with a sense of humour and a don't give a fuck freewheeling style. However, if you play "Constant Craving" backwards you can hear a voice say "I killed K.D.".
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To take a quote from "Almost Famous" They had the courage to be drunken baffoons". No real other reason to put them in this category.
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I'm by no means saying they're a great band but for fuck sakes at least they're trying to do something different. For that alone I give them points
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Because Gordie Johnson has a really cool car.
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Golden Calgarians
Anyone trying to rock in Calgary in the mid 80s deserves bonus points. Didn't they do a song about Chicken On The Way?
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Still to come:
Sorry, I've had so much fun slagging the crap I haven't spent much time on this section.
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