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Your favorite Canadian bands

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  1. Sylver

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    I get the feeling the rest of the world is missing out on some great musical talent coming from Canada. We're such a shy country that sometimes we don't promote our music to the world, but there's some awesome stuff here. Here's a few of my favorites - if you've never listened to them have a listen on You Tube for an idea of what they do;

    Sam Roberts - looks like Jesus and sounds awesome!
    The Waking Eyes - from my hometown...
    Metric - too good for words!
    Tegan And Sara - two lez sisters from Alberta (yeah, surprises me too!) into the indie stuff
    K'Naan - I love Waving Flag (the theme song for the World Cup 2010)
    Great Big Sea - if you've never rocked out to Newfie music you haven't lived yet...
    Billy Talent - just the thing when I need to scream :slight_smile:
    The Perpetrators - an amazing local band

    An honorable mention goes to The Hidden Cameras, a gay band from Toronto...

    Which Canadian bands or musicians do you like?
     
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    Rush.

    (Billy Talent is okay too :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
    Purely for the first song I ever learned on guitar:slight_smile:
    [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0LDokAvtY[/YOUTUBE]

    Priestess is kinda cool too

    And Protest the Hero is amazing.

    Silverstein is eh.

    Simple Plan is the 3rd worst thing to come out of Canada. (to Nickelback and Justin Beiber)

    Steppenwolf is pretty sweet :slight_smile:

    Oh and Neil Young is pretty awesome too.

    But in the end. Rush is definitely my favorite Canadian band.
     
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    I think i only listen to one lol.

    The Tea Party

    i havent heard of most of what you have listed.

    I think i know metric, they do Help Im Alive? if so i love that song.
     
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  4. Sylver

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    Oh my god I forgot Neil Young - I should be tarred and feathered! He went to my high school! :thumbsup:
     
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    Well, she's not a band, but I LOVE Shania Twain. :slight_smile:
    I'd go as far to say she's probably my favorite female artist.
     
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    Rush, Neil Young, Tragically Hip, The Guess Who, BTO, Steppenwolf, April Wine to name a few.
     
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    Susan Aglukark, K.D. Lang, Sarah McLachlan and Brian Adams! :grin:
     
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    Rush and Neil Young, of course. :grin:

    VNV Nation isn't from Canada, but Ronan Harris lived in Toronto a while and they played their first show here.

    Ayria is neat - she (Jennifer Parkin) opened for VNV the last show of theirs I went to.

    Hmm. Most of the music I listen to is English or European, though.
     
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    The only band I am familiar with out of all of the ones mentioned so far is Rush, but considering that they are the only band to ever be made Officers of the Order of Canada, I don't think it's a bad choice.
     
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    The Agonist, Hedley, Faber drive, simple plan, alexisonfire, cancer bats, silverstein, protest the hero, ten second epic, marianas trench, billy talent, illscarlett just to name a few :slight_smile:
     
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    avril lavigne...
    OJ XD
     
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    Sarah McLachlan
    Jann Arden!!! (hilarious live)
    Susan Aglukark -- yay someone else knows who she is!
    Chantal Kreviazuk!!! (excellent live)
    Anne Murray

    In the sad but true category:
    Celine Dion
    Shania Twain
    Avril Lavigne

    How can you not like Justin Bieber? He's just so... ridiculous! The sad thing is he has a pretty decent voice (based on his early YouTube videos) but all his songs are autotuned and computerized à la Cher in Believe.
     
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    THE TEA PARTY!!!

    I went and saw Jeff Martin live last month, it was one of the most amazing shows i've ever seen.
     
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    How could I forget Avril! Nobody's Home is one of my favorite songs of all time, even more than my favorite Rush song (The Camera Eye, for the curious).
     
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    There is SO MUCH good Canadian music right now. Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Metric, Stars, Do Make Say Think, Bell Orchestre, Feist, Apostle of Hustle, Wintersleep, Wolf Parade, Holy Fuck, Tegan & Sara, Plants and Animals, Mother Mother, The Fugitives, Chad VanGaalen, etc. etc. etc...
     
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    Billy Talent members were chilling in lounge chairs at a night club I go to every few weeks. I waved and said hi just as me and my friends were leaving. :slight_smile:
    They're pretty good.
     
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    Yet another Rush fan here. :slight_smile:
     
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    Thousand Foot Krutch and Said the Whale are both great :grin:
     
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    I really love Canadian music, especially lots of the lesser known stuff and I know a great blog devoted to them called Turning Plaid, http://turningplaid.com/. It's a really great source!
     
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    Crystal Castles is an electronic duo I like from Toronto :grin:
     
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