These were pivotal times in my musical development, and goddamit I’m going to share it with DiS during this Easter-ish holiday while I’m taking some time off work. Apologies in advance for the Spotify links.
20 We’ll start off by including one of Narduwar’s many bands, well, because everyone loves Narduwar. Also I’m going to France in a few days.
Doot doo!
19
54-40 - She-La
Despite their somewhat generic rock and roll output, I need to stress that these guys were fucking huge at their peak, headlining hockey arenas. Plus they had a very cool band name, referencing the ultimately fruitless campaign for the USA to claim what turned out to be a massive part of Western Canada.
18
The Inbreds - Any Sense of Time
Duo playing just bass and drum. Like many good bands of the day they migrated to Halifax, flirted with SubPop, and fizzled out within a few years.
17
After a bit of a hiatus, we’re back with Canada’s answer to Blind Melon, the Gandharvas!
aw, just realised ‘Phantom Power’ by The Tragically Hip is 1998
because I was hoping to see this maybe
Apologies in advance, there will be no Hip in this list.
I have my reasons.
Great song! Had a bit of email contact with Mike O’Neill when he co-created Colours with Devon Sproule, seemed like a fairly interesting dude.
what are your reasons?
I’m interested in the list either way
It all goes back to high school, where the Hip were VERY popular, particularly amongst the worst people I knew. The ones who made fun of my Dinosaur Jr. t-shirt and were generally utter wankers. So I developed a strong (probably irrational) dislike of that band.
I came to that album through Gord’s solo stuff. do you reckon you could give that a go?
he did a really beautiful album with Kevin Drew, for one, and another good album when he was dying. plus, Coke Machine Glow has some good tunes
altho I guess his voice was so distinctive thag it might be too difficult
Well perhaps it’s time for a mid-life re-evaluation of them!
yes, take them back from the shitebags! (Gord first)