I just visited NXNE for a TV CARNAGE showcase and it went over like the scene in The Blues Bros when they played behind a curtain of chicken wire to an audience of country fans. Probably because 90% of Canada is some form of a country fan and have the tolerance of survivalists on Armageddon Day.
Personally, I love Canadian music, it is not only gorgeous and thoughtful but also more inclusive, diverse even then any other protectionist music scene in the world! So I would like to expose you; the rest of the world, to some of Canada’s best bands ever! They get all the grants, they have shaped a generation of incredible fans and they act like they deserve all of it. What a combo.
So as a salute to Canadian music and it’s diversity I suggest the following!
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I thought they fired you when they fired all the other losers that don’t do anything for this site. They should. You are terrible. Gavin is floating your shit ass.
06.21.09 at 7:29 pm
this makes me embarrassed to be canadian
06.21.09 at 7:32 pm
thank you mr beckles! LOL:)
06.21.09 at 7:41 pm
jesus fucking seriously man these are the best.
06.21.09 at 7:43 pm
you forgot B44
06.21.09 at 8:00 pm
JAYJAY ROLL TAPE ALREADY!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktYzo1WL0Qo
06.21.09 at 8:29 pm
also worth mentioning since the mid nineties:
thrush hermit
i mother earth (pre-breakup)
Our Lady Peace
Sloan
Treble Charger (pre-sum41)
Gob
Joel Plaskett Emergency
Age of Electric / Limblifter
06.21.09 at 8:30 pm
Knock it the fuck off. I know you’re joking, but a lot of non-Canadians will think you’re serious.
06.21.09 at 8:36 pm
lame
06.21.09 at 8:38 pm
Fuck that, Sloan is fine!
06.21.09 at 8:50 pm
WTF Tv Carnage Showcase??!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why dont you let your people know…. I would have loved to come
Thanks asshole!
xo
06.21.09 at 8:51 pm
Black Mountain
06.21.09 at 8:55 pm
I know you’re joking, but I actually kind of like The Tragically Hip. The rest of these bands are fucking awful though.
06.21.09 at 9:03 pm
Anyone who thinks this is what Canadian music is actually like is an idiot.
06.21.09 at 9:05 pm
White,whiter and whitest. We are what the south dreamed about becoming. Poor niggers didn’t know where they was running to.
06.21.09 at 9:25 pm
Metric !!!!
DFA1979 !!! esp. the Romance Bloody Romance remix disc !!!
Hip Club Groove !!! (Corey from Trailer Park Boys)
You guys could have picked shittier bands. This comes off kind of pointless.
The all time best Canadian tune is Safety Dance by Men Without Hats. If only for the video. Spoons for that girls crimped 80s hair that I’d loveto cum all over.
Anyways TLDR, GYOB, and Vegan Jules eats yellow snow.
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06.21.09 at 9:46 pm
aw, the Canadians didn’t like you playing crappy video ‘remixes’ at a music festival?…boohoo…
06.21.09 at 9:57 pm
Ain’t it good
to be
ALIVE
06.21.09 at 10:28 pm
I’ve noticed that anything Canada is like pure gold around here.
06.21.09 at 10:34 pm
Unfunny. Poorly written. Bad/confusing choices. Pointless. Stick to the middle column Beckles.
06.21.09 at 10:40 pm
http://www.myspace.com/themissiondistrict
06.21.09 at 10:46 pm
Sloan is good, if you disagree then the part of your brain dedicated to evaluating music is an asshole.
06.21.09 at 10:56 pm
Exactly. How the hell can you make fun of Sloan? Is it because they’re an underrated, under appreciated and over talented rock n’ roll band? I hate bands like that.
06.21.09 at 11:19 pm
Also: the Zit Remedy, you fucks. Nuff said.
06.21.09 at 11:20 pm
TV Carnage sucks. Nobody cares about your stupid montages, not even the lemming-like Toronto hipsters. Now that’s pathetic.
06.21.09 at 11:21 pm
Oh, Canada.
Jeff Martin of the Tea Party now lives in my hometown, Perth, West Australia. We hope and pray that you had the motherfucker neutered before allowing him outside your borders, or we’re going to have to do some axe-wielding of our own.
Sincerely yours
Uncle Vernon
06.22.09 at 12:26 am
These shits remind me of working in the magnesium foundry. Total auto workers’ music.
06.22.09 at 1:52 am
blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
06.22.09 at 2:09 am
You can count me out.
06.22.09 at 2:14 am
I actually like “Poets”. “Nothing Will Come Between Us” is a WAY better TOADM song
06.22.09 at 4:27 am
Ricky: Helix was a wicked concert. Fuck, I sold a lot of dope at that concert. I mean, they had good lyrics like, “Gimme an R-O-C-K”, and the crowd yells “ROCK” really loud. Now that’s a fuckin’ concert!
Bubbles: I’m not giving anyone a fuckin’ R!
Ricky: Rush just don’t do stuff like that. They got these lyrics about how trees are talking to each other and how different sides of your brain works, or outerspace bullshit.
Bubbles: Gimme a fuckin’ R…
06.22.09 at 7:16 am
I hate shit canadian ‘comedians’ that go to new york and make shit videos
06.22.09 at 10:33 am
Matthew Good
06.22.09 at 1:12 pm
So you found a shitty video of Gord performing. So he’s probably drunk and doesn’t give a shit about this show, because he’s playing for people who don’t seem to give a shit about his music either. So he’s more of a rock star than you are. I’ve seen The Hip play live twice, they are fucking awesome. Saying that The tragically hip are bad is just ignorant.I’m Canadian and I like when people make fun of Canada, but this was poorly executed.
06.22.09 at 1:18 pm
here’s a fun game goto a tragically hip concert and try and count how many people are wearing articles of clothing received inside of a case of beer. your head will start spinning in a matter of seconds
06.22.09 at 1:27 pm
anyway, like most of his ‘comedy’ this could have been soooooooooooooooo much better if actually written well (funny) and executed to a post secondary school level….
06.22.09 at 2:24 pm
Nickelback
Rush
Alanis Morrissette
Celine Dion
06.22.09 at 3:48 pm
Kenny Hotz was the frontman for The Tea Party?
06.22.09 at 4:34 pm
Are you lost?
06.22.09 at 5:59 pm
40 comments & counting! that must be a record, eh?
06.22.09 at 9:10 pm
hey man, gob had that cool song about jumpin in a lake. sun shinin down on a beach in a summer style
06.22.09 at 9:53 pm
fresh wes is like certs without the retsin (or something…)
06.23.09 at 3:25 pm