Well, I've noticed that there has been a certain amount of talk about local bands, which of course if all well and good, but I was wondering if anyone has noteced the sudden invaision of Canadian music into the rock scene? It remindes me sort-of how England took over for a while a decade or two ago, now it appears to be Canada. Anyway, here is the place to discuss Canadian Music, Canada, and the Mounties! Enjoy!22 responses total.
To start off with, I was wondering what was up with that strange rule regarding music played on Canadian Radio. What's up with that? How does it work again?
There has to be a certain amount of music containing Canadians on the radio. I don't know the exact proportions. But, because of the way the law works, it doesn't have to be a Canadian band - i.e. U2 gets played a lot on the radio in Canada because their producer on many of their famous albums was Canadian.
The same can be said of the 1976 song "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee, which read "Recorded in Canada" on the label.
My understanding is that songs get points for their Canadian
content based on whether they:
o were written by Canadians,
o were performed by Canadians,
o were recorded/engineered in Canada,
o explicitly mention hockey or curling..
So, for example, a U2 song produced by Canadian Daniel Lanois wouldn't
count nearly as much towards a station's Canadian content quota as an
Anne Murray / Gordon Lightfoot duet about getting kicked by a moose on
the way to the curling match..
Border stations can also request exemption from this rule if they're pulling a lot of US advertising loons...er..dollars. CIMX-FM 88.7 aka 89X is an exempt station, they were granted this in 1994 I believe. That's when they stopped plying Meryn Cadell. I don't know about CIDR-FM 93.9 "The River", they may still have to carry Maple Leaf content.
<loonies are great...>
I prefer moonies to loonies, but here we are talking toonies.
(I recently picked up the US release of the Gandharvas' _Sold For A Smile_ for "First Day Of Spring". it turns out that the version on this album is *not* the one I liked, which I'd heard on CIMX. the version I like is the one on _Soap Bubble & Inertia_, which was released in Canada.) (www.vaxxine.com/newworldcds is a fun site.)
canadians are responsable for the bare naked ladies, celine dion and rush. im not sure how i feel about canadian music. oh, and bryan adams.
And Alanis Morisette, and lots of other bands. Me, I like canadian music
I loke most of the Canadian stuff. I've beeen a *huge* fan of Rush for as long as I've been listening to music, and have lately gotten into the folkier side of Canadia. :)
<nods> There's a bunch of good folk (in any sense of the word you might pick) coming out of Canada these days. Actually, there are good Canadian bands in most genres (okay, no surprise there), and U.S. radio stations tend to pick up the most annoying of the bunch. I'm not quite sure why this is.
Because US Radio Stations, as a habit, seem to pick the most annoying of ALL the music?
best canadian artist.. Tara MacLean.
Wow....somebody who has heard of her. :) I keep hoping that she comes this way sometime soon, but I've not heard of anything recently. I keep meaning to get my signed poster framed, though....
I should mention that the two headliners for "Celtic Sunday" at the upcoming Frog Island Festival in Ypsilanti are both from Canada: Mary Jane Lamond (Gaelic song) and Natalie MacMaster (fiddle). I *think* the date is Sunday, June 24.
That is the date. And I'd be there if I wasn't going to be somewhere else for my family reunion. (Farmington Hills...sigh) Mary Jane Lamond is awsome live....I saw her a couple of years ago at the Ark.
Natalie MacMaster is incredible. I saw her at the Smithsonian Folk Festival in Lansing a couple years ago.
(I'm really torn, because the 24th is also the TOP evening I wanted to see the most, with Katie Geddes and "Dr. Strangelove."
Sarah McLachlan is also a Canadian. So is Shania Twain.
Sarah Harmer also.
Moxy Fruvous!
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