Favorite Canadian Band (besides the obvious)

[Stormtron]

Triumph

[Tony R]

Max Webster by miles.

[RUSHHEAD666]

Max Webster by miles.

 

 

Where's "The Party" Tony?

 

Do you own the cd box set?

[Tony R]

Max Webster by miles.

 

 

Where's "The Party" Tony?

 

Do you own the cd box set?

I’ve got all the albums on vinyl.

[pjbear05]

What, no love for Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers?

 

Had some real funny guy with them. Damn, what his name?

 

Chan, or Chung, or something like that.

[RushFanForever]

What, no love for Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers?

 

Had some real funny guy with them. Damn, what his name?

 

Chan, or Chung, or something like that.

 

That's another one I learned about last year.

[vaportrailer]

The Plastic Cloud by a country kilometer.

 

 

Canuck raga-rock :P

[canadianice]

Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush. How are these guys not on that list?

[Malignant Narcissist]

Cool to list so many bands - because I haven't heard of a lot of them.

Voted for Rush's mates i.e. Kim Mitchell et al.

They were prob mates with other bands too.

I know of a few like Triumph, April Wine and Loverboy but haven't heard much by them.

Arcade Fire I personally don't rate too much but like the idea of them changing instruments for diff songs (if I'm not mistaken)

 

But kudos to the 'The Tea Party' mentioned by some as they're damn good.

[Malignant Narcissist]

I forgot VoiVod and Annihilater too if you want to go down the thrash metal route! Fine bands of that genre.

Voivod are an acquired taste though because they combined odd chords and sounds a-la Sonic Youth with thrash metal and later prog. And they had a cool Sci-fi theme running through many of the early albums where the 'Voivod', or whatever the character was, caused a lot of chaos either warring or going into different dimensions. The drummer who came up with the concepts (sound familiar) and artwork had a fertile imagination!

[toymaker]

Max Webster, easily.

 

Since I live in Canada, I've seen quite a few Canadian bands, but I wasn't lucky enough to see Max Webster (Kim Mitchell a ton of times, but not Max. Bummer.)

[Rod in Toronto]

Voivod and Annihilator.

[driventotheedge]

I actually get a kick out of Loverboy's stuff. Pretty well craft heavy pop, with some very cool guitar and synth lines.

Turn Me Loose is a fantastic song to my ears.

[Claude_verret]

The Hip for me. With honorable mentions to Blue Rodeo, 54-40, The Headstones and Big Wreck.

[cygnify]

What, no ANVIL?!??!? Their comeback tour was momentous!

 

http://en.wikipedia...._Story_of_Anvil

[ILSnwdog]

No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature is probably my favorite non-Rush Canadian tune.

 

Two individually written songs combined together. Randy Bachman wrote "No Sugar Tonight" and Burton Cummings wrote "New Mother Nature".

 

The Kings did the same thing with "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide".

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJvi-4OcKg

I love the Kings! It pisses me off when that comes up on shuffle and it doesn’t play both songs together.

[ILSnwdog]

Then there's some other Canadian bands.

 

Honeymoon Suite, The Spoons, Blue Peter, Platinum Blonde, Parachute Club, Grapes of Wrath, Men Without Hats, Glass Tiger, The Northern Pikes, D.O.A., Rough Trade, The Pursuit of Happiness, Idle Eyes, FM, Mahogany Rush, Voivod, Toronto, Headpins, Prism, Harlequin, Sweeney Todd, The Kings, Spirit of the West, Helix, Streetheart, Trooper, Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts.

One of my all time favorite songs is “I’m an Adult Now”, by The Pursuit of Happiness. The lyrics are spot on and humorous.

[ILSnwdog]

The Tragically Hip.

 

Also like Honeymoon Suite, BTO, Triumph, Econline Crush, Loverboy, Pursuit of Happiness.

[laughedatbytime]

Lunatic Fringe is my favorite song by a Canadian band other than Rush.

[_hi_water._]

I just realized that this list is missing Three Days Grace

[laughedatbytime]

I just realized that this list is missing Three Days Grace

Is it though?

[ILSnwdog]

I just realized that this list is missing Three Days Grace

:o

[toymaker]

April Wine would be a contender if they hadn't written so many wretched soft rock songs. Their rockier tunes are great, though.

[taurus]

Max Webster and just like Toymaker, I never got to see Max live but have seen KM many times - Kim's actually the last live show I saw just before the Covids shut everything down. Front row too!

 

Many honourable mentions for me

 

Saga

Triumph

Goddo

Wireless

BTO

FM

April Wine

Moxy

Coney Hatch

Anvil

Helix

The Diodes

Teenage Head

[canadianice]

FM-----------------> Cameron Hawkins, Martin Deller Nash the Slash,etc. Phasors on stun.