Here's my favourite Canadian band : DOA.

(I'm sure others will contribute more mainstream Canadians)

.....you get the story of the White Rose Filling Station and then the song.

Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, The Band...

Is Ryan Adams secretly Canadian ? I thought he was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina. For what it's worth, so does wikipedia.

My thoughts precisely.

My favourite Canadian

although I was also quite taken with Max Webster

singing my favourite by them:

This is the wonderful Blue Rodeo!

First Don Rooke's finest - the Henrys, with DR on Weissenborn,

Then DR here with MM O'H , this time playing lap slide with ebow

And this lot:

Neil Young

.....Kathleen Edwards

Having experienced the Tragically Hip for the first time this week I can only i can only say that they are a heck of a live band and deserve more attention

I thank you....

Black Emperor

Sarah McLachlan - she's massive in Canada but doesn't mean much here.
I think she's a pretty fine singer.

Jim Bryson. He's a member of Keathleen Edwards's band but an excellent songwriter in his own right. The car driver and co singer in the video is Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy.

when you read the blogs in reverse order....I end up making vaguely coherent sense in completely the wrong place.
Anyway, I'll go along with pretty much all of the above, but want to add 'The Odds' - my favourite band from anywhere, full-stop. Plus what I said here.... http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/rush-now-there-was-greatest-ever-c...

"Anyway, great Canadians.....since you bring it up can I commend to m'learned friends 'The Odds' - absolutely brilliant (but unfortunately defunct) 90's alt-rock outfit. Got introduced to them while in the US, and based on favourites-per-band on my MP3 player, they have absolutely caned everyone, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Del Amitri, the works. Well worth checking out any of their albums, they're all good. Of the 3 albums, 49 tracks, I've only decided to drop 3 of them. Great melodies, bass, rythm guitar work, drummer who writes songs (one for the pub quiz there), variety too. Great stuff.

And while we're at it, wasn't that Neil Young bloke and his mates from up that way ?
And half or more of The Band ?
Bryan Adams is pretty good too, assuming you can edit out the interminable ballad guff (well over half his output as far as I can tell). In fact it was one of the Bryan Adams band drummers that went off to form The Odds"

Sorry pop-pickers.

where a DJ (funnily enough the ex-keyboard player for Jesus Jones) did a set on a Friday night . He would invariably play the same song by The Pursuit Of Happiness, but as I was invariably monged I can't remember what it was called. But I remember it as being excellent.

in North America

I know I mentioned them earlier, but to be this far down a thread like this and not have a YouTube clip...

0+2=1

Reason enough for Canada on its own...

Canadians. But seems most if not all of the bases are covered. Particular shout-outs for Cowboy Junkies, Sarah McLachlan and Mary Margaret O'Hara.

Never understood jokes (even on the podcast) about the dearth of Canadian talent in the rock sphere.

Arcade Fire - not mentioned yet?

Sarah Harmer, Kevin Drew and and other numerous Broken Social Scene types (Brendan Canning etc), The Stars, Bobby Wiseman, Rick Danko, The Rheostatics, The Bindini Band, The Hip,
Leslie Feist,Jane Sibbery, Kd, Leonard Cohen, The Weakerthons, Joe; Plaskett, Kathleen Edwards, Cowboy Junkies, Stomping Tom Connors, Caribou, Joni, Gordon Lightfoot...wow I could go on and on!

sadly no longer with us.

Check out the "does he take sugar" intro ...

Easily the scariest Canadian...

I'm surprised that no-one's mentioned Martha & The Muffins. "Echo Beach" was a smashing pop single, but their third album "This Is The Ice Age", from which this was taken, is absolutely fantastic.

I hadn't posted any Bruce Cockburn because I hoped I'd find I wasn't alone in my appreciation among The Massive of Bruce's work.

This is live but it takes about a minute to get to actual live footage.

She's Canadian I think. Year of Meteors is an amazing record.

Embedding disabled on the proper version of the song, but any excuse to post this...

Red Rider......

and Tom Cochrane....

I feel better now...
:-)

of course.

... too weird?

you're all wrong (including me) because what do English people (and anyone else outside Canada or the Nickelback fan club) know about music ? How could we possibly be right about this huge collection of 'talent' ;---). (<- big-nose-and-zit-on-chin smiley)

So, apart from kd lang, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Rush, Leonard Cohen, The Band, Tragically Hip, Martha and the Muffins, Cowboy Junkies, Jeff Healey, Peaches.....what have the Canadians ever done for us ?

Paul Anka, David Clayton-Thomas (Bread), Denny Doherty, Rush (How could you forget!), Gordon Lightfoot,Natalie McMaster, McGarrigle Sisters, to name but a few.

Aren't Barenaked Ladies Canadian?

(plus loads of great jazzers - Maynard Ferguson, Lenny Breau etc.)

'Cause a vast number of America's funniest are Canadian. To whit: Jim Carrey, Michael J Fox, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, (the late, lamented) Phil Hartman, Gene Levy, Rich Little, Howie Mandel, Lorne Michaels, Leslie Nielsen, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara and loads more. And back to musos, Paul Schaffer, David Letterman's bandleader and musical mind behind The Blues Brothers.

Job's a good'un

... of Montreal

Pamela Anderson !.............

I thought it would be appropriate to post a link to the version of this song performed at The Last Waltz by The Band, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, but neither YouTube nor Spotify seem to have it. However, I did find something truly horrific, and yet appropriately Canadian: said song being murdered by Celine Dion. If I could spell the noise that Sideshow Bob used to make in The Simpsons, I would type it here.

As an antidote/replacement, how's this for Canadian?

http://open.spotify.com/album/2R1tA0PTb07IFefbZNvbrG

...but I bloody love this one...

And Smashy and Nicey would be lost without this one...

Very much underappreciated (especially for his sly way with a lyric) -UK based, but Canadian I think

Great live; wonderful music. Video features the Mejica sisters performing as lava.

And we can thank Cancon for all this by the way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content

And let's not forget the Inuit throat singer from way up north in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut - Tanya Tagaq:

A few years ago, fRoots magazine put one of her songs on their biannual compilation CD. It remains the most bizarre vocal performance I have ever heard.

I like power pop.

There, I've said it.

Not quite the same since Rishi upped and took his sitar with him...but still a superb power pop/psych band.

is Luke Doucet

The attractive lady singing with him is Melissa McLennand

Spent some time on a tour bus with Nomeansno & D.O.A. down here in '93 and was amused/bemused by Rob Wright's immersion in a brick of an academic tome by some German philosopher (either Schlagel or Schopenhauer, can't quite recall) and his equally enthusiastic participation in a fantasy ice hockey league game they were all enthralled by. Top blokes all. Canadians, they're the Aussies of the Nthn Hemisphere -

..... and no mention of KonKan, late 80s New Orderish electro act, coupla minor hits in the UK with "I Beg Your Pardon" (with its sample-heavy take on Patsy Cline's "Never Promised You A Rose Garden") and "I Wanna Be Like Harry Houdini" : at the time I liked them very much and the first album. Their ironic name tickled me, named after the Canadian Content rule of how much local music should be played on Canadian radio.

And if we talking Canadian rock, I can't believe there's been no mention of Rush yet! ...... Jesus Jones, I'm assuming that they are from there, just check Wiki....... yeps, and Crikey Charlie, they were formed in August '68, when I was born! As a callow youth all my pals were into NWOBHM and there was I all into all things electronic on my own, couldn't get into Saxon et al that my pals were into, yet summat flicked a switch when I listened to Rush. I was gonna nip offski to iTunes to look for KonKan's "Move To Move" and now I've a hankering for "Exit Stage Left"!

BR
Freaky T

I love all her stuff.

to mention my most favourite band ever, Tegan and Sara:

Noticed Rufus got a mention, anyone mention his sis? Martha's wonderful:

And The Cliks are super too:

Oh and Allison Crowe is quite beautiful:

Also there's Arcade Fire, The Be Good Tanyas, and Bedouin Soundclash.
Gosh, I do love the Candians so. Can you tell?

No mention of this classic so far. What a poptastic tune -

Yeah.Me on the merci Canada thread,but since this one's gettin' more attention...