Happy Canada Day! All Canadian music

Cool - I've never heard of them.

I didn't know Diana Krall was Canadian. Good catch.

I love her angelic voice.

Sarah's the best.

Awesome leen!! This song was written 20+ years ago and the problems he's singing about have only gotten worse. Sad.

Thanks, Sugarmountian! Very sad indeed that the lyrics are still relevant. :(

Hey, I posted Three Days' Grace.

Just effin' wit you. All in all it's a nice list. Too bad I was out of town on the first. But happy belated Canada Day for everyone, eh!!!

Oh yeah!

Wow! These guys were never even on my radar. They are really solid. Thanks for the blip.

They were terribly huge in the 90s ... then completely dropped off the map for some reason.

Boy, for a while, they were like the biggest Canadian band ever.

Great! I've seen you around here before and figured you had that name for a reason. Easily, this is one of my top 10 songs from Shakey and I held off posting in case you showed up. Glad you made it.

Thanks Rerushg!

Or CIA opium or CIA crack or other CIA cocain, Or CIA crystal meth. Or the need to steal and murder for CIA profit world wide. Only the biggest corporation counts. And that is CIA.

Your comment is extremely disrespectful to all the Canadian soldiers who are currently part of the NATO mission in Afghanistan, and to the memory of all those Canadian soldiers who were killed there.

He's just looking to start trouble. It's best to ignore him. If you respond to him, he'll tie up this thread for hours with his bait and ruin it. Don't let him ruin the fun vibe of this thread.

You are too right. Rule #1, no troll feeding.

My son lost a friend there, and another was horribly injured by a roadside bomb.
I'd like to see him say that to the faces of their parents.

I dont know how to navigate or know if someone responded to a comment I have made. I just learned yesturday that an avatar is like a picture. The trolls can bother me all they want. I probably wont know about it.

I know, I turned off my email notifications a year ago. Some socks have actually attacked me days after my original comment and I didn't learn about it for weeks.

I would just hate to see this one wreck this thread ... and he can do it ... and WILL do it.

It's bored, has no life and has boundless negative energy ... this is what it apparently lives for -- to piss people off and ruin threads on Current.

I think that was the whole point.

He's most likely trying to pull off a one two punch. His hope is probably to make people mad while at the same time trying to take attention away from the fact that the United States will go to war if there are oil fields and if enough lies are told connecting one nation to an enemy organization.

Well said!

Agree! This is a nice upbeat pleasant thread, he's just doing more of the same typical pure-trolling, moderators should really do something about it.

You can I believe block individuals from emailing you in the little on-site email, though unfortunately can't /ignore the seeing of their posts....

As long as the corporates, and the military-industrial + crony-contracts are gunna make a few $, yup, war is good business for these scum!

You described "IT" perfectly.

Actually, they're American but got going in Vancouver so I'll split 'em with you. I want Nancy.
Totally awesome song.

Listening to it now - cool - I've never heard it covered - pretty good job.

He can't touch Cockburn but he does have the good sense to not even try. Can't keep a good song down though

It was that brief time in the mid-1970s when jazz became popular again.
That's when I fell in love with Joni.
To me her post-folk work is her best.

What an amazing woman. Truly one of a kind.

Yep. I'm familiar with this work. Superb and mystifying.
I always pitied the musicians who worked with her, no matter their proficiency. She could go anywhere she wanted to go musically at any point in time. I could understand jazz groups that started within a general pattern, or at least a general "understanding", but she can be totally free form. She doesn't perform the music; she is the music.
Astonishing.

It was that 'totally free form' that finally taught me how to sing harmony to almost anything.
Mingus was totally 'turned on' by the fact that she played an out-of-tune piano with an orchestra on 'Paprika Plains.' She later said that while playing it she discovered 'all notes resolve back to middle C.'
As lead singer in my 80's band 'Dog's Breakfast' and frustrated that I couldn't sing harmony, I decided one night to go out-of-tune and not be concerned about how it sounded. I was singing her song 'Sweet Bird' and suddenly it clicked.
Ever since I've been a harmonizing fool.
There is nothing better than the feeling of becoming the music.

I don't know what "... resolve.. middle C" means, actually. It's a piano so, yeah, I get that part. But the rest? Maybe she meant that with more complex chord structures the tuning gave (to her ear) more interesting color but was not discordant. (?)
"Dog's Breakfast"?: "a confused mess or mixture". Ha! Weren't we all? Great name!
Harmony came naturally to me; maybe because I had a reel-to-reel recorder as a kid and played around a lot with overdubbing and adding harmony. More likely, it was because when driving and listening to the radio I always sang along.... hardly ever the lead; always a harmony; whatever wasn't already there. Hell, I sing harmony to "Happy Birthday" at parties. And yes, my kids thought I was wierd. But eventually they got it. Now they can walk into a grocery store and recognize Jackson Browne or Toad The Wet Sprocket on the overhead Musak.

Bizarro, creepy even, to the Nth power. But I'm sure Paul would say, "I did it My Way."
If "Smells.... " ever suffers the ignominious fate of becoming a "pop standard" we'll surely know the rapture is upon us.

It's been a pleasure. Thank you.

Yes! I totally forgot about him.
Nice pick, Jan.

♥ thank you ♥

Niiiiiice!

I must say, while my favorite musicians seem to all come from Canada, Bruce Cockburn is perhaps the most talented. The Man plays a wicked guitar and, whoa, one can't get much better at lyrics.

No question about it. I was thinking at the time that he would take off down here but it never happened. In the end I think that probably worked out best for him and all of us. Just keep it pure.

He blew me away when I first heard him. I saw him in concert just after his "Wondering Where The Lions Are" record came out. I still love that song to this day - it's so uplifting.