Best groups from Canada you never heard of:

Stand Down (vancouver band)

cant believe Big Wreck is not yet listed.... and yeah... Feist !!!!

Daniel Lanois ... what a sound. If you haven't seen the documentary of Peter Gabriel's album So, I highly recommend it. Daniel produced/engineered.

The Next hundred Years (vancouver band)

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The Band - So big in the 70s, most Canadians didn't know they were Canadian

Kim is from my hometown. He went to the same high school I briefly attended many years after he graduated, and before I ended up moving to a new neighbourhood. Kim grew up in a neighbourhood where one of my uncles still lives today.

In spite of all that, I never met him.

I did, however, meet one of the guys who was briefly a drummer in Kim's original band Max Webster. His name was Paul Kersey. He seemed like a pretty cool guy, although he didn't have a very good opinion of Kim.

Even so, I've always thought Max Webster was one of the coolest bands around. I mean, with killer songs like High Class in Borrowed Shoes and Let Go the Line, how could you go wrong?

#1 - Bill Shatner Rocket Man

No one has listed The Tragically Hip?

How are there three pages and no mention of
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush

Lot's to mention

Sam Roberts
Billy Talent
Tom Cochrane &Red Ryder
and Stompin Tom!

I went to high school with this chick in Rockland Ontario.
And just for the record I think this type of 90's electro dance music sucks.
She was cool though. She smoked weed and drank whiskey shots with us school parties

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Heh. I work with someone who is first cousins with The Rankins although she lives in Ontario now, just as I do, and not Nova Scotia.

Still, The Rankins were an excellent, talented band. It's a shame they lost so many members to illness and accidents. And too bad I didn't get to see them live when I had a chance.

Here's Cookie Rankin belting a knock-out performance of Bruce Cockburn's 'One Day I Walk'. Truly a spine-tingling and awe-inspiring performance, to say nothing of a great way to honour Bruce and his considerable oeuvre of music.



And you can't get any more Canadian than this next clip, 'Mairi's Wedding' which was shot in Nova Scotia. Again a stellar performance, even if it is backed up with pre-recorded music:

excellent

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Another great Canadian female artist, Amanda Marshall

Neil young? The Band?

They're in

I think they only want people to post music that nobody's ever heard of,
even though most people are pretty much posting anything Canadian anyway.

Love these guys! Doug & the Slugs

Just found a few good blues bands from Canada. Here is one:

Good taste, and I'll add diamonds. Great Max W. tune.



I'm nearby in Peterpatch (You'll know the city)
I have a picture of me and Kim with his head turned because someone called his name the moment the picture snapped. Kim's big conversation with me was regarding his need to 'take a leak.'

I knew his keyboard player through family and work much better. Nice guy who quit to make his millions less than 2 years later down in the states.

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