Canadian Music
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- mr_snuggles0
Queensrÿche Victoria..
- fooler0
Lover Boy. just fucking horrible
uberdesigner
(Apr 17 06, 11:50)A few months ago I was on a airport shuttle with one of the guys from Loverboy.
He looked like he could have been in a County Western Band.
He asked me to help him carry one of his guitars off the bus and I said no, have a nice day.
- jevad0
Bryan Adams rules
- ********0
yeah montreal took the edge off of halifax for a bit but halifax is in cultivation mode, i'm one of the artists here that knows but it's a matter of time and timing...tha boom is comin. i should add as well that it's going to be a combinnation of the music and film scenes, together in various ways. designers take heed and join the rucus
- ********0
hoser and the mary chain
- Jaline0
I had almost no favourite Canadian bands until two years ago. Thanks to Montréal (and parts of Ontario), now more than half of my picks are Canadian.
*is proud
- nosaj0
Halifax in the mid ninties was awesome
Sneeking into the Double Deuce to see 1/2 the bands on Snuggles list:
Erics Trip
Sloan
Julie Doiren
Elevator to Hell
Thrush Hermit
Jale
Orange Glass
- mrdobolina0
Are there rap radio stations in canada? And they have to follow this 80/20 rule also?
- ********0
yes
- anzelina0
i think it's just that we get the cream of the crop.
if it's good enough to export / tour in the states than it's going to be good.
kind of like foreign films. most of them are good but that's only because we see the top 1% of them.
- mrdobolina0
that's a weak rule.
- ********0
part of it's the location, good tours and markets, and the type of support for independance there is in canada, radio play and sales etc. but this stuff just allows for a scene to grow from within...great bands all over the world don't get these sorts of opportunities
- ********0
that's a weak rule.
mrdobolina
(Apr 17 06, 12:58)please explain speciffically why this is 'weak'? are you 50 cent's agent?
- Jaline0
I agree. It allows for better exposure. For all we know, the recent explosion of Canadian music is the result of fans calling in and wanting to hear certain bands, who just happen to be Canadian and therefore the radio stations will play the music since it also fills their quota.
- ********0
filling quota's is not the point, good music is the point, quota's allow for good music to be made by making being in a band and writing music a viable endeavor for musicians and managers etc. instead of being muted by corporate product and esentially having a null industry to work in
- Visia0
yeah, it's an excellent law in my mind. It's helped the indie scene immeasurably.
Canada does have a rap scene as well, Snuggles would know more about that than me but from what I understand it's not too bad.
One other note is that Nettwerk, the label, is a big reason why Canadian music is what it is. Sarah M aside, they also signed Coldplay when no one in the UK would and then Coldplay turned into a global success.
So, CanCon is one thing, but the fact that we've got labels like Nettwerk and Maple that are run by people that consider themselves music fans before they are bankers is a huge reason why our small population has managed to produce so much good music.
- ********0
you're just thinking in a kind of reverse logic is all
- mrdobolina0
khilled, don't assume that is what I mean. Government involvement in entertainment is stifling.
- ********0
point being i don't think radio stations are struggling to fill there quotas by giving some a-ok indie band a few extra min. on air there by helping afew measly musicians out...it's easy to fill the quotas because of the way the industry is set up and the way quotas are apart of that