Topic: Canadian "indie" bands (Read 23921 times)

Guy Smiley · « **on:** 10 Apr 2005, 17:56 »

I was having this argument with another music fan, about which of the current crop of Canadian indie bands getting oh-so-much press is the best. I figured this gang here would be a quality juge of such a question.

Tried to choose the 10 that get the most mention in the media, and thus are the bands being lumped together a lot. Sorry if I missed your fave, the damn thing only allows me 10 options.

Kai · « **Reply #1 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 18:36 »

The Arcade Fire = win, although Death From Above 1979 comes really close.

muffy · « **Reply #2 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 18:49 »

ditto...
I have a soft spot for the stills too, they didn't really pull it off in the UK so well though.

Tago Mago · « **Reply #3 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 19:07 »

I really like the New Pornographers, but in terms of semi-current Canadian indie music, I prefer Sloan or anything related to GYBE!.

Spirit Stereo · « **Reply #4 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 19:28 »

i'd of put unicorns (now th' corn gang) or godspeed, but they weren't options.

mechorg · « **Reply #5 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 19:31 »

Quote from: Spirit Stereo

... or godspeed, but they weren't options.

I guess this would be a 3rd.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #6 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 19:40 »

3 Inches of Blood!

Amsterdarn · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 19:57 »

Broken Social Scene, though Arcade Fire is hell of good. Also, I have a large soft spot for the Weakerthans, because they were one of the first indie bands I got into. Their early stuff can be a bit wince-inducing at times, but their last album was quite good.

Johnny C · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 20:19 »

It becomes a much harder question to answer when you live in Canada.

siobhan · « **Reply #9 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 20:33 »

i can't pick! please don't make me do it....

Sixleaf · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 21:04 »

The New Porgnographers. Although looking at the list makes me think perhaps Canada makes better "indie" than the US.

Burninated Peasant · « **Reply #11 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 21:44 »

Pfft... perhaps?!?!

Sixleaf · « **Reply #12 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 21:52 »

Come on, I live in Michigan, I coudln't possibly give Canada credit for something!

Burninated Peasant · « **Reply #13 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 21:56 »

Yeah, well, I'm originally from Windsor (border city with Detroit), so I have to belittle America at every opportunity.

TheCourtJester · « **Reply #14 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 22:18 »

Broken Social Scene all the way.

Vertical Stripes · « **Reply #15 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 22:39 »

I can't vote. @_@ It's too hard. My brain can't handle the decision.

El Opium · « **Reply #16 on:** 10 Apr 2005, 22:53 »

This poll totally gyps anyone who likes the remotely experimental stuff. Were are Godspeed, The Unicorns and maybe Do Make Say think. Though my fave Canadians right now are probably Fly Pan Am, Tim Hecker and Les Georges Leningrad but none of them really have enough recognition to be considered as a top Canadian band.

Marslo · « **Reply #17 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 02:54 »

... anything out of montreal i guess. GY!BE, unicornes, (thecnicly) Do make say think, the stills, arcade of fire.

Also will where at it, i just wanna mention that your american press is totaly fucked. When they mentioned montreal as being the new indie hot spot, saying a well, that its only the english bands, down here, who dominate. Im sorry, its not like we dont care about being the only french speaking province on this continent. Im sure as well that the fact, that are local french band Les Cowboys Friangants, playing sold out show twice, at the Paris football stadium, whit out even selling a single record in France, is not a figment of are imagination. As well, maybe you havent noticed but some of Arcade of Fire songs are in french and that 3 guys from the Stills are french-canadians. Then again is should be suprised, for when Brel played in New York. The press immadiatly saided that he was total crap.

Anyway i know at least, that all this will become handy, when i run out of toilet paper.

Burninated Peasant · « **Reply #18 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 07:29 »

We may need to make a "Canadian Indie Band Poll 2.0" with all the suggestions that have popped up for bands that were excluded from the list. I picked Broken Social Scene in the poll, but if it had been available I would have picked GYBE hands down.

rynne · « **Reply #19 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 07:36 »

Arcade Fire wins for me, though Stars comes in a close second.

dave86 · « **Reply #20 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 09:16 »

I've just recently been introduced to the New Pornographers, they're something else entirely. I'm not sure what though. Perhaps ninja.

ASturge · « **Reply #21 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 09:28 »

I voted Broken Social Scene but it was tough between Death from above 1979 were right in there

Enyaw · « **Reply #22 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 09:38 »

It's a tough call all around.

I picked The Dears, but Broken Social Scene and Stars are very close seconds. Like incredibly close.

Tinjessla · « **Reply #23 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 09:42 »

I picked The Dears but Hot Hot Heat, Metric and The New Pornographers are also all favourites. Actually, The Arcade Fire will probably rate pretty high soon, once i hear the full album and not random songs.

Oerdin · « **Reply #24 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 10:50 »

I'd have to say Broken Social Scene edges out Arcade Fire.

Johnny C · « **Reply #25 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 18:52 »

I liked You're A Woman, I'm A Machine more than Funeral, and was pissed to find that NOBODY had it on their top list.

enon · « **Reply #26 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 20:42 »

I chose Broken Social Scene, though, honestly, they are all on my favorites list. Being Canadian...I am so very proud of our newfound Indie credability!

Burninated Peasant · « **Reply #27 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 20:52 »

There's always been a great indie scene in Canada. Unfortunately, being truly "independent" artists usually means you get little recognition in your own country and even less (if any) outside of your homeland. I hesitate to say anything authoritative without the research and statistics to back me up, but I'd wager things like file-sharing and other online music-swapping services have been very good for lesser-known artists, in Canada and elsewhere.

WinMX: Letting the rest of the world in on the knowledge that Canada rocks!

californaya · « **Reply #28 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 20:54 »

I can't pick between The Dears and Hot Hot Heat. I just can't.

Dent · « **Reply #29 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 21:02 »

Nothing against the rest of them, but I've spent too many hours listening to The Weakerthans not to give them my vote. I could wallpaper my house with those lyrics... then again, I'm also one of the three people in Canada who liked Gordon Downie's solo albums, so what do I know?

Johnny C · « **Reply #30 on:** 11 Apr 2005, 21:11 »

I voted for Metric, actually, and I still don't think I threw my vote away. I hear they frickin' rock live.

Actually, Canadian indie bands get a lot more exposure abroad. Do you know that the Arcade Fire actually CHARTED A SINGLE in the UK? Yet very little here at home, despite how much attention they get internationally - especially in the indie community - they're barely known of. It's an epidemic, I tells ya, and there was a discussion about it somewhere else on the forum but I'm too lazy to look it up.

tigerlily · « **Reply #31 on:** 12 Apr 2005, 00:43 »

I voted Stars, but pretty much all of those bands could place number one.

Constantines are bloody awesome too, touring with The Weakerthans soon. Tres good!!!

jeph · « **Reply #32 on:** 12 Apr 2005, 00:54 »

Man that new Hot Hot Heat record is six kinds of weak.

Duncan Sasquatch · « **Reply #33 on:** 12 Apr 2005, 06:35 »

I'm going to pick The Weakerthans for sure. I'm obsessed with them. My favourite band.

But honourable mentions for me go to The Arcade Fire and The New Pornographers - they're both pretty awesome. I didn't realise Hot Hot Heat were Canadian, though that may explain why I find their songs so oddly appealing...there's something about them Canadians.

I should probably check out a few of the bands mentioned here, as some are new to me!

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #34 on:** 12 Apr 2005, 07:57 »

That was the fucking hardest pole I've ever had to take.
GOD BLESS CANADIA :)

EDIT: Jeph, I wholeheartedly agree. OUCH.

Empty Friend · « **Reply #35 on:** 12 Apr 2005, 09:20 »

First off, Duncan your avatar is completely the win.

Second, I think Blinker The Star released another album recently, and though I have yet to hear it, August Everywhere is an album of amazing funtasticness. I suggest people take a listen. "September Already" is the opener and consequently the song you should downlo... I mean listen to first.

Reno · « **Reply #36 on:** 13 Apr 2005, 13:50 »

It was a tough choice for me between the Arcade Fire (which I chose) and the New Pornographers (local for me, and I really like Neko Case and AC Newman).

californaya · « **Reply #37 on:** 13 Apr 2005, 14:10 »

Quote from: Skibas_clavicle

That was the fucking hardest pole I've ever had to take.

...............*giggle*

daneford · « **Reply #38 on:** 13 Apr 2005, 17:54 »

DFA1979 > * indie bands

HMS Odell · « **Reply #39 on:** 14 Apr 2005, 03:50 »

blahblahblahthearcadefireblahblahhypeblahblahblah.

broken social scene.

Jeridus · « **Reply #40 on:** 22 May 2005, 21:18 »

From the list, my picks are (in this order)

1. Arcade Fire
2. Hot Hot Heat
3. Death From Above 1979

And since it wasn't on the list (

)... any older stuff by Sloan

marc_penny88 · « **Reply #41 on:** 23 May 2005, 02:40 »

ok you guys are all talking about canadian indie bands here, and mates dad is canadian, he is a member of a band called big country.... which had a number of albums out in the 80s and my mates dad is now on tour with simon townsend, from the who.......

tour is called the sex change tour

anywho, big country are a really good band, download a couple of their songs and tell me what you think

marc XxX

normz · « **Reply #42 on:** 23 May 2005, 02:52 »

Quote from: jeph

Man that new Hot Hot Heat record is six kinds of weak.

God NO tell me it's not true ....... *sobs* I mean I haven't even heard it yet dammit, oh well ill form my own opinion when i get it but already you guys are making me feel very dubious *sigh*

marc_penny88 · « **Reply #43 on:** 23 May 2005, 02:54 »

i downloaded... i mean purchased it legally for my girlfriend and i would have to say that i dont like it, she likes it so i listen to it for her

Aphi · « **Reply #44 on:** 24 May 2005, 14:10 »

Jeez, I /am/ Canadian(insert Beer commercial joke here), and it's /still/ heck of hard to decide(Congrats, Jeph, you have officially ruined my good grammars.^^)

Hmmmm...hmmmmmmm...

Metric. No, Death From Above 1979. No! Hot Hot Heat! No--Broken Social Scene...

=wracks her brains=

Okay, Metric. Close second---everything else.

AnonymousPosterChild · « **Reply #45 on:** 25 May 2005, 22:17 »

Since the Rheostatics arent on there, I'll have to go with The New Pornograpghers

festerius · « **Reply #46 on:** 25 May 2005, 22:54 »

I voted for Hot Hot Heat, even though I didn't know that they was Indie.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #47 on:** 26 May 2005, 00:53 »

I really get confused as to the definition of indie sometime. To some people it's a sort of set sound, to others anything that comes out on an independent label.

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #48 on:** 26 May 2005, 02:32 »

Best Canadian artist: Venetian Snares
Best Canadian band: GY!BE, baby

laeta.asinus · « **Reply #49 on:** 28 May 2005, 11:00 »

Wow. This was really hard. Broken Social Scene is an all-time favourite for me, but I've recently become completely obsessed with DFA1979. As much as I love them, The Arcade Fire is a wee bit overrated. I also love METRIC, for their slouchey, dancey sound. The Stills are also great for driving at night. I've only heard Stars' one single, and I dunno... OH GOD! I love all these bands for so many different reasons. I can't pick a best... I guess I'll go with DFA1979... I'm addicted.

Oh - maybe you also should have added The Hidden Cameras and Pilate.

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Poll

Which of these Canadian "indie" bands is your favorite?

Author Topic: Canadian "indie" bands (Read 23921 times)

Guy Smiley

Spirit Stereo

mechorg

Amsterdarn

siobhan

Sixleaf

Burninated Peasant

Sixleaf

Burninated Peasant

Vertical Stripes

El Opium

Marslo

Burninated Peasant

dave86

ASturge

Enyaw

Tinjessla

enon

Burninated Peasant

californaya

Dent

tigerlily

Duncan Sasquatch

Empty Friend

Reno

californaya

daneford

HMS Odell

Jeridus

marc_penny88

normz

marc_penny88

Aphi

AnonymousPosterChild

festerius

MilkmanDan

laeta.asinus