Happy Canada Day

22 thoughts on “Happy Canada Day”

1. It’s still “Dominion Day” to me.Report

2. The Guess Who greater than Rush??? Wow: Dierkes you never fail to disappoint.Report

   1. I was thinking that he may be wanting to watch his back because he will never know when he’ll turn around and find himself face to face with Gordon Lightfoot.Report

3. Mon Dieu. The greatest Canadian rocker (solo though in various mostly American bands) is of course Neil Young. So any arguments as to band are of course secondary to that fact.Report

   1. Neil Young doesn’t count. His citizenship is being held as collateral until we receive adequate reparations from Canada for the damage inflicted by Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. The same is true of all members and ex-members of Rush.Report

      1. From what I understand, Bryan Adams is not considered “Canadian Content” and, as such, can be assumed to have been disavowed by Canada proper.Report

         1. Heh. I had to look that one up.Report

            1. Plus Canada repeatedly apologized for Bryan Adams. Sheesh Thompson. Haven’t you been watching South Park? Speaking of which French Canada is the best Canada. Or so goes the song anyway.Report

               1. Apologies are not enough, especially not when Canada is also responsible for the unforgivable bombings of the Baldwins that have left all but Alec as drug-addled shadows of their once second-rate star selves. We demand reparations.Report

4. What about The Tragically Hip?Report

   1. Good call. If Scott were here he’d probably say them. My sense is that real Canadians give title of best Canadian band to The Hip. I’m not a real Canadian, –hell at this point I’m in Levitical status (“resident alien”)…don’t any Canadians touched that hanging fruit left after the gleaning, it’s mine mofos!!!

      iow, my choice of best canadian band reflects my american-ness.Report

      1. I should add that I once went to a Tragically Hip concert with Scott, my now wife, and some other friends of ours. It was a nice concert and I thought they were a good band (and I had listened to them through my Canuck housemates at the time), but I couldn’t get into the way the Canadians did. Something genetic/cultural was missing in me.Report

         1. I just thing there’s something beautifully poetic about the line “You said you didn’t give a f**k about hockey, and I’d never heard someone say that before.”Report

            1. no diz-oubt.Report

            2. Count me as a Canadian non-fan of the Tragically Hip, who seem to devote every song to Ontario cottage country nostalgia. Upon listening to that Phantom Power song you refer to – which also includes the line “he’s in the National Business Program,” perhaps the worst lyric ever written – for the first time, my girlfriend at the time said “The Tragically Hip are like an orange-carpeted basement from 1972.” Truer words have never been spoken.Report

               1. Then-girlfriend FTW.Report

                  1. yep, she was an insightful cynic. Current girlfriend (American) can’t believe Moxy Fruvous was #1 on the charts. There can be some bad bad bad music in Canada, and not just Celine Dion.Report

                  2. btw, my bad – “National Fitness Program”, not “National Business Program.” misheard lyrics…Report

                  3. Both sound like dirty, rotten, no-good socialism to me.Report

5. Canada rocks. Vancouver is still one of my favorite cities of all time. I’d love to live there again. And Banff National Park is amazing….Report

6. Greatest Canadian band? Clearly Bootsauce.Report

   1. just got schooled by the real canadian.Report

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