Happy Canada Day
Mullets, socialism, and groovy 60sness from the greatest rock band in Canadian history (all stereotypes must be fulfilled).
Happy Canada Day from the League’s Canadian-transplant American, on behalf of the still settling in to married life real Canadian in the League and the American who used to live in Canada.
Since we had a little Guess Who, I should also post this brilliant scene with Canada’s greatest young comic Michael Cera (plus a great cameo from David Krumholtz). F-bomb Warning:
It’s still “Dominion Day” to me.Report
The Guess Who greater than Rush??? Wow: Dierkes you never fail to disappoint.Report
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
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
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
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
Heh. I had to look that one up.Report
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
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
What about The Tragically Hip?Report
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
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
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
no diz-oubt.Report
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
Then-girlfriend FTW.Report
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
btw, my bad – “National Fitness Program”, not “National Business Program.” misheard lyrics…Report
Both sound like dirty, rotten, no-good socialism to me.Report
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
Greatest Canadian band? Clearly Bootsauce.Report
just got schooled by the real canadian.Report