My Top 10 Canadian Albums [Archive] - GuitarsCanada.com

Paul

10-19-2007, 11:32 AM

in no order

Moving Pictures - Rush
Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould - both 1955 and 1981
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
In Love With the System - The Forgotten Rebels
3:47 - Klaatu
All For You - Diana Krall
Duologue - Mike Murley and David Occhipinti
Let Go -Avril Lavigne
Live at The Stratford Festival - Oscar Peterson
anything by Lenny Breau - he's sorta Canadian

RIFF WRATH

10-19-2007, 03:18 PM

interesting!

for me its Neil Young X 10 (any and all his albums have some merit)
cheers
RIFF

Mahogany Martin

10-19-2007, 08:53 PM

That's a tough one Paul. There are way too many and I may not be listening to them at this point in my life. But let me throw some here (no particular order):

Gowan – Lost Brotherhood
April Wine – The Nature Of The Beast
Headpins – Turn It Loud
Harlequin – Love Crimes
Frank & MahoganyRush – IV
Beau Dommage – S/t
Rush – Permanent Waves
Chilliwack – Opus X
Anvil – Metal On Metal
Bryan Adams – Reckless
Harmonium – S/T

etc etc

Good list Paul. I love Oscar Peterson too. Saw him live a few times. Amazing.

PaulS

10-19-2007, 10:15 PM

This is a tough one and most of my pics are from the past but here we go, no particular order here either.

Foot in Coldwater
A Second Foot in Coldwater
Crowbar with King Biscuit Boy
McKenna Mendolson Mainline - Stink
Colin James First Album
Domenic Troiano First Solo Album
David Wilcox - An hour with
Max Webster - High Class and Borrowed Shoes
Guess Who - American Woman
Liona Boyd - Persona

I just love the way Paul Naumann played, Trioano with Parakesh was dynamite
and if you haven't listened to Persona you should.

stratovani

10-19-2007, 11:43 PM

interesting!

for me its Neil Young X 10 (any and all his albums have some merit)
cheers
RIFF

I'm the same way, but for me it's Rush X 10 (any and all their albums have some merit).

Milkman

10-19-2007, 11:55 PM

Here are ten Canadian albums in no particular order which I'm particularly fond of.

Rush - Rush
Rush - Fly By Night
Rush - 2112
Rush - Moving Pictures
April Wine - Stand Back
Joni Mitchel - Blue
Max Webster - Mutiny Up My Sleeve
Gordon Lightfoot - Greatest Hits
Stampeders - Any of the first three or four albums
Harmonium

I could pick ten a day for quite a few days.

Some very interesting lists in other posts here by the way.

Very nice to see Chilliwack and Lenny Breau mentioned.

NB_Terry

10-20-2007, 12:06 AM

Rush - All the World's a Stage
Kim Mitchell - Akimbo Alogo & Shaking like a Human Being
Max Webster - S/t & Mutiny up My Sleeve
Harem Scarem - Mood Swings
David Wilcox - Greatest Hits
Saga
The Tenants
Santers

traynor_garnet

10-20-2007, 12:42 AM

Neil Young --Tonight's The Night
Neil Young -- Harvest
Ron Sexsmith -- Blue Boy
Ron Sexsmith -- CobbleStone Runway
Rheostatics -- Introducing Happiness
Rheostatics -- Whale Music
13 Engines -- Perpetual Motion Machine
Wide Mouth Mason -- Wide Mouth Mason
New Meanies -- Three Seeds
Stompin Tom Connors -- Greatest Hits

If Rufus Wainwright had one complete strong album it would be on here for sure; I couldn't pick one

TG

Paul

10-20-2007, 08:03 AM

If we get to 500 replies on this thread, someone is going to have to do some tallying and write a book. :smile:

It's my thread, I'll do it!!

laristotle

10-20-2007, 08:42 AM

Evilmusician

10-20-2007, 09:14 AM

In no particular order

Rush-2112
I Mother Earth-Dig/Scenery and Fish
Mystery-Theater of the Mind
Harem Scarem-Mood Swings
Joni Mitchell-Clouds
April Wine-Hits over 60 mins
David Wilcox -Over 60 mins
Sara Slean-Universe
Triumph-Allied Forces
Rush-Moving Pictures

Mahogany Martin

10-20-2007, 10:43 AM

I've already done my list and I think that we pretty much agree that it's tough to narrow it down to 10. But how can I not have any Saga on my list (any of the first 4 - tough on there too) and Max (my choice would be Universal Juveniles) and as Kim, I agree with Akimbo Alogo - solid album. Some very good lists so far.. keep 'em coming!

MM :smilie_flagge17:

Hamm Guitars

10-20-2007, 11:19 AM

In no particular order:

Colin James - Sudden Stop (not sure how Canadian the band was at the time) - I use this CD to tune PA's at gigs as the production on all but two tracks is fantastic.
Rush - Moving Pictures - or any other early Rush album (before 86 or so)
Headpins - Turn it Loud
April Wine - The earlier stuff - being from the east coast I was brought up on this stuff.
Jeff Healy - See the Light
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Junkhouse - their first release being the best IMO
Blue Rodeo - I like allot of tracks from different releases
The Tragically Hip - I like the earlier stuff the best
Teenage Head - The early years - as allways

One band that I would add on here if I could add an eleventh would be the Kings. I worked with themback in the mid to late nineties and I was suprised at how many songs they has that I liked. I thought they only had the one.

Mahogany Martin

10-20-2007, 12:18 PM

One band that I would add on here if I could add an eleventh would be the Kings. I worked with themback in the mid to late nineties and I was suprised at how many songs they has that I liked. I thought they only had the one.

+1 for The Kings

In the fall of 2001 after 9/11, we played a fundraising for the Red Cross in Mississauga. It was a week-long non-stop music and we were fortunate to get the Thursday night 9 to 10pm spot. The Kings played after us (10 to 11) and it made me discover them a little more. I was surprised too at how many songs they have that I like. Jeff Healey played the 11 to 12 midnight spot that night.

laristotle

10-21-2007, 06:44 AM

These are not Canadian, but they are my top
10 selection. Music has no nationality IMO.

Black Sabbath - sabbath bloody sabbath
Pink Floyd - animals
ELP - welcome back my friends
Jethro Tull - benefit
Yes - fragile
Slayer - seasons of the abyss
Ted Nugent - double live gonzo
Frank Zappa - apostrophe
Led Zeppelin - houses of the holy
Deep Purple - made in japan

OK I'll admit. I had a brain fart when I first put this together.
Here's my Canuck pick.

BTO - not fragile
Lighthouse - one fine morning
Steppenwolf - gold
The Tea Party - edges of twilight
Wild T and the Spirit - love crazy
Annihilator - Alice in hell
Goddo - an act of Goddo
Max Webster - 1st (or blockheads)
Rush - 2112
The Band - last waltz

skydigger

10-21-2007, 12:18 PM

1. Neil Young- Decade
2. Blue Rodeo- Five Days in July
3. Bruce Cockburn- Nothing But a Burning Light
4. RUSH- 2112
5. Cowboy Junkies- Lay it Down
6. Max Webster- Universal Juveniles
7. Joni Mitchell- Blue
8. The Sadies- In Concert vol. 1
9. The Skydiggers- There and Back (live)
10. David Wilcox- My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble

devil6

10-21-2007, 01:27 PM

In the order that i thought of them first:

I Mother Earth - Blue Green Orange
Rush - 2112
Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
The Tea Party - Edges Of Twilight
Neil Young - Harvest
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
Big Wreck - In Loving Memory
D.O.A. - Something Better Change

fingers

10-21-2007, 04:11 PM

The Hip-day for night
NoMeansNo-Mr wrong
Neil Young-Take your pick.(if I really had to choose then..after the gold rush)
Belvedere-Angels live in my town
April Wine-any of the early stuff is absolute gold!
Cowboy Junkies,I love it all
Stan Rogers-Live between the breaks.
Stompin' Tom-Agian they are all great
Neil Young-Harvest
Stan Rogers-Northwest Passage.

As a side note,I find it absolutly crazy that Stan Rogers has yet to be inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame!

Starbuck

10-22-2007, 11:53 AM

Paul

10-22-2007, 12:05 PM

Neil Young - Decade
Sarah McLaughlin - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Loreena McKennit - The Mask and the Mirror
Rush - Counter Parts
Rush - Roll the Bones
I Mother Earth - Dig
Streetheart - Streetheart
Sloan - One chord To Another
Chilliwack - Opus X
Hip - Fully Completely

Cool, while you are not the first to pick some RUSH, you are picking later RUSH. Most of us seem to stop at Moving Pictures. And as good as a RUSH is live, nobody has picked a live album......hmm, curiouser and curiouser.

Starbuck

10-22-2007, 12:10 PM

Cool, while you are not the first to pick some RUSH, you are picking later RUSH. Most of us seem to stop at Moving Pictures. And as good as a RUSH is live, nobody has picked a live album......hmm, curiouser and curiouser.

Actually my very first Rush album was Exit.. Stage left. Double Album at that!! I was 14. I really love new Rush. Far Cry being amongst my favs as well... Ask again tomorrow and I'm sure my list would be different! It's hard picking only a "top" 10.:smilie_flagge17:

Stratin2traynor

10-22-2007, 12:30 PM

Here are mine in no particular order:

Colin James - Bad Habits (pretty much anything from Colin James actually)
Kim Mitchell - Shakin Like a Human Being/Akimbo Alogo
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Tragically Hip - Road Apples (pretty much all of them)
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
Wild T and the Spirit - Givin' Blood
Jeff Healey - See the Light
Headpins - (all three albums)
Wide Mouth Mason - WMM
anything by Eric Clapton (his dad was Canadian!!) :banana:

Paul

10-22-2007, 12:47 PM

Here are mine in no particular order:
Rush - Exit Stage Left:banana:

Oh sure, make a liar out of me.....NOW you add some live RUSH to the thread.:smile:

I'd be surprised to see Vapour Trails on any list. The compression in mastering is sooooo overwhelming that this CD is almost unlistenable. I used to think that you couldn't kill a good song. (e.g. Carol King's Tapestry), but somebody took a murderous weapon to Vapour Trails.

shoretyus

10-22-2007, 01:53 PM

That's too hard to answer but

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings first album
Colin James oh do I have to pick?
Colin Linden

Are they Canadian? They lived here....
The Band
Long John Baldry ( with Rod Stewart on it )

Mainline Stink
Jackie Mitto
The McGarigle sisters and all of their offspring
Serena Ryder

that's just off the top of my head

maybeyes

10-22-2007, 01:56 PM

Rush: Exit Stage Left
Goddo: Best Seat In The House
April Wine: Nature of the Beast
Streetheart: Live (forget what it was called)
Toronto: Looking for Trouble
Headpins: Turn It Loud
Neil Young: Live Rust
Santers: Racing Time
Junkhouse: Junkhouse
Triumph: Rock N Roll Machine
Coney Hatch: Best of Three
sdsre
I could keep going and this is only my rockin' list. After this you get into Tori Amos, Jan Arden, Sarah Mclauglin, and the list goes on. If I did this again tomorrow, it would likely be different. Go figure:rockon2:

faracaster

10-22-2007, 04:45 PM

skydigger

10-22-2007, 09:13 PM

In no particular order

Blue Rodeo - 5 Days in July
Cowboy Junkies - Lay it Down
Neil Young - Decade
Tragically Hip - Trouble at the Henhouse
RUSH - 2112
Triumph - Allied Forces
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Bruce Cockburn - Nothing But a Burning Light
The Skydiggers - There and Back (Live)

laristotle

10-23-2007, 07:46 AM

Oh...and Pat Travers - making magic

millenium_03

10-24-2007, 02:36 PM

1. Harmonium L'Heptade
2. Harmonium Harmonium
3. Harmonium Et si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
4. Fiori - Séguin
5. Blue Rodeo 5 days in July
6. Beau Dommage Coffret (best of)
7. Céline Dion
8. Offenbach (french blues album)
9. Jean Leloup Les Fourmis
10. La bottine souriante
11. BranVan 3000
12. Gowan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonium_%28band%29#Albums

ClintonHammond

10-24-2007, 04:21 PM

Not one single mention of Don Ross?

I thought you people liked guitars.....

,-)

"High Or Hurtin'" is Blackie & The Rodeo Kings first album.... A great tribute to Willie P Bennett. Especially Fearings treatment of "Rains On Me"...

To add to what's been listed already.

"Trinity Session" by The Cowboy Junkies....

"I'm Your Man" by Leonard Cohen

"Night Drive" by Garnet Rogers

violation

10-24-2007, 07:02 PM

Sadly I totally forget album names right now but a list made up with Rush, Kim Mitchell and Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush would be good lol.

WarrenG

10-25-2007, 11:38 AM

Here are my Top 10 Canadian albums, in terms of their influence on me as a musician:

Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations (1981)
The Headpins - Turn it Loud
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold Vol. 1
Sarah Mclachlan - Touch
The Pursuit of Happiness - Love Junk
Don Ross - Bearing Straight
Rush - Permanent Waves
Triumph - Just a Game
UZEB - Fast Emotion
The Waltons - Lik my Trakter

jane

10-25-2007, 09:54 PM

Wow. Evidently, I need to listen to more Canadian music because I had problems coming up with 10 (or I have memory issues):

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Chantal Kreviazuk - What If It All Means Something
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
Our Lady Peace - Happiness Is Not A Fish...
Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names
Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
Arrogant Worms - Dirt!
Social Code - Social Code
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!

Stratin2traynor

10-25-2007, 10:41 PM

OOOOPPS....Almost forgot. One of my favorite acoustic ish cd's is City and Color (Dallas Green from Alexisonfire).

Gilliangirl

10-26-2007, 09:34 AM

This is easy for me LOL

Harry Manx - Wise and Otherwise*
Harry Manx - Mantras for Madmen
Harry Manx - Dog My Cat
Sarah Harmer - You Are Here
Sarah Harmer - Songs For Clem
Sarah Harmer - The Mountain
Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names
City and Colour -
Hemingway Corner - Under The Big Sky
Neil Young - Goldrush

* if you don't know Harry Manx, you owe it to yourself to check him out.... very cool and gifted musician

Stratin2traynor

10-26-2007, 12:41 PM

Just checked out some of Harry Manx's stuff on iTunes. Pretty good actually. I had never heard of him. Now I have, thanks.

Paul

10-26-2007, 12:45 PM

Just checked out some of Harry Manx's stuff on iTunes. Pretty good actually. I had never heard of him. Now I have, thanks.

That's how these top 10 lists are supposed to work.

lolligagger

10-28-2007, 01:02 PM

Good thread...here are some of my picks in no particular order. I listen to most of these artist's stuff. I am a big fan of hearing the entire album from front to back so I don't normally go for the best of collections.

1. Blue Rodeo - 5 Days in July
2. Rush - Moving Pictures
3. Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
4. Tragically Hip - Road Apples
5. The Guess Who - American Woman
6. Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Rebuild the Wall
7. Big Sugar - 500 Pounds
8. Neil Young - Harvest
9. Jesse Cook - Free Fall
10. Robbie Robertson - Self Titled (come back album)

Stratin2traynor

10-28-2007, 03:34 PM

Is Jesse Cook Canadian? I've been listening to his music on/off for a while and never knew that.

rounDSound

10-28-2007, 08:08 PM

top 5 canadian albums, as albums. (i don't listen to a lot of the classic stuff like rush. it's not discluded because i don't like it, it's just not here because i've never listened!)

1. gould - goldberg variations
2. gybe - lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven
3. lenny breau - 5 oclock bells
4.swing soniq - moonglow (far and away the best recording i've ever experienced, never mind the music which speaks for itself)
5. do make say think - winter hymm, country hymm, secret hymm

a Pack of Wolves

10-28-2007, 11:03 PM

dan lanois should have something on here somewhere

arloskay

11-08-2007, 10:06 PM

Okay, a few of the ones that popped into my head are ones that I did not see any mention of. Probably because they are not really 'guitar' oriented albums, but what can I say, the 80's had a big influence on me...

Men Without Hats - Rhythm of Youth
The Spoons - Arias & Symphonies
Red Rider - Neruda
Jane Siberry - No Borders Here
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Chalk Circle - The Great Lake
Change of Heart - Smile
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
54-40 - ST, Show Me, Fight For Love
Teenage Head - Frantic City
The Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt...
Moist - Silver

Oops, I guess I can't stop at 10... And there's so many others that I've left out still, CrashTest Dummies, Cowboy Junkies, Nick Gilder, Trooper, Loreena McKennitt, Rheostatics, Bruce Cockburn, Gordon Lightfoot, the Band, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morrissette, Robbie Robertson.

Some others that were already mentioned, of course, Rush (Signals, Moving Pictures, 2112, Neil Young (Harvest, After The Gold Rush, and many others), Tragically Hip (Up to Here, Road Apples, & Fully Completely in particular), and Harmonium (ST and Si On Avait Besoin... in particular), these will always be up at the top for me.

So I guess I'd have to evaluate all of these and rank them to get my top 10. I'll have to get back to you, I might have to take a listen to everything first...

arloskay

11-08-2007, 10:08 PM

Oh gosh, and I forgot Bootsauce and the Box...

Beatles

11-08-2007, 10:42 PM

Here's mine:

1. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
2. Not Fragile - BTO
3. Dreamboat Annie - Heart
4. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
5. Ian Thomas Greatest Hits
6. Stink - McKenna Mendelson Mainline
7. Harvest - Neil Young
8. Jacksoul - Sleepless
9. American Woman - Guess Who
10. Avenue Road - Kensington Market

Wayward Son

11-09-2007, 02:25 PM

Glad to see Pat Travers was mentioned. Any of his albums with Tommy Aldridge were great.
A couple of Canuck bands I didn't see though, Honeymoon Suite or Hay Wire, both of which had great guitar players in my opinion.
Don't really consider Steppenwolf Canadian but???? Many credit them with naming heavy metal.
The one and only Sheriff album deserves recognition also I think.

Beatles

11-09-2007, 03:18 PM

If Heart are considered Canadian, then I'd add Neko Case to my list as well.

Good Point. They originally were from Seatle but resettled in B.C. mid seventies I believe.

Starbuck

11-09-2007, 03:23 PM

Good Point. They originally were from Seatle but resettled in B.C. mid seventies I believe.

According the the liner notes in their Greatest Hits, they spent their "formative" years in BC and Alberta due to issues caused by the Vietnam war and were free to return to Seattle afterwards. My guess is draft dodging?

Starbuck

11-12-2007, 08:44 AM

I suddenly have a picture in my head of Ann and Nancy on the front lines in full Stevie Nicks-type frilly regalia, carrying rifles.

Ha! Good one!

sudkor

11-14-2007, 09:32 PM

Cool thread...

A Foot in Coldwater
A Foot in Coldwater - All Around Us
Moxy
Moxy - Ridin' High
Mahogany Rush - Child of The Novelty
Mahogany Rush - Live
Triumph - Rock n Roll Machine
Rush
Rush - Fly By Night
Rush - Caress of Steel

Ron :smilie_flagge17:

arloskay

11-25-2007, 09:27 AM

I was just browsing through the new "Top 100 Canadian Albums" book at Chapters the other day. Certain to generate some discussion, some I agree with, and some I don't. One quibble I have is 'best of' compilations making the list. I know there are many great bands who maybe only had one or two good songs every album, but if the only album of theirs you want to own is their greatest hits package, then they don't deserve to be on an 'albums' list. And adding one or two new songs to a best of does not change the situation.

Okay, here's the top 3 from the book:
1. Harvest - Neil Young
2. Blue - Joni Mitchell
3. After the Gold Rush - Neil Young

aC2rs

11-25-2007, 09:45 AM

Teenage Head - Teenage Head
Teenage Head - Frantic City
April Wine - On Record
Coney Hatch - Coney Hatch
Moxy - Moxy
Helix - Walking The Razor's Edge
Rush - 2112
The Guess Who - American Woman
BTO - Not Fragile
Max Webster - High Class In Borrowed Shoes

:rockon:

shoretyus

11-25-2007, 10:00 AM

Harry Manx is an amazing musician. He's mesmerizing to watch (and listen to).

Better yet Harry Manx and Micheal Kaeshammer.. saw a show in Peterborough wow

faracaster

11-25-2007, 11:23 AM

I guess that is more than 10. But once I got to 10 there seemed to be so much Canadian music that I love that was absent. So here is a longer than asked for, but, shorter than I'd like list of favs off the top of my head.

In no particular order.....

Nucleus....Nucleus
Gill Evans.......Sketches of Spain (with Miles Davis)...and a huge catalouge of work that is just about flawless.
Bush......Bush
Leigh Ashford....Kinfolk
Harry Manx and Kevin Breit......Jubilee
A Foot In Coldwater.....1st LP
McKenna Mendleson Mainline....Stink
Pat Travers Band......Crash and Burn
Chilliwack.....Breakdown in Paradise
King Biscuit Boy with Crowbar.......Official Music
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings.....Kings of Love
k.d. lang and The Reclines.....Absolute Torch and Twang
Dominic Troiano.....Burnin' at The Stake
Joni Mitchell...ANYTHING .....but especially Court and Spark, Night Ride Home and Hejeira
Lighthouse......One Fine Morning
Bruce Cockburn......In The Falling Dark (or any of his early LPs)
Kevin Breit.....Folkalarm
Great Speckled Bird......1st and only LP
The Band.....Music from Big Pink, The Band and Stage Fright
Kirk McDonald......the Revellers
Lenny Breau......Live at Shelly's Mannhole.....or Live at Bourbon St. or just about anything by him.
Sisters Euclid.....Green Pastors
Quartette......Work of the Heart
Robbie Robertson.......self titled 1st solo record

Cheers
Pete
:smilie_flagge17:

Stratin2traynor

11-25-2007, 11:25 AM

I saw Kaeshammer open for Colin James and the Little Big Band in Vancouver. Very impressive. Good interaction with the crowd.

bobb

11-25-2007, 05:13 PM

Good Point. They originally were from Seatle but resettled in B.C. mid seventies I believe.

Heart was probably the best Led Zep cover band of the day on the Vancouver bar circuit. Somethings never change, Black Dog - Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pwfw9LY6o&feature=related)

Starbuck

11-26-2007, 08:57 AM

Heart was probably the best Led Zep cover band of the day on the Vancouver bar circuit. Somethings never change, Black Dog - Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pwfw9LY6o&feature=related)

Absolutely, if you can, find The Lovemongers (Heart) doing the Battle of Evermore. Stunning!

1PUTTS

11-26-2007, 11:04 AM

Heart was probably the best Led Zep cover band of the day on the Vancouver bar circuit. Somethings never change, Black Dog - Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pwfw9LY6o&feature=related)

Oh man, watching Nancy Wilson rock out on an SG is soooooo sexy. And Anne's vocal is superb as always. Great clip, thanks! :rockon2:

1PUTTS

11-26-2007, 11:18 AM

Absolutely, if you can, find The Lovemongers (Heart) doing the Battle of Evermore. Stunning!

Wow. Don't want to turn this into a Heart thread but I just watched a live version (the Led Zeppelin hall of fame induction performance) and it's incredible.

Did anyone see that VH1 "Rock Honors" show where Alice in Chains and Gretchen Wilson performed Barracuda? When Gretchen started singing, the hair on the back of my neck stood up (but in a good way). She really nailed it. And then Nancy appears on stage with her Les Paul and joins in - fantastic.

I'm all for making Heart honourary Canadians.

Duster

02-19-2008, 11:05 AM

Lots of great stuff here. I have a hard time with lists because I always have a hard time ranking things. I don't know, is Arcade Fire's "Funeral" better than Neil Young's "Harvest"? Both great albums. And how does one decide between #10 and #11? I know that's the whole point of lists, but I just can't do it. I can only say what's "great", what's "good", and what's "not really my thing".

Anyway, a couple of additions to the "great" list, feel free to rank them wherever you want... but they do need to be mentioned:

Stars - "Set Yourself On Fire" and/or "Heart". I can't decide which I like better.

Danko Jones - "My Love is Bold". There are still some Canadians making solid straight-ahead rock, with no apologies.

And another mention for Dallas Green / City & Colour. The new album "Bring Me Your Love" is even better than the first album "Sometimes".

--- D

Edit: I forgot, Hayden - "Everything I Long For". Should come with a warning label, i.e. "Do Not Consume While Depressed"

GuitarsCanada

02-19-2008, 12:10 PM

Here are some, not in order

1) Saga - In Transit
2) Neil Young - Harvest
3) Rush - 2112
4) Rush - A Farewell To Kings
5) Max Webster - Max Webster
6) Martha and the Muffins - This is the Ice Age
7) Blue Peter - Falling
8) Triumph - Just A Game
9) Helix - No Rest for the Wicked
10) Max Webster - Universal Juveniles

Mr Yerp

02-19-2008, 12:33 PM

When I was a wee bit underage, I snuck into a bar in Yorkville (the Flame? my memory fails me!), and saw Mainline. It was the first time I ever heard a Les Paul and a Marshall, courtesy of Mike Mckenna. :bow: Too cool.
Can't forget The Ugly Ducklings, such a great band.
I was fortunate enough to see them, and Mandala quite a few times.

GuitarsCanada

02-19-2008, 05:11 PM

Wow. Other than an apparant mutual appreciation of Neil Young, you and I have very different tastes in music.

:rockon:

After taking a peek at your list, I agree.

Wild Bill

02-19-2008, 05:30 PM

suttree

02-19-2008, 06:48 PM

Rheostatics - Whale Music
Veda Hille - Spine
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
The Band - Songs From the Big Pink
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - let's say Bark
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night
Nomeansno - Wrong
Oscar Peterson - Night Train
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI

no particular order, i've missed great stuff, stan rogers for instance.. bruce cockburn should be up there, too... glenn gould... stompin tom.... many more.

Robert1950

02-19-2008, 09:20 PM

You mean there have been more than 10 albums made by Canadians !?!?!

torndownunit

02-19-2008, 09:28 PM

Glad you mentioned Nomeansno. A few of their albums could be on there.

I don't know about 10 but I will put some of my personal favs.

The Smalls - My Dear Little Angle
Eric's Trip - Purple Blue
Razorbacks - Go To Town
The Royal Crowns - 32 Miles From Memphis
Teenage Head - Teenage Head
Annihilator - Never Neverland
The Weakerthans - Left And Leaving
Propaghandi - Less Talk More Rock
Ron Sexsmith - s/t
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate

No real order. Just some off the beaten path ones I love.

zontar

02-19-2008, 09:48 PM

In no particular order-and done without looking at other lists first that could skew my list--I'll check the other lists later.
(And the list could change tomorrow)

Neil Young: re-act-or
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Voivod: The Outer Limits
The Pursuit of Happiness: Love Junk
David Wilcox: My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble
The Frantics: Boot to the Head
Uncle Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band: Uncle Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band
Liona Boyd: Live in Tokyo
Pat Travers Band: Go For What You Know
Lighthouse: One Fine Morning

cbrown0019

02-20-2008, 03:43 AM

In no particular order:

Colin James - National Steel
Colin James - Little Big Band 3
Blue Rodeo - 5 Days In July
Pat Travers - Crash and Burn
Wide Mouth Mason - Self Titled
Big Sugar - 500 Pounds
Thornley - Come Again
Big Wreck - In Loving Memory Of...
Kim Mitchell - I am a Wild Party (Live)
and if we can count skid row as Canadian (Baz raised in Peterborough)...Slave to the Grind. If not...
Shaun Verreault - Daggerlip Sketches

:food-smiley-004:

allthumbs56

02-21-2008, 12:59 PM

Wow - what great lists!

Even Leigh Ashford got a mention ("Dickens was a mighty fine man"). DOA as well (were they Canadian?)

Missing thus far, but surely not forgotten is any Jann Arden or Bare Naked Ladies .... how about Greatest Hurts and Gordon, respectively.

Paul

02-21-2008, 01:54 PM

Wow - what great lists!

Missing thus far, but surely not forgotten is any Jann Arden ....

I'm not sure that Jann Arden has put out a single album that is an all time great, but her live one is lots of fun, (the commentary between tracks is worth the price of admission alone), and "Insensitive" is about as good as it can get for pop song writing. My Grandmother could have had a hit with that song.

FWIW, I have seen Jann Arden live more times than Rush. I say that proudly in a comfortable in my own sense of masculinity sort of way.

hoser

02-21-2008, 03:17 PM

allthumbs56

02-21-2008, 03:27 PM

DOA are from Vancouver.

Minor brain cramp .... for whatever reason I was thinking of the song "DOA" by Bloodrock.

Gimme a break - I'm old enough to remember Leigh Ashford after all (course, I can't remember what I had for lunch :smile:)

zontar

02-21-2008, 09:46 PM

I'm considering swapping one of the Tragically Hip's earlier albums for one of the ones I listed.

Or maybe Thunderface (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJQc73z2VIw):smile:
(except they never did an album)

or Thundermug (http://www.canadianbands.com/Thundermug.html)

Spikezone

02-22-2008, 01:52 PM

If Heart are considered Canadian, then I'd add Neko Case to my list as well.
Heart spent a lot of time in Vancouver as draft dodgers (I think that was the reason) before they returned to Seattle and recorded Dreamboat Annie (a fave album, but I don't really consider it Canadian). They played around where I lived in Nanaimo a lot, and were great-lots of Zep covers I recall, and we were ALL in love with the sisters Wilson! LOL!

Anyways, on to the list, in no particular order (and there are some artists that I just can't decide which album is best, so I am cheating and just including them all):

Max Webster-Max Webster, Mutiny Up My Sleeve, A Million Vacations, High Class In Borrowed Shoes
Headpins-Turn It Loud
Bryan Adams-Reckless, Cuts Like A Knife
Trooper-Two For The Show, Thick as Thieves, Knock 'em Dead Kid, Flying Colors, Trooper
Jerry Doucette-Mama Let Him Play, The Douce Is Loose
Uzeb-Noisy Nights
Guess Who-American Woman
Doug And The Slugs-Slugcology 101 (yeah, I know it's a greatest hits, so sue me!)
Carole King-Tapestry
Loverboy-Loverboy (sorry!)

There are SO MANY-it's hard to cap it at ten:
Colin James, Alannah Myles, Streetheart, Honeymoon Suite, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Alain Caron's Le Band, Lighthouse, Rodrigo (a local spanish guitar whiz), Pat Travers, Chilliwack, Prism, BTO, Mahogany Rush, Goddo, Powder Blues, Ian Thomas, Sue Medley, Gary Comeau, Harlequin, it's hard to stop! I've lately been thinking that a lot of these bands are still touring after all these years-wouldn't it be great to have a weekend festival (I know that sounds a bit 60's-ish) and have ALL of them together at once? I'd go!
-Mikey

Spikezone

02-22-2008, 02:10 PM

I'm all for making Heart honourary Canadians.
I whole heartedly second that motion, then I can add about 3 or 4 of their albums to my growing top ten (yeah right!) list!
-Mikey

Starbuck

02-22-2008, 02:10 PM

Loverboy-Loverboy (sorry!)

Ha!ha! Don't apologise for Loverboy! They were fun and so were Honeymoon Suite come to think of it.

Diablo

02-25-2008, 01:43 PM

Wow, this has been enlightening...I'm sorry to say I guess I dont listen to that much Canadian Music, and at the same time have a hard time thinking of any Canadian "perfect albums", the way I think of say, Def Leppard Pyromania or Queensryche: Mindcrime.

I'm horrible with album names so I'll just list the bands (it should be pretty obvious which were their big albums anyways, in most cases).

Rush: Moving Pictures
Harem Scarem
Triumph: Allied Forces
Saga (my first concert)
Bare Naked Ladies (take your pic)
Sum 41 (cant believe noones mentioned them yet or The Tragically Hip)
Colin James
Alanis Morisette
Avril Lavigne (I'd actually put her down twice...pun and double entrendre intended :))
Lee Aaron (Body something or other)
Sven Gali: Under the Influence
Amanda Marshall had a good one a few yrs ago as well.
Philosopher Kings
Simple Plan's current one

If Heart counts, so should Skid Row because they'd be nothing without Sebastian...and if so, I'd include self-titled.