What's the best Canadian "rock" band?

[Hobbes]

Big Sugar!!! I saw them live July 1st in Victoria. One kick ass show!

[Zylka]

BIG SUGAR PLAYS STAMPEDE THIS FRIDAY!!! I'M GOING TO SEE THEM RIGHT BEFORE I HIT THE REVERSE BUNGEE JUMP!!!

CHEERS

[Zylka]

HAHA

Originally posted by Asher

Clumsy isn't my favorite CD either, but I still own it and play it occasionally for Superman's Dead, Automatic Flowers, and Clumsy.

Naveed's best songs are Starseed and Naveed.

Happiness' best songs are One Man Army, Is Anybody Home, and Thief.

Then Spiritual Machines just rules. I've got the special edition, love nearly all the songs. Same with Gravity.

OUR LADY PEACE IS SO F*CKING LAME. WELCOME TO 1997

[Asher]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Poor lyrics?

Please, compared with Nickelback they're Pulitzer material...

You're kidding me?

Sloan -- Money City Maniacs

Money City Maniacs
All you’ve found is another back door
That no one sees a reason for
At the heart of the travelling band
You have to understand
There's a driving need to hit the yellow line


And the joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke fizz
And the joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke fizz


Hey you
You’ve been around for a while
If you'll admit that you were wrong then we’ll admit that we’re right
Hey you
Come on along for the ride
We’ll hit the money city if it takes us all night


And the joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke fizz
And the joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke fizz


Hey you
You’ve been around for a while
If you’ll admit that you were wrong then we’ll admit that we’re right
Take the heart of the travelling band
You’ll never understand that
All they know is the yellow line, yeah


And the joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke fizz
And the joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke, yeah yeah yeah
Joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke, yeah yeah yeah
Joke is when he awoke his
Body was covered in coke fizz

Nickelback - Never Again

He's drunk again, it's time to fight
She must have done something wrong tonight
The living room becomes a boxing ring
It's time to run when you see him
Clenching his hands
She's just a woman
Never Again

I hear her scream, from down the hall
Amazing she can even talk at all
She cries to me, Go back to bed
I'm terrified that she'll wind up
Dead in his hands, She's just a woman
Never Again

Been there before, but not like this
Seen it before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again

Just tell the nurse, you slipped and fell
It starts to sting as it starts to swell
She looks at you, she wants the truth
It's right out there in the waiting room
With those hands
Lookin just as sweet as he can
Never Again

Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again

Father's a name you haven't earned yet
You're just a child with a temper
Haven't you heard "Don't hit a lady"?
Kickin' your ass would be a pleasure

He's drunk again, it's time to fight
Same old ****, just on a different night
She grabs the gun, she's had enough
Tonight she'll find out how ****ing
Tough is this man
Pulls the trigger just as fast as she can
Never Again

Seen it before, but not like this
Been there before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad
She's just a woman
Never Again

[Asher]

Re: HAHA

Originally posted by Zylka
OUR LADY PEACE IS SO F*CKING LAME. WELCOME TO 1997

Says the man who works as a gaybar, claims he's straight, poses as a woman online, and feigns a busted keyboard to get attention, while at the same time blowing money on cocain and turntables?

[KrazyHorse]

You've proven my point, Asher. Thank you.

[*End Is Forever*]

I voted Sum-41. So there.

[Asher]

Hmm...a song about coke fizz and travelling bands is better than a song about domestic violence?

Only in Quebec.

Sloan's got good rhythm and guitar, but damn...their lyrics are seriously horrible. He just rhymes random words together so the songs don't even make sense. What's worse is he's so BORING when he sings -- he doesn't put anything into it.

[KrazyHorse]

Nickelback is tired, old, obvious material. So . He's like an overgrown 15 year-old.

[Caesar the Great]

neil young would be #1
rush #2
BTO, OLP and tragically hip are also pretty good

[Asher]

So you concede the point about Sloan's lyrics and vocals being absolutely horrid?

[KrazyHorse]

Not at all.

Nickelback's like a clone of dozens of similar bands.

[orange]

Zylka - See OLP live, I have a feeling you'll change your mind

[Asher]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Not at all.

Nickelback's like a clone of dozens of similar bands.

...they've been around for years.

Before Creed, even.

It's not their fault the rest of the world was slow on the uptake.

[KrazyHorse]

And if you want to start on lyrics:

Me debunk an American myth?
And take my life in my hands?
Where the Great Plains begin at the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian where the Great Plains begin

Driving down a corduroy road,
Weeds standing shoulder high
Ferris wheel is rusting off in the distance

[Chorus]

At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin

Left alone to get gigantic
Hard, huge, and haunted
A generation so much dumber than it's parents
Came crashing through the window

A raven strains along the line of the road
Carrying a muddy, old skull the wires show their approval
Off down the distance

[Chorus]

I remember, I remember buffalo And I remember Hengelo
It would seem to me
I remember every single ****ing thing I know
[
If I die of Vanity, promise me, promise me
That if they bury me some place I don't want to be
That you'll dig me up and transport me
Unceremoniously away from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees
Whispers of disease, and acts of enormity
And lower me slowly, sadly, and properly
Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy

[Chorus]
Where the Great Plains begin at
The hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian where the Great Plains begin

Driving down a corduroy road,
Weeds standing shoulder high
Ferris wheel is rusting off in the distance

[Chorus]

At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin

Left alone to get gigantic
Hard, huge, and haunted
A generation so much dumber than it's parents
Came crashing through the window

A raven strains along the line of the road
Carrying a muddy, old skull the wires show their approval
Off down the distance

[Chorus]

I remember, I remember buffalo And I remember Hengelo
It would seem to me
I remember every single ****ing thing I know

If I die of Vanity, promise me, promise me
That if they bury me some place I don't want to be
That you'll dig me up and transport me
Unceremoniously away from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees
Whispers of disease, and acts of enormity
And lower me slowly, sadly, and properly
Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy

[Chorus]