why is all the music out of canada sub-par?

>>68875258
I haven't listened to new music since 2004 so I'm not sure about today. but back in my day it didn't seem so bad. treble charger, gob, our Lady peace, the hip, the weakerthans, Alexis on fire first album.

>>68875298
it's gone to straight shit, the only redeeming new artists are grimes and mac demarco and they're not even that great

>>68875339
What are you talking about? Grimes is the best artist of this generation. Canadians should be really proud of her.

Boards of Canada is good though.

>>68875865
>Boards of Canada
>from Canada
not sure if you're intentionally fucking around

>>68875983
Yeah I'm fucking around internationally.

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>>68875673
>Grimes is the best artist of this generation

>>68875258
Isn't Neil Young canadian? That redeemed the whole country for me

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>>68875673
>Grimes is the best artist of this generation.
>best

ON THE 96TH DAY WE SAILED AGAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0CvSIhF_tA

>>68876030
>he actually likes b8

>>68875673
Kek good meme

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>>68875983
>>68876013
OTFL

Weve got Arcade Fire and Godspeed, and thats about it in terms of popular music.

>>68875673
This guy is a faggot

>>68875258
why is alaska included in that image
also joni mitchell

post leafcore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Bsb-8pxG8

>>68876070
You are a faggot. Suck a pen15.

>>68875258
Jessy Lanza is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF2lZesYZo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhvjL98MJEU

>>68875258
why is it so goofy
find a non-goofy canadian artist
protip: you can't

Rush are alright

Arcade fire?

The beeb?

calgary desu

>>68876054
AH FOR JUST ONE TIME I WOULD TAKE THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

>>68875258
It's not, you just can't look past that it's Canadian. I think you just dislike Canada for what ever reason you have.
Time for you to grow up eh

>>68875673
People like you are why I will never give Grimes a chance. I know I shouldn't let a fanbase get in the way of trying new music, but my god, for like the last year or so here it's been nothing but Grimes worship. And you're all the same. It sucks honestly.
You're just as bad as Lauren/Chvrches worshipers, but worse than Death Grips worshipers

there was that one kardinal offishall song

>>68877378
>People like you are why I will never give Grimes a chance.
Big loss. She could have a career with or without you. And let's face it, you wouldn't listen to her music in any case.

>>68875258
Because the USA outshines their music scene in almost every way due to its sheer size. However! GSY!BE is from Canada so we must remember that Canada does have some great bands

>>68875258
Gorguts, you cunt.

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>>68877422
>She could have a career with or without you. And let's face it, you wouldn't listen to her music in any case.
>She could have a career with or without you.
>And let's face it, you wouldn't listen to her music in any case.
That's what he just said, you retarded fucking dipshit. Good Lord.

>>68875673
We're not.

>>68877588
>he
It's actually you >>68877378

You didn't say that, cretin. You pretended that you would give her music a chance if her fanbase wouldn't be so annoying, but actually you wouldn't give a fuck in any case. Fuck off.

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>>68877914
>It's actually you
It's actually he, you autistic piece of shit.

Two times a charm, huh? Kill yourself, Jesus fucking Christ.

>>68877929
>>68877981
For (You)

>We
(You)

arcade fire?

just kidding

>>68878020
>>68877608

>>68877981
>wishing suicide to Jesus Christ
You're a raging retard, don't you? Take your chill pills, pathetic nitwit.

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>>68878095
UHHH that would be me invoking the name of God in exasperation of how completely retarded you are, you sperg.

Hope you die in a fire.

>>68878147
>mad autist posting even more bullshit
Stop it, retard.

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>>68878271
>grimesfag
>mad autist posting even more bullshit
It's like your so close to self-awareness but that extra chromosome keeps holding you back.

>>68875258
Have Canada made any original genres?

You guys do know Rush and fucking Godspeed You! Black Emperor are Canadian right? Those two bands alone can carry the entire country's shitty music,

>>68876041
This.

Also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG9MHBrl_DY
>inb4 dadrock
they are a fantastic band and Burton Cummings has an amazing voice

>>68878459
>You guys do know Rush and fucking Godspeed You! Black Emperor are Canadian right?
lul how new is this guy

how new are you you little dude

>>68878459
And Grimes. She alone saved the current Canadian music scene.

>>68875258
um counterparts senpai?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1MOKPAhmz8

>>68875298
All of these are either mediocre or flat oit bad

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Not true.

joni mitchell
idk

>>68875298
Why is literally EVERYTHING Canada produce so lukewarm? Like its all "local" in the sense that if you aren't a part of it you can't appreciate it because it isn't really that impressive. Canada's music, Canada's """"""""""""literature""""""""""""", Canada's films.

>>68878854
kek

WOMEN

>>68877378
just don't discuss grimes if you haven't even listened to the music. the waifufag grimes fans are annoying but the opposite is annoying too

>>68878854
cringe

>>68877378
>People like you are why I will never give Grimes a chance.
>Letting other people's opinions shape your taste
Anon, people like you are categorically incapable of being genuine fans of anything. So there's no loss.

>>68877608
Lol - apparently Canadians themselves are incapable of appreciating the musical talents they DO produce. 'Tis no wonder why all the good ones inevitably leave for the U.S. and go CIMO (Canadian in memory only.)

>>68878459
You don't have to rub it in. Fwiw all the Canadians I know are extremely nice people - if a tad (obliviously) elitist.

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>>68876070
>godspeed
>popular

>>68880389
Except Skinny Puppy

>>68880534
What about the superior Front Line Assembly?

>>68879177
Because they basically have no culture. Not meant to be a rub desu. It's just that they haven't been around long enough/they're too far out of the way geographically and in a generally unpleasant climate zone, so they've never has to fight for their existence (which is ultimately what makes cutler's interesting - spirit.)

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>>68875258

>>68880589
Them too even if I don't think they're superior

>>68880529
According to google trends they are as popular as Scooter. Don't kid yourself. You don't keep any of those /mu/cores in your mums basement.

>>68880534
Hey - there's always that one exception.

Canadian popular music isn't bad, it's just nobody else has heard of it, when I was a kid all my favorite music was from Canadian radio stations and I didn't realize until I was older that nobody outside of Canada knew that stuff

That said we have a fair amount of great artists based on our population in comparison to many other countries with similar population sizes...besides the normal choices like Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell Godspeed; we also have other classics like NoMeansNo, Mort Garson, Nihilist Spasm Band, Venetian Snares, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Skinny Puppy

And there's all sorts of music that was great as a teenager like Billy Talent, Sum 41 and City and Colour

>>68880642
>cutler's
Lol - meant to write 'cultures'...

>>68880389
Or maybe it's because there is butt-fuck no business.

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Name 1 (one) beter artist

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>literally noone has posted The Tragically Hip

reee

OP confirmed for shit taste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGRNEJiD3PY

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>>68875258
How to tell someone doesnt listen to metal: the post.

The problem is that canada is a country of extremes, either extreme faggotry like drake, bieber, sjws, etc or heavy fucking metal: Exciter. Annihilator, Voivod, Anvil, etc. We also have rush as our one off prog masterpiece. If you dont like rush your a fucking contrarian faggot who spend too much time on this chinese cartoon forum.

>>68875258
Wolf Parade, Radio Radio, Caribou, Karkwa, and Destroyer are all good. Maybe you're just not looking hard enough?

Basically all of the commercially successful pop music comes from Montréal.

>>68883967
why is this?

are anglos just inferior lol

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>>68875258
There are lots of great Canadian artists. Stop whining.

Alanis Morissette
Arcade Fire
Austra
Broken Social Scene
Caribou
Carly Rae Jepsen
Conjure One
Crystal Castles
Delerium
Devin Townsend
Dragonette
Feist
Front Line Assembly
Grimes
Holy Fuck
Junior Boys
K-OS
Leonard Cohen
Lights
Metric
Neil Young
Purity Ring
Rush
Skinny Puppy
Stars
Tegan and Sara
The Birthday Massacre
Young Galaxy

>>68875258
Alvvays

>>68884816
all shit

Jewel and Portugal. the Man are pretty good

>>68884869
>edgy pleb

>>68884925
portugal the man are from alaska
which is not canada

>>68885018
it was a joke you twit, look at the op's pic

>>68875258
no struggle no culture.

>>68885018
That was way to subtle for anyone to realize you were joking. Only one person even pointed out that alaska was in op's pic. I don't appreciate being called a twit but I do appreciate that you used the word twit =]

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Best Canadian band coming through

>>68875258
If they've released an album recently I haven't heard it but Sum41 is a good Canadian band

Okay, going off other countries that have the same population as Canada (within 5 million), I bet most people on /mu/ have more music from Canada than these other countries:

Less than five million more:
>Sudan
>Algeria
>Uganda
>Poland
>Iraq
Less than five million fewer:
>Venezuela
>Saudi Arabia
>Peru
>Afghanistan
>Morocco

And then keep in mind that small population is spread across the second largest country in the world so there's little cultural crossover from one end of the country to the other

>>68885245
Chuck was their last good album (and their best)

>>68885270
I personally like Underclass Hero and some stuff off Screaming Bloody Murder but if I only liked them for their older style then that wouldn't be the case. Earlier on in their career Deryck had said he wanted every album to sound completely different.

>>68885255
While you have a point, you are factually incorrect about one thing, spread.

Something like ~85% of Canadians are only on 4% of the country, and its mostly near US borders.

The Tragically Hip
PUP
Hollerado
Indian Handcrafts
Arcade Fire
GY!BE
Early Billy Talent
Two Sum 41 albums
Gob
The Odds

>>68885309
I like some stuff off Underclass Hero quite a bit, but as a whole I'm not a fan, too inconsistent...Screaming Bloody Murder was fun at the time but it just didn't have that staying power to keep me going back to it after the newness wore off

>>68885245
Their new Album released this year and it's decent. Chuck and Does This Look Infected? are really good.

>>68885357
Yeah those two albums were inconsistent compared to these
>>68885386

I saw a video of them live from the beginning of the year and they had that newer guitarist in the back playing quietly lol. Dave seized his spot back.

>>68885340
I know that, but still, what I'm saying is the cultural divide is pretty huge for a small population, like who knows how many people like Tanya Tagaq are making music in the north that the rest of us will never here and even our cities are spread apart by flights that are hours long...it's hard to really tour here as some band in a van, you basically just do shows in the city your from

I've lived in Canada almost all my life and there's maybe a million and a half people within a day's drive from me (in Canada itself) and about 75% of them are in one city thirty minutes from here

>>68879177
are you canadian? Ive lived in two parts of canada and this is the case.

to contribute to thread for decent canadian artists:

un blonde
night lovell

>>68885386
I just realized the last album was five years ago...does the band sound any different without Jocz?

>>68885354
>PUP
>Indian Handcrafts

Add in The Dirty Nil and you have the three best new bands from Toronto and surrounding areas.

>>68885354
yikes

>>68885528
Not really, The main guitarist left for a while, but then came back for the new album.

>>68885354
The Tragically Hip songs I've come across are really good. What album should I start with?

I don't know if it's still a thing but to me what represented Canadian music the best was when Sum 41 music videos were blocked in Canada on youtube

uh, we've got some good french stuff. French's are good at creative stuff, but not much else

>>68885620
Anything on the level of France stuff? Last time I was in Quebec nobody was listening to French music, it was all terrible pop from ten years ago

>>68885607
My favourite album is Trouble in the Henhouse, but start with Road Apple's or Fully Completely.

>>68885607
Phantom Power is their best work.

>>68875258
leonard cohen??

>>68875258
GY!BE??

>>68885664
>>68885678
Thanks

>>68885649
It's mostly Folk I guess. Check out Klo pelgag, Harmonium, Serge fiori, Jim Corcoran and Gosselin, Malajube and karkwa if you enjoy, they're great entry point

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>>68883392
>chinese cartoon forum
got me there kiddo

>>68875258
crystal castles and venetian snares are the only canadians i really know and they seems pretty good to me

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Revenge is good.

>>68878966
The finally called it quits after like 30 years, just a few weeks ago. :(

>>68875258
They had at least two of the best electro industrial groups of all time with Front Line Assembly and Skinny Puppy.

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AMERICAN LUCK
IT SUCKS WE'RE CANUCKS

https://youtu.be/xYBx-2XSpAE?t=26s

culture-less societies like Canada, Sweden, The Netherlands etc can't produce quality music, just how it goes

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>>68883392
>either extreme faggotry like drake, bieber, sjws, etc or heavy fucking metal:

>>68887608
Oh man, that sucks :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDePSXZssbM

Fuck you.

>>68875258
The Tragically Hip are not sub-par you fucking baboon

Check out July Talk from Toronto.

>>68884816
Literal Canadian reporting in....

out of that entire list, only Alanis, Feist, Caribou, Neil, L. Cohen, and Arcane Fries are capable of keeping me from mind-numbing boredom.

That whole mid-2000s indiepop thing with Stars, Tegan+Sara, Lights, Metric, etc. was like a horrible nightmare for me. It all sounds like the musical equivalent of a whimpering boipussy.


>>68895123
Holy shit man, the single worst band I've heard in the last couple years. Saw them at Pemberton music fest. Some rejected girl singer from that indiepop scene I mention above, who brought out her high-strung boyfriend whose voice sounds like he's wife-beating the songs vocally. His singing is some of the cringiest shit I've heard in my life.

>>68875258
What about Women?

>>68895303
>Literal Canadian
That sounds like the name of a rock band...