[Music] A thread of some very nice Canadian music

[Badger]

 

[Flounce]

 

[Badger]

Particularly amusing that I'm in Canada and this video says "The uploader has not made this video available in your country"

 

[Quebec Seagull]

I only know Great Big Sea... but then again, I haven't really kept up with contemporary music since roughly 1995.

To me, Great Big Sea are Figgy Duff v2!

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[Green Cross Code Man]

 

[Badger]

A song in which she complains that they 'paved paradise to put up a parking lot' - a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise.

 

[Marty McFly]

I only know Great Big Sea... but then again, I haven't really kept up with contemporary music since roughly 1995.

To me, Great Big Sea are Figgy Duff v2!

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I'm 'tainted' from my time in Newfoundland...

 

[METALMICKY]

The only song I know by them but it's a belter

 

[Quebec Seagull]

I sent this video to my boss in Canada a few years back and he didn't understand it

He's a young un, then, and probably wondering what a 'lava tree' has to do with chopping wood!

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[Marty McFly]

A song in which she complains that they 'paved paradise to put up a parking lot' - a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise.

Having been to Paradise in Newfoundland - there's not many 'parking lots', but there's really also not much of a traffic issue. Get it together Joni.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

He's a young un, then, and probably wondering what a 'lava tree' has to do with chopping wood!

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Weirdly no, 49. I just assumed that Canadians from Quebec don't understand British humour.

 

[Weststander]

Not his tune, but I love his version ….. and Xmas .

 

[Weststander]

Very melancholic, unique and fantastic. Bastardised for “….. we had Palarse in the run”.

 

[Quebec Seagull]

This is the "Hey Jude" of Joni's oeuvre, along with "Both Sides Now". I prefer her jazz period, 1975-80, supported by Metheny and Pastorius (!!!), but Blue, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Court and Spark are fantastic transitional albums.

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[Nitram]

 

[Weststander]

This is the "Hey Jude" of Joni's oeuvre, along with "Both Sides Now". I prefer her jazz period, 1975-80, supported by Metheny and Pastorius (!!!), but Blue, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Court and Spark are fantastic transitional albums.

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Or the Hi Ho Silver Lining of Jeff Beck (he hugely regretted it from day one). I am aware that she’s an icon with Baez, Dylan etc.

 

[Quebec Seagull]

Weirdly no, 49. I just assumed that Canadians from Quebec don't understand British humour.

True -- even fully bilingual, native French-speaking Montrealers probably wouldn't have heard of Monty Python. I grew up in Eastern Ontario in the 70s and 80s, immersed in 5 cultures -- Québécois, French Parisian, English Canadian, American and British. In those days, that meant TV, movies and popular music.

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[Weststander]

75% Scottish / 25% Canadian …. but this wouldn’t be pop perfection without Martha Ladly’s keyboards.

 

[Alfagull]

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

The Mighty Ben Caplan