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10.03pm
1 December 2009
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Please dont' make me look for the old “Top 10” thread to make sure my results are the same! (They mostly are…) Numbers 2-10 tend to fluctuate a bit, but stay essentially the same (and have done so for 20 years, give or take)
2. Led Zeppelin
3. MX-80 Sound (who gave me my name!)
4. Parliament and Funkadelic
5. John Coltrane
6. The Velvet Underground
7-13 jimihendrixmilesdavisblueoystercultthebyrdscaptainbeefheartrushabba
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
10.24pm
19 September 2010
Offline What, no Neil Young? And you call yourself a Canadian…sheesh.
*realises he still hasn’t done his list* Here’s mine.
1. Beatles
2. Neil Young (and all other groups, including but not limited to Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, the Stills Young Band, Crasy Horse, the Stray Gators, or anything else)
3. Arcade Fire.
4. Florence + the Machine (I think I prefer Lungs to Ceremonials, but they are both great)
5. The Clash
Other notable choices include: Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen (and The E Street Band) or Tom Petty (and his HeartBreakers).
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
5.27pm
14 December 2009
Offline Hey, Neil's in my, I dunno…Top 28 or so! But I've never had any particular patriotic all-consuming love for Canadian music – we're a distant third behind the USA and UK on my particular music-map. But just for you, lemme compromise and give you my Top 5 CANADIAN acts:
1. Neil Young (incl. Buffalo Springfield et al, of course)
2. Rush
3. nomeansno
4. Simply Saucer
5. Voivod
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
1.16am
23 November 2011
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2 DeBarge
3 Wham!
4 Daft Punk
5 The Who/ The Hollies
7.24am
23 November 2011
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Duran Duran (before they got back together)
The Who
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Rolling Stones
Others: Simple Minds, Allman Brothers, Stone Temple Pilots, etc.
3.13am
14 November 2010
Offline Alright let's see… AT THE MOMENT:
1. Beatles
2. Rolling Stones
3. Coldplay
4. Radiohead
5. Two Door Cinema Club / The Kooks (can't separate)
The sunshine bores the daylights outta me
3.52am
10 August 2011
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No Leonard Cohen or Gordon Lightfoot from our Canadiens????
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
4.52pm
19 September 2010
Offline Re Cohen/Lightfoot. I don’t know enough of either of their music to make them Top 5, but Leonard does have my favourite song of all time (Hallelujah), so he’d be high just for that.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
5.12pm
14 November 2010
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Same here. I mean, of course we know some of their songs. And I like what I hear, I just can't rank them in my favourites at this time. Hallelujah is one of my favourite songs to play on guitar, and of course Lightfoot has a song called Alberta Bound, which I have to love, because it's all about where I live. It especially applies to me because I'm studying abroad but I'm Alberta bound every now and again.
EDIT: I love Neil Young and Arcade Fire too, they just don’t make it to the top right now.
EDIT 2: wow looking back at that it really just looks like I'm a huge Anglophile 
I guess I am…
And thanks for the welcome in the other thread, Mr. S. I missed it here!
The sunshine bores the daylights outta me
6.52pm
14 December 2009
Offline mr. Sun king coming together said:
Re Cohen/Lightfoot. I don’t know enough of either of their music to make them Top 5, but Leonard does have my favourite song of all time (Hallelujah), so he’d be high just for that.
Gordon: I know enough of his hits well enough to enjoy a Greatest Hits album, should I ever buy one, and could feasibly investigate backwards and discover more greatness there. (Guaranteed, practically, that I won’t enjoy anything from the ’80s or thereafter however.)
Leonard: I’ve got his debut album, and I guess I kinda enjoy it, and I guess he’s a genius and all (I even read his ’60s novel Beautiful Losers long before hearing any of his stuff!), but his music (his singing, his melodies, his sensibility) is basically unappealing to me, that’s just the way I roll. My weakness, not his. I’ve never shown any great appreciation for singer-songwriters per se. I think he's more of a literary guy who branched out into music relatively late in life than a Dylan or Lennon or Neil Young. (But I don’t wish him any ill will…)
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
8.02pm
19 September 2010
Offline No problem, Jet . And ITSWD, never refer to Canadians with an e – it’ll mean hockey to us.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
10.34pm
14 November 2010
Offline Haha yeah, Mr. S, that's exactly what I thought when I read that. As I'm neither from Montreal nor a Montreal fan (and I don't think I play on their NHL team, but I can't be sure) it doesn't really apply to me. I guess you can call any Francophone-Canadian a Canadien though.
Good post Von, I thought that was pretty spot-on.
The sunshine bores the daylights outta me
10.45pm
10 August 2011
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14 November 2010
Offline That's okay! you just made us think about hockey. which is never a bad thing. oh what kind of guitar do you have? I like to think of myself as a guitarist too…
wow seriously off topic! Ill leave. 
!!!
The sunshine bores the daylights outta me
2.32am
10 August 2011
Offline Jet ! said, “oh what kind of guitar do you have?”
Lots!
A '68 Fender Telecaster, Fender Telecaster made of recycled redwood (very light!), 12-string Rickenbacker (had to see if I could play the opening chord to “A Hard Day's Night,” but also sounds great with Lightfoot's “Song for a Winter Night”), D-41 Martin acoustic, Yamaha 12-string acoustic ; had a Gibson SG, but impossible to keep it in tune.
Most recent acquisition is a “You Rock” guitar – a synthesizer really, but you play it like a guitar. Pretty remarkable! (there are You Tube demonstrations).
(But I'm seriously off topic too…)
The You Rock guitar looks like one of the guitars from the Beatles' Guitar Hero game (there, back on topic)
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
2.42am
19 September 2010
Offline To get us back on topic, my top 5 Canadian Artists (Neil Young refers to all bands listed in my earlier post on this page)
1. Neil Young
2. Arcade Fire
3. Blue Rodeo
4. City And Colour (Alias for Dallas Green – City and Colour was his side project from Alexisonfire, until he decided City and Colour was more important)
5. Sam Roberts
Honorary mentions: Sheepdogs (I really like their first album, and I expect lots from them in the future, but they haven’t done enough yet) and the Tragically Hip (don’t know enough.)
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
3.59am
10 August 2011
Offline No Joni Mitchell? Harsh.
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
5.41pm
14 November 2010
Offline Nice, Mr. S! I do like that list. I lost my Sam Roberts CD but I just bought a new one off iTunes for like $6 I think. I'm thouroughly enjoying it. Wow and thanks to you that just launched a frenzy of digging around in Canadian music… there goes the morning…
ITSWD, that's definitely a guitar fleet to be jealous of! I am not even close with my Strat and my Taylor. Though I just bought a ukelele and it's pretty fun.
The sunshine bores the daylights outta me
2.20am
10 August 2011
Offline Jet ! I think the most famous ukelele song of the last half century is Tiny Tim's “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”
It's a riot – check it out if you don't already know it.
(I don't think Tiny Tim will make anyone's Top 5 list – except maybe among ukelele enthusiasts, but he was AMAZING in one respect: his voice could reach soprano notes AND the lowest baritones. I once heard him sing an opera – both the male and female parts.
But I think he was deranged. His version of “Girl” is one of the creepiest songs I've ever heard)
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1.06pm
31 March 2008
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My favourite Leonard Cohen song is Famous Blue Raincoat. Sit yourself down, turn the lights low and listen to it properly. It's beautiful.
I don't really care for Hallelujah – the production is awful. Really 80s, and those backing vocals don't help. The John Cale and Rufus Wainwright versions are far superior IMO.
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