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sad.man.loves.vgc on 19 March 2012
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Marks said:
TWRoO said:
Marks said:
Canada is the best at hockey. Also I guess we're the best at winter sports in general based on us getting the most gold medals at the 2010 Vancouver olympics.

Also I would argue we have the best bands per capita. And I emphasize the per capita part, obviously America and UK have more good bands than us, but for our small population, we have a lot of talent. Rush, Tragically Hip, BTO, The Guess Who, Arcade Fire, etc.

Rush and Arcade Fire I'll give you... not heard of the others.

However many you name though, they will be cancelled out by Celine Dion and Justin Bieber.

That and if you are going by capita... Sweden has less than 1/3rd the population of Canada.

Don't get me wrong, I like Canada, would sure love to go there sometime (probably second only to New Zealand in my list of countries I would love to visit) but I certainly don't think of good musicwhen I think of Canada.


Canada has great music. I fully admit we make shit TV shows/movies and everything else, but the one thing we can do is make music.

- Bachman Turner Overdrive are a solid band, I guarantee you've heard the song "Taking Care of Business"

- The Guess who are well known for songs like American Woman

- The Tragically Hip are absolutely amazing, the best band out of Canada...but for some reason nobody outside of Canada has heard of them. If you want, look up the songs "Fireworks", "Bobcaygeon" and "New Orleans is Sinking" by them. They're great.

- We also have Sum 41, Finger Eleven, Steppenwolf, 54-40, Barenaked Ladies, Our Lady Peace, Neil Young, Tokyo Police Club, April Wine, Theory of a Deadman, Feist, Vampire Weekend, and more. No way you haven't heard of at least some of those.

- But yeah I do admit we make some of the most annoying stuff like Avril Lavigne (who is very hot though), Nickelback and Justin Bieber, but they are more than cancelled out by the good stuff. And they wouldn't be popular if many people didn't love them. 


Where are Metric and Sarah Mclachlan (her old stuff) dude?! Also, I'd add Breaking Benjamin to your bands list, they are bad but they are probably more commercially successful than the ones you mentioned.

edit : beaten ;(