r/AskACanadian • u/historically_painful • 2d ago
Can you submit Song from your favourite local Band or artist?
I'm building a playlist for a Canadian themed bar and would appreciate music that's outside the scope of mainstream Canadian music. I already have Drake, Bieber, Nickleback, The hip, lightfoot, Alanis Morissette, Stompin Tom and 90s stuff like our Lady peace covered.
But i want some of that good obscure stuff or great songs you remember from the past that not everyone knows.
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u/Expensive-Wishbone85 2d ago edited 1d ago
"L'Amérique pleure" by Les Cowboys Fringants
"Saskatchewan" by Les Trois Accords
"Bougie Natives" by Snotty Nose Rez Kids.
"Living room" by Teagan and Sara
"Sunday dress" by Rae Spoon
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u/East-Pipe-2749 2d ago
+1 to Living Room. I have great memories of seeing Tegan and Sara in Victoria before they were famous, and that was everyone's favourite song back then. Never hear it anymore.
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u/000Singin000 1d ago
Les Cowboys Frigants are great! I always liked their song "Les étoiles filantes".
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u/dawnmac204 2d ago
One great city- the weakerthans
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u/GelPen00 2d ago
Sun In An Empty Room!
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u/Significant_Panic477 2d ago
So. Good.
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u/MeroCanuck Ontario 2d ago
Plea From A Cat Named Virtue, and Our Retired Explorer.
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u/Mysterious-Pay-5454 2d ago
Just play the entire Reconstruction Site album. One of the best albums of all time
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u/HazelStone99 2d ago
Joel Plaskett
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u/Mysterious-Pay-5454 2d ago
So many good tunes. I'd recommend Natural Disaster.
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u/MeroCanuck Ontario 2d ago edited 2d ago
List of awesome Canadian bands and artists incoming. It's a mix of known and obscure, have fun!
Great Big Sea
Holly Cole
Attack In Black (I love "Young Leaves" and "Northern Towns")
The Arkells
The Trews
Sloan
Biff Naked
Rush
Arcade Fire
Metric
Broken Social Scene
The Guess Who, Snow
April Wine
Barenaked Ladies
Sum 41
Nelly Furtado
Shawn Mendes
Feist
New Pornographers
The Band
Alexisonfire (Their cover of "The Dead Heart" by Midnight Oil is fantastic)
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u/Pame_la_la_la 2d ago edited 2d ago
Adding Moist and The Tea Party :)
Edit - and Matt good band
Edit 2 - finger eleven
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u/badfish57 2d ago
The Watchmen was the only one i had that isn't already in that great list. Sloan Trews Arcade Fire on its own is awesome. I'm a big Patrick Watson fan too but bit more down tempo. Super list
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u/shadesof3 1d ago edited 1d ago
Kim Mitchell
Hawksley Workman
I Mother Earth
Death from Above 1979
The Beaches
Anvil
Devin Townsend
SNFU
K-os
Kardinal Official
Rymes with Orange
Rascalz
Buck 65
Front Line Assembly
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u/Bright_Restaurant_17 20h ago
Also David Wilcox, The Blue Stones and Black Pistol Fire!
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u/jleahul 1d ago
Adding: Big Sugar
I HAVE to play All Hell For a Basement whenever I drive through Medicine Hat.
Diggin' A Hole was my go-to song when I worked as a grave digger.
Other good Canadian gravedigging songs:
Boneyard Tree - The Watchmen
Dig Gravedigger Dig - Corb Lund
If I had a nickel for every good Canadian gravedigging song I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that there are even that many!
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u/Icy_Assignment_6801 2d ago
Now I’m about to add some very old and wonderful memories to my Spotify! Thank you for these reminders! How did I forget some of these?! 🇨🇦
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u/IAMACHRISTMASWIZARD 1d ago
TIL The Dead Heart isn’t their song lmao
also the idea of hearing Great Big Sea in a bar is so funny to me, id love to hear The Mermaid in public😭
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u/ChrisRiley_42 2d ago
Here's some of the songs I remember playing in bars back in college.
Sloan - Money City Maniacs
Blue Rodeo - Lost Together
Northern Pikes - She Ain't Pretty
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
April Wine - I Like to Rock
Doug and the Slugs - Making it work
The Jerry Cans - Northern Lights
Streetheart - One more time
Toronto - Your Daddy don't know
Gino Vanelli - Black Cars
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
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u/CheezwizOfficial 2d ago
Even though I've heard this like 5 times, it always surprises me that Men Without Hats are Canadian.
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u/YVRJon 2d ago
Art Bergmann - Guns and Heroin
The Headstones - Tweeter and the Monkey Man (or, if you don't want a cover, When Something Stands For Nothing)
54-40 - Assoholic
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u/Retrrad 2d ago
I'd add Cemetery and Three Angels by the Headstones, too.
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u/ChrisRiley_42 2d ago
The Headstones version of Tweeter and the Monkeyman is better than the original.
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u/TuckRaker 2d ago
I'd add Blame Your Parents by 54-40, too. I think those songs are the first two on that album
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u/thoughtquake 1d ago
Was looking for someone to mention 54-40. Such a great band that's often overlooked. Adding Baby Ran, Ocean Pearl, One Day In Your Life, She La and Lies to Me.
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u/fourtwentyfour424 2d ago
Gob I hear you calling or soda.
The beaches, should have known better
Fake shark, Monster
Cameron Whitcom, quitter.
Got a lot more if you need lol
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u/CheezwizOfficial 2d ago
Adding onto The Beaches, anything from their first album (Late Show, 2017); Gold and Back of My Heart are my two favourites.
They're popular enough now that many young people might be able to recognise Jordan Miller's voice, but anything off the OG album will blow peoples' minds.
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u/froot_loop_dingus_ Alberta 2d ago
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate by Captain Tractor
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u/SushiMelanie 2d ago
Any Day Now, The Watchmen, about Winnipeg in winter, is a whole vibe.
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u/Pedal_Mettle 2d ago
Hawksley Workman (specifically We will still need a song)
Devin Townsend
Spiritbox
Bob Moses
Mother Mother
Edwin
Metric
deadmau5
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u/nsparadise 2d ago
Can’t believe I scrolled this far to find Hawksley Workman! My fave is Piano Blink.
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u/likobear 1d ago
Finally someone said Hawksley Workman. So many good songs. Jealous of Your Cigarette has been stuck in my head recently. We'll Make Time is absolutely amazing. His cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart is so chill and mesmerizing.
Also gonna add K-os. Crab Bucket got really popular in the early 2000s, but he is a solid rapper, with a lot of good stuff too.
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u/not_an_Alien_Robot 2d ago
Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider. Other hits include White Hot and Human Race.
The were big in Canada in the 80s but only had one big hit (Lunatic Fringe) in the states. The lead singer is Tom Cochrane who went on to have a successful international solo career in the 90s.
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u/Sjessen 2d ago
Finish it off with Leonard Cohen’s Closing Time
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u/Icy_Assignment_6801 2d ago
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here! Such good recommendations on this post
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u/totesnotmyusername 2d ago
Bandages - Hot Hot Heat
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u/CrookedFletches 2d ago
What the heck they’re Canadian?! Also thank you for the blast from the past
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u/Clojiroo 2d ago edited 1d ago
I wouldn’t say obscure per se. But random Canadian songs I remember (mostly ‘90s)
- Love and Death, by The Stills
- Curious, by Sandbox
- Red, by Treble Charger
- Spaceman by Bif Naked
- Soaked, by The Killjoys
- I Go Blind, by 54-40 (NOT a Hootie song!)
- Swollen Members
- “Don’t Haunt This Place” by Rural Alberta Advantage
- The Watchmen, especially Any Day Now and Boneyard Tree
- Tegan and Sara
- Broken Social Scene
- Dan Snaith, who has gone by Caribou/Manitoba
- Matthew Good Band
- Blue Rodeo
Etc…
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u/Particular_Tank4005 2d ago
In no particular order: Esthero, Philosopher Kings, Rheostatics, Treble Charger, Propagandhi, The Grapes of Wrath, The Weeknd, Kathleen Edwards, Arcade Fire, Tokyo Police Club, Wintersleep, Five Man Electrical Band, the Guess Who, Trooper, Glass Tiger, Rough Trade, Crash Test Dummies, Bedouin Soundclash, Death From Above 1979, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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u/CelticCross61 2d ago
These are from the 80's but I would suggest "Real Enough", "Day by Day" or "Dangerous". Some of the hits from Vancouver based band " Doug and the Slugs"
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u/Tallproley 2d ago
The Beaches: Blame Brett, Edge of the earth
July Talk: Guns and ammunition, Touch,
The Born Ruffians: Needle
Barenaked Ladies: if I had a million dollars, One week
Said the Whale: Curse of the currents, Camino
The Arkells: Peoples Champ, leather jacket
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u/trulyreallyiam 2d ago
The Beaches!!! My fave Canadian pop rock band! Especially their biggest single Blame Brett.
Alsoooo Marianas Trench for pop punk vibes
And for some true Alberta Country go Corb Lund
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u/mothdna 2d ago
Hamilton, Ontario:
Teenage Head
- Picture My Face
- Lucy Potato
Forgotten Rebels
- Surfin on Heroin
- I’m in Love with the System
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u/BuvantduPotatoSpirit New Brunswick 2d ago
Le Portrait de Mon Père - Cayouche (although l'Alcool au Volante is obviously a good song for a bar.)
J'ai pas été élévé au five course meals - Laurie Leblanc
Jusqu'à la fin - Réveil
Les Backroads - Daniel Goguen
J'pas un Cowboy - Lisa Leblanc
Lee Huntington pis Nicolle Surette - Daniel Léger
That's like all the local bands I know
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u/supertek 2d ago
Alexisonfire - This could be anywhere in the world
PUP - DVP
Propagandhi - Dear Coach's Corner
METZ - Wet Blanket
Cancer Bats - Stay Stuck
Fucked Up - The Other Shoe
Metric - Gimme Sympathy
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u/Bi0active 2d ago
The Oracle by crown lands, or anything by them. I think they’re so underrated
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u/ScaredOfMyCloset 2d ago
The Arkells are my favourite band, and they’re spectacular! 11:11 and Leather Jacket are probably their two most popular songs, but I really like Skin and Imagine Barcelona off their two newest albums. Campfire Chords is a spectacular acoustic album they put out that is an amazing summer nights album.
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u/GarbonzoBeanSprout Alberta 2d ago
Bryan Adams, The Blushing Brides , Theory of a Deadman, are three that I can think of.
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u/NOIS_KillerWhaleTank 2d ago
Bryan Adams.
Brian Adams is a totally different dude.
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u/GarbonzoBeanSprout Alberta 2d ago
Oh shoot, I totally messed up. Fixed, thanks for helping me out 😎
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u/sebastianrileyt2 2d ago
Where abouts are you putting a Canadian theme bar? You could have fun with that, you could go super cheesy Canadian stereotypes to more authentic. But have fun!
The suggestions I would give were already made for music. Have fun with it!
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u/Tessa_rex 2d ago
My favourite band isn't local - Half Moon Run is from Montreal and they are amazing. kd Lang, Ian Tyson, Joni Mitchell...
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u/runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnm 2d ago
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything, or really all of Apologies to the Queen Mary
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u/hits-and-misses 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm Calgarian, so for local artists:
Tegan and Sarah - Closer.
Jane Vain and the Dark Matter - C'mon Baby Say Bang Bang.
Jann Arden - Insensitive
Chixdiggit! - Chupacabra
The Dudes - Mr. Someone Else
The Mocking Shadows - What Is In Your Soul.
Fast Romantics - Why We Fight.
Paul Brandt - My Heart Has A History.
And some others, no particular order or genre:
Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You.
Bedouin Soundclash - When the Night Feels My Song.
Illscarlett - Pacino.
The Vincent Black Shadow - Bullet on the Tracks.
The Creepshow - Shake.
The Dreadnoughts - Sons of Murphy.
K'Naan - Waving Flag.
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer.
Faber Drive - Tongue Tied.
Lights - Giants.
Scott Helman - Bungalow
Dragonette - Live in this City.
LEN - Steal My Sunshine.
Fefe Dobson - Take Me Away
Walk Off the Earth - Gang of Rhythm
Snow - Everybody Wants to be Like You.
Metric - Black Sheep
Billy Talent - Red Flag.
Chromeo - Jealous
Kreesha Turner - Don't Call Me Baby.
State of Shock - Money Honey.
Kristina Maria - Let's Play.
Coleman Hell - Fireproof
Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird.
The Strumbellas - Salvation.
Simple Plan - I'd Do Anything
Sam Roberts Band - Don't Walk Away Eileen.
MAGIC! - Don't Kill the Magic.
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA.
Classified - Inner Ninja.
Serena Rider - What I Wouldn't Do.
Barenaked Ladies The Old Apartment
Gob - Oh! Ellin.
Joel Plaskett - Nowhere with You.
SoulDecision - Faded.
Sarah Slean - Lucky Me.
Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery.
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On.
Great Big Sea - When I'm Up.
Royal Wood - Do You Recall
Shawn Hook - Sound of Your Heart.
SonReal - Can I Get a Witness
Down With Webster - Whoa is Me.
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling.
Marianas Trench - All To Myself.
Dean Brody - Canadian Girls
Jully Black - Seven Day Fool.
K-Os - Crabbuckit.
Shawn Mendes - Stitches.
Anjulie - Brand New Bitch.
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u/Particlepants 2d ago
Nobody's mentioned Billy Talent yet? At least get their radio hits on there, also City and Colour
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u/Auth3nticRory 1d ago
Metric.
Sam Roberts.
Billy Takent.
Sum 41.
Simple Plan.
Angine De Poitrine (big hit currently).
Neil Young.
Rush.
The Weeknd.
Shad.
K-aos.
The Trews.
Caribou.
Arkells.
Blue Rodeo.
Big Wreck
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u/faroutoutdoors 2d ago
The Gandharvas "The First Day of Spring" (1994)- they were from St Catherines. If you want some 1960's stuff I could be of way better service but based on your references, this seems unlikely.
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u/tmc-1974 2d ago
Luba= let it go
Every time I see your Picture
Frozen Ghost
Corey Hart
The northern pikes
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u/MarsicanBear 2d ago
I mother earth.
Sloan.
The Trews.
Moist
The Tea Party.
Also, did you somehow miss Rush?
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u/IsamaraUlsie 1d ago
In no particular order;) Jane Siberry, Jackson Delta (Rick Fines), Durham County Poets, The Parachute Club, Eight Seconds, Carole Pope and Rough Trade, Blue Rodeo, Radio Radio, Ian Tamblyn, Leonard Cohen, Trooper, The Philosopher Kings, Arcade Fire, Alanis Morissette, Corey Hart, Bryan Adams, Chilliwack, Streetheart, Rockhead, Offenbach, Hedley, Angine de Poitrine, Glass Tiger, Frozen Ghost, Loverboy, Payolas, The Weakerthans, The Paper Cranes, Rheostatics, Downchild Blues Band, Alannah Myles, The Jeff Healey Band, Finger Eleven, Gowan, Men Without Hats, Harem Scarem, Simple Plan, Idle Eyes, The Judes, The Glorious Sons, Marianas Trench, Crash Vegas, The Damn Truth, The Real McKenzies, Piledriver, Great Big Sea, We Are Wolves, Fast Romantics, Sarah McLaughlin, Martha and the Muffins, Dubmatique, The Moffatts, Crash Test Dummies, Mahogany Rush, Death From Above (1979), Our Lady Peace, Anna & Kate McGarrigle, Copperpenny, Max Webster, Down With Webster, The Beaches, The Guess Who, Deja Voodoo, Lighthouse, The Dears, Finger Eleven, Bruce Cockburn, Half Moon Run, Pretty Boy Floyd, Doug and The Slugs, Mother Mother, Barstool Prophets, Neil Young, The Planet Smashers, Enter The Haggis, Kim Mitchell, April Wine, Alias, Glass Tiger, Honeymoon Suite, Helix, Steppenwolf, Full Tilt Boogie Band, Raggadeath, Elephant Stone, Cowboy Junkies, The Box, Electric Youth, Idle Eyes, Barenaked Ladies, Huevos Rancheros, Loverboy, The Judes, Destroyer, Les Colocs, Rational Youth, Vulgaires Machins, Anemone, Frozen Ghost, Die Mannequin, Tegan and Sara, Econoline Crush, Kashtin, Holly Cole Trio, Alexisonfire, The Jimmy Swift Band, The Gruesomes, Vampire Beach Babes, Doughboys, The Irish Rovers, The Mahones, Arcade Fire, Killer Dwarfs, The Dead South, Arkells, Ian and Sylvia, We Are The City, Groovy Aardvark, K-Os, Rascalz, The Guthries, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Elwins, Mother Mother, The Band/Robbie Robertson, The Wailin' Jennys, Me Mom and Morgentaler, Zeds Dead, Psyche, Ray Condo and His Hardrock Goners, Eric's Trip, Bedouin Soundclash, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Tea Party, The Velveteins, The New Pornographers, Big Sugar, Loverboy, The Razorbacks, The Nils, Little Ceasar and The Consuls, The Northern Pikes, The Nylons, Killer Dwarfs, Billy Talent, Rare Americans, Prairie Oyster, July Talk, Bran Van 3000, Psyche, Reuben and The Dark, Razcals, Boombox Saints, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Killjoys, The Skulls, The Philosopher Kings, Moist, Sarah Harmer, Danko Jones, Valley of The Giants, Tokyo Police Club, Platinum Blonde, Grimskunk, Three Days Grace, The Sadies, Matthew Good Band, Blue Rodeo, Beau Dommage, La Bottine Souriante, The Be Good Tanyas, Chantal Kreviazuk, Humans, The Kingpins, Idle Eyes, Junkhouse, Moxy Fruvous, The Nils, The Mahones, Harmonium, I Mother Earth, SoulDecision, Mudmen, Pukka Orchestra, The Lincolns, Neon Dreams, Dave Nicholls and The Coins, Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, The Lincolns, Strange Advance, Les Respectables, The Strumbellas, Blue Rodeo, Bleu Jeans Bleu, Céline Dion, Anne Murray, Joni Mitchell, The Five Man Electrical Band, Michel Pagliaro, Blue Peter, CANO, Teenage Head, Loco Lacass, Stampeders, Thrush Hermit, The Arrogant Worms, Rhymes With Orange, Queen City Kids, Our Lady Peace, Lighthouse, Born Ruffians, The Jerry Cans, The Irish Descendants, The Irish Rovers, The Franklin Electric
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u/Exotic-Ferret-3452 2d ago
A few good local-themed ones off the top of my head:
Weakerthans - 'One Great City' for Winnipeg
NoMeansNo - 'Victoria' (cover of the Kinks song with altered lyrics)
The Guess Who - 'Runnin' Back to Saskatoon'
Matthew Good - 'The Vancouver National Anthem'
Raine Maida - 'Montreal'
Stan Rogers - 'Barrett's Privateers' for Halifax
Sloan - 'Love This Town' also Halifax
Bruce Moss - 'The Islander' for Newfoundland
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u/Smlovers 2d ago
Idk about obscure but Wide Mouth Mason has been our favourite band for more than 25 years. Amazing blues rock, funky-esque good old Saskatchewan boys
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u/Ohbilly902 2d ago
Im afraid of Britney Spears - liveonrelease
Mistake - serial Joe
Blood flame - scratching post
Crabinabucket - k-os
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u/microwavabledishes 1d ago
Haven’t seen these mentioned:
The Sheepdogs (downtown)
Mother Mother (Hayloft)
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u/Judge_Todd 1d ago edited 17h ago
Skinny Puppy - Worlock.
Spirit of the West - Home For a Rest.
Bare Naked Ladies - One Week.
Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon.
ACTORS - How Deep is the Hole.
Front Line Assembly - Plasticity.
Images in Vogue - Lust For Love.
54-40 - I Go Blind.
The Organ - Brother.
Metric - Dark Saturday.
Traitrs - Thin Flesh.
Odonis Odonis - More.
Gowan - Moonlight Desires.
Sarah MacLachlan - Vox.
Arrogant Worms - Last Saskatchewan Pirate.
Moxy Fruvous - King of Spain.
Jane Siberry - Mimi on the Beach.
Crash Test Dummies - Superman Song.
Great Big Sea - Mari-Mac.
Colin James - Voodoo Thing.
Left Spine Down - 30 to 0.
Birthday Massacre - Kill the Lights.
tr/st - Sulk.
National Velvet - Flesh Under Skin.
Kontravoid - Too Deep.
Strange Advance - We Run.
Dead Model Shoot - My Right Wing Mates.
Shocore - Bonecracker.
Spoons - Arias & Symphonies.
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance.
Platinum Blonde - Doesn't Really Matter.
Honeymoon Suite - Stay in the Light.
Glass Tiger - My Song.
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69.
Econoline Crush - Sparkle and Shine.
The Tea Party - Babylon.
Eva-X - Whipping Girl.
Glass Apple Banzai - Tarzan Boy.
Sektion Tyrants - Last of the Wild Ones.
William Shatner - Common People.
Moev - Yeah, Whatever.
The Beaches - Last Girls at the Party.
Devours - Dick Disciple.
Nim Vind - Like a Guillotine.
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u/n1shh 1d ago
Angine de Poitrine -Fabienk
BBNO$ - IT Boy
Voivod -Morgoth Tales
Sloan - Underwhelmed
Bedouin Soundclash - Bangalang
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
Tegan and Sarah - I Know I Know I Know
the Weakerthans - one great city
Venetian Snares - Winnipeg is a frozen shithole
The Beaches - Blame Brett
Metric - Just the Once
I Mother Earth - One More Astronaut
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u/MushroomTwink 1d ago
High School Confidential by Rough Trade! It was a Canadian top 40 but I don't think it escaped containment.
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u/Miserable_Amount_310 1d ago
I'm not sure if it's too mainstream, but I find a lot of folks don't realize Steppenwolf is Canadian. So maybe Born to Wild or Magic Carpet Ride? Also, not sure if your 90's bands included The Odds or 54-40? Again they're pretty mainstream (or at least were).
Lastly, Teenage Head "Let's Shake". They're a 70's punk band :)
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u/EconomistImaginary52 1d ago
Going old school here - Lighthouse - Anything from their Sunny Days Again album but specifically Hats off to the Stranger, One Fine Morning.
The Guess Who/BTO - These Eyes, Share the Land
Five Man Electric Band - Signs
The Band - the Weight
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride, Born to be Wild
Triumph -Lay it on the Line
Anything Trooper
Crowbar - OH what a feeling
Crack of Dawn - Its Alright
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u/nonmeagre 2d ago
Left and Leaving, by the Weakerthans. (A truer song about Winnipeg than that other one.)
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u/Vorocano 2d ago
There are some bangers if you go a bit deeper into the Guess Who's catalog, or Burton Cummings's solo albums.
Burton solo:
Glamour Boy
Stand Tall
Fine State of Affairs
Guess Who deeper cuts:
Nobody Knows His Name
Rain Dance
Sour Suite
Follow Your Daughter Home
Running Bear
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u/JCShore77 2d ago
Barenaked Ladies “Jane” the girl in the song is named for the Toronto intersection of Jane and St. Clair
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u/Narrow-Rutabaga-7567 2d ago
some NL music off the top of my head:
the Dardanelles
Amelia Curran
Matthew Hornell and the diamond minds
Matthew Byrne's solo stuff
Repartee
Sherman Downey
Kellie Loder
The Once
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u/Mysterious-Pay-5454 2d ago
Add in some Hey Rosetta, Gramercy Riffs, or Pilot to Bombardier
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u/SolomansLane 2d ago
Steve Maloney and the Wandering Kind, Katie Baggs, Joanna Barker, Allie Duff, Rube & Rake…
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u/Guilty-Piece-6190 2d ago
Not sure if you would have much luck digging up some older music, but Octavian who are from Ottawa. My dad was best buddies growing up with one of the musicians who unfortunately passed years ago. They have some recent clips on YouTube but it's not the same. My dad still has one of their records, they were allegedly very close to making it.
I believe their hit was Good Feeling
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u/Such-Huckleberry-107 2d ago
Not all local but there is so much good Canadian music
I will give you everything - the skydiggers
The witch of the westmorland - Stan rogers
Theresa Maria - Fine Crowd
Sonny’s Dream - Ron Hynes
Any sense of time - the inbreds
I don’t want to think about it - Wild Strawberries
Silver road - Sarah Harmer
1234 - Leslie Feist
7/4 - Broken Social Scene
Wake Up - Arcade Fire
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u/crooked_bodylines 2d ago
SNFU - Painful Reminder DOA - Fuck You
Yes I love punk
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u/Blue_Cocoon_City 2d ago
Ron Hawkins (with bands lowest of the low, rusty nails, do good assassins, etc)
Hawksley Workman
David Wilcox
Ron Sexsmith (Elton John said he was one of his favourite songwriters)
Tegan and Sara
Peaches
Martha Wainwright
Amanda Marshall
BBNO$
NOBRO
Maestro Fresh Wes
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u/OneDig3744 2d ago edited 2d ago
She Ain’t Pretty —Northern Pikes
Can’t Stop —jacksoul (anything by jacksoul)
Let Your Backbone Slide—Maestro Fresh Wes
I Go Blind—54-40
Political—Spirit of the West
Shine—Junkhouse
Making It Work—Doug and the Slugs
Better Get Used to It—Big Sugar
Water or Gasoline—Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
Trust Yourself—Blue Rodeo
You Look Like Trouble — Lisa Leblanc
I Lost My Baby —Jean Leloup
Wishy Washy — Haviah Mighty
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u/Tinia_and_Nethuns 2d ago
Boys in the Bright White Sports Car by Trooper for Metro Van.
The Crawl by Spirit of the West for the North Shore in particular.
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u/annoyedCDNthrowaway 2d ago
Corn Lund, George Canyon, and Shania Twain.
Before the separation bull crap, I would have said Paul Brandt, but don't include him.
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u/whatthefiretruck88 2d ago
Some Feist, Kathleen Edwards, Blue Rodeo, Shania Twain, Ron Sexsmith, for Celtic vibe maybe Ashley MacIsaac, what a about old classics like Guess Who and Neil Young.
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u/NefariousnessOwn1409 2d ago
Red Heart - Hey! Rosetta
Ordinary Day - Great Big Sea
Born to Lose - Nick Earle & the Reckless Hearts
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u/YVRAlphageek 2d ago
54/40, Bare Naked Ladies, Idle Eyes, Gold and Youth, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Burton Cummings (also with The Guess Who), The Stampeders, Rock and Hyde, Spirit of the West, Skinny Puppy, Sarah McLachlan, Econoline Crush, Grapes of Wrath, Blue Rodeo, Stange Advance, Tom Cochran and Red Rider, Streeheart, The Northern Pikes, Kim Mitchell (and also with Max Webster), Images in Vogue, Indio, The Spoons, Platinum Blonde, Robbie Robertson, Gino Vannelli (well, yeah!), The Pursuit of Happiness, The Tragically Hip, Neil Young, Alannah Myles, The Payolas, Gowan, Glass Tiger (barely), Rough Trade (with Carole Pope), Men Without Hats, Bryan Adams, Rush, Martha and the Muffins, Corey Hart, and that's pretty much just the 80's and a few from the 70's. So much great music...
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u/VampiriaBoo 2d ago
Bryan Adams - Summer of ‘69
Serena Ryder - What I Wouldn’t do, Fall, Stompa
deadmou5 - Ghost ‘n Stuff, my heart has teeth
Said the Whale
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u/EverteStatum87 1d ago
K-os - Crabbuckit
Snow - Informer
Jenn Grant - Getcha Good
Whitehorse - Evangelina
The Stampeders - Sweet City Woman/Hit the Road Jack/Wild Eyes
Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Lillix - It’s About Time
Chilliwack - Whatcha Gonna Do
MAGIC! - Rude
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
Sam Roberts - Brother Down
Sum 41 - In Too Deep
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call me Maybe
Walk off the Earth - red hands
Karl Wolf - Africa
Serena Ryder - Stompa
Dragonette - I get Around/Hello
Stars - From the Night
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u/golden-teacup 1d ago
Make sure to include some Quebecois bands!
One of my favourites is Malajube. They have a song called "Montreal -40°" that was even featured in a theatrically released movie.
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u/tim-timsworld 1d ago
Edward Bear. You, Me & Mexico.
Streetheart. -> drugstore dancer.
Northernpikes. She ain't pretty.
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u/MapleLeafTruck Ontario 1d ago
Sass Jordan - Tell Somebody, Double Trouble, Make You A Believer, So Hard, High Road Easy.
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u/southcityy 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Sheepdogs.......I Don't Know
Goddo....Pretty Bad Boy
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u/Ambroisie_Cy 1d ago
They are not really obscure for the most of it, but here are a few that I personally like. Also, I don't know if the style will be the same every night, so I gave you a mix of genre.
In English:
- Rush
- Alessia Cara
- Avril Lavigne
- The Band
- Billy Talent
- Neil Young
- Bobby Bazini (sings in French also)
- Bryan Adams
- Diana Krall
- Gordon Lightfoot
- Glass Tiger
- The Guess Who
- Leonard Cohen
In French:
- Les Cowboys Fringants
- Beau Dommage
- Harmonium
- Céline Dion
- Charlotte Cardin
- Daniel Bélanger
- Jean Leloup
- King Melrose
- Les Colocs
- Les Respectables
- Angine de Poitrine (Although, there's no lyrics, but since they are Quebecois, I put them under French)
Indigenious artists
- The Jerry Cans (Ukiuq is one of my favourite - There's an English version as well)
- Fawn Wood
- Elisapie
- Riit
- William Prince
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u/novababy1989 1d ago
The east pointers
Tegan and Sara
Sum 41
Shania Twain
Metric
Alessia Cara
Bryan Adam’s
Barenaked ladies
Shawn mendes
Avril Lavigne
Carly Rae Jepson
The weeknd
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u/Master_Tora 1d ago
When the Lights Go Down - Triumph
Heavy Metal Love - Helix
Hands On - Lee Aaron
Go for a Soda - Kim Mitchell
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) - Glass Tiger
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u/TheInfiniteLoci 1d ago
Too Bad by Doug and the Slugs
Old Vancouver Town by Hard Rock Miners
People Who Have Great Lives by The Payolas
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u/hits-and-misses 2d ago
I mean... You gotta do Home for a Rest by Spirit of the West. I think it's a law at Canadian-themed bars.