Canada Rocks!!!

[Rexxy]

Front and centre, dude.

Where is your report about the new KD Laing album?

the one featuring all this canadian songwriters....

is it all the usual suspects? Cohen, Young, Mitchell, Martin Short? LOL

 

[CanadianSteve]

Sorry, I just saw this thread. I did read a review of that album. No Martin Short ( ), but I think Joni and Neil were represented. I think no more than 1 song per writer. I'm not a k.d. fan, but when I read that review I thought it sounded like a neat idea.

 

[CanadianSteve]

Here's a review I found:

In 1988, Stompin' Tom Connors, the most fiercely patriotic Canadian musician to ever take the stage in the land of the Maple Leaf, wrote a song in tribute to fellow Canadian k.d. lang for continuing to hang her hat in Alberta after enjoying a commercial breakthrough in the United States. It's hard to say what Stompin' Tom thinks about lang these days, now that she's an out-of-the-closet lesbian, an animal rights activist, and (gulp) spending most of her time in America, but it's a good bet he approves of Hymns of the 49th Parallel, in which lang turns her attention exclusively to the work of Canadian tunesmiths. Anchored by classic songs from Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen (all of whom rate two songs each), Hymns of the 49th Parallel is not so much a flag-waving celebration of Canada as an appreciation of the often spare and evocative style of its best-known lyricists (or at least that's the case with the material on board), and lang and frequent collaborator Ben Mink have matched the selections with production and arrangements that are simple and to the point, with only a piano/bass/drums trio for accompaniment (though a string section pops in every once in a while). With her phrasing subdued and her projection scaled back from the big-as-all-outdoors sound of her early days, lang seems to have kept her own instrument in check as well, though her best moments still inspire a very real awe. Though lang has chosen some superb songs (and written a fine one herself in the album's only original, "Simple") and performed them with obvious love and affection, Hymns of the 49th Parallel seems oddly lacking in passion; perhaps in deference to the frozen North, this album has a cool and frosty undertow that seems designed to hold the listener at arm's length, despite the inarguable beauty of its craft. Perhaps for the follow-up, she should bring in Stompin' Tom for a duet on "The Hockey Song" to liven things up. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

From http://ubl.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,2918370,00.html

BTW, if you like Canadian female singers, I recommend an album by a young singer-songwriter named Sarah Harmer titled You Were There. Not well-known, but an instant classic.

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,1044759,00.html#review

 

[hrundi99]

Go the Canucks! :mrgreen:

Sarah McLachlan is my favourite Canadian songstress.

 

[hrundi99]

"The Hockey Song" - Stompin' Tom Connors

Hello out there, we're on the air
it's hockey night tonight!
tension grows,
as the whistle blows,
and the puck goes down the ice.
The goalie jumps,
and the players bump,
and the fans all go insane.
Someone roars:
"Bobby Scores!"
At the good old hockey game!

(chorus)
Oh!
The good old hockey game!
it's the best game you can name!
And the best game you can name,
is the good old hockey game!

Second Period.
players dash,
with skates a-flash,
the home team trails behind.
But they grab the puck,
and go bursting up,
and they're down across the line.
They storm the crease,
like bumblebees,
trevor like a burning flame.
see them slide the puck inside,
it's a one one hockey game!

(chorus)
Oh!
The good old hockey game!
It's the best game you can name!
And the best game you can name,
is the good old hockey game!

Third Period.
Last game in the play-offs too.
Oh take me where, the hockey players,
face off down the rink,
And the Stanley Cup,
is all filled up,
for the champs who win the drink!
Now the final flick,
of a hockey stick,
and a one gigantic scream:
"THE PUCK IS IN! THE HOME TEAM WINS!"
At the good old hockey game

(chorus- repeat 3 times)
OH!
The good old hockey game!
It's the best game you can name!
And the best game you can name,
is the good old hockey game!


Beat that rugby league!

 

[Rexxy]

Cowby Junkies are Canada's finest. the first album recorded in the old church around the Ambisonic mike .... The close breathy vocals. The sparse instruments. And *that* version of Sweet Jane. Hold on! I think I can smell jasmine, and the world is once again, young again.

 

[hrundi99]

The Trinity Sessions.

One of my favourites...

My favourite band is Sloan, originally from Halifax.

 

[CanadianSteve]

Go the Canucks! :mrgreen:

Sarah McLachlan is my favourite Canadian songstress.

Sarah Harmer is far superior, IMO.

Thanks for posting the Hockey Song, hrundi - a true piece of Canadiana.