Top 100 Canadian Albums

[dcbogey]

New book released today. I don't really have any strong disagreements EXCEPT for #6. I can't stand her music and wouldn't be upset if she didn't make the list at all.

Top 10
1. Harvest, Neil Young (1972)
2. Blue, Joni Mitchell (1970)
3. After the Gold Rush, Neil Young (1970)
4. Music From Big Pink, The Band (1968)
5. Fully Completely, The Tragically Hip (1992 )
6. Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (1995)
7. The Band, The Band (1969)
8. Funeral, Arcade Fire (2004)
9. Moving Pictures, Rush (1981)
10. American Woman, The Guess Who (1970)

Complete list
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/et_story.html?id=981a7cd4-4a31-4c0a-a024-0ffd50445df4

 

[Never Compromised]

New book released today. I don't really have any strong disagreements EXCEPT for #6. I can't stand her music and wouldn't be upset if she didn't make the list at all.

Top 10
1. Harvest, Neil Young (1972)
2. Blue, Joni Mitchell (1970)
3. After the Gold Rush, Neil Young (1970)
4. Music From Big Pink, The Band (1968)
5. Fully Completely, The Tragically Hip (1992 )
6. Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (1995)
7. The Band, The Band (1969)
8. Funeral, Arcade Fire (2004)
9. Moving Pictures, Rush (1981)
10. American Woman, The Guess Who (1970)

Complete list
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/et_story.html?id=981a7cd4-4a31-4c0a-a024-0ffd50445df4

No Kings? How about Rough Trade? Where are the Stampeders? The Odds? Doug and the Slugs? Heart? Trooper?

 

[shakenbake]

What! No Shox Johnson! Who made this list up!

 

[dcbogey]

At least Celine didn't make the cut!

 

[shack]

Actually, it looked like a pretty good list.

Nobody close to Neil. 8 albums in the top 47 and they could have included Zuma and American Stars 'N Bars as well.

The Band and Joni also well represented.

 

[thompo69]

It did look like a pretty good list, although there were a number that, personally I would've moved up (ie. Stan Rogers, Ron Sexsmith, etc.).

 

[thirdtime]

20 artists I've never heard of, and no David Wilcox???

 

[whitewaterguy]

you gotta have

Maynard Ferguson's "HOT" in there some where

 

[TQM]

The Band as Canadian.....

hmmmmm........ I get the connection, but it is a weeee bit of a stretch, no?

Robertson was born in Canada.......

 

[train]

hmmmmm........ I get the connection, but it is a weeee bit of a stretch, no?

Robertson was born in Canada.......

No stretch at all - of the 5 original members 4 were born and bred Canadians.

Robertson - Toronto and Six Nations Reserve
Rchard Manuel - Stratford Ont.
Garth Hudson - London Ont
Rick Danko - Simcoe Ont
Levon Helm - Arkansas

I have Music From The Big Pink as my top album along with Neil Young's After The Gold Rush

 

[TQM]

History sometimes runs deeper.

I wonder if Ronnie Hawkins has regrets? Anyway, I've always seen The band as the band that had both Americans and Canadians in it's line up, so calling it therefore "Canadian" seems a bit of an appropriation.

http://theband.hiof.no/history/band_shortstory.html

 

[turbonurd]

A list of top 100 has to include some Leonard Cohen, and there HAS to be room for Crowbar's Bad Manors.

 

[train]

I wonder if Ronnie Hawkins has regrets? Anyway, I've always seen The band as the band that had both Americans and Canadians in it's line up, so calling it therefore "Canadian" seems a bit of an appropriation.

http://theband.hiof.no/history/band_shortstory.html

80% Canadian seems like an appropriation ? The lead singer/front man was usually Canadian Manuel.

Hawkins was also from Arkansas ( along with Helm)but seems to have spent most of the last half of his career in Canada. He was entertaining but , for me, in small doses and in a bar entertainment kind of way.

 

[dcbogey]

A list of top 100 has to include some Leonard Cohen, and there HAS to be room for Crowbar's Bad Manors.

Cohen is listed at #11, 29 and 35, Crowbar is #89

 

[dcbogey]

Where is Gordon Lightfoot? He had many of the most beautiful folk tunes in the 60's and 70's

#23 69 91

 

[train]

A list of top 100 has to include some Leonard Cohen, and there HAS to be room for Crowbar's Bad Manors.

Agree with you on Cohen but his songwriting outshone his singing by lightyears. As a songwriter he was top ten for sure if only just for Hallelujah

......she tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah.

Actually I think he is in the top 100 a couple of times.

 

[TQM]

Can't tolerate Cohen myself.

Maybe it's the voice.

As for The Band, some members weren't Canadian, and much (almost all?) of the work was done south of the border.

On a side bar - to me a band is represented, first and foremost by the songwriter.

Pete Townshend is The Who, over Roger Daltrey kind of argument... even Daltrey would admit this.

 

[train]

Maybe it's the voice.

As for The Band, some members weren't Canadian, and much (almost all?) of the work was done south of the border.

On a side bar - to me a band is represented, first and foremost by the songwriter.

Pete Townshend is The Who, over Roger Daltrey kind of argument... even Daltrey would admit this.

At the risk of belabouring this - The Band's main songwriter was the Canadian Robertson - and only one of the 5 Band members from the first major album (big Pink) was American - Helm.

As far as where the work was done - I hear you but if that was a criteria you would knock out 80% of the top 100 as all the major record labels were US based. Certainly Neil Young spent most of his time in the US as did Joni Mitchell.

I don't want to be left with Stompin' Tom if we have to jump though too many hoops here.

 

[TQM]

Is Neil Young

still a Canadian citizen even?

 

[Questor]

At the risk of belabouring this - The Band's main songwriter was the Canadian Robertson - and only one of the 5 Band members from the first major album (big Pink) was American - Helm.

As far as where the work was done - I hear you but if that was a criteria you would knock out 80% of the top 100 as all the major record labels were US based. Certainly Neil Young spent most of his time in the US as did Joni Mitchell.

I don't want to be left with Stompin' Tom if we have to jump though too many hoops here.

Well said. Besides, I believe Robertson at least returned to Canada and now lives in Toronto. The same can't be said of Neil Young. btw, I am a big fan of both. If you have any ambition as an artist, you go south, you work south, you live south of the border. Otherwise, you have a career, as train already said, like Stompin' Tom.