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Post by ironwill on Mar 2, 2006 17:15:26 GMT
10. Broken Social Scene
9. The Weakerthans
8. Bunchoffuckinggoofs
7. The Disraelis
6. The Morgentalers
5. White Cowbell Oklahoma
4. Barmitzvah Brothers
3. Lenin i Shumov
2. Hockey Teeth
1. Holy Fuck
(apologies to those Canucks outside the 416 area code, this list is very T.O.-centric but we are the center of the universe after all)
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Post by I on Mar 2, 2006 18:33:53 GMT
The Mick Sleepers
Observer
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Post by rosko on Mar 2, 2006 19:30:04 GMT
From back in the day: Deja Voodoo
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Post by professor on Mar 2, 2006 21:54:26 GMT
Lowest of the Low
There's a Deja Voodoo in NZ too - hot band!
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 2, 2006 22:46:52 GMT
that was : Me Mon & Morgentaler originally, right? (from Montreal, btw!)
i remember of the Casual Primates, cool name!
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Post by ironwill on Mar 3, 2006 2:15:07 GMT
Thank you lankou2 for noticing that typo <more like error!>.
It was indeed Me, Mom and Morgentaler I was thinking of and yes they are Montrealers and they were quite fond of the ska sound. Great live act to boot.
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Post by rosko on Mar 3, 2006 11:31:14 GMT
A couple more from my wasted youth - Teenage Head and The Battered Wives.
Teenage Head had a couple minor radio hits here in Toronto, one of which is still echoing in my brain more than 25 years later.
The Battered Wives were horrid punk posers with a major record deal. So their first big release was called "Cigarettes". I mean, what could be more controversial? I saw them opening for Elvis Costello back in - yikes 1979 or 1980 - and there was the saddest picket line of a half dozen well-meaning women protesting the band because of their name.
Sadly for the Battered Wives that's as big a controversy as they could create and they quickly disappeared.
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 3, 2006 12:54:11 GMT
what about those guys? Dayglo Abortions ! an outrageously funny (but with a real sense of bad taste!) hardcore band whose first album's cover (Feed Us Foetus) depicted Ronnie & Nancy relishing a meal of featuses (a spoof of a 50's US commercial).They even had a song called "In Love With Black Sabbath!".Errr, that takes us deeply off the reggae path, i'm afraid! ; )
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Post by Reggae Souldier (Big Five) on Mar 3, 2006 16:06:42 GMT
Chalawa
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Post by ironwill on Mar 3, 2006 16:35:23 GMT
I see that Battered Wives LP round town in all the used and dollar bins, I can only assume they released just the one. The cover has a big haired blonde in shorts leaning into the window of a parked limousine, you do the math.
Ah yes, the Dayglo Abortions. I think I was into them for about five minutes during a really bad acne phase in my teens. There was some controversy surrounding one of their album covers which featured the dead remains of a handful of hamsters, I think the album contained a song 'Hide the Hamster' (again, you do the math).
Looking back on it now, some of these band name names are just awful!
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Post by rosko on Mar 3, 2006 16:40:33 GMT
Trash Can Sinatras
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 4, 2006 17:25:27 GMT
whola lotta milka, one of the most ridiculous i have ever heard, along with The Kinky Coo Coo's (but they are from Barcelona, those ones!)
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Post by professor on Mar 5, 2006 4:11:15 GMT
Don't forget, all the way from PEI: Stompin' Tom Connors - not a band, but a top name.
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Post by rosko on Mar 5, 2006 12:26:17 GMT
Stompin' Tom! For those of you curious about Canada, explore Mr. Connors (recipient of the Order of Canada). The guy has spent 40-50 years singing nursery rhyme-ish songs about Canada to the accompaniment of an accoustic guitar and his foot stomping a chunk of wood on stage.
He always wears a cowboy hat as he sings songs like "Bud The Spud" and "Sudbury Saturday Night".
Impossible to listen to for more than 5 minutes, but for a Canadian, impossible to hate.
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Post by professor on Mar 5, 2006 20:28:19 GMT
Count me in as a fan Rosko - mates of mine who toured Canada in the 80s and came back raving about Stompin Tom and for a little while even covered Bud the Spud. He's sorta like Chad Morgan with better teeth.
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Post by rosko on Mar 6, 2006 0:33:57 GMT
"You may find it goofy,
But the man in the moon's a Newfy"
Canadiana doesn't get any more Canadian than that. I'm obviously not a big fan, but the americans have their Woody Guthrie, we have our Stompin' Tom. I don't think there's a part of this massive country that he hasn't written a song about.
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Post by yellowdog on Mar 6, 2006 22:22:06 GMT
I don't think there's a part of this massive country that he hasn't written a song about.
Absolutely right Rosko - I think that's part of Stompin' Tom's mission statement - the one he wrote from my neck of the woods is Red River Jane. And he will live forever through his musical contribution to the sport of hockey, cleverly titled "The Hockey Song", and played at every hockey arena in the world at least four times a game.
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Post by rosko on Mar 7, 2006 3:45:08 GMT
A typically Toronto moment is being at a Leaf game and hearing "The Hockey Song" play to 18,000 fans who are pissed off. No crowd noise whatsoever.
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