Mullets, socialism, and groovy 60sness from the greatest rock band in Canadian history (all stereotypes must be fulfilled).
Happy Canada Day from the League’s Canadian-transplant American, on behalf of the still settling in to married life real Canadian in the League and the American who used to live in Canada.
Since we had a little Guess Who, I should also post this brilliant scene with Canada’s greatest young comic Michael Cera (plus a great cameo from David Krumholtz). F-bomb Warning:
Chris Dierkes (aka CJ Smith). 29 years old, happily married, adroit purveyor and voracious student of all kinds of information, theories, methods of inquiry, and forms of practice. Studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. Main interests: military theory, diplomacy, foreign affairs, medieval history, religion & politics (esp. Islam and Christianity), and political grand bargains of all shapes and sizes.
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Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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It’s still “Dominion Day” to me.
The Guess Who greater than Rush??? Wow: Dierkes you never fail to disappoint.
I was thinking that he may be wanting to watch his back because he will never know when he’ll turn around and find himself face to face with Gordon Lightfoot.
Mon Dieu. The greatest Canadian rocker (solo though in various mostly American bands) is of course Neil Young. So any arguments as to band are of course secondary to that fact.
Neil Young doesn’t count. His citizenship is being held as collateral until we receive adequate reparations from Canada for the damage inflicted by Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. The same is true of all members and ex-members of Rush.
From what I understand, Bryan Adams is not considered “Canadian Content” and, as such, can be assumed to have been disavowed by Canada proper.
Heh. I had to look that one up.
Plus Canada repeatedly apologized for Bryan Adams. Sheesh Thompson. Haven’t you been watching South Park? Speaking of which French Canada is the best Canada. Or so goes the song anyway.
Apologies are not enough, especially not when Canada is also responsible for the unforgivable bombings of the Baldwins that have left all but Alec as drug-addled shadows of their once second-rate star selves. We demand reparations.
What about The Tragically Hip?
Good call. If Scott were here he’d probably say them. My sense is that real Canadians give title of best Canadian band to The Hip. I’m not a real Canadian, –hell at this point I’m in Levitical status (“resident alien”)…don’t any Canadians touched that hanging fruit left after the gleaning, it’s mine mofos!!!
iow, my choice of best canadian band reflects my american-ness.
I should add that I once went to a Tragically Hip concert with Scott, my now wife, and some other friends of ours. It was a nice concert and I thought they were a good band (and I had listened to them through my Canuck housemates at the time), but I couldn’t get into the way the Canadians did. Something genetic/cultural was missing in me.
I just thing there’s something beautifully poetic about the line “You said you didn’t give a f**k about hockey, and I’d never heard someone say that before.”
no diz-oubt.
Count me as a Canadian non-fan of the Tragically Hip, who seem to devote every song to Ontario cottage country nostalgia. Upon listening to that Phantom Power song you refer to – which also includes the line “he’s in the National Business Program,” perhaps the worst lyric ever written – for the first time, my girlfriend at the time said “The Tragically Hip are like an orange-carpeted basement from 1972.” Truer words have never been spoken.
Then-girlfriend FTW.
yep, she was an insightful cynic. Current girlfriend (American) can’t believe Moxy Fruvous was #1 on the charts. There can be some bad bad bad music in Canada, and not just Celine Dion.
btw, my bad – “National Fitness Program”, not “National Business Program.” misheard lyrics…
Both sound like dirty, rotten, no-good socialism to me.
Canada rocks. Vancouver is still one of my favorite cities of all time. I’d love to live there again. And Banff National Park is amazing….
Greatest Canadian band? Clearly Bootsauce.
just got schooled by the real canadian.
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