The Best Band Canada's Ever Produced

This topic could be debated by many about many but really in the end the conclusion can only come to one band. They were fronted by an unmistakable voice which sang some of the greatest song ever written in any genre. The band also had one of the best drummers to ever walk on planet earth and is completely underrated if not completely ignored. There sound was dynamic as it merged many styles together all creating a classic catalog that is at times as good as the biggest of the biggest bands ever The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Everyone should know I'm speaking of the Guess Who and if you thought otherwise bang your head into the nearest wall. Tragically Hip fans please jump in front of a speeding truck 18 wheeler preferred.

The Guess Who only wrote "American Woman" and is the first number one song on the American music charts by a Canadian group. They also had some other notable hits "These Eyes" and their excellent and maybe the original mashup "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature". Now other Canadian bands have come and gone but I don't believe any of them had the major impact on the Canadian music scene like the one The Guess Who had. The band is one of the major acts that helped form the Canadian recording industry creating a pathway for all who came afterwards. Without their success worldwide the gifted artists that Canada has always had a knack for creating might have never found success. Sure you can argue April Wine or Rush for greatest Canadian band but without The Guess Who their might be no Rush or April Wine.

Now go listen to some great Canuck rock (NO HIP ALLOWED)!

Here is a short list of recommendations:

Rough Trade
April Wine
Hedstones
Teenage Head
Prism
Loverboy
Nickelback
Sloan
Doug & The Slugs
The Odds
Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts
Trooper
54-40
Stampeders
Hedley
The Pursuit Of Happiness
Our Lady Peach

...And that's just a start, GO CANADA GO!

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Lou Bega Yes Lou Bega Is Back With A New Album

So the "Mambo #5" man has appeared for another kick at the can. Now remember this music is not meant for the mainstream and is really for the dance clicks around town. You know in Victoria we have the Swing City folks and the Country dancers and so forth they are the people who will really appreciate this music.

Lou does have some good tracks that are fun to sway along to like "Sweet Like Cola" & "Mommy Is Hot" both would keep those latin dancers happy the latter is a great cha cha. The real problem is that the music kind of all sounds the same. So really pull a song out for a mixed CD here and there and you'll find lots to enjoy. The very childish sounding caribean tune "My Day" will make a two year old dance in a second. This is one of the most catchy tunes on the album and has the ability to drive you insane. I will admit that I do enjoy the songs the more I listen to them but they will all run their course and quickly get to the enough already point. The track "Ballin" should be WWE superstar MVP's new theme song along with a new push and a slight character switch to a more smooth fun easy going dude.

If you absolutely love 50's infused latin dance pop with a touch of reggae then this is the album for you. If you love to partner dance then again here is one for you but this music doesn't stand up or have the staying power to be more than novelty pop. We like for now but not forever.

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Little Big Town - The Reason Why

I came into this one not expecting this band or singing group to be much as with most of these new country packaged acts like the bloody awful Lady Antebelum or the not so terrible McClymonts or Gloriana. The trouble with these acts as they are all just faces placed together with a fake bio making them out to be some great coming together of musical genius and they are solo artists that the labels had no idea what to do with so they package em up and call them a group or duo. This isn't the first time that's happened look at the success of Brooks & Dunn or Montgomery Gentry which were packaged solo artists and sold as something real. Luckily both those acts had something more than this new crop and that is talent.

Here we have another group which looks like a country Abba or Ace Of Base unlike their country pop counterparts this act actually has some teeth. The cracks do show on absolute garbage songs like "Kiss Goodbye" and "Shut Up Train" but when they are doing music that the members actually believe in and love they sound honest. The ballad "You Can't Have Everything" is a great country tune that works nicely with all their harmonies. The song might be the albums best track on the twelve song platter. LBT do find themselves with more good music on The Reason Why than the gawd awful filler we are usually served in this new pop/adult contemporary meets country genre.

One of the albums worst tunes is "All Over Again" a professionally written song obviously because its faceless and derrivitave and could be insterted on any current country pop album sung by any of the generic singers that have come out Cashville USA in the last six or seven years. The song is so bad it should have been on Lady Antebelum's album. Then a song like "Life Rolls On" appears that erases the disastrous misstep. If your a fan of the current junk country that is really pop music with a Nashville twang mixed in for effect this album will suit you perfectly because the shit songs will be right up your alley. The really good songs will be a bonus for your investment. This is not a perfect country pop album but its fairly strong for another packaged act we are being force fed this year.

Country music needs a Nirvana to knock it down to the bricks so it can emerge from the rubble better for it all. The last time it happened it was named Randy Travis who will be country music's savior this time?

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10 Songs That Should Be On Everybody's I-Pod

Here you go Nathan just for you.

10. The Kid Is Hot Tonite by Loverboy
09. Cooler Than Me by Mike Posner
08. In My Dreams by Dokken
07. Made Of Metal by Halford
06. Rock Queen by Love/Hate
05. This Shit Getz Old by Never Shout Never
04. Runaway by Luis Cardenas
03. Tallahasse Lassie by Freddy Boom Boom Cannon
02. What You Give by Tesla
01. True Believer by Testament

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