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    Hey Mike. It's nice to see Bedouin Soundclash on your list. I love them, but I hadn't realized that they'd made their way over the pond. A lot of Canadian bands who make waves here only do so because of Canadian Content laws for radio play. I think that Metric, mentioned by Lion Man above, is a good example of that. So it's nice to see some of these bands getting the attention that they deserve elsewhere.

    While we're on the subject, I'd like a copy of that comp if it's not too much trouble. You've made a lot of great recs to me in the past and I'm sure that there's lots on this comp that I haven't heard that I'll like.

    Cheers!

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    The Raveonettes: Lust Lust Lust
    This was waiting for me last night in my mailbox when I got home. I think it's their best yet, and I'm already a fan. It kinda takes the heavy Jesus & Mary Chain feedback sound of their first stuff and couples it with a bit more breadth they first opened up to on Pretty in Black. The opening track is another one with a great Duane Eddy style guitar twang cutting through the fuzz and kicks things off right. The whole thing looses a bit of momentum as it winds down, but I'm gonna be listening to it a ton. Sure, they're not the most original band in the world, but I've got no problem with a band shamelessly wearing their influences on their sleeve if I like those influences. And, white noise guitar squall meets wall of sound meets old style rock 'n' roll melodies ain't gonna rub me the wrong way.



    Working For A Nuclear Free City: Businessmen & Ghosts
    I just stumbled across this one, but I believe it came out last year in England and then was issued with a whole second disc of material late in the year in the US. This one's a jumble of all kinds of stuff. They'd be one of those bands impossible to get a taste of in a singe song as they run from slow electronic instrumentals to all out rock songs and quite a bit in between over the course of 2 discs. From Manchester, I've heard them compared to Stone Roses, which makes sense, but they also throw a heaping healping of electronics into the mix. This thing is all over the place, but manages to stick together. The sprawl kinda reminds me of Spiritualized in parts, but with more drive and energy and less lazy hazy moments. Rampant excess and hard to pin down, and so far I'm quite fond of it.

    And, by the way, looking forward to that comp Mike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
    Hey Mike. It's nice to see Bedouin Soundclash on your list. I love them, but I hadn't realized that they'd made their way over the pond. A lot of Canadian bands who make waves here only do so because of Canadian Content laws for radio play.
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    I think that was much more true - the concept of un-deserving bands getting air-play because of Canadian content rules, that is - through the '80s when midling acts like Saga and Honeymoon Suite and Glass Tiger and Platinum Blonde etc... were littering the Canadian airwaves, than it is today. I don't see it as a big a factror with the resurgence in Canadian music that is going on today.

    Now granted I listen to really no terrestrial radio, (or sattelite for that matter) , mostly because the radio in Montreal is incredibly bad, so I don't really know if bands like Metric and the Constantines and the Weakerthans and Broken Social Scene and The Stars and The New Pornographers, (I'll leave Feist and The Arcade Fire out of the discussion for now); are getting played on the radio. I am pretty confident in saying that they don't get played in Montreal nor Ottawa. Are they beeing played in Toronto?

    To me, I see Canada today the way Britain was in the early '80s, -- a country that is producing way more high quality music than it's population size would have you think possible, and content rules have little to do with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ex Lion Tamer
    I think that was much more true - the concept of un-deserving bands getting air-play because of Canadian content rules, that is - through the '80s when midling acts like Saga and Honeymoon Suite and Glass Tiger and Platinum Blonde etc... were littering the Canadian airwaves, than it is today. I don't see it as a big a factror with the resurgence in Canadian music that is going on today.

    Now granted I listen to really no terrestrial radio, (or sattelite for that matter) , mostly because the radio in Montreal is incredibly bad, so I don't really know if bands like Metric and the Constantines and the Weakerthans and Broken Social Scene and The Stars and The New Pornographers, (I'll leave Feist and The Arcade Fire out of the discussion for now); are getting played on the radio. I am pretty confident in saying that they don't get played in Montreal nor Ottawa. Are they beeing played in Toronto?

    To me, I see Canada today the way Britain was in the early '80s, -- a country that is producing way more high quality music than it's population size would have you think possible, and content rules have little to do with it.
    I didn't mean to imply that Metric was undeserving. I hope that you didn't take it that way. What I meant was that there are lots of wonderful Canadian artists that wouldn't get any radio play if not for CanCon rules. And I think that this applies even more now than in the 80's. In the 80's bands had to sign a big record deal to get on the radio. It was more about marketability than music. But today, so many bands are on independant labels or even just promoting themselves that they wouldn't have got the time of day in the past. But radio stations are forced to find good Canadian content and if the big record labels don't have an Avril Lavigne or Alanis Morisette to push, then they have to find alternative music to fill the requirement. I think it's a good thing.

    I haven't heard The Weakerthans or The Constantines on the radio here. But I have heard Metric, The Stars, BSS, and The New Pornogrophers on 102.1 which is the closest thing to a mainstream alternative station that we have here. Unfortunately, to get to those bands you have to put up with Nickelback, Billy Talent and Fall Out Boy in high doses. (where's the little barfy emoticon when you need it?).

    And I never heard Fiest on the radio until Apple picked her up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
    I haven't heard The Weakerthans or The Constantines on the radio here. But I have heard Metric, The Stars, BSS, and The New Pornogrophers on 102.1 which is the closest thing to a mainstream alternative station that we have here. Unfortunately, to get to those bands you have to put up with Nickelback, Billy Talent and Fall Out Boy in high doses. (where's the little barfy emoticon when you need it?).

    And I never heard Fiest on the radio until Apple picked her up.
    Well you guys are doing way better than us in MTL, (at least in radio if not in hockey - had to get a Leafs dig in there), independent music and radio are mutually exclusive concepts here.

    Not sure I agree with your now versus '80s comparison, the rules are the same now as then (I think) yet 90% of the Cdn. content then was dreck - so the music was (and is) getting on the radio whether good or not, it just happens that now the music is of a much higher quality, IMO. I think the major record labels point is a bit of a red herring because in the '80s there really were no indie-labels, at least not to the extent there is now, so it was major label or nothing, now, thankfully there are lots of alternatives for talented young bands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
    Hey Mike. It's nice to see Bedouin Soundclash on your list. I love them, but I hadn't realized that they'd made their way over the pond. A lot of Canadian bands who make waves here only do so because of Canadian Content laws for radio play. I think that Metric, mentioned by Lion Man above, is a good example of that. So it's nice to see some of these bands getting the attention that they deserve elsewhere.

    While we're on the subject, I'd like a copy of that comp if it's not too much trouble. You've made a lot of great recs to me in the past and I'm sure that there's lots on this comp that I haven't heard that I'll like.

    Cheers!
    I can't remember if you introduced me to them or I introduced them to you. But I forgot they are Canadian, either way I love their sound. The latest has more of a ska feel to it don't you think.

    No problem with the comp I'll send one asap, you still at Norris Way, Ontario?

    Cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike
    I can't remember if you introduced me to them or I introduced them to you. But I forgot they are Canadian, either way I love their sound. The latest has more of a ska feel to it don't you think.

    No problem with the comp I'll send one asap, you still at Norris Way, Ontario?

    Cheers
    Mike
    Maybe I introduced them to you, although I don't remember doing so. Or coulda been Audiobill who introduced you. I know that he digs them too. I know it wasn't the other way around. Yeah, I like the new album better than the first although both are very good.

    You've got the address right. Thanks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
    A lot of Canadian bands who make waves here only do so because of Canadian Content laws for radio play.

    I don't know what Canadians think about that law, but I'll tell you that as an American living 10 miles from the Canadian border, I thank the gods in the Great White North every day for that law. A little variety on the radio never hurt anyone.
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