The Vancouver Olympics seem a distant memory, but a great memory at that. After Sidney Crosby had scored the Golden Goal and my jubilation had tapered off, I thought to myself "This is great, our country produces the best hockey players in the world." But I also started thinking that there have got to be other exports of ours that we can be equally as proud of. Well there are: Comedians (Jim Carrey, John Candy, Phil Hartman, Russell Peters etc...), Actors (Ryan Reynolds, Hayden Christiansen, Kim Cattrall etc...) and female beauties (Rachel McAdams, Neve Campbell, Elisha Cuthbert etc...). But last night it dawned on me...
Canada produces some of the best music in the world. While the U.S. and the U.K. are often looked at as tops in terms of music production, I believe we can go toe to toe with any country in the world, those two included.
I saw Charlettown, P.E.I.'s Two Hours Traffic rock Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario last night and wow, are they good. Snappy, catchy, hooky, poppy, use whatever word you want to use to describe their quick tunes, point is: they're great. Check out "Noisemaker" or "Stuck for the Summer", and if they're not stuck in your head within two listens, you're not human and I'm scared of you. But other than that, they have deeply emotional songs like "Stolen Earrings" and "Drop Alcohol" that prove these guys are on to something serious. Give this a listen:
Before the show, I had a short conversation with lead singer Liam Corcoran where he divulged "It seems like we've gotten a following overnight, but in reality, we've been doing this for 7 years. Hitting the pavement hard, and now people are FINALLY starting to appreciate us." There are a lot of terrible bands out there, geography unimportant. So when I hear a small D.I.Y. band that I truly believe have something special, I have no problem passionately conveying that. And turns out a lot of them are from Canada. But D.I.Y. or not, Canada produces important, relevant, influential music, and has for a while. From Ron Sexsmith to Michael Buble, from Arcade Fire to Alexisonfire, from Broken Social Scene to Wintersleep, we export a lot of amazing talent in many different fields. Stand up and be proud Canada! (It should be noted we make some horrible television though...anything starring Brent Butt as an example)
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