So, they'll be like the 100th greatest band in Canada at that point? Right after Rush, Tragically Hip, Alanis, and the multitude of mediocre Canadians "musicians" who can't sing worth shiat?

In other equally important news, I just dropped a big deuce.

Radiohead = best live show around today.

meh.

Valdes: So, they'll be like the 100th greatest band in Canada at that point? Right after Rush, Tragically Hip, Alanis, and the multitude of mediocre Canadians "musicians" who can't sing worth shiat?



I'm not even sure what the heck you're trying to say, here. Do you think that Radiohead is from Canada, or just that they're not even as good as the musical acts from Canada you listed?


Either way, you're wrong. Wrong and stupid. Wrong, and painfully stupid.

This news makes me happy, mainly because I'm 5000 miles away on the other side of the continent.

I'm not even sure what the heck you're trying to say, here. Do you think that Radiohead is from Canada, or just that they're not even as good as the musical acts from Canada you listed?

Even I will admit that Neil Young (a Canadian) can't sing. But he made up for it by moving to California permanently and writing good songs. Musicians who stay in Canada still can't sing, but they also write crappy songs. I failed to mention the only other Canadian band that ever had a hit "Crash Test Dummies" but they sucked too. Almost as bad as Arcade Fire (who can't sing).

Radiohead are going to Canada, presumably because Thom Yorke can't sing either.

Valdes: I'm not even sure what the heck you're trying to say, here. Do you think that Radiohead is from Canada, or just that they're not even as good as the musical acts from Canada you listed?

Even I will admit that Neil Young (a Canadian) can't sing. But he made up for it by moving to California permanently and writing good songs. Musicians who stay in Canada still can't sing, but they also write crappy songs. I failed to mention the only other Canadian band that ever had a hit "Crash Test Dummies" but they sucked too. Almost as bad as Arcade Fire (who can't sing).

Radiohead are going to Canada, presumably because Thom Yorke can't sing either.

uhhm... ba-zing?

As A middle aged Zeppelin fan, I've been waiting for this opportunity to say. Radiohead sucks.

hmm
Just watched this

In vancouver? Can Skinny Puppy open for them?


/wadda u mean canadians can't sing???? We got CELINE DI...wait, there uhmmm... I don't think I thought this thru...
//wow good point we got nothin but monotone singers (or crappy) leonard cohen, arcade fire, neil young...

Since when is this Fark-worthy news? Been waiting for tickets to go on sale since February.

Valdes: I failed to mention the only other Canadian band that ever had a hit "Crash Test Dummies"

The Guess Who
Sloan
54-40
Feist
BTO
Chilliwack
Trooper
Loverboy
Barenaked Ladies
Jack Soul
Klaatu
Hot Hot Heat
and
Cowboy Junkies

/the off-the-top-of-my-head list of Canadian bands who have had hits outside of Canada

Bill_Wick's_Friend
The Guess Who - American Woman is ~40 years old by now

I've heard of four of these bands. And I think you just proved my point. Canadian music sucks. Canadians can't sing.

I will go one further: Canadian music is actually WORSE than Radiohead. Worse than Coldplay. Worse than every whiny British band that pollute our airwaves with their endless stream of complaining (though they happen to all be multi-millionares).

Valdes: I've heard of four of these bands

Crow louder about how little you know. That's what makes your argument ultra-convincing!

/sarcasm

The Guess Who
Sloan
54-40
Feist
BTO
Chilliwack
Trooper
Loverboy
Barenaked Ladies
Jack Soul
Klaatu
Hot Hot Heat
and
Cowboy Junkies

BUT

Celine
Alanis
Avril
Mike Bubble (I know,I just like calling him that)
Tal Bachman
Nelly Furtado
Valdy
Nickleback
Choclair
Rapping Frenchman, hell anything on Music Plus
Nazareth
April Wine

We suck. If Lenny Kravitz was Canadian, he'd get the Order of Canada, and Lenny Kravitz is to music what Leroy Nieman is to painting. Face it we stick up for truly awful bands and singers that if they were Amercian, we'd think they suck.

Really sick of the whole "its good because its Canadian."

Sorry about the grammar

foil helmet guy: As A middle aged Zeppelin fan, I've been waiting for this opportunity to say. Radiohead sucks.

I didn't realize that Zeppelin and Radiohead had "beef" with each other and that you couldn't just like both of them.

....and DOA, Rough Trade, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Spirit of the West, Steppenwolf, Shania Twain, Sum41, Martha & the Muffins.....

/can keep going

If anything we at least have THESE hits (ok frankly its "AMERICAN WOMAN" and "These Eyes"

/And we should kill lenny Kravitz for raping all that was good about this song

ANd without this there would be no NIN, Marilyn Manson ect:

music-taste bashing is hilarious.

Hey, for a Canadian band, Nickleback isn't all that crappy (in comparison)!

For an American Band, Nickleback is... well they are what they are. A modern version of Bon Jovi.

HappyHarryHardon:

From your profile:

"Butthole Surfers, Cramps, PIL, Miles, Cash, Sex pistols, velvet Underground, Skinny Puppy, Ween, Dean Martin, The Dictators, Nirvana,the Damned, the Stooges, Chrome, Beach Boys, "forever Changes" by Love, Fela Kuti, Flipper, X-Ray Spex, Public Enemy, the Monks, Charles Gainsbourg, Captain Beefheart,Crass,Charles Mingus,Doors, Slits, Joy division, Suicide, Television, Throbbing Gristles, Bauhaus, Jesus and Mary Chain's "psychocandy" ... Daniel Johnston"

Not many Canadians. Maybe you should throw some Brian Adams in there.

I hope Nardwuar interviews Thom Yorke.
That might make the rest of my life.

Oatmealfight: I hope Nardwuar interviews Thom Yorke.
That might make the rest of my life.

Nardwuar FTW!

Shut this farking thread down!

shiftypickles: HappyHarryHardon:

From your profile:

"Butthole Surfers, Cramps, PIL, Miles, Cash, Sex pistols, velvet Underground, Skinny Puppy, Ween, Dean Martin, The Dictators, Nirvana,the Damned, the Stooges, Chrome, Beach Boys, "forever Changes" by Love, Fela Kuti, Flipper, X-Ray Spex, Public Enemy, the Monks, Charles Gainsbourg, Captain Beefheart,Crass,Charles Mingus,Doors, Slits, Joy division, Suicide, Television, Throbbing Gristles, Bauhaus, Jesus and Mary Chain's "psychocandy" ... Daniel Johnston"

Not many Canadians. Maybe you should throw some Brian Adams in there.

Nah, never been all that patriotic music-wise. Ill come here and defend the very few we have, but in the end, growing up I always felt canadian music was bland and 10 years behind. In general, we just aped our british and american counterparts, rarely were we the trend-setters sound wise... Its pretty bleak out there.

But you should know, you being Canadian

shiftypickles: Oatmealfight: I hope Nardwuar interviews Thom Yorke.
That might make the rest of my life.

Nardwuar FTW!

Shut this farking thread down!

I want to 3rd that!!!!

SBA_JKred: music-taste bashing is hilarious.



THIS

That is why they call it "taste".

I actually do hate Celine Dion because she hurts my ears. I mean that literally, I have perfect pitch and the woman makes my ears hurt.

That being said, everyone has different tastes. Taste is also what the music evokes, be it a memory, or a stirring of emotion. For instance, I love the Barenaked Ladies. Nothing to do with how wonderful their voices are or how great a band they are. Soley because their lyrics make me laugh and "If I Had a Million Dollars" was the first song that my son and I could sing in the car together.

/I'd buy you a K Car

Admins, please do me a quick query... I want to know how many posts Valdes has posted, and how many posts he has with the word "Radiohead" in them.

/Very interested on the Radiohead hatred level in this one... almost seems so bad, that he actually LIKES disliking them.

Nardwuar FTW.


/Your favourite band sucks
//so does Valdes

Valdes:

Canada gave the world The Band and Black Mountain. You're from Alaska and you guys gave us Jewel. So you can choke on a dick until you die from cum shooting out your eyes.

kunibob: Since when is this Fark-worthy news?

Because if Radiohead isn't in a thread at least once a day, Fark will implode.

50% of Fark greenlighted threads these days are Obama or Radiohead related.

They're both way overrated, BTW.

Valdes: Bill_Wick's_Friend


I've heard of four of these bands. And I think you just proved my point. Canadian music sucks. Canadians can't sing.
.

Absolutely...because you've never heard of them makes them not good singe...wait what?

Valdes Canadians can't sing

Ben Heppner
Russel Braun
Michael Schade
Simone Osbourne
Richard Margison
Measha Brueggergosman

and - just to name a few of the "legit" popular voices - Goulet, Mitchell, Dion, etc.

As for the many others mentioned here, you appear unaware that popular singing is mostly emotion and attitude. That's why Cohen and Young are revered.

Finally, you don't deserve the civility of this post.

As for the many others mentioned here, you appear unaware that popular singing is mostly emotion and attitude. That's why Cohen and Young are revered.

I never really bashed Cohen. And I think Neil Young is the greatest musician of his era alive.

You're from Alaska and you guys gave us Jewel.

We kicked Jewel out. Everyone here hates her. Seriously. Stuck. Up. biatch.

"In Rainbows" is a great album. Best since "OK Computer". The thing is, if you appreciate good music, Led Zeppelin, Porcupine Tree, early Barenaked Ladies(added just cause they are relevant to the thread), and so on and so on, it is ridiculous not to, at the very least, appreciate Radiohead. I think they took some missteps trying to change the face of music in the last couple of years, but you cannot be serious about music if you hate Radiohead. Open up your mind.

Tickets for the San Diego show go on sale today. I hope I can get some.

More great Canadian singers: Feist, Anne Murray, Joel Plaskett, Ron Sexsmith, Devin Townsend. (Trying to cover all genres here.)

The Greatest Canadian singer of all time: Burton Cummings. (With bonus points for awesome moustache/afro combo in the late '70's.)

I thought I was the greatest Canadian singer.

Check out my website. I'm sure you'll agree.

Valdes amuses me.

I won't even list the amazing Canadian bands he'll never be lucky enough to listen to

or cool enough to appreciate.


/go on with ya
//git now

I was a Radiohead fan in high school and college, and I was lucky enough to see them on the Kid A/Amnesiac tour here in the states. I liked the direction the band was going at the time with those albums, but I didn't know how well the electronic music would work live.

Hands down it was the most rockin' show I'd ever seen.

These guys have played music together since they were about 12, and they're all talented. I don't care what kind of music you like, anyone who likes rock shows would walk out of there absolutely floored.

/I still have no idea why a story about a show in Canada was greenlit. That just seems weird.

BTOC
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