Why are they so completely incompetent at music?
they have plenty of good artists Opie, you just need to listen to more music
Boards of Canada? Stupid.
>>64047814
>DUDE
>>64048234
before anyone replies to this, he is kidding.
>>64047814
''no''
>>64047814
Canada is literally running the music world right now
good attempt, i like your drive kid. If you keep trying im sure one day you will be successful troll. Keep at it kid.
>>64048234
Heh
Godspeed! You black emperor
Neil Young
Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire
Mac Demarco
Grimes
Death from above 1979
Japandroids
Destroyer
Wolf parade
Born ruffians
The unicorns
Alvvays
The Band
Pretty good if you ask me
>>64048678
How did you manage to leave out Rush?
>>64047814
EXCUSE ME?!
>>64048678
Also Badbadnotgood, the new pornographers, metric, and tokyo police club
Britain is like less than a quarter the size of the US and has produced legendary, critically acclaimed band after legendary, critically acclaimed band and a good amount of the groundwork for all modern pop music. Same thing with Germany. Size is no excuse, anglophone countries besides the US and UK only put out garbage and have never created, let along innovated a genre of music ever.
A FUCKING LEAF
>>64048780
lol
>>64048780
Ethan is the competent one.
>>64047814
>mfw
>>64047814
You're a pleb
>>64048678
DFA1979 is shit
New York State population: 19 million
>countless genres and innovative, inventive, famous, and critically acclaimed artists
Canadian population: 35 million
>uhh Mac DeMarco, this meme rapper I like, Rush, and um... uh SHUT UP PLEB
>>64048678
Viet Conh
While we're in a Canadian thread, what does /mu/ think of Billy Talent?
... what?
OP is a faggot.
op is a salty pleb american, typical of his fellow countrymen
devin townsend is the only good artist out of canada
>>64048764
I blame the CRTC. The CRTC babies Canadian artists by mandating radio stations and in general all Canadian media formats to have a certain percentage of homegrown presence. So Canadian talent rarely has the incentive to make it big by being talented or taking chances because they have a comfortable life. They do something mediocre and they'll never have to work a day in their life in Canada
It also does not help to be neighbors to a entertainment superpower, whose influence as a fellow anglo country leads to them dominated our music scene.
He gives me those comfy feels
>>64048221
im a music guyy purrriod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67MXAsSrJs
>>64047814
But GY!BE is nice
>>64047814
Not true. So many good canadian artists, just less of them. Sheepdogs are amazing, and I have many personal canadian favourites that perform at night clubs in cities in Canada.
>>64048964
Toronto: 6m people
NY: 19m
Drake
Justin Bieber
The Weeknd
name one artist from NY as relevant as any of them right now. Go ahead.
>mfw Americans say they don't like Canadian music
Also left out:
>Drake
>The Guess Who
>>64048964
countless genres? other than hip hop?
>>64048964
new york has halsey
canada has rush
case closed.
Canada is meh I admit, but Australia is the ultimate anglo shithole when it comes to the music scene.
>>64050304
just compare atlanta and toronto dumbfuck
>>64048845
truth
>>64050408
Australia has an even smaller population than Canada.
At least they have Nick Cave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk
Geddy Lee is a prime pussy slayer even if he looks like my aunt.
>>64050433
Toronto: 6m
Rest of Earth: 7b
Justin Bieber
Drake
The Weeknd
Name one artist as relevant as any of them right now.
>not being Canadian
it's like you think merica is a good place
Red Rider fuck yeah. Back before Americans decided to make fucking Life is A Highway popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWlCD68oeu0
>>64048702
Dad core gtfo
Anyone wanna go out for a rip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-glHAzXi_M
>>64050389
o i am laffin
Punk
No-Wave
Hip-Hop
New York Blues
Doo-Wop
Disco
Salsa
>>64050523
it is if you like music.
America
> The WEAKnd
> Miley Crackhead
> The Poo Fighters
Where as the more sophisticated Canada....
> Skinny Puppy
> Godspeed you! Black Emperor
> Grimes
> Broken Social Scene
> AIDs Wolf
Pfft... Nothin personel, Amerikids.
>>64050677
oh the America education system...
>>64050721
Weeknd is from Torronto you bumbling mongloid
>>64050721
>The Weeknd
>Not canadian
bait or sheer fucking stupidity?
>>64050304
They're all still shit, only teenagers care about relevance
>>64050773
He's from Canada but he might as well be considered American because his music is fucking awful.
>>64050879
And you might as well be considered a retard because you're retarded
>>64048234
Came here to make this post except about of Montreal.
>>64050914
>this american execution of an insult
>>64050914
damn.. you suck
>>64050932
I'm done with you man. Go back to Syrupland
>>64050955
at least the maple syrup is actually maple syrup and not corn syrup flavoured with fake maple like in merica town.
>Tim Hecker
>Women
>Timber Timbre
Name better US artists in those genres
>>64047814
>I'm a pleb that can't into industrial: the post
>>64048678
All of these, with the exception of GSYBE and Neil Young, arent that great.
>>64047814
https://www.youtube.com/user/mothermothermusic/videos
>>64050879
you seem to have forgotten that quite possibly the three most popular artists in the world (Weeknd, drake, and bieber) are all canadian.
Sounds to me like shit music is more of a canadian trait
I didn't know Alvvays was Canadian. Cool.
>>64051074
maybe not better, but comparable:
>Hecker
OPN
>Women
Ty Segall and Deerhunter
>Timber Timbre
Smog/Bill Callahan
US, Jamaica, UK, Nigeria, NZ, they all created genres and movements with identity and following
However, what on earth has Canada done other than mere imitations?
>>64048678
Dont forget about Women
>>64051342
Arcade Fire literally defined indie rock in the 2000s
Montreal defined 3rd wave post rock
read up kiddo
>>64048702
Because rush are embarrassing and an example of Canada being incompetent at music.
>>64051598
>>64050217
that explains why I hear Hedley every fucking where
>>64051636
nice rebuttal
explain to me how Arcade Fire weren't one of the most important bands in defining what we know as "indie" today
whether or not you actually like the music, their importance is pretty clear
We got Gorguts though
>>64050914
embarrassing
>>64051817
And Paul Dolden.
>>64051681
Real talk, Arcade Fire is one the most influential band of the 21st century.
Just off the top of my head:
>Joni Mitchell
>Neil Young
>Tim Hecker
>Any band on Constellation Records
They're doing alright.
>>64051245
There's good and bad music everywhere.
>ctrl+f
> no leonard cohen
/mu/ is a plebian board from now
>>64050660
New York also provided VERY large contributions to jazz since pretty much the beginning. Most famous American classical composers are also based in New York too.
New York vs anywhere isn't really very fair.
>>64050479
And sounds like my niece.
>>64052698
Adam Sandler
Leonard Cohen is a fantastic musician though
FUCKING A LEAF
There are a whole lot of post-rock bands from canada. GY!BE, Do Make Say Think, Exhaust, Fly Pan Am, and a bunch of others are from canada
>>64048957
you're fuckin stupid
practically every new genre in the 20th century that got popular was birthed in America, and refined in Britain. Canada has a weird middle position, of trying to differentiate itself from the U.S. while feeling closer in some ways to the U.K.
basically it feels like the pressure is less up here for some reason. CRTC pampering of all Can Con so it can behave in a lower-gravity environment doesn't totally explain why we don't have as many musical geniuses. maybe it's because almost everything that's taken off has been a fusion of black American styles and we're just further away from that influence.
the internet is defeating that divide a lot, so we'll see where this new generation takes us
>>64049575
ALbums have gotten progressively worse, but its pretty hard to top the greatness that was Billy Talent 1.
They're great, they play great live shows.
>>64048964
All talent in your shit country moves to either LA or NY, so it's not really a compelling argument
>>64050443
>ctrl-f tragically hip
0 results
idiots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-WBZMRFFkU
>>64054177
My syrup nigga. My favourite song from them too besides this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6QDjDPRF5c
dat qt native grill
>>64047814
>what is drake
fucking racist
>>64048678
half of arcade fire is from texas
Who /sloan/ here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiYgKXOPNG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKq3qnnrwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmvVvcf8mBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQszX1tMsA
>>64048678
>not including Rush
stay pleb mubro
>>64055818
well to be fair Rush are the worst band ever
>>64048678
>Grimes
>Japandroids
These cancerous hacks almost cancel up the greatness of Canadian music.
>>64050217
This is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard.
The mandate is necessary to ensure the survival of any semblance of a popular scene due to what your last paragraph says.
It's hard to make a living even as an established radio act in Canada because the market is so much smaller. There's huge incentive to keep innovating because you've got a good platform in which to break in to the American market.
>>64048964
Probably troll, but population density of Canada: 4 people per km^2
New York City: 10,000 per km^2
It's a lot harder to reach audiences in Canada, which means if you don't have some pop sensibility, you probably won't survive.
It's both a blessing and a curse depending on how you look at it. It means we've got some incredibly viable acts coming out of pretty small scenes.
>>64050120
Only good answer so far.
I like The Birthday Massacre. Hot Topic-core as fuck but they're still good regardless.
>>64047814
They're bound to underachieve compared to their next door neighbors. They still push out plenty of great artists. Canada has a very sparsely (and comparatively small) population with a colossal geography. Within the country the music has to travel a whole lotta distance to even reach not a whole lotta people. If you didn't grow up in a major city it's hard to break out, and even if you do come from a place like Calgary, Montreal, etc., the nearest major city from there is still like 400 miles away. There are a lot of factors that go into it but from a certain point of view I imagine it's a difficult country to initially gain a following in.
>>64055900
>actually believing this
not him btw
>>64056439
this. it's pretty clearly explained in the documentary "a city is an island"
in Montreal especially, given the cultural divide, it was pretty hard to get noticed in a music industry that was primarily francophone. despite the fact that the city is in the top 3 in Canada, it's completely removed culturally from everywhere else.
if you lived in Philly or Baltimore, you could pass around a tape and eventually it would make its way to New York. in Montreal, because people often stay within Quebec, chances are your music is going to stay there.
here's the doc in case you want to watch. it's pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfWbyrTr818
>>64056571
>if you lived in Philly or Baltimore, you could pass around a tape and eventually it would make its way to New York.
Not only this but in the US you don't even have to "make it to" NY or LA. There are so many major cities with different huge scenes that there is no one destination or hub. I have no idea if it's like that in Canada. Do all roads lead to Toronto?
>>64050955
Calling it Syrupland makes me want to go to Canada even more.
>>64056670
>do all roads lead to toronto
not really tbqh
Montreal was a bigger hub for everything up until the 1960's. it was the economic, technologic & cultural centre of canada, up until the Quebec government introduced bill 101, a bill that sought to preserve QC culture and promote french as the main language.
not wanting to switch their language of business, all the major players moved to toronto / vancouver
if the QC government hadn't made that switch, Montreal would honestly be NYC / Chicago tier
that's why Toronto is only coming up now - it's only really been the focus of Canada for the past 40 years
>canada
>musically incompetent
>neil young
>rush
>arcade fire
>godspeed you! black emperor
>leonard cohen
>broken social scene
>joni mitchell
>devin townsend
>the band
>harmonium
>cryptopsy
>do make say think
>death from above 1979
>tim hecker
>skinny puppy
>gorguts
>voivod
>venetian snares
>glenn gould
>>64050445
And frenzal rhomb
>>64055974
>grimes
>hack
>>64056915
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Literally 0 posts about this band
kys /mu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYOZfDL2As
>>64056887
I'm glad Heavy Devy finally got mentioned.
>>64057095
that's probably because djent sux
canada has god tier death metal like cryptopsy
>>64055974
what's wrong with japandroids again?
>>64057095
I never even knew they were Canadian. Cool.
>>64048764
less than an eighth the size my guy
