26 Replies to “An Observation On The Current State Of The Canadian Music Industry”

  1. They were right about Canadian Idol, though. If you ever get a hankering for a Kalan Porter CD, wait 6 months and pick it up for $1 in the discount bin.

  2. I didn’t watch last night but caught a clip of Pam. I have a question. Was she really a cheesy as the clip showed? It wouldn’t suprise me at all.

  4. Yes, Pammy was definitely as cheesy as you saw in the clip, if not worse. She was absolutely brutal. Click here for my opinion, orn visit http://www.toryblue.ca.
    Here’s what the Calgary Sun had to say:
    The one thing everyone should have learned from the 1996 silver screen softcore action epic Barb Wire — other than Hollywood has no shame — is Pamela Anderson can’t be expected to carry two hours (or 98 minutes) on her own … her duties were mercifully kept to a minimum and ultimately she was given about as many lines to read as during her stint on cable TV jigglefest ViP. And thank God for that. When she spoke, stumbling empty-headedly over the numerous and painfully obvious T&A jokes the team of script-writing monkeys banged out for her, the walking Vacuflo system fell flat on her face — as physically impossible as that may sound … But that was only the beginning of the descent into the eye-rolling –calling it tasteless gives it unwarranted credit — with Anderson using the show as an opportunity to make her PETA beliefs known (her favourite artist Seal wasn’t there because he was afraid of “being clubbed to death”), which drew a huge chorus of boos from the East Coast crowd. (Is the irony really lost on the woman that such a strong defender of nature should probably be a little less synthetic.)

  5. PMSH sure made the right call or should I say not returning a call. Having a meeting with all of that “silicone” would have been a complete waste of time! Hopefully now that she has had her few moments of fame in Canada she will go back to California. Please!

  6. I knew I was right to give the Junos a wide berth–so wide that I didn’t give them a second thought, nor did it ever enter my mind to watch them last night.
    The best thing on the Junos was The Men of the Deeps, the Cape Breton Miners’ Choir, usually accompanying Rita McNeil–and that was years ago.
    The Canadian music industry is going down the toilet FAST. First clue: Having Pamela Anderson as host. She’s cheap, she’s floozy, she’s fake, she’s stupid–and she’s got lousy taste in men. She’s also spent the last 20 years in the U.S., so why ask her to host a Canadian industry event? We must be pretty hard up. (On the other hand, we wouldn’t want to have to bring Rick Mercer on AGAIN…)
    Oh for the Canadian musicians I used to listen to: Ian and Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Band. There was talent.

  8. Pam has only given one sincere screen performance in her life. She played a bride that was truly embarrassed by her demanding exhibitionist husband, during the making of their honeymoon video.
    Highlights of which are perpetually floating around the internet.
    What a astonishing life for Canada’s Centennial Baby

  9. Broken Social Scene reminded me of band pratice in high school -the warm up part where everyone is playing a different tune at the same time.

  10. Don’t know, don’t care, didn’t watch it. Especially after they allowed pammy on the air. Pretty sad, all she has is animal tested silicone going for her!

  12. I used to look forward to the junos. there were always the veteran bands like Rush and Kim Mitchell, mixed with the up-and-coming bands like Haywire and Honeymoon Suite. Hey!! when did I get old???
    By the way, whatever happened to Frozen Ghost?

  13. Coldplay was fantastic. I don’t know how the Junos got them, but I’m glad they did!! Pam even thinks they are Canadian! lol

  15. Pamela is a drawing card for hormone and tostesterone handicapped 18 year olds. The mainstream Juno audience in other words.
    The first time a young fellow hugs a *silicone* gal he will be rudely shocked at how hard and unnatural those good looking bulges are.
    You young gals… any gals.. Never pollute your body with silicone or anything else. Your immune system will be forever fighting it and if there is a rupture, the results are worse than horror on the Scream channel.
    Stay natural, be proud of it and avoid a health downfall that few ever recover from. TG

  16. “”Pamela is a drawing card for hormone and tostesterone handicapped 18 year olds.””
    I guess that explains bigcitylib’s fixation on her. Poor BCL just couldn’t get over the idea of PMSH turning down her request to meet with the PM. Of course, the rest of Canada had no trouble understanding the wisdom of that decision.

  17. Here in London, I play but three tunes from the homeland when I’m feeling homesick:
    1. “Bobcaygeon” by the Tragically Hip.
    2. “Dimanche � soir � Ch�teauguay” by Beau Dommage (an oldie but a goodie).
    3. “Harvest Moon” by Neil Young.
    Other than that, the Canadian music scene seems like a bit of a dustbowl these days.
    Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Jane Siberry, Robert Charlebois and Diane Dufresne:
    Come back! All is forgiven!

  18. Oh yeah: I like Neil Young and Stan Rogers too. I actually was part of the “Folk Club” at my university, the same Folk Club that Stan Rogers sang in (he was a year behind me). He’d forget the words two verses into St. James Infirmary Blues, but after the “cool” guys’ contemptuous chuckles, he’d just blow everyone away by the power of his voice. Where are the other guys now?

  19. There is one Stan Rogers song I won’t listen to – “Night Guard” (may be known by another name), not because I don’t like it, but because it makes me feel like doing homicide on the next govt. flunky I meet. Stan Rogers’ songs are EXTREMELY subversive of the present system if you listen carefully. It has even made me contemplate some half-baked conspiracy theories about his demise.

  20. Can Con has degenerated a long way from the days of single take or live music back in the day. Neil Young,Teenage Head, Art Bergman or Kim Mitchel managed decently clean music with pretty primitive recording technology….wasn’t Neal and his punk followers the grand fathers of crappy vocals?…..Then again now adays we are in the 4th wave of over produced studio music…digital sound sampling and unlimited DSP mixing and tracking can make any sweaty porker sound human.
    Speaking of crappy vocals …ever heard Blackeyed peas live?

  21. I find whenever I desire to support the music industry, I buy some blank recordable media. That way, the Canadian industry gets a cut and I get peace and quiet.

  22. Whatever happened to the electric fiddler, Bim? He had coke bottle glasses like the dude from ‘Trailer Park.

  23. Bim’s real name is Roy Forbes(I think) and he hosts a show on cbc radio once in a while. He has this fantastic collection of old vinyl. I think he’s in Saskatchewan? I remember seeing him at Yamnuska in the kananskis, and his high little voice made us all break out laughing ( maybe it was the herb)

  24. Kudos to Jan Arden. I didn’t see the show, but according to my radio station, she got up there after Pam and said her brassiere was entirely made up of eye lids from baby seals! I’m gonna go buy her CD tommorrow.

  25. Somewhat along the lines of the discussion taking place here, I posted the following question on my blog: “Musicians should confine their public political commentary to writing and singing protest songs. Discuss.”

  26. Here’s a good distinction to make – that Canada, for all her independence and America bashing, still puts on a small-time show worse than the Grammy’s which are pretty awful in their own right.
    Let’s face it, from the perspective of ‘music’ pop music just ain’t that much ‘music’.
    In other words, pop music is to ‘music’ what the television show ‘Trading Spaces’ is to ‘quality renovation.’

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