36 Replies to “Making Music Suck (even more)”

    1. Not just another fake Indian; not an Elizabeth Warren. She actually met, liked, and joined a native band in Saskatchewan. It was something better than a fraud.

      Remember, in those days it wasn’t a privileged thing to be Indian. She didn’t benefit from the claim. The progressive establishment was Marxist and wanted the natives consigned to the dustbin of history. Solidarity with the natives, treating them as human, was a way of opposing the establishment as well as of trying to be human. Treating their cultural as valuable was giving the finger to Marx. And also, sometimes you just meet people and like them, and Buffy and her native friends treated each other as family. I’m not inclined to judge her harshly.

  4. Questioning the communist administrative state we live in is not even allowed by the court system, check vaccine mandate rulings, did Bryan Adams think we lived in a free country? If so, he’s a fool.

  5. Careful buttercup, once Trudy’s oppressive hate laws are in place the libs will charge you with Hate.

  6. And this is how Doug and Al MacKenzie got started — Canadian content, Eh.
    Let’s give the federal civil servants and LibNDP politicians what they really want: full time Canadian content — indigenous drumming and singing pumped into their offices 24/7. I give them half a day until they start wearing noise cancelling headphones or break and run. Since they don’t listen to anyone or do anything useful anyway, the average Canadian won’t notice any difference in government services.

    2. WZ, you may not think so, but he’s sold over 75 million records,so someone must like his music. Btw, I’m not a fan, but I do realize taste in music differs.

      Bought any Walter Ostenak CD’s lately?

      I agree with Adams and anyone else who’s against “Canadian Content” in any medium. Most Cancon TV shows I’ve seen are pure crap, with the exception of Corner Gas, and much of the Cancon music is the same.

      Whatever happened to Rene Simard, Canadian superstar of Cancon?

      1. I don’t care if he sold a trillion records. Musically speaking his stuff is garbage. Appealing to people who really have no understanding of music. Which is most people. Anyone who would call Bryan Adams, and like (Rene Simard, etc) an “artist” aren’t playing with a full deck. If that’s what passes as Canadian content, then I hope it dies a quick and very forgettable death.

  8. Music doesn’t need the government’s help to make it suck more… it already has record companies for that.

  9. If Canadian “content” was any good it would sell itself.

    Nearly 160 years since Confederation, 9 years since transitioning to a Post National State, and Canadian content of any kind is nothing more than a sh*tburger to the world. No one consumes it.

    1. ^^^ Paul’s comment, 100%.

      Applies equally to music, television, cinema and writing.

      mhb23re

  10. The process is the punishment.. I get it, more Canadian jobs but it limits the creative process and the relationships built around that.. Seeing as you have to leave Canada to hit it big anyway you can let demand put you on the air in Canada..

    If they limit what I can stream.. I wont stream anymore.. An all you can eat buffet of low quality unappetizing food :).. Yum..

    But gubermint being gubermint, they will stick their dirty thumb in, none the less..

  12. This is a long-running feud between Adams and the CRTC. Decades ago, much of his music (written and recorded by Adams) was deemed non-Canadian for purposes of Canadian content rules, a preposterous state of affairs.

    1. The problem was that of the four categories, only one (performer) was Canadian. The tracks were written by a Brit, the album was recorded in Britain, and the producer was British.

      The purpose of CanCon regulations was to subsidize the domestic music industry. Adams’ British albums weren’t deemed CanCon for good reason: aside from Adams himself (who recorded the albums in Britain) they provided no jobs to Canadians.

      The entire CanCon racket is stupid, but the rules have always been clear and he was happy to benefit from them until they stopped working in his favour.

  13. Whoa Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)
    Yeah Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)
    Black Betty had a child (Bam-ba-lam)
    Damn thing gone wild (Bam-ba-lam)
    She’s always ready (Bam-ba-lam)
    She’s so rock steady (Bam-ba-lam)
    Whoa Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)
    Yeah Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)

    Here’s the thing. Written in 1933 by a black inmate in Texas. The song (Black Betty) is about a solid black transport vehicle used at that particular prison. Our recent perpetually perturbed groups called the song racist until someone informed them of the history. Immediately, they switched gears and called the song racial appropriation and that white people singing it was racist. And, hence, the New Hampshire college hockey team that had entered the ice for decades using that song had to retire it.

    Racial appropriation is all about tearing down society. Destroy….smother….destruct….it’s a slow motion temper tantrum of imbeciles.

    1. Black song writers are going to be really annoyed that no white people can record their songs and send them royalty cheques.

    3. Love that Ram Jam so much I bought an original state lp of it in Near Mint condition. That’s some infectious guitar work there!

  14. SXM has been enjoyable to listen to without the CANCON rules of terrestrial radio. That seems to be coming to an end, and is a horrible conclusion.
    No commercials and no CANCON for less than $10/mo on multiple devices. Trust government to continue to feck things up.

  15. The only song the government sings is: Money (That’s what I want).
    The CRTC is a disgrace and Cancon is pathetic.
    Canadians are weak and need the government to protect them.
    Except militarily.

  16. If they start dictating what I can listen to, I guess I can always go back to downloading what I want to listen to from Piratebay

  17. Canadian music as envisioned by our Ivory Tower Trash:
    Margaret Atwood reciting The Rhyme of the Modern Marineress with a choral backup of loon calls, wolf howls, and Indigenous hey-yas … and bongo drums and sitars, of course.

    1. Oh, I wish I still had my band, Jaimie, I have an arrangement in mind already. Hey-ya!

  18. ‘American Woman’ is CRTC’s enduring example of ‘Canadian culture’.

  20. So, ummmm….can we start pulling down all the statues of Eminem? White rappers are racist!
    (tbh, I find all rappers to be annoying…so maybe I’m not the one to be leading this charge)

  22. I think Bryan Adams is being a little too kind. That we ever -have- a CRTC that does more than issue radio bandwidth licenses is appalling. In a free country, you get to sing what you want.

  24. A VPN is to avoid scammers and theives………..AKA Government of Canada…………

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