Best Canadian Rock Bands/Artists

[Gugny]

Lots of great rock music has come out of Canada.  Who are your Top 3?

 

Rush

Guess Who

BTO

[DD4Bills]

Bands

Rush (if I could vote them 1, 2 and 3 I would)

BTO

The Band

 

Artists (not really "rock", but...)

Neil Young

Gordon Lightfoot

Leonard Cohen

[Another Fan]

Gordon Lightfoot

Bryan Adams

Alanis Morisette

 

I'll give Carly Rae Jepsen honorable mention 

[Greg S]

For me Rush and Neil Young  top the list.

[Seasons1992]

The Band, Neil Young, Rush.

[Gugny]

Neil Young is a great call.  My mind was on bands, so he never crossed my mind.  But he's easily my favorite Canadian artist.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

I don't think I am qualified to answer, but 'Giant FM - 91.7' Welland has a well worn Trooper album. 🤨

[Greg S]

 

[BuffaloBill]

24 minutes ago, Greg S said:

For me Rush and Neil Young  top the list.

 

This ^^^^ easily 

 

Can’t believe that nobody has said Justin Bieber or Nickleback.

 

On a more serious note - by sheer popularity Celine Dion should be mentioned. Others missed include: Paul Anka, Bryan Adams, K.D. Lang and Bruce Cochburn. 

 

On a personal note - I liked some of the odd music that came out of Canada in the 80’s and early 90’s - Rough Trade, Loverboy and Heart come to mind. I believe a group named the Box also came out of Montreal in this period - their music was unique but sometimes good.

 

[LeviF]

Lot of good ones.  Not a band but Joni Mitchell is Canadian.  Arcade Fire, The Tragically Hip, Three Days Grace, Steppenwolf, The New Pornographers all haven't been mentioned yet.

 

And yes Gug I ignored your OP instructions.

[T&C]

Haven't seen Triumph mentioned... used to have some of their Lp's on cassette, the slide in the side kind of cases.

[The Avenger]

Ann Murray - THE SNOWBIRD HAS LANDED!

 

 

In all seriousness, Rush has to be at the top of the list. I also really like Triumph. More obscure are Aldo Nova and Kim Mitchell - you know, the stuff the always played on Q107 back in the day....

[Philly McButterpants]

The list begins and ends with Rush for me.  Honorable mentions to:

 

April Wine

Red Rider

Kim Mitchell

Lowest of the Low

 

Lotsa good Canadian Artists

[Bob Chandler's Hands]

1) Rush

2) The Tragically Hip

3) The Band (80% Canadian!)

[DrDawkinstein]

For all-time best, it's tough to argue against Neil Young and Rush (although I'm not much of a Rush fan, I still get it).

 

The Tragically Hip will always be up there for me.

 

For some lesser known greats from the 90s:

The Tea Party

Odds

Our Lady Peace

Glueleg

I Mother Earth

Moist

The Headstones

 

The Tea Party being the best of the bunch. They were like a grungy Zeppelin. Some classic early-90s styles here...

 

 

 

[SinceThe70s]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Anvil or Killer Dwarfs yet. 

 

On a more serious note it's Rush, BTO, Triumph for me.

[ExiledInIllinois]

Sarah McLachlan

58 minutes ago, LeviF91 said:

Lot of good ones.  Not a band but Joni Mitchell is Canadian.  Arcade Fire, The Tragically Hip, Three Days Grace, Steppenwolf, The New Pornographers all haven't been mentioned yet.

 

And yes Gug I ignored your OP instructions.

I ignored it too.  ***** Gugny!  😆

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Scrubbaloe Caine actually played at Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School in the early seventies.  Members of the band later participated in Loverboy and Prism.

[ExiledInIllinois]

 

How 'boot Shania:

 

 

[BuffaloBill]

38 minutes ago, The Avenger said:

Ann Murray - THE SNOWBIRD HAS LANDED!

 

 

In all seriousness, Rush has to be at the top of the list. I also really like Triumph. More obscure are Aldo Nova and Kim Mitchell - you know, the stuff the always played on Q107 back in the day....

 

Aldo Nova ...  forgot about them. Sort of a one hit wonder group though with the androgynous 80’s look.