My little prog comp I made ages ago.

Musical Box remix

TOP 100 CANADIAN ALBUMS by Bob Mersereau

TOP 100 CANADIAN ALBUMS by Bob Mersereau

1. Neil Young - Harvest

2. Joni Mitchell - Blue

3. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush

4. The Band - Music From Big Pink

5. The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely

6. Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill

7. The Band - The Band

8. Arcade Fire - Funeral

9. Rush - Moving Pictures

10. The Guess Who - American Woman

11. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen

12. Bryan Adams - Reckless

13. Blue Rodeo - Five Days In July

14. Sloan - Twice Removed

15. The Tragically Hip - Up To Here

16. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

17. Rush - 2112

18. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark

19. Rheostatics - Whale Music

20. Daniel Lanois - Acadie

21. The Tragically Hip - Day For Night

22. Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps

23. Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold

24. Sarah Harmer - You Were Here

25. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

26. The Tragically Hip - Road Apples

27. Barenaked Ladies - Gordon

28. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

29. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

30. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

31. Neil Young - Decade

32. Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America

33. Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing

34. Sloan - One Chord To Another

35. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate

36. Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited

37. k.d. lang - Ingenue

38. Rheostatics - Melville

39. Eric's Trip - Love Tara

40. Neil Young - On The Beach

41. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile

42. The Guess Who - The Best Of The Guess Who

43. Feist - Let It Die

44. The Band - The Last Waltz

45. Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train

46. The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Down At The Khyber

47. Neil Young - Harvest Moon

48. Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife

49. Harmonium - L'heptade

50. Teenage Head - Teenage Head.

51. Max Webster - High Class in Borrowed Shoes

52. Joni Mitchell - Hejira

53. Glenn Gould - J.S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations

54. Stan Rogers - Fogarty's Cove

55. The Guess Who - Wheatfield Soul

56. Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquieme saison

57. Bruce Cockburn - Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws

58. Teenage Head - Frantic City

59. k.d. lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel

60. Trooper - Hot Shots

61. Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson

62. Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions

63. Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith

64. Voivod - Nothingface

65. Shania Twain - Come On Over

66. Hayden - Everything I Long For

67. Blue Rodeo - Outskirts

68. k-os - Joyful Rebellion

69. Gordon Lightfoot - Sit Down Young Stranger /If You Could Read My Mind

70. The Pursuit of Happiness - Love Junk

71. Jean-Pierre Ferland - Jaune

72. The Ugly Ducklings - Somewhere Outside

73. April Wine - Electric Jewels

74. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

75. The Weatherthans - Left And Leaving

76. Our Lady Peace - Clumsy

77. Harmonium - Harmonium

78. The Guess Who - Share The Land

79. Ian & Sylvia Tyson - Ian & Sylvia's Greatest Hits

80. Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf

81. Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon

82. Stompin' Tom Connors - Bud the Spud/Other Favourites

83. The Constantines - Shine A Light

84. The Lowest Of The Low - Shakespeare My Butt

85. Thrush Hermit - Clayton Park

86. Sloan - Smeared

87. Jann Arden - Living Under Jane

88. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

89. Crowbar - Bad Manors

90. King Biscuit Boy with Crowbar - Official Music

91. Gordon Lightfoot - Lightfoot!

92. Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World

93. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright

94. Ron Hynes - Face to the Gale

95. Willie P. Bennett - Hobo's Taunt

96. Ian Tyson - Cowboyography

97. The Sadies - Favourite Colours

98. Gordon Lightfoot - The Way I Feel

99. Rush - A Farewell to Kings

100. Sam Roberts - We Were Born In A Flame

Where are they now.

We are good, but we are washed up. Guess who these people are. Hey, is that Steve Hackett? Cool! And is that Nuno and the singer from Extreme. I think so.
From http://www.paulgilbert.com/Guitar_Wars.html

Kiefer Sutherland, the guitar collector

Kiefer Sutherland, the guitar collector. It turns out that Led Zepplin and AC/DC were the inspiration for his guitar collection. I wonder how his collection compares to Steve Howe and John Entwistle's collection. I also wonder how well he can play. From

http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=1441
photo by Paul Cashmere

10 things that killed Prog.

6.I will think of 6 to 10 latter. Out of ideas. Sigh.......
5.Yes's album cover art in the late seventies. Why naked men, now really.
4.Punk
3.ELP's album Love beach
2.Rick Wakemans solo career. Can we say conceited, boring trash?
1.ELP! ELP! ELP!

Blender magazine.

They now have an article about the 10 Most Overpraised Records Ever. Well I have to agree with two albums on their list. Number 2, Radio Head's "Kid A". This album never did it for me. Put me right asleep. Yawnnnnnnnn. And Sex Pistols, never mind the Bollocks, sounds like S***, they can't play, and so much hate, hate, hate. However, I do realize how important this album was. Too bad they killed my beloved prog rock.

Shocking!! Neil Peart second worst Lyricist!?!

Shocking!! Neil Peart second worst Lyricist!?! As voted by Blender magazine. Any thoughts on this. Poor guy, I wonder what he must be thinking now. Here is a link to the article. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2885

My thoughts on the subject are mixed. Growing up, Neil was my idol in many ways. I have even read many Ayn Rand novels due to his influence. Just today, I saw the 1949 movie, The Fountainhead, and I admit, it is some very strong material.

Today however, I feel Ayn Rands philosophy is way too black and white, and Rush's lyrics seem a bit stale. In many of the songs, I think he tries too hard.
I have read some of his books, and they are very thoughtful, but overall, there writing is still a little dry.

I can really relate to his love of Motorcycles and travel as these are some of my greatest loves.

Overall however, there is really nobody out there who writes the way Neil does, so I am thankful he made it in the music business.