Thursday, October 25, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
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
Friday, October 12, 2007
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=1441photo by Paul Cashmere
Thursday, October 11, 2007
10 things that killed Prog.
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.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Shocking!! Neil Peart second worst Lyricist!?!
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.