Ma ny many many years ago, i grew up in a frigid, remote hell-hole called sault ste. marie, ontario, canada.
911Turbo wrote:
Music written in the 1960's that is played over and over and over and over, because of the Canadian music laws.
Maybe the regulator never heard of Neil Young, or Arcade Fire or July talk or David Wilcox or Tea Party ....etc ....etc.....etc...
I hope I die before Burton Cummings so I don't have to hear the Guess Who play ever again.
Oh man 🤣 I dunno if I could live in Sault Ste. Marie. My condolences. Ontario outside of Toronto, Niagra and Ottawa truly is awful. South Ontario is a serious consideration for the most boring place on Earth.
Anyway, yeah, Canadian music laws are pesky. And unfortunate. Especially considering, as you said, the better acts are somehow ignored. I doubt musicians like Grimes or Caribou have ever hit airwaves here.
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Wait, wut?
Is there like a law that you have to listen to The Guess Who or something? (obviously not... but fill me in).
I've only been to Canada once, and I'm pretty sure they didn't have loudspeakers playing only Canadian music. Somehow that's what I'm imagining from these responses.
Lmao. They have Canadian Content rules that radio has to play a certain percentage of Canadian music
Nah, radio is corporate owned, but it's the law that 7/20 songs played have to be Canadian in some way or another (Canadian singer, Canadian musicians, recorded here, whatever it is). It's an ugly law in some ways, but I guess it makes an even playing field for locals. Majority of Quebecois artists are pretty shitty, but they get played cause that's the law. It also leads to big Canadian bands from the 70's/80's getting a ridiculous amount of air time. I never listen to the radio, but in general it's even less diverse than mainstream American stations. We have a similar content law for television/film, which makes Netflix here absolutely dismal 🤣
There's a handful of cities that don't have to obey the restrictions though. _________________ Doubles & Conch
Nah, radio is corporate owned, but it's the law that 7/20 songs played have to be Canadian in some way or another (Canadian singer, Canadian musicians, recorded here, whatever it is). It's an ugly law in some ways, but I guess it makes an even playing field for locals. Majority of Quebecois artists are pretty shitty, but they get played cause that's the law. It also leads to big Canadian bands from the 70's/80's getting a ridiculous amount of air time. I never listen to the radio, but in general it's even less diverse than mainstream American stations. We have a similar content law for television/film, which makes Netflix here absolutely dismal 🤣
There's a handful of cities that don't have to obey the restrictions though.
I heard a song on the radio once by BTO that I really liked. But I did not know the title. So, for years I would buy BTO records on flea markets in the hope of finding this song. And I was not overly impressed by the records I purchased. But finally I found the song. Life still goes on (I’m lonely). And it one of the finest songs ever. Definitely in my Top Ten of all time.
Yes I love Nazareth also. but they had one exception that went Way Beyond the great dumb fun of these kind of bands. I'm talking about Love Hurts. most people I know find this a very silly song, but not me.
Nazareth were good arena rockers.
I have to omit, Love Hurts was pretty good.
But Nazareth doesn't come close to equaling Judas Priest's concurrent desecration of "Diamonds and Rust" by Joan Baez.
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