CanRock Renaissance - 1985-1995
by junodog4

A chart of albums released that contributed to or resulted from Canadian rock's glory days - the blessings of Canadian content laws, Muchmusic, and forward thinking record labels gave birth to an explosion of creative music, outside of the commercial artists who had hit it big in the USA. There is no Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette or Rush on here. (Not a statement of their talent, just that they didn't come from or contribute to this movement.) Artists like Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Broken Social Scene owe much to this era.

Any fan of Canadian music - go read Have Not Been The Same by Michael Barclay.

• Chart updated: 04/21/2014 20:30
• (Created: 11/23/2012 09:35).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Perpetual Motion Machine 

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[First added to this chart: 07/22/2013]

Year of Release:

1993

Appears in:

2 charts

Rank Score:

1

Rank in 1993:

2,054

Rank in 1990s:

22,251

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CanRock Renaissance - 1985-1995 composition

Country	Albums	%
	99	99%
	1	1%

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85/100	02/02/2013 05:52	5thbeatle	215	74/100
90/100	01/06/2013 18:58	jhuik	172	89/100

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From latenighttv 04/21/2014 18:16 | #109673

Cool, this is brill - already kinda familiar with a couple of these bands (Inbreds, Jale) so plenty more to explore - hope to make a dent in this over time.

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From 5thbeatle 02/02/2013 05:52 | #63662

Nice.

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From jhuik 12/22/2012 18:42 | #58599

Could easily be expanded to 100 I think. There's another Pure album in there, more 54-40 and more Pikes possible. I'd drop in Matt Good's first album (1995), too. Red Earth by Crash Vegas - another very nice album worth including.

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From junodog4 11/23/2012 19:19 | #55734

I just realized - this chart has one album in the top 1000, and another two in the top 2000... I guess it means that this renaissance was really only in Canada...?

and Canadian hip-hop grew a little later.

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