you know what... if only because they scammed a double gatefold from 
Capitol Canada...

The Big Town Boys album.... there is some COOL stuff on there....

and Stan Klees had all kinds of one shot singles and stuff on his Red 
Leaf label (what?
British Modbeats anyone) which will never see the light of day again...

what... The Wackers aren't Canadian??? Noooooo...... hahhahaaaaaa.......

Brutus with Walter Zwol (the amazing glam live show, not the wimpy 
album, hey I LIKE the album, but it's NOT the live band that blew my 
mind when they rocked my college pub night)...

Les Chanceliers (with Michel Pagliaro) - great album and even greater 
GREEN VELOUR DRAPECOATS (can you say "Hey my uncle Tony can make us 
some outfits!") that are so uncool - they  are cool....


everybody else has covered the  basics - thought i'd come in sideways 
on this one....

so much stuff still un-reissued.... Sherry Keane, for one. LOVED that 
single (I Want You Back)
and the Hi-Fi's (pre-Blue Rodeo)... every year I ask them if I can do 
a cd and every year they say no... hahahaaa.... LOVED that band....

and last but not least, the Robert Charlebois lp that has "Lindbergh" 
- not pop necessarily but a great
work that captured a particular Canadian/Quebec zeitgeist 
(jazz/rock/psych) at a random strike of lightning (his track "Tout 
Ecartille - a raved up song about Marie Laforet -what?! - is a big 
fave of mine)


ralph


* you might want to sample through my Sophisticated Boom Boom cd on 
itunes or emusic next time you're on there (by my band, RALPH) as do 
we some fantastic genre jumping on that one....