Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Arcade Fire on Austin City Limits

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/12/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> That will be on Saturday night at midnight up here.  Check your local
> time/channel.  Here's the web page:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=327
>
> I know some of you like them.
>
> Regarding the claim that Arcade Fire is the "band who helped put Canadian
> music on the world map" -- maybe they should say "back on the world map."
> Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Steppenwolf and The Guess Who all were Canadian
> and all were huge back in 1970.  More recently they had Alanis Morissette,
> another huge star.

And also the Crash Test Dummies. And that band from Vancouver whose
name I always forget. Meanwhile, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell were
huge, but Steppenwolf is a two-hit band. Alanis Morissette is dwarfed
in popularity by Celine Dion, who I believe has possibly out-sold all
of the other Canadian acts you mentioned, maybe even combined.

Meanwhile, although the band is from Canada, the front man grew up in
Texas and then went to a fancy private school in New England. Canadian
is really a relative term. :-)

jking

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