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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> 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.

They didn't really fit in with the people/groups I was listing.


> 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.

They had two huge hits -- all-time classics that still play on the radio, 
but I can remember that their album "Monster" was a hit and it didn't 
include either song.  They were popular.  Hard rock bands didn't usually 
make top-40 songs and their music played on "AOR" (album-oriented radio) 
stations.


> 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.

That's an excellent point.  I was thinking more of rock stars, but she is 
a huge international megastar.


> 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. :-)

I guess he's Canadian if GW Bush is Canadian.  ;-)

Mike

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