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

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/12/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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.

Suit yourself. "Superman" is still one of the ten best songs of the 90s.

> > 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.

But they've been playing Vegas and Indian casinos for the last 20 years or so.

> > 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.

Or something like that. Couldn't hold a candle to Gordon Lightfoot, though. :-)

> > 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.  ;-)

Oh, and the, uh, front woman is from Haiti, so they're definitely a
Canadian band.

jking

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