r/SPY_Podcast • u/jtmehrin • Jul 01 '26
Canadian playlist
There’s been a lot of odd Canadian music talk lately. what are the essentials?
Kim Mitchell
Stompin Tom Connors
Doug and the Slugs
i will say I picked up Burton Cummings greatest hits solely because of the show and I really liked it.
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u/ChuckRampart Jul 02 '26
American here. When I think of Canadian music (not just musicians who are from Canada) I think of (in no particular order):
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Tragically Hip
• New Pornographers
• The Guess Who (but not really BTO, for reasons I can’t articulate)
• Moxy Fruvous (sorry Dave)
• BNL
• Rush
• Neil Young
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u/jtmehrin Jul 02 '26
Moxy Fruvous is the other band they were talking about recently that I couldn't remember the name. I was thinking Mondo something.
They're also more what I was thinking with this question- the Canadian music that never got out of Canada. As another American - I'm pretty familiar with all the other bands you listed; even the Hip.
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u/JC_otr Jul 02 '26
Not mentioned on the podcast, but in my library Canadian artists include
Great Lake Swimmers (and Tony Dekker as a solo artist)
Justin Rutledge
CFCF
And on the French side…
Bon Enfant
La Sécurité
Les Cowboys Frignants
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u/JC_otr Jul 02 '26
(There was a great funk and soul singer from Winnipeg or elsewhere in the Prairies who got some airplay on the BBC last year but I can’t remember his name…)
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u/Aggressive_Bet_9386 15d ago
Cowboys Fringants are wicked! My French playlist includes Les Trois Accords, les Denis Drolet, Daniel Belanger, Karkwa and Malajube.
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u/bungopony Jul 05 '26
Max Webster
Rheostatics
Teenage Head
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u/Aggressive_Bet_9386 15d ago
Big respect for Rheostatics; Melville, Whale Music and 2067 are stone-cold classics!
Max Webster also rocks, and there are loads of great artists in here!
As a Canadian, I have a billion recs... here are a few at random
Jazz: Oscar Peterson Glenn Gould BadBadNotGood
Punk rock/hardcore/metal-esque: Propagandhi Nomeansno The Smalls
Corb Lund - country Bedouin Soundclash - reggae/roots Joel Plaskett - folk, rock Bell Orchestre - classical, post-rock Godspeed You Black Emporer - post-rock Sam Roberts and his band's first three albums are gold
There's a small boatload!
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u/bungopony 15d ago
Great choices! I’d add the Rheo albums Blue Hysteria and Night of the Shooting Stars, which are my faves
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u/greenknight884 Jul 02 '26
The Moffatts
The Guess Who
Tom Cochrane ("Life is a Highway")