Can we all agree that no Canadian band should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

[taterguy]

Rock and roll is based on the blues.

It's impossible to have the blues in Canada. The people there are too nice.

It's in the Rule Book!

Look it up!

Neil Young is the exception that proves the rule.

Also in the Rule Book!

[redwitch]

1. uh oh

:popcorn:

[taterguy]

4. Just watched the video. Those Arcade Fire fans are a scrawny bunch. I think I can take them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oI27uSzxNQ

[CBGLuthier]

2. Leonard Cohen was depressed enough to fuel an entire nation.

[taterguy]

3. Depression is something you talk about with a shrink. It's not the blues

[SwampG8r]

46. if you can afford

to have someone tell you you are depressed you cannot have the blues

[taterguy]

51. What if you get rich playing the blues?

Or is BB King another exception that proves a rule?

[SwampG8r]

53. in many cases the blues

are a pre existing condition
and therefor not covered

[TZ]

5. Yeah Canadians are all lame and stupid

and apparantly don't know anything about music. Why else would Rush be a long time member of their own Rock N Roll hall of fame, eh? :P
Did you write this btw?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPRHXgYVlk

[bluesbassman]

41. Rush has their own Rock N Roll Hall of fame?

Well, I guess that's one way of getting in; start you're own! :rofl:

BTW, have they inducted anyon else into the Rush Rock N Roll HOF? :)

[SwampG8r]

47. i am nominated for air guitar this year

[bluesbassman]

48. Cool! You'll get my vote.

:rofl:

[TZ]

54. Its the Canadian Rock N Roll HOF

Are you taking deliberate misinterpretation lessons from Creekdog? :P
BTW, if Rush did have its own Hall of Fame, Dr. Strange would be a charter member I think.

[LaurenG]

6. No we can't , nt

[Tabasco_Dave]

7. Chill out Taterguy and go for a soda!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymORCbgSyEA. :evilgrin:

[Grantuspeace]

28. world's such a wonder is better....

But almost impossible to find on YouTube.

[ohiosmith]

8. If we can agree no Americans should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[auntAgonist]

9. FTW !

:applause:

[EOTE]

17. I can agree with that.

After all, Hockey was just invented by the Canadians because they were jealous of American Football. Of course, seeing as there's no portion of Canada that isn't covered in ice, they had to make due with what they had. :P

[ohiosmith]

27. "American" football came to the states via Canada in the form of Rugby which was brought to Canada

from Great Britain. So there! :rofl:

[EOTE]

31. That's right.

We took football football from the Brits and perfected it. Then the Canadians took it from us and combined it with figure skating. To each his own. :)

[7wo7rees]

45. They're laying in wait to strike us.

They're sharpening their skates and coming to steal our cheese.

[krispos42]

10. You mean that Chuggo should be discounted on geographical terms?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPeHk4WMWpY




I'm sure we can some up with far more terms than simple geography!

[madinmaryland]

25. Heh!

Come on, fuckin' guy!

[meegbear]

11. Not necessarily; remember Canada is a third world nation ...

and I'm sure they have the blues all the time.

[Bake]

12. I think we're agreed, except for a few crazies.

The usual suspects will chime in here ...

Bake

[TZ]

13. Chiming in

Literally:http://www.freesound.org/tagsViewSingle.php?id=4506


:rofl:

[Bake]

14. Right on cue ...

:hi:

Bake

[LynneSin]

16. Is Bake calling us crazy

He's one to talk

:crazy:

[TZ]

19. ROFL

I think he might be referring to Dr. "Accucirc" Strange actually (Don't ask you don't want to know!)

[Bake]

21. I'm talkin', yes indeed, and I'm walkin' ...

Or maybe I got that backwards ...

:hi:

Still crazy after all these years!

Bake

[NoGOPZone]

15. These guys are funkier than Neil ever was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0z0ajcDgns

[EOTE]

18. I don't know if "funky" was what Neil was really going for. NT

[kwassa]

24. Neil was in a band in Canada with Rick James early on.

They wrote at least one song together. Rick was very funky. "Superfreak".

[EOTE]

32. As a fan of Neil Young, I'm a little ashamed not to have known that.

He's had quite a remarkable career.

[Forkboy]

20. Nomeansno is too good for that dump anyways.

Any band with a ounce of self respect would decline induction.

[freshwest]

22. No, Democrats can't agree on anything.

[KamaAina]

23. But, but, but what about Loverboy?

Are you seriously going to keep Loverboy out of the HoF simply because they're hosers? :sarcasm:

[bif]

26. Nope. Can't agree at all.

[Grantuspeace]

29. Homeland Security should investigate the Canadian plot...

To render our vending machines inoperable by using their goofy nickels.

[Grantuspeace]

30. No Rush?

Any band that touts the virtues of a "Working Man", should get in for sure.

[taterguy]

33. Lot of bands tout the virtues of "Working Men", just to make sure they don't have to work

(Riff stolen from an old Doonesbury)

[quakerboy]

34. Oh please

You are never going to convince me that this "Canada" is a real place. I know the truth. Its just some fake place all you hippie liberal commie bike riding whatchamadoodles made up. Ha. I knew better the second they said "free health care". And if that hadn't made it obvious enough, then yall call em Canuks? Anyone with a lick of sense knows that's not a real name, it just sounds dirty. You call a real country that, they gonna declare war just to regain their self respect. Then atop it all, yall claim its "north of Montana". Erebody knows Alaska comes atop the US in the north, all the way to Russia. Its our buffer against them commies. If there were an extra country up there, one side or the other would have annexed it long ago. No physical or metaphorical room for an extra country in there, no sir.

(edited to fix a word)

[Tikki]

35. HAH!! I say the Subhumans...

(the Canadian band) belong wherever they want to be...


Tikki

[Bennyboy]

36. Whaddabout THE BAND!?!?!?!

Bunch of Cauncks.

[NoGOPZone]

37. see post 15

it's tragic how often people forget them.

[taterguy]

39. Levon Helm was from Arkansas

Not a Canadian province the last time I checked.

[NoGOPZone]

38. Is it fair we punish these other Canadian groups simply because Rush didn't know when to quit?

and by that, I don't simply mean their career, but many of their songs.

[u4ic]

40. Impossible to have the blues in Canada?

You've never spent a winter here...

[SwampG8r]

49. thats turning blue not having the blues

[Tuesday Afternoon]

42. meh. big deal..

let 'em rush right in. there are no rules in R&R.

[snagglepuss]

43. Can you say The Guess Who? American Women is pure rock and roll.

[gratuitous]

55. +1

I really, really need to transfer my vinyl copy of "Road Food" to digital.

[mysuzuki2]

44. There are bands in Canada?

Who knew?

[jmowreader]

50. Oh, but you're very wrong. Canada has a thriving blues culture

Okay, all the songs are about the shitty weather they have up there, but it's still the blues.

[larwdem]

52. the band TROOPER

for 1 song. raise a little hell, rock & roll

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

56. Don't know about the blues...

But Devin Townsend can do royally pissed off with the best of them. If he doesn't get into the HoF then it's obviously a sham institution.

Strapping Young Lad - "Home Nucleonics" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcCZ8QZzi-A
Devin Townsend Project - "Bend It Like Bender" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCefwkz4HY


And of course there's also Moxy Früvous:
"The Greatest Man In America" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNYlRju8-AU
"Gulf War Song" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Y7HslyQXE

[taterguy]

57. Rock and Roll itself is a sham so the HOF should be too

And if you don't know about the blues then you have no business posting in this thread.