Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995 | 
pickWorth reading if you're looking for information or nostalgia about the Canadian music scene. The book includes a giant discography for further listening as well. The 10th anniversary edition contains some updates for the period from 2000 to 2010.
Why yes I did just sing the Blue Rodeo song out loud to myself. 🎶🎤🎸
Read the chapters on Nettwerk Records and Blue Rodeo. My edition of this book is the 10th anniversary edition and it INTRODUCED an error that wasn't in the original edition 😕 #24in48
While the music videos for the Blue Rodeo songs "Try" and "Outskirts" may have been filmed at the same studio, this photo is most definitely from "Outskirts", not "Try". I've watched each video ONLY about 50,000 times ?
And yes, I was sufficiently peeved to WRITE IN MY BOOK ?
"we were basically just making up songs about people we didn't like" ??
Thought this was really cool! 🚀🎧
Got my book signed by Moe Berg, Chris Murphy, Craig Northey and Steven Page! They performed a show together as the Transcanada Highwaymen.
I am not sure why Steven chose to draw a box around Andy Maize from the Skydiggers 😆
This chapter talks about the indie record labels in the Canadian music scene and how BNL first found success. On this list of tunes I can unhesitatingly recommend Shadowy Men's song -- you may know it better as the theme song to The Kids in the Hall.
Technically this is my current nightstand book, even though it is on the coffee table. I'm reading a chapter at a time and then listening to the featured songs on YouTube, and the YouTube part is easier to do in the living room.
#aprilbookshowers day 17: on the nightstand
This chapter talks about CBC radio programs (Brave New Waves, Night Lines), campus radio stations, and MuchMusic as ways to bring exciting new music to Canadians. Most of the songs on this list are first songs played by radio stations when they began transmission or are first/breakthrough music videos.
After each chapter of this book, I'm going on YouTube to check out some of the songs mentioned in that chapter. The overture mentioned the Rheostatics a lot, hence more than one song of theirs on this list. And Betti-Cola is an album rather than a song; still have to pick a song to listen to.
Why yes, I do love Blue Rodeo so much that I travel to another city and take vacation time in the middle of the week to see them! This picture was taken about 15 minutes before the show.
One topic I'd like to know more about is Canadian music. I know and love a fair number of the artists mentioned on the cover, but I want to learn more about how the bands got together and cross-pollinated, and the context in which they played.
#readjanuary
