More Government Interference, This Time Radio

[Ries]

I have lots of suggestions.
Fer instance Sumo- he was Italian, he sang in english sometimes, and he was Porteno to the bone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hGUyebsf60

 

[ARbound]

This exists here in Canada and I've always thought it was lazy attempt at nationalism for a country that's motto is "we're not
the united states!".

Terrible "stars" get elevated, bad tv shows receive government subsidies, and people who strangle cats in a studio for 80 mins
are called national icons.

I'm not a huge fan of meritocracy generally, but this is the realm of entertainment, you can't shove music/movies/tv shows
down people's throats and force them to enjoy it. It's an organic process, no matter how much the government tells me to
like Justin Beaver I won't, not because he's Canadian, not because he isn't American, but because he's a talentless egomaniac.

 

[syngirl]

In canada it is 35 or 40% of all content on the radio. It means we end up with endless repeats of songs that no one should ever be subjected to.

I was Born to be Wild but there's only so much CanCon I can take before I need to Take Care of Business.

And you Ain't seen Nothin yet -- I've heard so much Tom Sawyer even when I drove all Night (while wearing my sunglasses) -- those Patio Lanterns were so bright. However, even If I had a Million dollars there's nothing that would make me listen to Nickelback day in and out.

Nevertheless... I will always be up for a drunken reel to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aBLvjWnpfA

And even my 4 year old loves a Safety Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs


The rest of the references you'll understand if you have ever had to suffer through Canadian Classic Rock radio. And yeah, it's actually call CanCon (Canadian Content) and in the 80s I have to say it produced some brilliantly ridiculous bands (ie Platinum Blonde was Canada's answer to Duran Duran) and some decent pop songs with accompanying terrible 80 vids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfEAzeLP-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssSfKEC2uOQ

BTW -- you know you're Canadian if upon reading each of those song titles included above you could immediately hear the bloody chorus in your head (especially Patio Lanterns -- has ANYONE outside of Canada ever heard of Kim Mitchell??)

 

[wineguy999]

But the 70s produced Bruce Cockburn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TUsZzF6es

 

[sleslie23]

In canada it is 35 or 40% of all content on the radio. It means we end up with endless repeats of songs that no one should ever be subjected to.

I was Born to be Wild but there's only so much CanCon I can take before I need to Take Care of Business.

And you Ain't seen Nothin yet -- I've heard so much Tom Sawyer even when I drove all Night (while wearing my sunglasses) -- those Patio Lanterns were so bright. However, even If I had a Million dollars there's nothing that would make me listen to Nickelback day in and out.

Nevertheless... I will always be up for a drunken reel to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aBLvjWnpfA

And even my 4 year old loves a Safety Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs


The rest of the references you'll understand if you have ever had to suffer through Canadian Classic Rock radio. And yeah, it's actually call CanCon (Canadian Content) and in the 80s I have to say it produced some brilliantly ridiculous bands (ie Platinum Blonde was Canada's answer to Duran Duran) and some decent pop songs with accompanying terrible 80 vids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfEAzeLP-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssSfKEC2uOQ

BTW -- you know you're Canadian if upon reading each of those song titles included above you could immediately hear the bloody chorus in your head (especially Patio Lanterns -- has ANYONE outside of Canada ever heard of Kim Mitchell??)

BTW, a lot of those songs were played endlessly in the US as well.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

BTW, a lot of those songs were played endlessly in the US as well.

Tangential, but many of the actors and comedians on Saturday Night Live were Canadians.

Many of them wrote for the National Lampoon, which had a regular column called "Canadian Corner." The typos and other errors in the sample that follows are not mine; they are clearly the fault of bad scanning software:

"No one who has partaken of a hot dog stimee till dress on Montreal's Rue St. Laurent Street or sampled a steaming bowl of gritty Bed River cereal one sub-zero Winnipeg morning will deny that there is a Canadian cuisine, unique in all the world. International epicures classify Newite Screeck, the local beverage of Newfoundland, as the tastiest potable that ever doubled as an antifreeze.

Yet to the average Yankee (and is there any other kind?) , the splendors of Canadian cooking remain as enigmatic as the foreign policy of the nation which trades with Cuba and manufactures the engines for USAF bombers.

To Canadian, as to all great national cuisines, there is a secret ingradient: starch. As surely as garlic is the sine qua non of Mediterranean cooking, and curry is the keystone of Indian food preparation, Canadian food is distinguished by the pinch of white processed flour with which the Canadian chef garnishes each and every dish.

To Canada must go the credit for the invention of frozen foods; in fact, it was not until late in the nineteenth century that unfrozen food was eaten north of the forty-second parallel; cooking was introduced shortly thereafter, And even today, delicate, paper-thin, transluseent shavings of frozen seal or caribou are the hors d'oeuvre at many a chic Canadian cocktail party. The severe cold provided, if anything, a culinary incentive to the cannibalistic denizens of the tundra, whose recipe for Eskimo pie possesses the elegance of simplicity: Find an Eskimo. Dig in.

Freezing remains a compulsory first step in the preparation of any Canadian meal, so that in the kitchens of city dwellers, who have no easy access to glaciers, a ho i tie freezer is dc rigour. All meat, fish and poultry, as well as the turnips and other root vegetables that form an important part of the Canadian diet, are either bought frozen f or popped into the freezer directly from the garden.

When these victuals have attained the proper crystalline consistency, they are processed through the other
essential utensil in the Canadian kitchen, the blander.

Tc the blander, food is melted by boiling for long period*, and cornstarch is folded in to taste. More experimental cooks sometimes add, at this time, a soupcon of the quintessential Canadian spice, arrowroot.

While popular throughout the Dominion, blanderizing dominates the cooking of the Maritime provinces, and is indeed the only known method of preparing the local staples, salt cod, finnan haddie, and Kraft macaroni dinner.

Quebec, "Iji Belle Provence" is justly famed for her many restaurants featuring authentic French cuisine. What has been less widely publicized is the fact that the cuisine is authentically that of sixteenth century Britanny, whose prison ships unloaded the ancestors of today's Quebecois. It was the first and last cultural exchange between Old and New France. Fevres au lard, sugar pie, and blood sausage may not be to everyone's taste, but they are undeniably authentic.

In dining, as in every field, Toronto, Ontario is in the avant garde. And pizza has taken cosmopolitan Toronto by storm. The local C. of C. brags that no citizen of "Metro" is more than a dozen steps from a "pizza-to-go-no-anchovies" parlor. The Chinese restaurant in town remains popular with an adventurous few, and it is in "T.O. M that one most often finds the housewife daring enough to add a sprig of parsley.

Lovers of fresh water fish know Ontario's northern lakes and streams as a sportsman- gourmet's paradise. (Of all her fighting fish, Ontario is perhaps proudest of the pike who held the commonwealth middleweight championship, 1937-1940.) Yet even when "the big ones get away," experienced campers can always be sure of a hearty dinner for four of stuffed roast blackfly.

On the prairies, the buffalo, once a butcher shop on the hoof for the native peoples, is gone. The great herds of the Monarch of the Plains have been replaced by the Iron Horse, and only rarely is Canadian Pacific diesel killed and eaten.

Today in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, populated as they are by Ukrainians and gophers, wheat is king. Wheat, which grows in profusion during the summer months, especially buckwheat, the groats of which proud westerners mill into a viscous porridge, is that substance of which Mounties loudly remind their Malamutes, inspiring them to feats of super-canine endeavor.

Beaver (whom its advocates describe as tasting somewhere betweena catfish and a rat) is no longer the diet of the intrepid trapper. The hardy breed on the arctic frontier now subsists almost completely on raw sterno and whooping crane eggs — when they can find them.

Canadian bacon is illegal in Canada. Tapioca pudding holds its place as Canada's favorite after-dinner sweet, although jello has its followers in the larger urban centers, But frugal Canuekers long ago discovered that the remains of supper, liberally sprinkled with soft brown sugar, makes a nice dessert.

Maple syrup, prized as delicious the world around, is known in its native land only as a cathartic."

 

[camberiu]

I love and hate Canada at the same time. I hate Canada for alanis morissette and Celine Dion. But Rush and Unleash The Archers makes up for them both.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I love and hate Canada at the same time. I hate Canada for alanis morissette and Celine Dion. But Rush and Unleash The Archers makes up for them both.

http://murdochmysteries.com is pretty good TV on Netflix.

 

[ben]

In canada it is 35 or 40% of all content on the radio. It means we end up with endless repeats of songs that no one should ever be subjected to.

I was Born to be Wild but there's only so much CanCon I can take before I need to Take Care of Business.

And you Ain't seen Nothin yet -- I've heard so much Tom Sawyer even when I drove all Night (while wearing my sunglasses) -- those Patio Lanterns were so bright. However, even If I had a Million dollars there's nothing that would make me listen to Nickelback day in and out.

Nevertheless... I will always be up for a drunken reel to this https://www.youtube....h?v=5aBLvjWnpfA

And even my 4 year old loves a Safety Dance https://www.youtube....h?v=AjPau5QYtYs


The rest of the references you'll understand if you have ever had to suffer through Canadian Classic Rock radio. And yeah, it's actually call CanCon (Canadian Content) and in the 80s I have to say it produced some brilliantly ridiculous bands (ie Platinum Blonde was Canada's answer to Duran Duran) and some decent pop songs with accompanying terrible 80 vids.

https://www.youtube....h?v=KCfEAzeLP-w

https://www.youtube....h?v=ssSfKEC2uOQ

BTW -- you know you're Canadian if upon reading each of those song titles included above you could immediately hear the bloody chorus in your head (especially Patio Lanterns -- has ANYONE outside of Canada ever heard of Kim Mitchell??)

Taking Care of Business yes, otherwise my memories of Canadian music come down to this.