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Originally Posted by skcin
Oooooooh! Lala! BAD Canadian, BAD! I think I hear the Mounties coming to get you! RUN FOR THE BORDER!!!
I like some Nickelback, but yeah, all their stuff DOES sound the same. Do you like the Hip? They're pretty big in Buffalo. I have some friends that like the Headstones & the Trues (Trews?) too.
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I don't mind the Hip at times. I really like Kings and Pretty things and Poets, but again, they get really overplayed because of CanCon. For anyone who doesn't know, CanCon (Canadian Content) policies were brought in during the late 60s/early 70s when Canadian bands like The Guess Who couldn't get airplay on radio stations because stations played American music. So, it was a good idea at the time because it got decent bands respect (I'm not a huge Guess Who fan but whatever they were huge) but it's a little redundant now. Stations end up playing a lot of **** like Glass Tiger, Corey Heart, and Luba to meet the regulation - I think it's around 30%.
I'm becoming aware of all of this as I get into the radio industry.
I don't really like The Trews and I've never really listened to the Headstones.
And as for Nickelback...every time I hear Photograph I want to vomit or light something on fire. It's like "Hey...we figured out how to write a comercial song...just make everything rhyme!"