Originally Posted by Piss Me Off I wouldn't have known about Winnipeg if it wasn't for Venetian Snares Winnipeg is a Frozen ****hole album, looks like his opinion isn't exclusive. Judging by the videos he isn't the only talented guy there.

Originally Posted by mojopinuk This is a great idea for a thread. I have never noticed this one before so i'm a bit behind in that sense. Good idea, really well written & intelligent reviews. Thumbs up all round. I've read through most of it and i'm gonna have a look through the video's and such when I get a chance. The edIT album in particular caught my attention. I'm not big into hip hop either, but am always on the look out for some albums that could help me find what hip hop I do like, as i'm sure theres a lot of it out there. Looks like this could be a good place to start.

Ontario Pt. 1

Ontario, being the most populated Province in Canada, is home to almost all of Canada's music. That said I've decided to split it up into two parts, that way I don't feel the need to exclude some bands for others. I'll be doing four albums today so I'll keep the write up on the setting rather short. Ontario, as I stated earlier, is the most populated Province and home to our capital city, Ottawa. It's cold during the winter and quite pleasant during the summer. It has the largest amount of urban centers with Toronto, Hamilton, Windsor, and Ottawa. That's about all I know, I have yet to really explore Canada outside of B.C. (my home Province) so I don't have much to say so I'll just move onto the bands.

WarsawpacK - Stocks & Bombs

Longtime follows will have heard these guys before, I believe they were the second group I gave out. Well here's their second and last album Stocks & Bombs. For people who are unfamiliar with them, they're sound can best be described as "If Rage Against the Machine took a chill pill". Following a wide array of topics, from the rise of ADD to the depletion of the environment, as well as the dwindling sources of oil. They are intelligently written lyrics, however you really have to pay attention to what they're saying. These guys got some good feedback, so I'm hoping you'll like this album as well.



Elliott BROOD - Mountain Meadows

Longtime fan of this band, since 2005 when I heard their debut album Ambassador. Before then the only country I really liked was Johnny Cash and a few others, I never really gave much new stuff a chance, usually just writing it off as the pop country trash that populates the radio. How wrong was I when I heard Ambassador when I could hear the complexity and the emotion put into Country music. Since then I haven't been able to get enough, usually finding something new each week. 2008 was a great year for me because Elliott BROOD released their sophomore album Mountain Meadows, a concept album based on the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre. If you're unfamiliar with that event, it was essentially the mass slaughtering of traveling Scandinavian workers by the local Mormon population. They slaughtered everyone over a certain age, then went and raised the survivors into the Mormon religion. An incredibly dark part of American history, that barley even gets a mention in most History textbooks. In fact I didn't even learn of this event till last year when this album came out and out of curiosity I looked up the name "Mountain Meadows". Not many bands can create a sound like this, each song has this... glimmer of hope towards the end, then the song abruptly ends.



Barstool Prophets - Crank

I can honestly say I don't know much about this band, but I do know that their album Crank is just one of those rock albums that you can't help but love. As their band name implies they're the type of band you'd expect to be playing at a bar, however they're not your typical "bar band" because in their lyrics are tongue-in-cheek lessons for life, love, and other topics. They are the people you always see at the bar, with a weathered face, someone you'd expect to be a total piss head, yet behind all those preconceptions lies an intelligent being full of wisdom. That is basically the only way I can describe the band. Their name really does it for them, an intelligent working class rock band you'd expect to see playing on a Wednesday night at the local bar.

Barenaked Ladies - Are Men

Throughout this little trek through Canada I've made a point to avoid the popular Canadian bands, however I don't think I would be doing Canadian music any justice if I browsed over the Barenaked Ladies. To most people they are a joke band with that one hit back in '98 that mentioned the Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files, however behind their poppy radio hits, lies a band with some incredibly intelligent and dark lyrics. Are Men wasn't the album I really wanted to upload, however all their other ones were over 100 MB and I didn't want to split them into two parts. That said, Are Men isn't a bad album by any stretch, but it doesn't do the best job and exemplifying the points I made earlier. Regardless it's a fun album to listen to every now and then.