Sometimes You Have to Work on Pagan Holidays

   In the 14 years that I've worked a job that requires 24-7 coverage I've had Christmas off 4 times. Although my vocation is not as vital as a movie theater attendant, I can relate to the Harvey Danger circumstance.

Harvey Danger -Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes)

    In 1984 famine in Ethiopia inspired Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof to compose a catchy, sappy Christmas song and gather a Who's Who of mostly British musicians to record it, with proceeds being used to relieve the human disaster.  

  Although the song hit #1 on charts around the world not all reviews were positive. It seems the presence and contributions of Status Quo and the modfather Paul Weller could not overcome the stylings of Boy George, Duran Duran, Bananarama and U2.  British music magazine NME at the time wrote "Millions of dead musicians write and perform rotten record for all the right reasons." 

  Full disclosure - I kinda like the song, especially the rough draft of the lyrics before it was sanitized to satisfy the record company execs . Here is Brian Jonedtown Massacre alum Brian Glaze performing the song with the original lyrics. 

 Brian Glaze -Do They Know It's Christmas

Notable lines reinstated are......

"At Christmas time we draw the blinds and let in shade"

"And tonight we'll build a snowman on the planetary dunes
But Christ thank god it's him instead of you"

"Where no one ever goes to see the virgin without clothes"

"I feel the world
Yeah help me girl
My fingers curl
Yeah, fuck the world"




In 1977 the Kinks wrote a carole about the impracticality of toys.

The Kinks - Father Christmas

Every Day Should be a Holiday in the Sun Song

  In the 14 years that I've work a job that requires 24-7 coverage I've had Christmas off 4 times.  I wish every day could be a holiday.

Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should be a Holiday

Pixies - Holiday Song

Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun

Fall Term Final

  The 2015 Fall semester is nearly over and it all boils down to this one question Final Exam - What is the connection between these songs?

Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

Primal Scream - Movin' on Up

Death in Vegas - Soul Auctioneer

Dog Songs

The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

Teenage Fanclub Mad Dog 20/20

Kula Shaker - Smart Dogs

  I think maybe only the last song is about real dogs...or not.

Covering the Clash by Request

Tommy Stinson - Hateful

Pris - Janie Jones

   Here is song that will forever remind me of the day back in 1986 when I legally started making payments on a sofa and a girl.   I was prompted to sing this song several times at the reception of a monumental ceremony.  Here Social Distortion performs it as I did by omitting the third word of the fourth line of the second verse.
Social Distortion - Death or Glory

  I don't know how I missed including this song when I first compiled this post, as it's the only one of these songs that I have on my mp3 player.

Afhgan Whigs- Lost in the Supermarket

Titans of the Clash

  The Clash have been one of my favorite bands for decades, yet I hadn't included them in any posts on this blog.  Going to try to remedy that today.  Here we have three songs that they covered.

  Back in the early 80's when Eddy Grant was all over MTV with his hit Electric Avenue, one of the VJ's casually mentioned that he had penned 'Police on my Back' that the Clash had recorded on the triple album Sandinista. There was no internet back then on which to search for lost music.... but there is now.  So here we have The Equals with Eddy Grant on vocals.

   and the Clash version....

  In the past year I found that another song from Sandinista, Junco Partner' was not an original, when I came across version from Joe Strummers earlier band the 101er's.  A little research revealed that the song is based on Junker's Blues written in 1940 by Willie Hall and was first recorded in 1951 by James Waynes.

  Everyone knows that ' I Fought the Law' was a cover when the Clash included it on the US version of their self-titled first album, but the familiar Bobby Fuller Four version was not the original either.  The song was written by Sonny Curtis when he joined The Crickets in 1959 after Buddy Holly's tragic death.

Why Can't We Be....Friends of P

The Cranes - Beautiful Friend

 Dandy Warhols - Best Friend

The Rentals - Friends of P

Morning

Rusty -Wake Me

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Dawn

....Trail of Dead - Another Stoner Morning

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

In Journalism 101 we learned that a good article must answer the following questions. Who? What? When? Where? and sometimes Why?

Brian Jonestown Massacre-Who

 Pure- What it is

Idlewild- When I argue I see Shapes

Stratford 4 - Where the Ocean Meets the Eye

                                   

Hum- Why I Like Robins

  Although each of these song titles begin with a word normally associated with trying to get an answer, only the first song title may be a question.

Magic Stick Memories - Drummers

  In the decade-plus that I watched bands at the late Magic Stick I saw a lot of excellent drummers.  Here are three of my favorites.

   Gary Powell of the Libertines, the jazzed-trained, technichally-flawless, timekeeping dynamo.  

  Jimmy Lindsay of the High Water Marks.  The person who recorded this in-store appearance in Chicago was savvy enough to keep the camera fixed on Jimmy.  

   Carla Azar of Autolux

Blame Game

  You can blame your parents...

5440 - Blame Your Parents

                                  

...or you can blame this town, this job, these friends but....
Modest Mouse - Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset

...got no one but yourself to blame.
Pavement - Range Life

Now the Summer's Gone, Put Your Autumn Sweater On

    With the transition from summer to fall to occur in the next few hours, we bring you part four of the four part series of songs of the seasons.

  First off Sarnia, Ontario's Emm Grynner's 1997 minor(Canadian radio) hit 'Summerlong', about the end of summer among other things.

  The only song that I could find with Autumn in the title was Yo La Tengo's "Autumn Sweater"

 Autumn is the backdrop for Cambridge, England's Robyn Hitchcock's 1980's song 'Falling Leaves'.

  Although it could be anytime of year in Detroit, I hope Jack White had autumn in mind when he wrote "Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground"

I Like American Music Pt 50 of 50 - Stop Breaking Down

 For the last installment in the  'I Like American Music' series we go back to the origin of the American Rock 'n' Roll. Robert Johnson had a brief recording career lasted that only two years in the late 1930's.  In his last  recording session, in 1937 he recorded 'Stop Breaking Down'. Decades later his music was influential to prominent (non-American) musicians in the 1960's.

Robert Johnson - Stop Breaking Down

  The Rolling Stones (not American) revived the song with their cover of it on the "Exile on Main Street" album in 1972.  A generation later Jack White brought the song out into the daylight in 1999 on his bands self-titled album 'The White Stripes'.

White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down

  Back before TV stations were broadcasting 24 hours a day, many of them would sign off in the wee hours with the national anthem.  So in that manner we bring to a close part 50 of 50, in the "I Like American Music" series

Move over Rover and let Jimi take over.

Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner

I Like American Music Pt 49 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt X,Y and Z of Z

X- New World
Link below
X- The New World

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
                                      

Zager and Evans - In the Year 2525

I Like American Music Pt 48 of 50 - ABCs of American Music Pt U,V & W of Z

Urge Overkill - Girl You'll be a Woman Soon

Violent Femmes - Ugly

Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection

I Like American Music Pt 47 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt T of Z

They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

Times New Viking - We Got Rocket
Times New Viking - We Got Rocket


Thingy - Big Dumb Animal

I Like American Music Pt 46 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt S of Z

hool of Fish - Three Strange Days

Sonic Youth - Superstar

Superchunk - In Between Days (Cure Cover)

I LIke American Music Pt 45 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt Q and R of Z

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air

Ramones - Howlin at the Moon

REM -Cuyahoga

I Like American Music Pt. 44 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt P of Z

Preston School of Industry - Monkey Heart and the Horses Leg

Link - Preston School of Industry - Monkey Heart and the Horses Leg

Psychic Ills - Mind Daze

Purling Hiss - Run From the City

I Like American Music Pt 43 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt N & O of Z

Nada Surf - Where is My Mind

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945

Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks

I Like American Music Pt 42 of 50- ABCs of American Music pt M of Z

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

Meat Puppets - Backwater

Moon Duo - Circles

I Like American Music Pt 41 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt K & L of Z

Kristen Hersh and Black Francis - Wave of Mutilation

Lords of the New Church - Hey Tonight

lowercase - she takes me there

I Like American Music Pt 40 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt J of Z

Jawbreaker - Boxcar

J Mascis - Leavin' on a Jet Plane

Jonathan Fire*eater - Everybody Plays the Mime

I Like American Music Pt 39 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pts H & I of Z

Highspire - Glass In My Mouth

Hum - Suicide Machine

Imaad Wasif - Wanderlusting

I Like American Music Pt 38 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt G of Z

Garbage - Superixen

Glands -Livin' was Easy

Guadalcanal Diary - Watusi Rodeo

I Like American Music Pt 37 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt F of Z

Fastball - The Way

Flaming Lips - Waitin' For Superman

Frank Black - Hang On to Your Ego

I Like American Music Pt 36 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt E of Z

 Eels - Novacaine for the Soul

                                   

Eddie Veddor and Mike Watt - Against the 70's

Everclear  -Our Lips Are Sealed

I Like American Music Pt 35 of 50 - ABCs of American Music part D of Z

Darker My Love - Northern Soul

Deerhunter - Never Stops

Drive by Truckers - The Night G G Allin Came to Town

I Like American Music Pt 34 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt C of Z

Calla - Strangler

Cracker - Teen Angst

Creeper Lagoon - Sunfair
Link to Youtube Video with less than 100 hits...Creeper Lagoon - Sunfair

I Like American Music Pt 33 of 50 - ABCs of American Music Pt B of Z

Black Angels - Empire

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - What Ever Happened to My Rock and Roll

Black Tambourine - Dream Baby Dream

I Like American Music Pt 32 of 50 - ABCs of American Music part A of Z

Running out of ideas to tie songs together so were going with bands in alphabetical.

Apples in Stereo - Motorcar

Atlas Sound - Walkabout

Autolux - Capital Kind of Strain

I LIke American Music Pt 31 of 50 - Loose Cryptic Connection pt 4

Sublime - What I Got

REM -So. Central Rain

CYHSY - Sunshine and Clouds and Everything Proud(ly)

I Like American Music pt. 30 of 50 - Loose Cryptic Connection pt 3

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Dawn('s)

Earlimart - 10 Years

Television - Guiding Light

I Like American Music Pt 29 of 50 - Loose Cryptic Connection pt 2

Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

Bob Mould - See a Little Light

Guided By Voices- I Am A Scientist

I Like American Music Pt. 28 of 50 - Loose Cryptic Connection pt 1

Music Explosion - Little Bit O'Soul

Floorian -Or So They Say

Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All

I Like American Music Pt 27 of 50 - Massachusetts pt 6 of 6 - Lou Barlow

  Lou Barlow was a founding member of Dinosaur Jr along with J Mascis and drummer Murph.  Lou was unceremoniously yet creatively dismissed from the band when Mascis informed him that the band broke up and then immediately reformed without Lou.

Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven (Cure Cover)

  Note that the green muppet thing is wearing a 'Deep Wound' t-shirt. That is the name of the first band that Mascis and Barlow played together in, while still in high school in Amhearst, Massachusetts.

                                   

  Before his Dinosaur Jr departure Lou was working on a side project with Jason Loewenstein called Sebadoh.

Sebadoh - Rebound

  Folk Implosion was Barlow's next endeavor.  They contributed most of the tracks to the soundtrack of Larry Clark's quasi-documentary 'Kids'. Here is the most well known song from that album.

Folk Implosion - Natural One

I Like American Music Pt 26 of 50- Massachusetts Part 5 of 6- Pixies Pt 4 of 4 - Animals.

Pixies - Havalina

Pixies - Caribou

Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven

I LIke American Music Pt. 25 of 50 - Massachusetts Pt. 4 - Pixies Pt 2 - Aliens and UFOs

  Charles Thompson (aka Black Francis),  has often found inspiration in alleged visitors to Earth.  

Pixies -Motorway to Roswell

Pixies - The Happening

  Space travel doesn't have to be a one way street.  Here is the song that should be the first morning wake up song if an earthling crew is ever sent to Mars.
Pixies - Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons

I Like American Music Pt 24 of 50 - Massachusetts Pt 3 -The Pixies Pt 1

Velouria

Ana

Allison

I Like American Music Pt 23 of 50 - Massachusetts pt 2 - Boston

Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

Blake Babies -Cesspool

The Lemonheads - Confetti

I Like American Music Pt. 22 of 50 - Massachusetts Pt 1

 Massachusetts a hotbed of higher learning is also an epicenter of innovative  music.  I've heard Missions of Burma described as the following ' Imagine if the Stooges not only knew more than three chords but actually knew all the chords'.
Missions of Burma - That's When I Reach for my Revolver

  I remember hearing the following song by the Del Fuegos on the the CBC Radio 2 show 'Brave New Waves back in the mid-80's. From their 1984 album The Longest Day.

Del Fuegos - I Think I Should Be the One

   Lastly Morphine's Mark Sandman writes,on their 1996 song "French Fries with Pepper" from the album 'Like Swimming',  about where he was at in life on the numerically significant dates of 6/6/66, 7/7/77 and 8/8/88 with hopes of sitting on the back porch drinking red wine on 9/9/99.  Unfortunately he didn't make it.  Sandman died instantly from a massive heart attack on stage in Palestrina, Italy on 7/3/99.

Morphine - French Fries With Pepper

  In honor of Mark Sandman to this day I always pepper my fries.

I Like American Music Pt. 21 of 50 - Windows, Blinds and Curtains

Smashing Pumpkins - Window Paine

  Veruca Salt with Pure Power Pop Goodness and a nod to the Pixies at the 1:50 mark.

Veruca Salt - Number One Blind

Jonathan Fire*eater - When The Curtain Calls For You

I Like American Music Pt 20 of 50 - Elephant 6 Collective, Earth Air and Sea

  We resume our trek across America where our previous post left us in Athens, Georgia. 

Elf Power - World is Waiting

 Down to Ruston, Louisiana with......Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane over the Sea 

                                  

Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel and Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo were childhood friends in Ruston who along with Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss formed the Elephant Six Collective recording label.
  Apples in Stereo - Shiny Sea

I Like American Music Pt. 19 of 50 - Southeast region Produced by Don Dixon

In the mid-80's Don Dixon put his stamp on the janglepop movement by acting as producer on albums by several bands in the Carolinas and Georgia.

Guadalcanal Diary - Trail of Tears

Fetchin Bones -Steam Whistle

REM - Radio Free Europe

I Like American Music Pt. 18 of 50 - Stormy Weather

  Pixies - Stormy Weather 

Blood on the Walls - Lightning Song


Walkmen -  Blizzard of 96

I Like American Music pt.17 of 50 - No Sleep 'til Brooklyn

  Brooklyn's Beastie Boys - No Sleep 'til Brooklyn

Here are a couple of other artists also based in Brooklyn

Blood on the Walls - Rize

At the age of 18 Orville Burrell moved with his family from his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica to the Brooklyn borough of New York City.  He took on the stagename Shaggy, here is his 1993 cover of a 1960 Folkes Brothers ska hit 'Oh Carolina'.
Shaggy - Oh Carolina

I Like American Music pt. 16 of 50 - Velvet Underground Covers

Staying with the New York City theme here are three covers of Velvet Underground songs.

The Kills - Pale Blue Eyes

Rainy Day - I'll be your Mirror

                                     
Those Darlins - White Light White Heat

I Like American Music pt 15 - New York City

New York Dolls -  Personality Crisis 1973

 August Darnell's alter ego Kid Creole performs a tribute to an annoying neighbor.
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Endicott

yeah yeah yeahs - cheated hearts

I like American Music - Pt 14 of 50 - Jersey

  Had to jump coasts from the recent posts as research into the music of the mountains and plains is going to take some time.  In the meantime here are three bands that would have put New Jersey on the map if it wasn't there already. 

  The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sides

Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies

Titus Andronicus - Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ

I Like American Music pt. 13 of 50 - Apparently I'm not Alone

  Esquerita  was an early influential Rock n Roll artist who was like Little Richard before Little Richard was Little Richard.  His real name was S Q Reeder but everybody knew him as Esquerita...here we'll let Mick Jones(not American) in his post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite tell the story.

  Big Audio Dynamite - Esquerita

  The Pixies' frontman Charles Thompson aka Black Francis aka Frank Black paid tribute to the Ramones on his debut solo album

Frank Black -I Heard Ramona Sing

Before there was Wilco and Son Volt there was Uncle Tupelo.  They memorialized the late Minutemen guitarist, singer and unfortunate member of the 27 Club, Dennes Dale Boon

 Uncle Tupelo - D. Boon

I Like American Music pt 12 of 50 - Everyone's Public Idaho

  I tell you, I didn't expect to find three appropriate songs to do a post on Idaho.  Here are Boise's Paul Revere and the Raiders version of a 1966 anti-drug message originally written for and turned down by Eric Burdon and the Animals.
Paul Revere and the Raiders - Kicks

  Next the Treepeople also from Boise featuring Doug Martsch on guitar cover the Smtihs

Treepeople - Bigmouth Strikes Again

  Doug Martsch went on to form Built to Spill in 1992.  They are still recording and touring to this day.

Built to Spill - Wouldn't Hurt a Fly

I Like American Music pt.11 of 50 - Washington State

Tullycraft - Then Again Maybe I Don't
Tullycraft- Then again Maybe I don't

Pedro the Lion - A Mind of her own

Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling

I Like American Music Pt 10 of 50 - Oregon

The Crabs - Alien Girl

Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should be a Holiday

Everclear - So Much For the Afterglow

I Like American Music Pt 9 of 50 - Bands of San Francisco

Flaming Groovies - Shake Some Action

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - White Palms

Stratford 4 - Where the Ocean Meets the Eye

I Like American Music pt 8 of 50 - Bands of LA

Warlocks - Bleed Without You Babe

Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When It's Over

Darker My Love - Helium Heels

                                      

I Like American Music Pt. 7 of 50 - Austin Tx

  Austin Texas is known for South by Southwest  Musical Festival that has grown to over 2000 bands performing at more than 100 venues. Needless to say there is a whole lot of home grown talent that flourishes in that environment. Here are three bands based in Austin.

.....And You'll Know Them by the Trail of Dead - Relative Ways

Black Angels - Manipulation

 Butthole Surfers - Pepper

I Like American Music pt. 6 of 50 - Come on Feel the Illinois - Bands from Chicago

Three 90's bands everyone has heard of from Chicago.

Urge Overkill - Sister Havana

Smashing Pumpkins - Drown

Veruca Salt - My Sharona

I Like American Music pt 5 of 50 - Feeling Minnesota

  In the mid-80's 's to the early 90's Minneapolis's Replacements created raucous, rebellious rock and roll that the intended to be broadcast in supermarkets in the 21st century Replacements music at meijer's

Here is their tribute to Alex Chilton who as a teen had a massive hit with 'The Letter" as lead singer of the Boxtops.  Later he as a member of Big Star he wrote an sang 'In the Street' which subsequently covered by Cheap Trick and went on to became the theme song for 'That70's Show'.  Incidentallly I watched that show for three years before I realized it wasn't a documentary.

The Replacements - Alex Chilton

  Another Minneapolis native is John Wozniak of Marcy Playground.

Marcy Playground - Saint Joe on the School Bus

   Across the Mississippi River from Minneapolis is its twin city St. Paul, where Bob Mould and his friends formed Husker Du.

 Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All + Hidden Bonus track

I like American Music Pt. 4 of 50 Ohio

  On September 28, 1991 Greg Dulli of the Cincinnati's Afghan Whigs received a message from the band's manager on his answering machine giving directions to a backyard barbecue. As it turns out earlier that day jazz great Miles Davis passed away.  The message ended with 'Miles is dead. Don't forget the alcohol'.  Dulli under time constraints  to write another track for their album 'Congregation'. Inspired by the message Dulli wrote the song 'Miles iz Ded' that contains the line 'Don't forget the alcohol'.  
Afghan Whigs - Miles iz Ded

Also from Cincinnat is The National.

The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

In April my wife and I attended a concert by Cleveland's Mr. Gnome at the Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids.  Below is a video from an earlier tour when they also played the Pyramid Scheme.
Mr Gnome - Cleveland Polka

I like American Music Pt 3 of 50. Independence Day

   Today is the 239th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  We commence the tribute to the USA with a noted dignitary's interpretation of the National Anthem.

  In the early 1780's Thomas Jefferson was asked what was his inspiration for the Declaration of Independence.  He testified 'so that our descendants will have the freedom to Rageth against thee Machine'(independent verification needed).   

 When the poor, tired huddled masses reach our shores one of the biggest obstacles is learning how to speak American.  Here is a compilation of Kubrick film clips set to the (non-American)Screaming Blue Messiahs' tutorial 'I can speak American.

I Like American Music Pt.2 of 50 - Detroit

The Upholsterers - Ain't Superstitious

Majesty Crush - No. 1 Fan

Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon

I like American Music pt. 1 of 50 -- Wisconsin

   We start our tribute to American Music in Wisconsin. I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere.  So I started........there.

  From Milwaukee we have the Violent Femmes.  Discovered as street corner musicians by James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders.  They were invited to open for James's band that night and took the opportunity and made a 30+ year career out of it. 

  Next the first of two bands based in the college town of Madison.  The three-piece Rainer Maria turned an inventory of Abraham Lincoln's pockets into a full length song.

   Producer Butch Vig's resume' includes shaping the sounds of two of the touchstone albums of the 1990's Smashing Pumpkins' "Gish" and Nirvana's "Nevermind".  As a drummer he was part of a couple of bands Spooner and First Person before he struck gold with Garbage.  Though the band was based in Madison, they were fronted by Scottish lass Shirley Manson. 

oh Canada, pt. 7 of 7. Fireballs Bursting in the Sky, Wasaga Beach First of July

    The last part of the seven part tribute to the music of Canada.  Lots of talent gets displayed on their airwaves due to the CanCon requirements.  Here are four songs that probably never received much air play in the US.

  5440 - Radio Luv Song

 Treble Charger - Friend of Mine

  King Cobb Steelie - Rational

  We'll let renowned producer Daniel Lanois plays us out of our tribute to our neighbors to the north  with a song of his own. 

Daniel Lanois - Lotta Love to Give

oh Canada, Pt 6 of 7, Canada Day Eve

 The first song in this installment of my week-long tribute to Canadian music is the title track from the soundtrack of the movie Trees Lounge written/directed and starring Steve Buscemi.  The video includes character actor Seymour Cassel miming the drums. 

  Little known fact  1) Seymour is the person who gave his son's childhood friend Saul Hudson the nickname Slash...yes that Slash.  

 Little known fact  2) I know Seymour's oldest daughter Lisa and I used to live with Lisa's half-sister Kelly.    

    Hayden - Trees Lounge

   The Stills - Lola Stars and Stripes

Grapes of Wrath - I Am Here

oh Canada, part 5 of 7. Bands of Vancouver

 The Pacific coast of Canada seems to be a fertile area for the development of innovative music.  The city of Vancouver itself has produced more good bands than one would expect from a city of 600 kilopeople.  In addition to the three bands featured here Econoline Crush, Black Mountain, Moev, New Pornographers and Spirit of the West also call Vancouver home. 

  Pure -  The Hammock

Cub - New York City (They Might be Giants later covered this song), Hockey fans note in the video drummer Lisa G. occasionally sports a retro mustard yellow Vancouver Canucks sweater.

  Pink Mountaintops - While we were Dreaming.

oh Canada, pt. 4 of 7. Bands of Montreal

  Here are three bands hailing from Montreal.

  

   Arcade Fire - Rebellion 

   Handsome Furs - All we want is Everything

   Besnard Lakes - Devastation

   Besides all of these bands sharing a hometown, they each include a married couple among their members.