Sadchild's "high fives" (every artist I like at least five songs from)

[sadchild]

Trews

Genre: rock

Discovered: don't remember, "What's Fair Is Fair".

Other: Good ol' fashion kick-butt rock. One of the biggest selling bands of all time in Canada, but unheard of here in the States.

HIGH FIVE:

1. So She's Leaving
2. God Speed Rebel
3. Poor Ol' Broken Hearted Me
4. What's Fair Is Fair
5. Hope & Ruin

 

[HecticArt]

The name is familiar for sure. I don’t know if they got a little airplay here, or if they opened for someone.

Not a bad rock and roll song.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I'm surprised IRBS hasn't weighed in.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I'm surprised IRBS hasn't weighed in.

I have actually never heard of them. When they formed in the late 90s I was listening to alternative or mainstream alternative and I then sort of went to 70s/80s after that. These guys never made my radar. From the video you posted they are ok but doesn't grab me.

 

[sadchild]

Here is The Trews highest charting hit in Canada, reaching #34 in 2007. I didn't know it before posting it here now.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I have actually never heard of them. When they formed in the late 90s I was listening to alternative or mainstream alternative and I then sort of went to 70s/80s after that. These guys never made my radar. From the video you posted they are ok but doesn't grab me.

I figured if they were one of the biggest selling bands in Canada, you'd know them, that's all.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Here is The Trews highest charting hit in Canada, reaching #34 in 2007. I didn't know it before posting it here now.

I figured if they were one of the biggest selling bands in Canada, you'd know them, that's all.

#34 does not translate to biggest selling bands to me even if you do it in metric.

 

[sadchild]

A Canadian blogger claims they are the #119th biggest selling act in Canada.

116 Bachman-Turner Overdrive
117 Big Wreck
118 Steppenwolf
119 The Trews
120 Leahy
121 Corb Lund/Corb Lund Band
122 Delerium

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

A Canadian blogger claims they are the #119th biggest selling act in Canada.

116 Bachman-Turner Overdrive
117 Big Wreck
118 Steppenwolf
119 The Trews
120 Leahy
121 Corb Lund/Corb Lund Band
122 Delerium

BTO is 116? Seriously? It should be much higher.

Interestingly I have heard of 116-118. Nothing 119 or below. So maybe 119 is my knowledge cutoff point.

 

[scotchandcigar]

BTO is 116? Seriously? It should be much higher.

Interestingly I have heard of 116-118. Nothing 119 or below. So maybe 119 is my knowledge cutoff point.

Growing up, I had a Corb Lund poster in my bedroom.

 

[Jon]

So if BTO is #116, who's #1? (please don't let it be Nickelback!)

 

[scotchandcigar]

So if BTO is #116, who's #1? (please don't let it be Nickelback!)

Would Beiber or Celine make you feel better?

 

[Jon]

Would Beiber or Celine make you feel better?

I have no strong feelings about either, so.

 

[HecticArt]

Sum 41 is Canadian?
How about that?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I would have guessed The Tragically Hip as #1. Maybe he is counting French votes in English and French to get Dion up there.

 

[sadchild]

Top selling artists in Canada I've never heard of, or have barely heard of:

7 Diana Krall
14 Blue Rodeo
16 Great Big Sea
17 Johnny Reid
19 Francois Perusse
21 Jann Arden
23 Amanda Marshall
24 Isabelle Boulay

Are some of these artists kinda like this?

"Last year, one million four hundred thousand TV viewers ordered this man's albums and tapes...."

 

[HecticArt]

I know 7 & 14.


I also thought Gowan would have been in the top 150 somewhere.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Top selling artists in Canada I've never heard of, or have barely heard of:

7 Diana Krall
14 Blue Rodeo
16 Great Big Sea
17 Johnny Reid
19 Francois Perusse
21 Jann Arden
23 Amanda Marshall
24 Isabelle Boulay

Are some of these artists kinda like this?

"Last year, one million four hundred thousand TV viewers ordered this man's albums and tapes...."

I have heard of (from your list):
14 Blue Rodeo
16 Great Big Sea
21 Jann Arden
23 Amanda Marshall

Great Big Sea is from Newfoundland. Famous for their remake of the REM song about 2020:

 

[Aaron]

When I think of Canadian artists, I think of the good ones.

Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Neil Young
Rush
Gordon Lightfoot
The Guess Who

 

[Jon]

Blue Rodeo is like the laid back Canadian Wilco. Also took a liking to this artist for a while: