The Best Winnipeg Bands
Published by Toronto Mike on May 9, 2008 @ 11:43 in Friday Fives
My favourite bands from Winnipeg, Manitoba
- The Guess Who
- The Watchmen
- The Weakerthans
- Crash Test Dummies
- Econoline Crush
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26 Responses to "The Best Winnipeg Bands"James Edgar The Weakerthans are cool. There songs sound that same but anybody who can pull off songs about curling I like. Toronto Mike Can't do it - I'm a big Watchmen fan. I could bump the Mmm mmm mmm guys, possibly, but Superman's Song was pretty sweet... James Edgar The watchmen always seemed like they should be better to me. They just never quite got it right. Oh well if we all like exactly the same things.... Toronto Mike Just last week I mentioned April Wine is from Nova Scotia. Halifax, I believe. http://www.torontomike.com/2008/04/april_wine_you_could_have_been.html James Edgar I knew I'd heard that somewhere! See people do read your stuff. We just can't remember it. In my case it may be age :( Mike (Buffalo Boy) Sorry, I remember it from the Hips video I think they were playing Winnepeg and April Wine was playing same night Include solo artists and you get Chantal Kreviazuk, Holly MacNarland, Remy Shand (although he only had one album, he got me listening to rnb) & the big daddy of them all Neil Young. Toronto Mike No doubt, Neil's musical career began in Winnipeg, but I must point out he was born in Toronto and lived in Ontario until the age of twelve. :-) Anonymous altho myles goodwyn was born in NB, april wine was based in nova scotia before moving to montreal. yeah how come Neil Young isn't in the list?? or how about Doc Walker?? Neil Young moved to rural Manitoba from Ontario and started playing a guitar and performing during his high school years in Winnipeg. This is why he is commonly heralded as a Winnipeg boy. Well i think chantal kreviazuk needs a mention here as well....She is an awesome musician with winnipeg roots. Anonymous Best band was The Fuse/The Six with Jeff Hatcher and David Briggs. They still play a few gigs every year as the Hatcher Briggs Collective. They pre-dated Blue Rodeo and actually did it better. Sorry Toronto, we had Canadiana well before you did. I rate Hatcher's band over all other bands from Winnipeg. Sorry BTO and Crash Test fans, but the best band was Hatcher's. Hatcher's songs were recently covered by Wendy Bird. Jeff was also the lead writer for the Blue Shadows even though everyone thought Billy Cowsill wrote half the songs. He didn't. Other great singer songwriters are Luke Doucet and Del Barber. Kelvin High School reunion could feature Neil Young, Jeff Hatcher and his brothers, and finally Luke Doucet. Just imagine that. binscarth What about Not going to Vegas, Phill D. is doing well in his music career. Anonymous Winnipegs newest creation! these guys have been around for ages in seperate bands but decided to make a new super-group! its ridiculously good
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Toronto Mike
May 9, 2008 / 12:21
Hmmm, Bachman-Turner Overdrive probably deserves a spot in the top five. Let's bump Econoline Crush.