# Your 10 Favorite Canadian Bands...acording to digital song count **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802 "2018-01-17T05:29:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/21 "2018-01-18T19:03:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I imagine that The Canadian Brass is a Canadian band, so my list can get to one, at least. But after that…? I’ve got some bad news about Boards of Canada, though. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/22 "2018-01-18T20:33:00Z")
Damn! That is some list! I didn’t know Canada had that many people. 😕 I’ll try to wing it without putting much thought into it: Rush, Neil Young, Metric, Sarah Mac, bunch of others, but too lazy to look them up. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/23 "2018-01-18T21:35:53Z")
I have two albums by Dan Mangan that I still listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/24 "2018-01-18T23:20:56Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Sorry, I wasn’t clear—by “one-album wonder” I meant bands that _I_ only had one album by. > > But, my one album by the Odds is Nest, which I like quite a bit; but I’ve listened to one or two others and didn’t like them enough at the time to hold onto them. Whew, I withdrew my post because due to the weird way these are being ordered I wasn’t sure that the bottom list was the list you only had one album by, but now it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/25 "2018-01-18T23:27:21Z")
From most number to least number (because that’s how I’m used to ordering): Odds Sloan (They both have the same number of albums,3, on my digital media, but I have 2 unripped Odds CDs.) Our Lady Peace (I only have their best of and only listen to the first 4 tracks: I dislike the rest of the tracks but those 4 songs are the best grunge-based songs ever.) Guess Who Rush (I actually like Rush more and have more stuff by them but haven’t ripped any of it. I’ve bought only 2 Guess Who songs but they’re in digital format.) CSNY (which counts even less than rush because they’re less Canadian and I only have them on cassette which is less digital.) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/26 "2018-01-18T23:42:14Z")
RUSH Pat Travers Barenaked Ladies Cowboy Junkies Saga Triumph The Guess Who ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/27 "2018-01-19T00:03:14Z")
S.N.F.U. Frontline Assembly (Noise Unit/Cyberaktif/Delerium/Intermix) Skinny Puppy (ohGr/Cyberaktif/The Tear Garden/Download) Neil Young The Tragically Hip Les Georges Leningrad Men Without Hats 13 Engines Duchess Says Koban Sloan Thrive ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/28 "2018-01-19T02:25:44Z")
Natalie MacMaster (~5 tracks) The Guess Who (~2 tracks) There might be more, but I’m not going to sit down and go through the entire list of my digital music, many of which I have only one track by, to look and see if they’re Canadian. The numbers above are just from memory. One of those “one-trackers” I’ve discovered is Canadian by reading this thread, and had to Google the name to make sure if it was actually the person I was thinking of: Loreena McKennitt If you count physical media, add Rush, but I have not converted any of my Rush albums to digital tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/29 "2018-01-20T03:54:42Z")
In descending order, with totals from iTunes: New Pornographers (90) (tie) Arcade Fire, Tegan and Sara (75) Metric (64) Feist (49) Grimes (33) Stars (26) (tie) Carly Rae Jepsen, Sarah McLachlan (23) Purity Ring (21) (tie) Alvvays, Rush (19) I’ve got 8 other Canadian albums (10 if you count CSNY and Divine Fits) and a couple of singles. This all adds up to 611 tracks out of 9,668. My biggest surprise was that I owned _Moving Pictures_. The exact tie for second also surprised me. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/30 "2018-01-22T13:40:34Z")
I forgot Milks and Rectangles. A few years ago I found a lot of bands by Googling random phrases and seeing if there were bands of that name. That name was taken from a sample from Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches. Other bands along those lines I’ve discovered are The TV Sound (Duran Duran reference), Matt Fisher and the Telephone Junkies (Elvis Costello), The Cocktail Revisionists (Jets to Brazil), and Dear Ambellina (Coheed and Cambria) but none of them are Canadian afaik. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/31 "2018-01-22T17:00:32Z")
Canadian Club Crown Royal Seagram’s oops, misread thread title as Canadian BRands. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/32 "2018-01-22T17:04:28Z")
1. Oscar Peterson 2. Neil Young 3. Glenn Gould 4. Joni Mitchell 5. Rush 6. Leonard Cohen 7. Canadian Brass 8. Natalie MacMaster 9. Barenaked Ladies 10. Gordon Lightfoot ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/33 "2018-01-23T14:51:20Z")
Bumped because…well, so I can show off my love for Oscar Peterson! ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/34 "2018-01-23T15:11:47Z")
I had a lot more success when I looked at the Canadian solo artists page. I have four Bryan Adams albums, two Avril Lavigne albums, a Justin Bieber album, an Alanis Morissette album, and a Sarah McLachlan album. Only Canadian band for which I own an album is Our Lady Peace. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/35 "2018-01-23T15:34:33Z")
Rush- everything they did Triumph- everything they did The Band Robbie Robertson- solo albums Neil Young Rik Emmet- solo albums Jeff Healey Band Barenaked Ladies Bruce Cockburn More that I will listen to on the radio but I don’t own. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/36 "2018-01-23T15:49:13Z")
Bruce Cockburn (was surprised to realize he beat out Neil Young on my hard drive – just saw him do a high energy show with some blistering guitar work) Neil Young (solo, and with Crazy Horse… does CSNY count?) Leonard Cohen The Band Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko, solo/other bands Ron Sexsmith Joni Mitchell Gordon Lightfoot Cowboy Junkies \*And artists I didn’t know were Canadian before this thread (I mean, they seemed so normal…): \* Stars Tegan and Sara Arcade Fire Feist ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/37 "2018-01-23T16:37:13Z")
Bachman-Turner Overdrive The Guess Who (Live at the Paramount , and Greatest Hits) The Band (Greatest Hits) Neil Young ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/38 "2018-01-23T18:43:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I imagine that The Canadian Brass is a Canadian band, so my list can get to one, at least. But after that…? Damn, I forgot the Canadian Brass. They’re quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802/39 "2018-01-23T20:45:10Z")
I like to brag that I’ve seen all my favourite Canadian bands in concert, but the one I have the most songs of in my phone right now is The Arkells, who I have not seen yet. I did meet the singer and the bass player at the airport in Vancouver (they were on their way to Toronto for the MuchMusic Video Awards) so I count that a little bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-10-favorite-canadian-bands-acording-to-digital-song-count/806802.md?page=1)