[New post] Music Monday July 18: Canada’s Walk of Fame Music Inductions
Leon Stevens posted: " There is a radio show on CBC here in Canada that occasionally does a feature called SYNTH: Songs You Need To Hear. CBC MUSIC, Central · Mornings with CBC Music Now, I can't say to someone, "You'll like this song" (or book for that ma" Lines by Leon
Now, I can't say to someone, "You'll like this song" (or book for that matter) because I can't presume that others will share my taste in music (or books), so it is safer to say, "You might like this" and if they don't like it, so be it. Maybe you will find a new favorite.
Move over Hollywood, Canada is ... well, doing the same thing you did.
Canada's Walk of Fame began 25 years ago.
Those are some very talented and influential people inducted in the inaugural year of the sidewalk. Yeah, it's a sidewalk. I've been to the Hollywood one. It's a sidewalk too, but with more gum and cigarette butts.
Anyway, since this is a music post, I'll focus on the musicians in this year's class.
Now if you haven't looked at the names on the post image, I'll give you a few minutes to read the names that most Canadians will recognize and everyone else, not so much. For me, this reads like the soundtrack of my formative teenage years.
1979 AM Radio. No music videos yet. Great break and solo at 1:38.
High school dances. Nothing more to say:
Still a great song:
More AM Radio staples starting with Max Webster's only UK hit. Kim Mitchell (vocals/guitar) went on to have a hit-ridden solo career. A very underrated guitarist in my opinion.
Shades of Steely Dan in this one:
1979=81. Just before video killed the radio star.
Next, probably one of the most controversial rock songs in Canada, and you have to buy the album to hear what the radio stations bleeped out. But being in Grade 9, we thought it was pretty cool.
By the time this one came out (1983) I was a certified "Headbanger" so it wasn't my fav:
I don't think Chilliwack had any fame outside of Canada.
!983: Before, "Glam Metal", were these guys that kinda looked like girls, paving the way for bands like Poison, Ratt, and the like. Also, the introduction of electronic drums.
Had to include this because it has the Hollywood Walk of Fame in it. They sound like The Cure, don't they?
Lee Aaron. First lady of Canadian heavy metal. Remember when I said video killed the radio star? Some videos needed to be killed. I couldn't put this one in, it was that bad. Look it up if you are curious (yeah, I probably liked it then). After several rock albums she turned to jazz.
I'm not going to put in any Loverboy or Glass Tiger. Look those up too.
Michel Pagliaro. French guy from Quebec. Don't recognize any songs.
1973: Did you know these guys were Canadian? I did not until now.
Long live Canadian music, eh?
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.
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