Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following submission earlier today.
Speaking of Rush, they are one of the legends of rock. I have a bunch of their stuff, although I got introduced to the band by chance in 1992 when I bought their "Roll The Bones" LP purely on liking the design on the cover. Later that month I also purchased "Presto" and went on to collect about 11 of their albums. There aren't given their due in the music world, because they aren't American or British. Well I don't care, I would worship Rush the same if they were from Swaziland or Turkmenistan! My fav song of theirs (other than Tom Sawyer) is "Red Barchetta".
And speaking of the Barenaked Ladies the live version of "What A Good Boy" (found in their Greatest Hits, given as gift to me by a cousin sister in Leeds, UK, who deserves an award for sending it to me) is by far their best stuff.
Roshan
Coincidentally, I had a discussion earlier in the week with a guy who was born and raised in England, and I asked him which Canadian acts were the most popular over there when he was growing up in the 70s. He told me that they didn't even know who was Canadian but assumed the Canadian acts were American. It wasn't until he moved to Canada that he learned some of the bands he enjoyed were in fact Canadian and not American. In his opinion, the two biggest Canadian acts in England were Neil Young and Rush. He was telling me how respected and appreciated Rush were on that side of the pond.
As for BNL, you've named yet another song from "Gordon", their first post-indie release. It was 1992 and it was the golden age of the Barenaked Ladies in their native Toronto. I was partial to their cover of Dean Friedman's "McDonald's Girl" which was getting heavy airplay on CFNY at the time. Here's the lyrics, still fantastic.
