Presented for easier listening as a Spotify playlist - Worthwhile Canadian Music Initiative - 2000 -- (edited)
Posted by
Reagen
Dec 21 '20, 13:05
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I'll be going through these year by year, and focusing on the bands that I actually like/would listen to deliberately with a few small exceptions. So: don't expect Celine Dion or Nickelback. I'll keep them to two, maximum three songs per album. Release dates are Canadian debuts so some of them will seem off.
so, 2000: An Industry Struggling With Identity
Canadian music in 2000 was still in a bit of a transition out of the post-grunge era, into the pop-dominated early 00s, with a lot of the bands that would form the backbone of the decade not yet in the picture. Snow was still hanging around, for fuck's sake. There's one of the first "not great" Tragically Hip albums, though Tiger the Lion is a standout song in the pantheon. We've got some echos of the old guard with Neil Young, Blue Rodeo, Headstones and Treble Charger. This is probably the last relevant Barenaked Ladies album for a bit too. The Our Lady Peace track is from one of the two albums of theirs that I like. The New Porngraphers are the big standout for the year with their debut, although their best is yet to come. Similar story with The Weakerthans, who have much better stuff coming. Other big first impacts here are Nelly Furtado, Sarah Harmer, Tegan and Sara, Peaches and Kittie.
Overall this is *not* a great start to the decade, and I'm leaving off some stuff like soulDecision (they sound exactly like you're imagining) and The Moffats (ditto). An album that would have improved things with inclusion would be Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight, but alas it came out in late 1999. A classic of Canadian hip-hop, Balance by Swollen Members, also misses the mark coming out the year before.
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