Thursday, March 28, 2024

28 March 2024 - Megan Bonnell - Try

Folk-rock singer Megan Bonnell from Ontario covers Canadian treasures Blue Rodeo.

You know, these are two artists we have never posted on Wicked Guilty Pleasures.  We really need to do that sometime, soon.  

Anyway, this is a brilliant cover and most of you wouldn't have known it was a cover if I didn't tell you that.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

27 March 2024 - The Beaches - Turn Me Loose

The Beaches are an all-girl rock band from Toronto, formed in 2013.

In 2019, they did a cover of the 1982 Juno Award winning Single of the Year by Loverboy.  Jordan Miller channeling the spirit of Mike Reno is a sight to behold.  They have a complete understanding of the shred rock - with the classic guitar solo and iconic bassline - and still manage to put their own style in the song.

Check it out!!

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

26 March 2024 - The Glorious Sons - Blame Brett

This is the best cover I've ever heard - of the hit song by The Beaches.

The Glorious Sons are a band from Kingston, Ontario.  

The lead vocalist of The Glorious Sons is a man named Brett Emmons.  

You know where this is going, I'm sure.

Brett Emmons used to date a woman named Jordan Miller..... who, funny enough, is the lead vocalist for a band from Toronto called The Beaches and who happens to be a co-writer of this song.

That's right.  He's Brett.  He's the Brett you need to blame.

This is some next-level trolling, but also, they don't do a bad job on the song.

Monday, March 25, 2024

25 March 2024 - Charlotte Cardin - How You Remind Me

Last night's Juno Award big winner (we're writing this weeks before the Junos so we have no way to know if we're right, but we are) covering last year's Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee?

Yes.  Absolutely yes.

Friday, March 22, 2024

22 March 2024 - Charlotte Cardin - Pour que tu m'aimes encore

Charlotte Cardin has gone on record to call Celine Dion one of her biggest influences, and this was one of the first songs she ever sang live.

The nominee of several Juno Awards this year does a fantastic job on this, which is Celine's biggest francophone hit.  

Thursday, March 21, 2024

21 March 2024 - Diana Krall ft Sarah McLachlan - If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot is a goddamn Canadian treasure and it good that the next generation of musicians from Canada recognize that.

Diana Krall, the famed jazz musician from Nanaimo, British Columbia, was a bit of a pop/jazz sensation in the 90s, but she's still releasing music.  In 2015, she released an album called Wallflower, which was a bunch of folky and not-really-jazzy covers. The album was a hit in the US and Canada - and there's a reason for that.  It was really good.

One of the covers she did for the album was of one of Gordon Lightfoot's best known songs, and she enlisted then-future Canadian Music Hall of Famer Sarah McLachlan to sing it with her.


Which brings me to my 2nd reason for posting this today.  Diana Krall is NOT in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, despite her 30 year career of bringing jazz to a broader audience, unparallel by any jazz artist in her success worldwide.  Seriously.  She's had more #1 jazz albums than anyone, and she continues to make music.

She very well may be the most successful eligible musician not yet in the the Hall. (Editor's note: Correction - the most successful eligible musician not named CĂ©line Dion)

I am begging you to go to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame website and PLEASE suggest Diana Krall as an inductee here.  

As a reward, here's Krall performing this song live, just her.  No Sarah McLachlan needed.  

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

20 March 2024 - Avril Lavigne - No One Needs To Know

Avril Lavigne pays tribute to fellow Canadian Shania Twain at the ACM Honors in 2022 (where Twain received the Poet's Award), while wearing her best Shania cosplay.  

It's way better than you expect it to be.  


By the way, not a one-off.  She frequently covers this.