Updates For The New Year
It’s 2022 and you will be seeing some changes to this blog shortly, namely in regards to page content:
- I will be expanding my listings with more entries and additional information on these entries.
- I will be adding provincial and regional listings, like my previous site.
- I will update and edit some of the older content, and may add mobile friendly content.
I had wanted to update this information for a while but got too busy because of the COVID situation.
Hope to see you back soon. Thanks for reading this blog.
Next Saturday!
Blue Door at your Door 2021
Hosted by Tom Green, this charity event will air live on CTV Ottawa and Youtube on November 6th, 2021 and feature performances by Blue Rodeo, Bruce Cockburn, Sam Roberts Band, Alan Doyle, Lindsay Ell, Miss Emily (Featuring Rob Baker & Gord Sinclair of The Tragically Hip) and Ottawa’s own, Juno Award Winner Kellylee Evans.
Released 35 Year Ago, Today
The Glass Tiger debut release that resulted in Canadian chart-topper and international hit “Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” was released today, 35 years ago.
It remained in the Canadian album charts for 37 weeks, peaking at the 4th position, reaching Quadruple Platinum status in Canada (400,000 physical copies sold) by May 13th, 1987.
“Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” has also been certified Platinum in Canada with 80,000 Physical Units sold by July 23, 1986 whilst the second best selling single from that album, “Someday”, had been certified Gold on February 1, 1987, remaining in the charts for 19 weeks and topping at the 11th slot.
A special 180 gram stripped vinyl version of this album is available from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com and Amazon U.K.
Google Play Music Update
Google Play Music will be replaced by Youtube Music in August 2020 so if you have an account on Google Play Music, you should transfer your account as soon as possible using this link or by using the Youtube Music app.
Access to the Music Manager and Music store on Google Play will cease that month and access to Google Play Music itself will cease by December 2020.
The Youtube Music app is available from Google Play and the Apple App Store.
Added Links To Pass The Time
Added a few links to my Links To Pass The Time blog entry, including musictogether.ca, where one can view live performances.
New Year – New Decade
If I were to use one word to describe the decade’s music it would probably be “underwhelming”.
I am quite disappointed in regards to the lack of artistry and innovation, having expected a new rock subgenre to emerge from the political and economic turmoil that occurred during this decade as it had in previous decades.
Where was this decade’s heavy metal, new wave or grunge?
Couldn’t someone have come up with something palatable to the pop music consumer, to give us a break from the interminable, inane, repetitive, juvenile saccharine?
Yes, we did get Rammstein’s self-titled studio album last May and a few promising rock acts released albums and singles in the decade, like Ghost, Muse, Disturbed and Arcade Fire. But the 2000s had much more when it came to rock.
Perhaps the genre has stalled and is collapsing due to a lack of investment by the major record labels, who now appear to only be interested in packageable media assets and not recording artists that compose their own material, like those that I grew up on in the ’70s and ’80s.
The record labels of my youth have merged into media conglomerates so I’ve got to wonder if someone will ever decide to invest in anything that swims against the current.
I guess all we can’t do is wait and hope.