Canada: Rest assured, you're adored

A couple of months back I let fly with a barrage of insults towards the great nation of Canada.

I apologise. It was inconsiderate and ill-advised and I can only hope you will forgive me. If not, at least make sure my good friend David is treated kindly when he moves to your fine country in a month from now.

Where was I again? Oh yes, The Tea Party:



Answer me this - How is it that Nickelback infect our nation's airwaves and sell obscene amounts of records whilst fellow Canadians The Tea Party are forever judged as the Terry Malloy of the music industry?

First convincing answer wins a prize.

A call to anyone half smart in the music industry

I was watching (once again) a great little indie flick from 1990 called 'Cadence' starring Charlie Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and former President Bartlet.

One of the highlights of the film is the appearance of a Mr Harry Stewart who plays the role of Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane. Now 'Sweetbread' doesn't talk in the film but boy can he sing.

Here is a snippet from the film:



Now I'm not a religious man (Jeebus can back me up on that) but you must be dead not to feel the emotion in that song. A song mind you that Harry Stewart wrote himself.

With a song and a voice like that, he should have made it big in at least the Christian Music charts let alone the secular. Because Harry Stewart dropped off the face of the planet not long after 'Cadence' was released, the interweb is full of conjecture of his whereabouts but the most consistent story is that he lives in a shelter and not doing too well.

What an absolute shame that a talent like that is wasted to the world. If anyone out there has any sort of clout - find Harry Stewart.

We would all be grateful.

No correspondence will be entered into

Rock On
Originally uploaded by violent visions of setting sail

I'm not a hair metal expert (thank Christ) so perhaps I am not qualified to talk on the subject of power ballads. However they were created so that coked-out bands could get a hit on radio and as we all know, radio is the realm of pop music - a topic of which I can hold my own in.

Therefore I give you the 5 best power ballad songs from the years 1988 to 1992:

5. When I See You Smile - Bad English

4. The Flame - Cheap Trick

3. Wind Of Change - Scorpions

2. More Than Words - Extreme

1. To Be With You - Mr Big