why don't i listen to more canadian music?

well, i do listen to a fair amount of canadian music, but it's fairly underground. my favourite industrial band is skinny puppy (vancouver), and my favourite post-rock act is a silver mt zion (montreal); together, those are perhaps my two biggest single influences. there were also a number of very interesting alternative rock bands from southern ontario in the 90s that i've listened to a whole lot of.

i think that the canadian music scene, like most music scenes, really went to shit in the late 90s, and it never really recovered. and, i am vehemently opposed to much of what gets labeled "canadian music", because it's mostly just puerile bullshit.

but, i'm actually more broadly opposed to the concept of music as a geographic idea. i find it very unappealing to think of a band as "canadian" or "german"; music is universal, and where a musician is from does not and should not matter. nor should people be coerced into participating in the cultural scenes that exist around them, simply because they're there.

so, i'd actually argue that there have been very, very substantive music scenes in this country, in the past. there just aren't any right now, and haven't been any for essentially my entire adult life.

i'd probably move to new york, if i could. that would be the ideal place for me to live, culturally.