Following a conversation with M² this morning, I thought I’d list the Canadian music you should be listening to (if you’re not already):

Five classic albums by Canadian artists that most people have heard of. Popular, but not in that horrible Bryan Adams / Celine Dion / Shania Twain kind of way:

• the band . the last waltz
• matthew good . last of the ghetto astronauts
• rush . moving pictures
• sloan . smeared
• the tragically hip . fully completely

The best albums by five Canadian bands who’ve received all manner of buzz in indie music circles over the past year or three:

• the arcade fire . funeral
• the constantines . tournament of hearts
• metric . old world underground
• the new pornographers . mass romantic
• wolf parade . apologies to the queen mary

Older (meaning anywhere from 1980 to 2000) albums that are VASTLY underrated.

• big sugar . five hundred pounds
• godspeed you! black emperor . lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
• rheostatics . whale music
• stan rogers . fogarty’s cove
• neil young . mirror ball

Five recent albums you might not have heard of but are well worth a download.

• black mountain . black mountain
• great lake swimmers . bodies and minds
• the hidden cameras . mississauga goddam
• magneta lane . the constant lover
• a.c. newman . the slow wonder