welcome to the land of K-Tel!
You dont listen to the radio here so much as to the radio station. And you find yourself hearing a song begin and think, sweet, Santana! And its a cover. In fact most everything you hear is a cover unless its a Canadian song. Dont know if this is a law or convention but it keeps me wondering how they get sooo close to the original music and then pick a vocalist who, with apologies to doug adams, is almost, but not completely, utterly unlike the original.
Gotta employ the local talent. And if your audience has never heard the original, whose going to complain?
They could get a Moose to sing it!
I think that it’s that “Canadian Content” law. How else could Lover Boy have gotten so huge? Eh?
I guess they still have to abide by the Canadian Content rules. It’s one of the things that killed one of the biggest rock stations ever, the Big 8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz749-Q0lMc
When the English got fed a mess of American content after WW II, they responded with the British Invasion back to the States, and we got Led Zep, Beatles, Stones, etc. When Canada was playing American rock, the government responded with turning off the tap, and we got the Barenaked Ladies.
Who knows, if they left their stations alone, Canadian music might’ve been great, or might have disappeared. Either way, it wouldn’t be the Trabant that it sounds like it is now.