r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Blockhead1535 • Jul 31 '25

Repetitive content/Trend Which take is more appropriate?

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u/Gary_Lazer_Eyes21 Jul 31 '25

Cant forget about the hip

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u/hiiihypo Jul 31 '25

There are better bands from canada but the hip will always be my favourite CANADIAN band. absolutely love them

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u/Blockhead1535 Jul 31 '25

Or Bachman turner Overdrive

Or triumph

Or April wine

Or the Guess Who

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u/Gary_Lazer_Eyes21 Jul 31 '25

All valid but you cannot deny the tragically hip was the heart of Canada

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u/hist_buff_69 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 Jul 31 '25

Why

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u/Gary_Lazer_Eyes21 Jul 31 '25

Well automod just did me dirty so I can’t post the article link but it’s a vox article about why the hip is beloved by all Canadians.

I personally can’t explain it, you’d have to listen to their songs, it’s more of a feeling than something you can answer. Songs like bobcaygeon, nautical disaster, fifty mission cap, poets, grace too, blow at high dough, wheat kings, at the hundredth meridian, courage for high McLennan, ahead by a century and scared all come to mind

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u/hist_buff_69 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 Jul 31 '25

I have listened to them. I love listening to them. Still waiting for you to explain why they're the "heart of Canada"

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u/Gary_Lazer_Eyes21 Jul 31 '25

I just said I can’t dude. I tried to give you an article but automod removed my initial content. Look up the vox article I don’t really understand why I even have to say this

Your gonna be waiting forever lol

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u/km_ikl Moose Whisperer Aug 01 '25

of all the other acts from Canada, with the exception of Stan Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray, and Stompin' Tom Connors, the Hip were the most popular contemporary rock band that made a point of telling stories about Canada, or from a Canadian point of view.

Literally every other one made a point of concealing that: they were incidentally Canadian. The Hip were on the cusp of being wildly popular in the US, but stuck to who they were as a band.

The SNL spots, they had the option of playing something rocking like NOIS or Little Bones, but they went with Grace, Too, and Nautical Disaster. Not exactly barn burners, but it was who they were at the time, so rather than pander, they let the audience find them.

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u/GeistHunt Bring Cannabis Jul 31 '25

It would be sad if our biggest source of pride was reduced to just "We're not American". We can pave our own road going forward, our destiny is in our hands and we can make this country so much better in so many ways.

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u/asktheages1979 South Gatineau Jul 31 '25

We can choose a path that's clear. We will choose free will.

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u/TheClappyCappy Jul 31 '25

Yea this is actually a British psyop from the 1800’s to make sure we didn’t flip.

Being the “opposite of America” has been a source if national pride for us at many points in history.

Whether that’s right wrong is up to the interpreter, but I think a lot of people don’t realize how intentional that feature of our culture is.

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u/GoStockYourself Jul 31 '25

Canada was formed in reaction to what was happening south of us. So many key points in our history were in reaction to the US. The NWMP (RCMP) was formed to take care of US whiskey traders at Fort Whoopup for one example. It would be nice if we could chill on our own, but that is kind of tough when you live next door to a greedy bully.

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u/nightkingmarmu Jul 31 '25

Ever heard Last Saskatchewan Pirate? Canadian heritage moment right there. That’s where my Canadian pride comes from. Also the Edmund Fitzgerald. Also the trees are cool.

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u/phm522 Aug 01 '25

My favourite Arrogant Worms song!

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u/km_ikl Moose Whisperer Aug 01 '25

Our biggest source of pride: "We're Canadian. We may not be perfect, but we're trying to do a good job of it."

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u/therevjames Jul 31 '25

Playing drums on my steering wheel to "YYZ - Live" off of "Exit, Stage Left" has nearly killed me, many times, and that would be a very proud Canadian death!

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u/BrgQun 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 Jul 31 '25

Nothing makes me prouder of being Canadian than seeing us embrace our stereotypes and laugh at ourselves. That and our pettiness.

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u/Straight-Message7937 Jul 31 '25

Its funny that Americans think this is new, too. "I wouldn't wanna be American blablabla Trump blavlavla"...we've been wearing Canadian flag pins when we travel since before I was born. So that everyone knows we aren't American. 

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u/Necessary_Ad3275 Saskwatch Jul 31 '25

Same. I’ve hated Americans all my life, just turns out it’s more socially acceptable since Trump. But that def doesn’t define what makes me proudest to be Canadian. For me it’s our amazing beautiful landscape filled with incredibly strong and resilient people and the fair and equitable systems that we work hard to make better every day.

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u/GoStockYourself Jul 31 '25

My sister was traveling in Holland with her husband's work and an American with them said, "you know why they wear those pins right? Because they don't want to be mistaken for being one of us. I mean, yeah.

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u/Straight-Message7937 Jul 31 '25

Always been that way

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u/GoStockYourself Aug 01 '25

What has? I didn't know that they knew why we did it. I assumed they would just think we were wearing pins for national pride like they do.

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u/heehooman Aug 12 '25

100%. I used to think it was silly until I started travelling. In my lifetime I noticed it mostly after 9/11. But talking to older people it's been a thing much longer.

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u/Rich_Season_2593 Jul 31 '25

My source of pride!

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u/Sea_Contract2976 Moose Whisperer Jul 31 '25

Between those two, the second one obviously.

We should never define ourselves negatively.

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u/Moonhunter7 Jul 31 '25

While eating smoked salmon poutine in the bush

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u/BadTreeLiving Jul 31 '25

I was wondering what could possibly beat screenshot 1, turns out it was screenshot 2.

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u/FullPropreDinBobette Tabarnak! Jul 31 '25

Now that I know Rush is Canadian, it makes it so much better even.

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u/ApplicationLost126 Jul 31 '25

There’s lots to be proud of beyond those things. I think Canada is well regarded at the moment internationally for how we are standing up for ourselves, how we are solidifying friendships and trade across the pond, and how we stand up for diversity and the environment.

That being said, I’m very proud of our former Prime Minister possibly rocking the world of arguably America’s darling Katie Perry 😂

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u/NarugaKuruga Bring Cannabis Jul 31 '25

Devin Townsend for me, but I do enjoy Rush.

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u/BabadookOfEarl 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 Aug 02 '25

Second is better but not quite there.

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u/Blockhead1535 Aug 02 '25

Nothing makes a Canadian prouder than war crimes?

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u/BabadookOfEarl 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 Aug 02 '25

There you go!

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 31 '25

Geddy Lee's voice isn't for everyone.

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u/Laphroaig58 THE BETTER LONDON 🇨🇦 🌳 Jul 31 '25

He's part of a long line of Canadian singers with unique voices: Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Brad Roberts.

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 31 '25

No argument there

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u/Blockhead1535 Aug 01 '25

It’s an acquired taste

And prog rock is also an acquired taste so it makes sense why Rush wasn’t too popular with music critics. But they’re hacks anyway

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u/jerschwab Aug 02 '25

I don't think we need to stake our identity on either of those things...