Talk:Music of Vancouver

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[edit] Some Conspicuous Omissions

Bryan Adams? Sarah McLachlan, followed by her industrial Nettwerk cronies Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy(, Delerium etc.) Matthew Good? Nickelback? Doug And The Slugs, the Be Good Tanyas, Strapping Young Lad, Sal Ferreras, Dal Richards, Jim Byrnes, Swollen Members, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, The Evaporators and The Smugglers (band), the Hard Rubber Orchestra, Katari Taiko, Bif Naked, Kinnie Starr, Veda Hille, P:ano... unfortunately they largely come from different musical worlds -- individual heavyweight champions from scenes demanding fuller recognition themselves. Surely no individual has a sufficiently complete grasp on all of their genres... Pseudo Intellectual

[edit] Formatting/sections

The names above of course still have to be added to the main page - many more notable than any of the self-promotional new-era bands who've added themselves, in fact - but I'm dithering because I'm not sure where on the page; I was going to create a "popular artists" section but even that goes into a possible history section. Idea is "where's the division date" between historical acts and modern ones, i.e. the punk/new-wave era bands aren't current. So anyways looking for input/collaboration on making sections for the article; Nightclub/entertainment industry history (includes visiting performers, e.g. Mitzi Gaynor and Jim Morrison e.g.), labels and producers, vintage/historical popular bands (ranging from Dal Richards to the Seeds of Time to DOA, i.e. from swing and jazz through psychedelia and commercial pop to punk/alternative, but with some kind of cut-off date (DOA being also current today, as also the Subhumans; but more as "revival" acts), then current popular music, as well as of course a separate section on classical/academic music, orchestras/organizations and composers. Theoretically I'd think the popular music sections might be subdividable into rock, country, jazz, alternative, whatever. Suggestions?Skookum1 21:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)