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Your 10 BestOne of Canada’s

most recognizable band entities - We’re Here For a Good Time Not a Long time, so Raise a Little Hell!

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First with Max Webster then onto Go For Soda and Patio Lanterns.

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Darby Mills... Don’t It Make You Feel Like Dancin’?

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pursuit of happiness

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The Hamilton crew widely recognized as Canada’s premier punk act; Frankie Venom sadly passed in 2008.

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loverBoY

Action, Hollywood, Under My Thumb... bar band supreme.

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Makin’ It Work, Vancouver band blended blues and old style rock and roll for a good show. Too Bad they are no longer.

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The boys from Niagara Falls had a big album, hits with New Girl Now, Burnin’ in Love and then the Lethal Weapon sountrack.

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Winnipeg crew had big hits with I Did It For Love, Thinking Of You, and Innocence.

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I’m An Adult Now became a new wavish/punk anthem for many teens of the era.

A regular feature of the DHT is YOUR 10 BEST, and we encourage you to be a part of it. Last week we turned

to social media to ask our FB friends their favourite Canadian rock bands of the 1980s. We wanted to stay away from the “Headliners”, looking more for the bar bands and college circuit players, so that is why Rush, Bryan Adams, et al, aren’t here. In the mean time, we received almost 200 responses, which means 1980s music lives on. Rock on!

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Anthem band for sure, Kid is Hot Tonight, Turn Me Loose... Lovin’ Every Minute of It.

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Because of the sheer volume of answers, the also-rans: Queen City Kids, Images in Vogue, The Pumps, Strange Advance, Saga, Chilliwack, Nash The Slash and FM, Rough Trade, Powder Blues, Gowan, Aldo Nova, Doucette, Prism, Darkroom, One Horse Blue, Toronto, Lee Aaron, Pointed Sticks, Martha and the Muffins, Famous Blue Raincoat, Jeff Healey, NeoA4, Glass Tiger, Northern Pikes, Grapes of Wrath, Odds, Rheostatics, Razorbacks, Handsome Ned, and Platinum Blonde. Whew... no lack of input.

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