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The Odds is a Canadian pop/rock band. Their most popular album (so far!) is "Good Weird Feeling." It's pretty okay!
Side A:
Truth Untold;
Smokescreen (Come and Get Me);
Radios Of Heaven;
I Would Be Your Man;
Satisfied;
Break The Bed;
Oh Sorrow, Oh Shame.
Side B:
Eat My Brain; The Last Drink; Anybody Else But Me; Mercy To Go; Leave It There; We'll Talk.
Side B:
Eat My Brain; The Last Drink; Anybody Else But Me; Mercy To Go; Leave It There; We'll Talk.
Pedantically, their proper name as I understand it and as Wikipedia confirms is "Odds" not "The Odds"
Craig Northey of the band did the score to the Kids in The Hall movie "Brain Candy" and co-wrote/co-performed the theme to Corner Gas - Not A Lot Going On
posted by stevil at 1:49 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
Craig Northey of the band did the score to the Kids in The Hall movie "Brain Candy" and co-wrote/co-performed the theme to Corner Gas - Not A Lot Going On
posted by stevil at 1:49 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
Oh wow, one of my favorite bands. Thanks for posting this. Their album Bedbugs has some great songs too.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 1:59 PM on March 26, 2018
posted by overeducated_alligator at 1:59 PM on March 26, 2018
The mid-nineties CanCon “alternative” landscape, for context.
I should preface the following by stating unequivocally that I enjoy the music of (the) Odds; their tunes are catchy and their lyrics are fun and when their songs are on the radio I don’t change the station.
That said, (the) Odds were pretty much the epitome of Generic Mid-Nineties Canadian Guitar Rock. Their songs are catchy and memorable, but in mid-nineties Canada, it didn’t get any more middle-of-the-road. It’s like they took all the other mid-nineties Canadian bands, threw them in a blender, and poured out this perfectly average-sounding beige mush.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:02 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
I should preface the following by stating unequivocally that I enjoy the music of (the) Odds; their tunes are catchy and their lyrics are fun and when their songs are on the radio I don’t change the station.
That said, (the) Odds were pretty much the epitome of Generic Mid-Nineties Canadian Guitar Rock. Their songs are catchy and memorable, but in mid-nineties Canada, it didn’t get any more middle-of-the-road. It’s like they took all the other mid-nineties Canadian bands, threw them in a blender, and poured out this perfectly average-sounding beige mush.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:02 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
I’m just curious—what brought your attention to this band in 2018? I got into them by way of the Kids in the Hall connection (Odds frontman Craig Northey opened for KITH live shows after the band was inactive for a while). But outside of the Canadian pop fandom for bands like Sloan and the Tragically Hip, I never hear anyone talk about these records.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 2:03 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by overeducated_alligator at 2:03 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
I had no idea they were Canadian. My favourite track has always been Make You Man, from Nest.
posted by Fish Sauce at 2:08 PM on March 26, 2018
posted by Fish Sauce at 2:08 PM on March 26, 2018
Metafilter: it’s pretty okay!
posted by simra at 2:22 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by simra at 2:22 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
Great choice!
I have a Canadian 90s playlist on Spotify that I return to frequently. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I think that decade gave us an overabundance of quality indie and mainstream Canadian Content. Just off the top of my head:
Sloan, Rheostatics, Bootsauce, 13 Engines, Philosopher Kings, Tragically Hip, 54-40, Watchmen, Odds, Danko Jones, Bif Naked, The Pursuit of Happiness, Big Sugar, Blue Rodeo...(I'm sure I'm missing some big ones!).
As for Odds...I'm partial to It Falls Apart.
posted by rocket88 at 2:26 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
I have a Canadian 90s playlist on Spotify that I return to frequently. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I think that decade gave us an overabundance of quality indie and mainstream Canadian Content. Just off the top of my head:
Sloan, Rheostatics, Bootsauce, 13 Engines, Philosopher Kings, Tragically Hip, 54-40, Watchmen, Odds, Danko Jones, Bif Naked, The Pursuit of Happiness, Big Sugar, Blue Rodeo...(I'm sure I'm missing some big ones!).
As for Odds...I'm partial to It Falls Apart.
posted by rocket88 at 2:26 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
They spent 1992 touring as Warren Zevon's backing band.
posted by soundguy99 at 3:10 PM on March 26, 2018
posted by soundguy99 at 3:10 PM on March 26, 2018
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I think that decade gave us an overabundance of quality indie and mainstream Canadian Content.
It’s not just nostalgia. There was an absolute phoquetonne of great music in Canada at the time. It was a combination of 1. the rise of alternative/college rock in general, plus 2. MuchMusic, the only music video channel in Canada at the time, which reached pretty much every teenager every second of every day, and actually played music videos. They had to make up their mandatory Canadian Content quota somehow (without just playing “Tom Sawyer” twelve times in every top 40 countdown), so through their Videofact program, they threw free money at pretty much any Canadian band who wanted to make a music video. That in turn made things way easier to be both fiercely independent and hugely successful in Canada, leading to a thriving scene...until creeping reality TV and the internet pretty much killed it.
posted by Sys Rq at 3:11 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
It’s not just nostalgia. There was an absolute phoquetonne of great music in Canada at the time. It was a combination of 1. the rise of alternative/college rock in general, plus 2. MuchMusic, the only music video channel in Canada at the time, which reached pretty much every teenager every second of every day, and actually played music videos. They had to make up their mandatory Canadian Content quota somehow (without just playing “Tom Sawyer” twelve times in every top 40 countdown), so through their Videofact program, they threw free money at pretty much any Canadian band who wanted to make a music video. That in turn made things way easier to be both fiercely independent and hugely successful in Canada, leading to a thriving scene...until creeping reality TV and the internet pretty much killed it.
posted by Sys Rq at 3:11 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
@rocket88: add Grapes of Wrath to that list too. I'll risk a flame war and throw Barenaked Ladies into the ring as well.
posted by simra at 3:30 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by simra at 3:30 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
Today I learned the Odds didn't die in the early 2000s. Neat.
"Someone Who's Cool" will forever have a cherished place in my mid-90s alt-rock pantheon.
posted by chrominance at 3:58 PM on March 26, 2018
"Someone Who's Cool" will forever have a cherished place in my mid-90s alt-rock pantheon.
posted by chrominance at 3:58 PM on March 26, 2018
@rocket88, @simra: I'll toss in Junkhouse, and Headstones if you lean toward a harder edge, and Skinny Puppy if you lean industrial.
posted by SonInLawOfSam at 4:27 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by SonInLawOfSam at 4:27 PM on March 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
I was eternally grateful for all of the other alternative bands as I'm pretty sure that without them CFNY would have played even more Tragically Hip than they did.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 5:13 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 5:13 PM on March 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
I like this.
posted by limeonaire at 6:52 PM on March 26, 2018
posted by limeonaire at 6:52 PM on March 26, 2018
Eat my Brain is a great track... and for a bonus the video also features members of "The pursuit of happiness" and "Junkhouse"
posted by cirhosis at 6:58 PM on March 26, 2018
posted by cirhosis at 6:58 PM on March 26, 2018
While it is pedantically correct that the band name is "Odds", you get extra cool kid points if you remember them better as "Dawn Patrol".
posted by Kinski's Ghost at 7:42 PM on March 26, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Kinski's Ghost at 7:42 PM on March 26, 2018 [3 favorites]
I saw Dawn Patrol many a time at the Roxy. The first time I heard them I was blown away by how good the "bar band" was. Their harmonies were divine.
posted by ashbury at 9:36 PM on March 26, 2018
posted by ashbury at 9:36 PM on March 26, 2018
See also “Wendy Under The Stars” (preferably the uncensored version) as featured in Greil Marcus’ book _Dead Elvis_.
posted by kreinsch at 10:16 PM on March 26, 2018
posted by kreinsch at 10:16 PM on March 26, 2018
I’m just curious—what brought your attention to this band in 2018?
Personally they had my attention as recently as 2016 when they toured with the CP Rail holiday train. Got to hear them play outside in -25°. It was fun but they didn't play the 90s hits. :(
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 12:05 AM on March 27, 2018
Personally they had my attention as recently as 2016 when they toured with the CP Rail holiday train. Got to hear them play outside in -25°. It was fun but they didn't play the 90s hits. :(
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 12:05 AM on March 27, 2018
Northey was a guest on Brent Butt's sadly hiatus'd podcast.
The mid-nineties CanCon “alternative” landscape, for context.
Well heck, there goes an FPP that I always meant to make*.
*If we're being honest, I would never have gotten around to doing it, so cheers, Sys Rq.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:33 AM on March 27, 2018
The mid-nineties CanCon “alternative” landscape, for context.
Well heck, there goes an FPP that I always meant to make*.
*If we're being honest, I would never have gotten around to doing it, so cheers, Sys Rq.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:33 AM on March 27, 2018
This reminds me that I never got through the second half of the phone-book sized tome "Have Not Been The Same" - about a previous era in CanRock.
posted by stevil at 8:10 AM on March 27, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by stevil at 8:10 AM on March 27, 2018 [1 favorite]
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