Comments on: Help Make the Musical Map of Montreal

By: alanah

alanah — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:49:30 +0000

Sarah and I saw Lake of Stew play on Sunday at Caigibi, and they performed a lovely 7-part harmony about waiting for the 105 bus in NDG.

Also, I would tend to think that les Cowboys Fringants’ song “shish taouk” is unquestionably Montrealais but there are so many shish taouk joints I wouldn’t know where to put a pin on the map…

Thanks for the input and keep ‘em coming!

By: Risa Dickens

Risa Dickens — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:38:28 +0000

I love this idea, and the song “Retour a Vega” by the Stills especially the bit about the Bancroft building which is ridiculously skinny and near my house:

“l’haleine des camions le soleil alienant
sur le toit du Bancroft building à Montréal”

By: lafileuse

lafileuse — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:14:34 +0000

I’m thinking of “Montreal” by Of Montreal (who are, of course, not actually from Montreal):

“Montreal is
Where I began to feel inside
the gray sadness of winter.
When you told me that this isn’t it,
And I drove away.

Walking to the statue in the park,
Through snow drifts up over our knees,
And every street sign written in French.
We sat by the statue.
You looked in my eyes,
Then said, “I’m so sorry.”

Later, laying on your bed,
Wondering what’s going wrong.
Every time I’d ask you’d start crying,
And whisper, “I don’t know why,
I only know what I feel,
what a voice says to me”

I may be here now
but I’ve never left Montreal”

By: sarah pearson

sarah pearson — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:48:05 +0000

the Tragically Hip’s “Something On” comes to mind. It’s about the ice storm, and this 10-year anniversary week of the ice storm makes me think fondly of that time, and of that song.

“outside there’s hectic action
and ice is covering the trees
and one of them’s interconnecting
with my chevrolet capri

Black out to phantom power….”