[ ]      [ ]   [ ]
Big Sugar — All Hell For A Basement
Log in above to post your comment
kcar
Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 22:21
 
 helgigermany wrote:
Bon Jovi like!?


 
There's a definite late 70s-early 80s AOR heavy metal lumbering feel.  But definitely in a good way. 

StoneyG
(Just east of The Rockies; north of the 49th)
Posted: Mar 30, 2013 - 19:07
 
 joelbb wrote:
Sorry, Lads, but Heaven is in BC.
 
Agreed.

 marc1980 wrote:
This song means to me
Open air festival on a warm summer evening
Free flowing Canadian beer
Dancing screaming women
Memories that last a lifetime.

  
Awesome.

KirkisThinking
(Vienna)
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 03:58
 
The reason why it is called "All hell for a basement" is because when Rudyard Kipling was in the Medicine Hat area, he was shown how there were places where the natural gas is seeping through the ground and you can light it with a match... and he commented, you have "all hell for a basement". This story can be read at the city hall in Medicine Hat, Gordie's home town. And correctly, when the fishing industry was killed off by big companies and countries, many of the guys from out east on the coast of Canada came out west to get work in the oil patch. There is an Alberta joke that goes like this: What's the biggest city in Newfoundland? Answer: Fort McMurray. :)

joelbb
Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 23:37
 
Sorry, Lads, but Heaven is in BC.

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Sep 23, 2012 - 10:54
 
 kingart wrote:
A contagious tune. Nice guitar break. Good whiskey tipping song!
 
What he said.....

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 12:58
 
A contagious tune. Nice guitar break. Good whiskey tipping song!

fingerpin
(oHIo)
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 12:56
 
 michaelgmitchell wrote:

Do they have Geography books in the Excited States?
 
{#Lol}

Xstar
(Florence, Kentucky)
Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 02:04
 
What can I say {#Puke}

wolverine
(Just North of Nowhere)
Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 13:33
 

Glad to hear BIG SUGAR on the regular channel. {#Dancingbanana_2}
I've uploaded another great song of theirs on the LRC, "RED ROVER" and I hope that Bill and Rebecca will also give it the green light and bring it on over. It's got a kick-ass base line!{#Bananajam}



kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 13:24
 
This tune was MIA on iTunes. Not fair. Ass kicking song that I want on the pod. 

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 11:37
 
Nice.

Loved Big Sugar.

Love Grady. 

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 11:35
 
 More_Cowbell wrote:
Do they have basements in Canada?
 
Mostly.  Crawl spaces on the west coast.


michaelgmitchell
(Canada)
Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:11
 
 More_Cowbell wrote:
Do they have basements in Canada?
 
Do they have Geography books in the Excited States?

marc1980
(Victoria, BC)
Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 11:27
 
This song means to me
Open air festival on a warm summer evening
Free flowing Canadian beer
Dancing screaming women
Memories that last a lifetime.


KaiT
(Toronto Canada)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 05:52
 
More Big Sugar? I am a HUGE fan. I have seen them several times in small venues live and they are LOUD! 

Better Get Used to It, Girl Watcher, Kickin' Stones, Round and Round, 100 Cigarettes — all great tracks from an album named HEAT

Diggin' A Hole, Tommy Johnson, Rolling Pin, Opem Up Baby— awesome tracks from the album HEMIVISION

So much to explore with this band. Sometimes a big band swing sound with a little reggae/funk fusion.....

So disappointed they are no longer a group but you can hear Gordie Johnson carry on under the name of GRADY..... 

More_Cowbell
(Northern IL)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 05:40
 
Do they have basements in Canada?

72foxes
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 14:48
 
never heard of them before but are they channelling neil young or what? greetings from a surprisingly warm Dublin Ireland {#Cowboy}

scrubbrush
(Sea of Calm)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 14:47
 
never heard this before... i like it!

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 14:46
 
I hear this song and can imagine Alberta boys and girls drinkin', smokin' and dancin' on tables.

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 05:45
 
I love Big Sugar.

Lots of good music from that band. They've got a nice Zep vibe. 

hagz21
(Lock Stock and Ready to Rockwood)
Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 18:58
 
 hellokelly wrote:
I love this song...and it's so familiar to me, yet not. Why do I feel like I know it? Where might I have heard it?

And what's it all about anyway?
 

It's about Newfies (especially young men from Newfoundland) trying to find a decent job and moving out to Alberta (other side of the country) to work as rig pigs in the oil sands...

agkagk
(Aurora, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 18:42
 
 Lonestar wrote:


Sadly Molson bought Creemore a few years back — try Steamwhistle, Big Rock, or Mill Street instead.
 

Yes, Molson bought Creemore, but they immediately created a VP job to ensure that other management didn't mess with the brewing process. I love Creemore's tag line: "One Hundred Years Behing the Times". Great beer! (Sorry for the tangent)

agkagk
(Aurora, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 18:38
 
 huebdoo wrote:
I always thought these guys were from TO, Medicine Hat?

Mind you Alberta as red-neck as it is has produced some seriously amazing artists

KD Lang
Jane Arden
Terry Clark
Teagan & Sarah
Big Sugar (more just Gordie Johnson)
Nickleback (Im kinda sick of them though)

Not bad considering the two musical styles there are country and western - Anyone who has been to Stampede will confirm this
 

Another post added Joni Mitchell.
Now add the lesser known but no less awesome Gaye Delorme

brianbf1986
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 10:38
 
 More_Cowbell wrote:

 
Party on Wayne.


brianbf1986
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 10:37
 
Loving it.

coding_to_music
(Beantown)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 10:35
 
8 —> 9

More_Cowbell
(Northern IL)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 10:35
 


audiophelia
(Pennsylvania)
Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 11:41
 
Sounds Neil Young influenced.

coding_to_music
(Beantown)
Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 11:41
 
 coding_to_music wrote:
quite the guitar playing
 
Heavy Bass, man !


WayUpNorth
(Windswept Exile)
Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 11:40
 
TASTY!!!! {#Dancingbanana_2}

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 11:39
 
Dig it.

More Big Sugar please... 

coding_to_music
(Beantown)
Posted: Dec 03, 2010 - 21:25
 
quite the guitar playing

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Nov 30, 2010 - 12:03
 
Bon Jovi like!?


hellokelly
(Los Osos, California)
Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 20:19
 
I love this song...and it's so familiar to me, yet not. Why do I feel like I know it? Where might I have heard it?

And what's it all about anyway?

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Oct 01, 2010 - 13:23
 
This song makes me think of young Canadian men, half-naked, very, very drunk and belting out the words to the national anthem (but forgetting a few).

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 04:22
 
I can stand some more music like this,oh yes !

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 13:30
 
Gee, I thought I had clicked on to a local AM radio station for a moment.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 13:29
 
I commented about this on the Son Volt Song "Medicine Hat" (I think - if not that one, then World Party's "Message In A Box.")  I'd only heard two songs by Big Sugar, and both were featured on "La Femme Nikita" (and I didn't really care for either of them.)  This one, however, is just rather awesome.  Shows how one never knows from a single song what a band is capable of producing.

Love this song. {#Sunny}

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jun 27, 2010 - 16:08
 
So few comments on this oft played tune.  Oh sweet home Alberta! 

Danimal174
(Upstate South Carolina)
Posted: Jun 24, 2010 - 07:17
 
Cool song. First time I've heard this.


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: May 23, 2010 - 11:20
 
 ascheel wrote:
...Thanks for playing more CANCON :D
 

As if anybody on these threads from outside Canada would understand CANCON!?!!  -lol-

CANCON = Canadian Content

 

 



kittyharker
(Arkham)
Posted: Apr 21, 2010 - 17:47
 
I really like the guitar riff.

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 13:32
 
 miahfost wrote:
How is the rest of this record? Because this song rocks!
 
Wow!! I cannot believe RP is playing Big Sugar!

This is from their last album, it is good but IMHO Hemi-Vision is their best.

There is a "best of" available, but it has a lot of live numbers.

Big Sugar are Canadian and there singer/guitarist/main song writer, Gordie Johnson is now down in Texas heading a band called Grady.

FlatCat
(Chicago)
Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 13:29
 
What a rich sounds. +1 every time I hear it.

alfbennett
Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 13:26
 
This song is really awsome

miahfost
(Svensk Socialist Monarki)
Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 12:14
 
How is the rest of this record? Because this song rocks!

a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 12:13
 
The band broke up in 2004, after, according to the band's website, Johnson became frustrated with Canadian radio programmers who claimed his single "All Hell for a Basement" was "too Canadian" (as the song makes reference to the province of Alberta).
wiki

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 12:12
 
Medicine Hat segue:

Big Sugar - All Hell For A Basement
Son Volt - Medicine Hat

peter_james_bond
(The Burg)
Posted: Dec 16, 2009 - 17:55
 
 Heathen wrote:
All Hell for a Basement is a great song and its about the town I live in. Medicine Hat has been described (by Rudyard Kipling no less) as having "All Hell for a Basement". This refers to the fact that Medicine Hat is built on a huge gas field.... so if someone ever lit a match :D Oh... and the singer of Big Sugar is from Medicine Hat, his parents still live here. Good to hear this on Radio Paradise
 
Medicine Hat? I thought he was talking about Fort McMurray....{#Lol}

tnt_thomas
(In awkuous enough)
Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 15:53
 
 MM_Prague wrote:

Here's another one for the list: Joni Mitchell (Fort MacLeod)

 
ANNNNDDD Evangeline Lilly!! Snarf!