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Originally Posted by rubecube
Jesus Christ, nobody said old music is irrelevant. It's not like the options were Led Zeppelin or Metric and the NHL chose Metric. The options were likely Metric, other current but likely smaller Canadian bands, or washed up CanCon bands from the 70s and 80s who were never that good to begin with (i.e. Loverboy, Kim Mitchell, BTO, etc.).
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OT (not like the whole thread isn't anyway), but I heard the singer from Loverboy talking on the radio before. He was really downplaying their success. He outright said that the only reason why they had any success was because radio stations had to play Canadian content and that they played on that.
Say what you want about Metric, but they have been around for almost 10 years and only started getting radio play after their last album. The radio doesn't play them because they need the content (althought I guess it helps). They were asked by the Rolling Stones to open for them in New York, so I think that says something about their status as a legitimate band.