Music, musings and miscellanea

Unlike a lot of CanRock bands in the 90s, Vancouver’s Odds never followed the lead of alternative bands down South. Instead they blazed a trail of off-beat pop hits over the course of four albums. I saw them at the three day, all Canadian Fox Fest in 1996 and they were the first band I ever crowd surfed to, so they hold a special place in my CanRock heart. The band split in 1999 after scoring its biggest hit with “Someone Who Is Cool,” and recently reformed sans Steven Drake, first as New Odds and more recently under their original moniker.There are a lot of tunes I could have included below (and I may include in the future), but “Wendy Under The Stars” from their first record Neopolitan is my favourite, and shows off the bands’ ability to blend humour and emotion in the same song. Note that the uncensored chorus on the record goes “I was fucking Wendy under the stars.” And sorry I couldn’t find a video without the Much More Music supers…