Let's do the time warp.
Oh, wow, I have been looking for this for ages, and some wonderful person has finally put it up on YouTube - one of the ginormous hits of Québec music in the 80s, Paul Piché's Sur Ma Peau. He is such a goofy, floppy-haired stud in his tight jeans and bigass 80s coat. :)
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I became a huge fan of Québec music during my McGill years in the late '80s - early '90s, and it was a fantastic time for it - Sur le chemin des incendies, the album this song came off of, spawned - god, four or five hit records, and sold over 100000 copies, which is platinum in Canada. That's amazing considering that practically no one outside of Québec has heard of Piché, and so probably about 99% of those sales were in that province alone. At that time, when nationalism was running high, the entire Plaines d'Abraham would be filled on Saint Jean Baptiste with people singing his anthem, L'escalier. When they talk about the two solitudes in Canada, this is it - only it's a one-sided mirror, because Québec sees English Canada just fine, but most of English Canada has no clue about Québec culture, then or now.
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I became a huge fan of Québec music during my McGill years in the late '80s - early '90s, and it was a fantastic time for it - Sur le chemin des incendies, the album this song came off of, spawned - god, four or five hit records, and sold over 100000 copies, which is platinum in Canada. That's amazing considering that practically no one outside of Québec has heard of Piché, and so probably about 99% of those sales were in that province alone. At that time, when nationalism was running high, the entire Plaines d'Abraham would be filled on Saint Jean Baptiste with people singing his anthem, L'escalier. When they talk about the two solitudes in Canada, this is it - only it's a one-sided mirror, because Québec sees English Canada just fine, but most of English Canada has no clue about Québec culture, then or now.
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