Yesterday I talked about how I’d noticed a few people out in Calgary who instead of just saying “bye” when they hang up, they say “mmbye.” I wondered if this is a western Canadian phenomenon since I don’t recall hearing it back in Ontario. Lynch does it, as does one of my new friends Brian - who I captured in the audio below. Another quirk a listener pointed out, was the use of “hey” instead of “eh.” Any other speech patterns unique to western Canada?

mmmbye.mp3

Today on Josh’s Big Box O CDs I featured a track from Dodgy. They put out their last album and broke up in 2001. In A Room?came out in ?1996 on the album Free Peace Sweet. This is a fantastically catchy brit-pop song. The band apparently still maintains a MySpace profile.

Today on Josh’s Big Box O CDs we featured a staple of the 90s Canadian music scene, Winnipeg’s Watchmen. The last alum the Watchmen put out was 2001’s Slomotion which featured the single Absolutely Anytime. It was packaged with a second greatest hits disc which featured this electronic-tinged version of their 1998 song Stereo.