Big Sugar
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Big Sugar is a Canadian
blues
-rock
band, they were active from 1991 to 2004 and again since April 2010. The band has sold more than half a million albums in Canada.
, Ontario
, consisting of vocalist and guitarist Gordie Johnson
, bassist Terry Wilkins, and drummer Al Cross, though the three musicians had already played together for several years as an informal jam band with members of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
, and as a supporting band for Molly Johnson
's jazz
performances. After Molly Johnson returned to rock music with Infidels
, she helped her former bandmates to secure a record deal; their eponymous debut album
was released in 1991 on Hypnotic Records.
After Wilkins left the band in 1993, Big Sugar recorded the album Five Hundred Pounds
with the help of guest musicians; including harmonica and tenor saxophonist Kelly Hoppe
, also known as Mr. Chill. Hoppe brought a blues and old-school r'n'b influence into the band's sound. Hoppe would become an official member of the band in September 1994. He would later add keyboards and melodica to his sideman responsibilities. In July 1994, bassist Garry Lowe joined the band. Lowe had moved to Canada in the mid-1970s from Kingston, Jamaica. Soon after arriving in Toronto, he became an in-demand bass player for touring reggae recording artists. He often accompanied them at Toronto's famed Bamboo club on Queen St.W., among other venues. Lowe was a founding member of "Culture Shock", a popular Toronto reggae band. Johnson, an avid reggae maven (and one-time bass player), had been a fan of Lowe's and was pleasantly surprised when he agreed to join Big Sugar as a full-time member. Also in 1994, Al Cross left the band and was replaced by Stich Wynston, formerly of The Shuffle Demons.
Big Sugar had slowly built a reputation as an outstanding live band, and Five Hundred Pounds consolidated it; the album sold 10,000 copies in Canada on the strength of their live shows without any real publicity or radio airplay. During this time, Gordie Johnson also recorded an album as Don't Talk Dance, with Tyler Stewart
of Barenaked Ladies
and Chris Brown of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir.
In 1995, the band released two EPs
; Dear M.F., which featured a cover version
of Traffic
's "Dear Mr. Fantasy
"; and Ride Like Hell
. Following the release of these EPs, Stich Wynston left the band and was replaced by Walter "Crash" Morgan. During the band's tour that year, however, Morgan suffered a heart attack, collapsed, and died on stage during a show in Iowa
. Longtime band associate Raffa Dean was enlisted to finish the tour, and former Odds
member Paul Brennan subsequently joined as the band's new drummer, appearing on one of their most commercially successful albums, 1996's Hemi-Vision
.
Hemi-Vision' s single "Opem Up Baby" was a notable first for the band, who recorded a French
version of that song, "Ouvres-Toi Bébé", for radio stations in Quebec
. The song gained widespread airplay in the province, and for their next album, 1998's Platinum-selling Heated, the band recorded a French version of each single they released; the French songs were collected on the 1999 EP Chauffe à bloc
. Also that year, Johnson and Hoppe performed several acoustic shows as a duo under the names "Little Sugar" or "Two Fools on Stools".
Cross returned as drummer in 1999. The band also added a new rhythm guitarist, Mojah. In July of that year the band performed at Woodstock 1999
.
In 2000, the band released a dub
album, Extra Long Life
, under the name Alkaline.
In 2001, Big Sugar released Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?
Taking their interest in writing and performing French material to its logical conclusion, a complete track-for-track French version, Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?
, was released the same year. Both albums concluded with a blistering rendition of "O Canada
". Towards the end of this tour, Al Cross again left the band to pursue percussion studies in New York state. He was replaced by Eric "Speedstick" Paul.
The two-CD
compilation Hit & Run
, featuring a greatest hits
disc and a live concert performance disc, was released in 2003.
Big Sugar, known for its loud rock shows played without set lists, had their last concert December 31, 2003, at the Shaw Conference Centre
in Edmonton, Alberta. The millionaire recluse Gordie "Grady" Johnson can now be found in the Austin, Texas-based band Grady
. Kelly Hoppe performs with Mr. Chill & The Witnesses
, a roots music group. Mojah and Garry Lowe went on to form Truth and Rights Revue, a reggae band, and have released one album to date. Eric Paul played with Truth and Rights and Thornley
but has since left music to work for Bell Canada.
The band reformed, playing their first show since 2003, at Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival in Whistler, B.C. on April 23, 2010 with tour dates through summer 2010. The band released a new studio album in June 2011, titled Revolution Per Minute.
Gordie Johnson is also an acclaimed producer and session musician. To date, he has produced albums and tracks for Joel Plaskett Emergency, Gov't Mule
, Warren Haynes
, Taj Mahal
, Wide Mouth Mason
, The Trews
, The Respectables
, Tim Chaisson, Len
, Reel Big Fish
, Chris Duarte
, John Ford, Chris Kirby and Meredith Shaw, as well as playing and/or recording with Chris Robinson, Rich Robinson, Default
, Honky
, Len
, Molly Johnson, Jonny Lang
and Double Trouble, Ashley MacIsaac
, the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Big Rude Jake and many others.
He is also the songwriter/ cowriter of numerous hit songs.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
-rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band, they were active from 1991 to 2004 and again since April 2010. The band has sold more than half a million albums in Canada.
History
Big Sugar officially formed in 1988 in TorontoToronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, consisting of vocalist and guitarist Gordie Johnson
Gordie Johnson
Gordie Johnson is a Canadian musician, best known as the front man for the reggae-rock band Big Sugar, and later southern rock band Grady.-Biography:...
, bassist Terry Wilkins, and drummer Al Cross, though the three musicians had already played together for several years as an informal jam band with members of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir were a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in 1985 in Toronto, Ontario. Their R&B-flavoured rock made them a mainstay on Canadian campus radio in the early 1990s, but the band never quite broke through to the mainstream....
, and as a supporting band for Molly Johnson
Molly Johnson
Molly Johnson, OC is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter of pop and jazz.-Biography:Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts...
's jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
performances. After Molly Johnson returned to rock music with Infidels
Infidels (band)
Infidels were a Canadian funk-rock band in the 1990s.The band formed in 1990 when Molly Johnson reunited with Norman Orenstein, her partner in the short-lived 1980s band Alta Moda. They added Washington Savage, Jeff Jones and Owen Tennyson to the lineup, and released a self-titled album in 1991 on...
, she helped her former bandmates to secure a record deal; their eponymous debut album
Big Sugar (album)
Big Sugar is the eponymous debut album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released 1991 on Hypnotic Records.-Track listing:# "Sleep in Late" # "Come Back Baby" Big Sugar is the eponymous debut album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released 1991 on Hypnotic Records.-Track listing:# "Sleep...
was released in 1991 on Hypnotic Records.
After Wilkins left the band in 1993, Big Sugar recorded the album Five Hundred Pounds
Five Hundred Pounds
Five Hundred Pounds is an album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released in 1993 on Hypnotic Records.Based on Big Sugar's burgeoning reputation as a live band, the album sold 10,000 copies solely by word of mouth before it garnered any significant radio airplay.In 1995 the album was released...
with the help of guest musicians; including harmonica and tenor saxophonist Kelly Hoppe
Kelly Hoppe
Kelly "Mr. Chill" Hoppe is a Canadian musician from Windsor, Ontario. From 1994 to 2004, Hoppe was a member of Canadian blues rock band Big Sugar. He is currently a member of the roots band Mr. Chill and The Witnesses. In 2010 Hoppe rejoined Big Sugar....
, also known as Mr. Chill. Hoppe brought a blues and old-school r'n'b influence into the band's sound. Hoppe would become an official member of the band in September 1994. He would later add keyboards and melodica to his sideman responsibilities. In July 1994, bassist Garry Lowe joined the band. Lowe had moved to Canada in the mid-1970s from Kingston, Jamaica. Soon after arriving in Toronto, he became an in-demand bass player for touring reggae recording artists. He often accompanied them at Toronto's famed Bamboo club on Queen St.W., among other venues. Lowe was a founding member of "Culture Shock", a popular Toronto reggae band. Johnson, an avid reggae maven (and one-time bass player), had been a fan of Lowe's and was pleasantly surprised when he agreed to join Big Sugar as a full-time member. Also in 1994, Al Cross left the band and was replaced by Stich Wynston, formerly of The Shuffle Demons.
Big Sugar had slowly built a reputation as an outstanding live band, and Five Hundred Pounds consolidated it; the album sold 10,000 copies in Canada on the strength of their live shows without any real publicity or radio airplay. During this time, Gordie Johnson also recorded an album as Don't Talk Dance, with Tyler Stewart
Tyler Stewart
Tyler Joseph Stewart is the drummer for the Canadian music group Barenaked Ladies. He was the last of the original five Barenaked Ladies to join the band.-Role in Barenaked Ladies:...
of Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
and Chris Brown of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir.
In 1995, the band released two EPs
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
; Dear M.F., which featured a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of Traffic
Traffic (band)
Traffic were an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason...
's "Dear Mr. Fantasy
Dear Mr. Fantasy
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. An extended live version of the song also appears on the 1971 Traffic album Welcome to the Canteen...
"; and Ride Like Hell
Ride Like Hell
Ride Like Hell is an EP album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar. It was released in 1995 on Hypnotic Records.-Track listing:#"Ride Like Hell"#"Dear Mr. Fantasy"#"I'm a Ram"#"Burning Bush "#"Cass Corridor "...
. Following the release of these EPs, Stich Wynston left the band and was replaced by Walter "Crash" Morgan. During the band's tour that year, however, Morgan suffered a heart attack, collapsed, and died on stage during a show in Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. Longtime band associate Raffa Dean was enlisted to finish the tour, and former Odds
Odds (band)
Odds are a Canadian alternative rock band. The band's power pop style has been frequently compared to that of contemporaries such as Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Weezer, Tom Petty, Sloan, The Clash, XTC, Franz Ferdinand, and The Tubes.-Odds :...
member Paul Brennan subsequently joined as the band's new drummer, appearing on one of their most commercially successful albums, 1996's Hemi-Vision
Hemi-Vision
Hemi-Vision is an album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released in 1996. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 1997 Juno Awards.The primary singles from the album were "Diggin' a Hole", "If I Had My Way" and "Opem Up Baby"...
.
Hemi-Vision
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
version of that song, "Ouvres-Toi Bébé", for radio stations in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. The song gained widespread airplay in the province, and for their next album, 1998's Platinum-selling Heated, the band recorded a French version of each single they released; the French songs were collected on the 1999 EP Chauffe à bloc
Chauffe à bloc
Chauffe à bloc is an EP by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released in 1999.In 1996, Big Sugar decided to record a French language version of the single "Opem Up Baby", from the album Hemi-Vision, for radio airplay in Quebec...
. Also that year, Johnson and Hoppe performed several acoustic shows as a duo under the names "Little Sugar" or "Two Fools on Stools".
Cross returned as drummer in 1999. The band also added a new rhythm guitarist, Mojah. In July of that year the band performed at Woodstock 1999
Woodstock 1999
Woodstock 1999, also called Woodstock 99, performed July 22–25, 1999, was the second large-scale music festival that attempted to emulate the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. Like the previous Woodstock festivals it was performed in upstate New York, this time in Rome, New York, around 200...
.
In 2000, the band released a dub
Dub music
Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...
album, Extra Long Life
Extra Long Life
Extra Long Life is an album by Alkaline, a dub music side project of the Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar and reggae singer Whitey Don. The album was released in 2000 on Universal Records...
, under the name Alkaline.
In 2001, Big Sugar released Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?
Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?
Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? is an album by Big Sugar, released in 2001. It was released concurrently with a separate album containing French language versions of the same songs, Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2002 Juno Awards...
Taking their interest in writing and performing French material to its logical conclusion, a complete track-for-track French version, Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?
Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?
Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready? is an album by Big Sugar, released in 2001. It contains French language versions of songs from their concurrently-released album Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?, along with 4 songs found only on the French release - "La Bombe", "Busté", "Harmonie" and "À...
, was released the same year. Both albums concluded with a blistering rendition of "O Canada
O Canada
It has been noted that the opening theme of "O Canada" bears a strong resemblance to the "Marsch der Priester" , from the opera Die Zauberflöte , composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and that Lavallée's melody was inspired by Mozart's tune...
". Towards the end of this tour, Al Cross again left the band to pursue percussion studies in New York state. He was replaced by Eric "Speedstick" Paul.
The two-CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
compilation Hit & Run
Hit & Run (album)
Hit & Run is a greatest hits album by Canadian blues/rock band Big Sugar, released in 2003.The album comprises two discs: the first, Hit, compiles the studio versions of the band's singles, along with three previously unreleased songs; the second, Run, is a live concert performance by the...
, featuring a greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
disc and a live concert performance disc, was released in 2003.
Big Sugar, known for its loud rock shows played without set lists, had their last concert December 31, 2003, at the Shaw Conference Centre
Shaw Conference Centre
The Shaw Conference Centre, colloquially called The SHAW, or SCC is a meeting, entertainment, and convention venue located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...
in Edmonton, Alberta. The millionaire recluse Gordie "Grady" Johnson can now be found in the Austin, Texas-based band Grady
Grady (band)
Grady is a cowboy metal band based in Austin, Texas.-History:Grady originally consisted of Canadian vocalist and guitarist Gordie Johnson , Canadian bass guitarist "Big" Ben Richardson, and Chris Layton on drums...
. Kelly Hoppe performs with Mr. Chill & The Witnesses
Mr. Chill and The Witnesses
Mr. Chill and The Witnesses is a Canadian blues band. The band consists of Kelly "Mr. Chill" Hoppe , Greg Cox , Luke Pelotte , and Josh Zalev . Hoppe, who had previously been a member of Big Sugar, formed Mr. Chill and The Witnesses after Big Sugar's demise in 2004.Mr...
, a roots music group. Mojah and Garry Lowe went on to form Truth and Rights Revue, a reggae band, and have released one album to date. Eric Paul played with Truth and Rights and Thornley
Thornley (band)
Thornley is a Canadian post-grunge/hard rock band formed by Ian Thornley in 2002. The band was started when Ian Thornley returned to Toronto after the breakup of his earlier band, Big Wreck. With the help of Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, Thornley signed on to Kroeger's 604 Records...
but has since left music to work for Bell Canada.
The band reformed, playing their first show since 2003, at Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival in Whistler, B.C. on April 23, 2010 with tour dates through summer 2010. The band released a new studio album in June 2011, titled Revolution Per Minute.
Gordie Johnson is also an acclaimed producer and session musician. To date, he has produced albums and tracks for Joel Plaskett Emergency, Gov't Mule
Gov't Mule
Gov't Mule is a Southern rock jam band formed in 1994 as an Allman Brothers Band side project by Warren Haynes and Allen Woody.The band released their debut album Gov't Mule in 1995...
, Warren Haynes
Warren Haynes
Warren Haynes is an American rock and blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Haynes is best known for his work as long time guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey...
, Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
, Wide Mouth Mason
Wide Mouth Mason
Wide Mouth Mason is a Canadian blues-based rock band, consisting of Shaun Verreault , Safwan Javed , and Gordie Johnson . Former bassist Earl Pereira was also co-founder of Wide Mouth Mason...
, The Trews
The Trews
The Trews are a Canadian rock band from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, consisting of vocalist Colin MacDonald, guitarist John-Angus MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek, and drummer Sean Dalton...
, The Respectables
The Respectables
Les Respectables are a French Canadian rock band founded in Montreal in the early 1990s.-History:Returning home after a long journey to the United States, guitarist and singer Sébastien Plante got back in touch with Pascal Dufour, his partner of a decade of the Moonlight Drive...
, Tim Chaisson, Len
Len
Len is a Canadian alternative rock group from Toronto, Ontario. They are best known as a one-hit wonder for their song "Steal My Sunshine" in 1999. The band consists of siblings Marc Costanzo and Sharon Costanzo .-Studio albums:...
, Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...
, Chris Duarte
Chris Duarte
Chris Duarte is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Duarte plays a style of Texas blues-rock that draws on elements of jazz, blues, and rock and roll.-Biography:...
, John Ford, Chris Kirby and Meredith Shaw, as well as playing and/or recording with Chris Robinson, Rich Robinson, Default
Default
Default may refer to:*Default , the failure to do something required by law**Default judgment*Default , failure to satisfy the terms of a loan obligation or to pay back a loan*Default , a preset setting or value...
, Honky
Honky
Honky is a racial slur for white people, predominantly heard in the United States...
, Len
Len
Len is a Canadian alternative rock group from Toronto, Ontario. They are best known as a one-hit wonder for their song "Steal My Sunshine" in 1999. The band consists of siblings Marc Costanzo and Sharon Costanzo .-Studio albums:...
, Molly Johnson, Jonny Lang
Jonny Lang
Jonny Lang is a Grammy award-winning American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter and recording artist. Lang's music is notable for both his unusual voice, which has been compared to that of a forty-year-old blues veteran, and for his guitar solos...
and Double Trouble, Ashley MacIsaac
Ashley MacIsaac
Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...
, the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Big Rude Jake and many others.
He is also the songwriter/ cowriter of numerous hit songs.
Studio Albums
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS... |
CAN Cria A cria is the name for a baby camelid such as a llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. It comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning "baby". Its false cognate in English, crya , was coined by British sailors who explored Chile in the 18th century and were quick to describe the camelids onomatopoeically... |
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| 1991 | Big Sugar Big Sugar (album) Big Sugar is the eponymous debut album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released 1991 on Hypnotic Records.-Track listing:# "Sleep in Late" # "Come Back Baby" Big Sugar is the eponymous debut album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released 1991 on Hypnotic Records.-Track listing:# "Sleep... |
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| 1993 | Five Hundred Pounds Five Hundred Pounds Five Hundred Pounds is an album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released in 1993 on Hypnotic Records.Based on Big Sugar's burgeoning reputation as a live band, the album sold 10,000 copies solely by word of mouth before it garnered any significant radio airplay.In 1995 the album was released... |
- | Gold |
| 1996 | Hemi-Vision Hemi-Vision Hemi-Vision is an album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released in 1996. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 1997 Juno Awards.The primary singles from the album were "Diggin' a Hole", "If I Had My Way" and "Opem Up Baby"... |
24 | Platinum |
| 1998 | Heated | 18 | Platinum |
| 2001 | Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? is an album by Big Sugar, released in 2001. It was released concurrently with a separate album containing French language versions of the same songs, Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2002 Juno Awards... |
12 | Gold |
| 2011 | Revolution Per Minute Revolution Per Minute Revolution Per Minute is the sixth studio album by Big Sugar. It was released on June 28, 2011.... |
34 | - |
Singles
| Year | Title | Peak Chart Position | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
CAN Alt. RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
CAN Rock. Canadian rock/alternative chart The Canadian rock/alternative chart was first published on June 11, 1995 by RPM magazine under the name Alternative 30. The song which held the number-one spot on this first chart was "More Human than Human" by White Zombie... |
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| 1991 | "Sleep in Late" | — | — | Big Sugar | |
| 1993 | "Ride Like Hell" | — | — | Five Hundred Pounds | |
| "I'm a Ram" | — | — | |||
| 1995 | "Dear Mr. Fantasy Dear Mr. Fantasy "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. An extended live version of the song also appears on the 1971 Traffic album Welcome to the Canteen... " |
59 | — | Dear M.F. | |
| 1996 | "Diggin' a Hole Diggin' a Hole "Diggin' a Hole" is the first single by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar from their 1996 album, Hemi-Vision. The song was re-released in 1999 on the U.S. version of Big Sugar's next album, Heated. The song was very successful in Canada, reaching #9 on RPM's Canadian Singles Chart. It remains to... " |
9 | — | Hemi-Vision | |
| "If I Had My Way If I Had My Way (song) "If I Had My Way" is the second single by Canadian rock band Big Sugar from their 1996 album, Hemi-Vision.-Charts:... " |
13 | 11 | |||
| 1997 | "Open Up Baby" | 52 | 16 | ||
| "Gone For Good" | — | — | |||
| 1998 | "The Scene The Scene (song) "The Scene" is the first single by Canadian rock band Big Sugar from their 1998 album, Heated. The song was very successful in Canada, reaching #1 on Canada's Alternative chart. It remains one of the band's most popular songs.-Charts:... " |
36 | 1 | Heated | |
| "Better Get Used to It Better Get Used to It "Better Get Used to It" is the second single by Canadian rock band Big Sugar from their 1998 album, Heated. The song was successful in Canada, peaking at #17 on the RPM singles chart in Canada.... " |
17 | 18 | |||
| 1999 | "Turn the Lights On Turn the Lights On "Turn the Lights On" is the third single by Big Sugar from the band's 1998 album, Heated. The song was successful in Canada, peaking at #8 on the RPM Rock/Alternative chart. It is one of the band's signature songs.... " |
— | 8 | ||
| "Girl Watcher" | — | 7 | |||
| 2001 | "Nicotina (She's All That)" | — | × | × | Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? |
| "Red Rover" | — | × | × | ||
| "All Hell for a Basement" | — | × | × | ||
| "O Canada" | — | × | × | ||
| 2003 | "I Want You Now" | — | × | × | Hit & Run |
| 2011 | "Roads Ahead" | — | 45 | 5 | Revolution Per Minute |
| "Little Bit a All Right" | — | — | 20 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. "×" denotes periods where charts did not exist or were not archived. |
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