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Canadian, eh!
Blue Rodeo is one of the greatest rock bands to come out of Canada. And 15 years later, they are still going strong, as well as Greg and Jim having some solo outings along the way. This is a terrific debut that hinted at the greatness to come. Every song here is good, no filler. The gorgeous ballad 'Try' is one of the nicest ballads I have heard, and is also popular on country stations as well as rock. Hence the 'Rodeo' in the bands name. Jim said in an interview that it's to highlight the little bit of country that they put into their albums. The other hit was 'Rose-Coloured Glasses'. Greg and Jim take turns throughout the album on lead vocals, which gives their albums variety, as each have a different style of singing. If you don't know this group yet, what are you waiting for?

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Incredible Stuff
I don't understand what everyone above is talking about! Outskirts, Blue Rodeo's debut album is just incredible. Right from the get go, Jim and Greg display how well their voices blend on Heart Like Mine, and Rose Coloured Glasses pushes the album to even greater heights. The rest of the CD keeps the momentum and sometimes even surpasses it. Songs like Joker's Wild, Five Will Get You Six and Floating are great experiments in improv blues, Bobby Wiseman's piano parts really stick out here. But above all, this is an ALBUM, not ten singles stuck together like so many others groups do today. If you listen to it in its entirety, you'll come to understand what this album is all about and the rest of the songs will definately grow on you. Buy it for Try and Rose Coloured Glasses, and you'll be sucked in by the rest of the songs when they take their hold of you and never let go!

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Awesome Album
This is with no doubt the best Blue Rodeo album ever. Although, it was not their best selling album. Believe it or not, my mom bought this album right after she bought Diamond Mine (another good one) and I was only 2 years old. I play the guitar now (Blues, Rock, R&B) and I feel, because of this album (being the first music I ever heard) totally helped to change and influence my direction in my guitar playing and taste in music. I was singing and playing around with these songs at an earlier age than anyone could imagine.

Blue Rodeo is definetly not the band they used to be. Now, they play irritating pop and country music. 5 Days in July was not a bad album, but I feel it was in a whole new direction. They seemed to have wanted to do 4 albums with more of a rock feel and now (because of 5 Days in July) got carried away with the country and pop feel. Their second-last album released (The Days in Between) was definetly a good example of pop (but wasn't too extreme). The Days in Between was not a horrible album. It was a very different type of feel, but it was far too different.

Palace of Gold (their latest album) couldn't have been worse. Greg Keeler used to do much more of a rock feel, but still maintained the ability to express his feelings in a such a way that does not have anger. Greg has changed tremendously (physically, musically, and mentally) because of the fact of him finding out he was adopted a few years ago and the terrible feeling of diabetes. Jim Cuddy tends to write pop songs in which he trys to express himself poetically but fails. Jim Cuddy's songs (I feel) have no actual meaning in them.

Blue Rodeo achieved greatness a long time ago. No matter how hard they try now, they will never achieve it again. Then again, we will always have precious memories of their first few albums which carry greatness. Blue Rodeo was the best Canadian band that ever existed.