Michelle McAdorey, Crash Vegas: On and On (Lodestar)

[vooga123]

this was on Rogers and it was driving me mad to find this song so thnx a million xD

[jannyrcobs]

I can't remember hearing anything by or about this group after 1990. This sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't remember it as a Crash Vegas number from '95, nor do I recall seeing it on Much Music. Nice, but I could have done without the tattoo on McAdorey's arm in light of all the unhip brain-dead females I see strutting around nowadays distastefully painted. Tattoos and piercings are now the domain of the low-minded mainstream. Of 'hoodies' and baseball caps, I won't even speak.

[dryoatmeal98]

Patrick, thanks for posting this video! Crash Vegas was such a great band. I still have their 3 cds and play them regularly. Saw them play live once when they toured the Aurora cd. Trivia factoid... check out the Blue Rodeo official video for Try and you'll see Michelle McAdorey of Crash Vegas playing Jim Cuddy's love interest in the video.

[mustangrebus]

I just bought all 3 Crash Vegas CDs from Amazon (abeit used) My first collection was stolen, but I was so happy to get them again.

Three great albums--I wished they had done more.

I saw them at the Spoke at Western and they were great live as well.

[sonicboy19]

I haven't seen this video since the 90's...thanks for posting it! Great clip and a beautiful song. The entire Aurora album is just fantastic and I always felt that it never received the full attention it deserved in Canada. I still put the CD on when I'm in a melancholy mood. In terms of Canadian music I don't hear much similarity to The Hip...Blue Rodeo would be a more fitting comparison in my opinion, although Aurora was more sonically experimental than BR's no frills approach to production.

[importantwoman]

My favourite all-time song.

[dcolburn53]

Still my favourite band.

[electricchaos]

Nice song. The song 'Smoke' is such a beautiful song too. 

[jellogirl27]

Thank you so much for posting this. This is an amazing song and an amazing video.

[onjoFilms]

Nice job.

[josephboot]

/watch?v=mwTKuikhErg

Pocahontas video!

[Thhumper]

Great video.

[flintrox]

Brilliant, all involved did a great job on this.

[wolzek]

Crash Vegas, Blue Rodeo, Sloan, Sarah McLachlan, 54-40, The Tea Party, Big Sugar, The Tragically Hip... these bands all have the "Canadian sound." It's never great, it's never horrible, it's just kinda blah, like water chestnuts or bean sprouts or steamed rice. I don't know why, but the Canadian record industry just seems to churn out more bland, tepid artists than any other country I can think of.

[imusbcraz]

@wolzek So can you tell us what you like then?

[wolzek]

@imusbcraz - I like Chopin. Why do you ask?

[imusbcraz]

@wolzek I asked because you gave a big list of what you didn't like. It's always good to know what somebody likes along with dislikes. That way you know where they are coming from. There's no point discussing musical taste with somebody who thinks Gordon Lightfoot is boring but likes Marilyn Manson.

[electricchaos]

@wolzek I agree with you to a point, but I do really like Crash Vegas. Alot of Canadian bands in the nineties around the time when the Hip started to get popular all sounded the same. Like they were trying to copy 'the Hip'. That music is boring as all shit if you ask me. All sounds the same and everything you said. Not Crash Vegas though, they're kinda folksy and different than alot of other stuff.

[wolzek]

It's very Canadian sounding. But that's because they are Canadian, eh?

[bendsmedia]

I love this song, very cool vibe . . .

[myoscar1120]

loved the pocahontas cover , have been searching everywhere!

[unclegaggy]

I LOVE this band.....if there are more videos of them....please please post.

Thanx Patrick.

[scrubnurse002]

my ears are craving crash vegas' pocahontas cover, can't find it anywhere!! neil young's won't satisfy!!

[archetypique]

Many thanks! Been looking for Crash Vegas videos everywhere!

Aurora is one of the best albums of all time.

[girlSoFarAway]

Thank you for posting this video! I have been looking for this band for a long time. I was just a kid when they became popular (I had the casette), but this album really stuck with me. I got really excited a few years ago when I heard a cover of this song by Shaye, but now I can finally hear the original. Thank you!!

[djarryshore]

I wonder where Michelle is today? I just loved this band when I was in my early twenties, late teens. Favourite song of all time is Red Earth for their first album. I met Michelle backstage after a show and she was nice and elusive at the same time.

[lukeraptastic]

she just played a show last night at the gladstone in toronto

[FrostBiteBoy1]

I was at The Gladstone last night to see Michelle perform some new tunes. Her new eclectic/psychedelic stuff sounds great live!

[alma50apple]

my favourite song is pocohontas best cover version ever! lodestatr is also awesome i just went through my old cd's and found crash vegas aurora

[traitoR142]

Thanks so much for taking the time to upload this, i absolutely love the surreal sound of this song, never did see the vid before.

[NettieKay]

I'm so happy to finally see a crash vegas video on here. If they were before I missed it. I hope you can put their cover of Pocahontas on here!

[Viperkal]

She's gorgeous!

[katherinefreak]

I still love this song. Thanks so much for posting this!!! :)

[bashley007]

thanks for posting this I love this song

[derekmok]

I've always thought of this song as being an expression of dreaming of greater things and a higher state of consciousness. I relate it to Weeping Tile's "U.F.O. Rosie". And then there's an Icarus theme of aiming too high and being lost -- "The sparks can burn your hand...Shoots you out, just like a satellite". Then "My feet keep walking/Come back body, come back memory/You know lately, friends think I've turned crazy...And it feels like/I'm flying".

[derekmok]

I've been looking for this a long time. Thank you for posting it. You wouldn't happen to have "Pocahontas" as well? I remember seeing it on Muchmusic, which was my first introduction to Crash Vegas.

[PatrickSheffield]

You're welcome - one of my favorite projects. Sadly, I don't have Pocahontas, I didn't edit that one...

[derekmok]

Thanks anyway. I'm an editor as well, actually.