You Could Get Lost Out Here: the ILM Canadian Pop Music Results Thread

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I'll try to get down to at least #28 today, possibly to #21--either way, I'll finish up Wednesday. I've got to duck out for an hour at 3:15.

33 ballots came in, more than I expected--thanks. #1 votes will be noted where I was 100% sure (i.e., where one song got more points than anything else; if a list was numbered, but the song at the top had the same number of points as songs below, I didn't count that as a #1). Ties were broken by most votes; if points and number of votes were the same, that's a tie.

I will summon all my dwindling powers of concentration to get through this with no errors in the posting. When I did the video countdown, someone came on near the end and made a first-class nuisance of himself; not that I needed the extra help, but I messed up a couple of times.

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43. (tie) "Early Morning Rain" (1966)
Gordon Lightfoot
45 points/3 votes
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"Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl (2002)
Broken Social Scene
45 points/3 votes
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Meant to say: the odd number of songs (43) was because of ties around #40. Those two and the next four all had the same number of points, so I extended to 44 songs.

Interesting low placement for BSS for a song that I assumed was beloved around here (I voted for a different song by them).

The Broken Social Scene image is inside the Delrex Restaurant in Georgetown, Ontario (probably from the early or mid-'70s), run by the father and two uncles of my best friend in grade school.

didn't vote for either of these but both are great and made my long list!

both of those images are fantastic and make me automatically nostalgic even though i was probably not alive when either was taken!

Thanks! I really liked Levesque.

I would have thought higher too for "Anthems"--I had it high on my own list.

Dammit...And I have no one to blame!

The BSS image is gorgeous.

Voted for "The Weight."

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42. "The Weight" (1968)
The Band
45 points/4 votes
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Just too damn much to keep track of for an old guy--change number, change URL, check coding, etc.

I always liked this Christgau line from his review of Aretha's This Girl's in Love with You: "I admit that when she sings 'The Weight' it sounds as if she knows what it means. But I still don't."

Embarrassed to admit that I discovered "The Weight" via The Big Chill.

I have no one to blame!

Put the load right on me

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39. (tie) "Home for a Rest" (1990)
Spirit of the West
45 points/5 votes
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39. (tie) "Both of Us" (2020)
Jayda G
45 points/5 votes
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39. (tie) "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains" (2010)
Arcade Fire
45 points/5 votes
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Haven't played the whole thing, but the Jayda G song sounds really good.

Free set of steak knives to anyone who can identify the film that provided the Arcade Fire image.

Jayda G is the first new-to-me thing here.

"Home for a Rest" a bit too close to a Jock Jam for my liking; it already had a long life as a bar song in one of the places I used to frequent in my 20s.

ah voted for both Home for a Rest and Jayda G.

The bar i used to go to when i was in university in Sudbury had a regular friday night guy & guitar playing songs and without fail he played Sudbury Saturday Night/Home For a Rest back to back to end every show.

looks like we had the same experience crypto, a canadian right of passage for folks who came up after 1990.

the Spirit Unforgettable documentary about John Mann was a depressing watch.

Pretty sure Jayda G was the newest song to place in the Top 40.

I guess it’s too late but would be interesting to see how the non-Canadian votes differ from those north of the 49th parallel.

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38. "Limelight" (1981)
Rush
46 points/4 votes
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"Home for a Rest" was a reliable floor-filler, I'll give it that.

Most definitely not a Rush fan (in high school I was)--can't get past that voice--so will leave commentary to others. I felt bad for saying negative things about Celine Dion in the voting thread and (possibly) chasing away brimstead--a person running a poll shouldn't criticize nominations.

Another iconic Canadian-film image...

There are two massively iconic Canrock outfits that I have just never cared about enough to even bother investigating them beyond the stuff I hear on the radio. Rush is one of them. I'm assuming the other is coming up soon enough.

Pretty sure I can guess your other and, if I'm right, amazingly no.

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37. "Run Away with Me" (2015)
Carly Rae Jepsen
47 points/3 votes
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Carly Rae Jepsen! Donovan Bailey!

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35. (tie) "Closer" (2013)
Tegan & Sara
47 points/4 votes
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35. (tie) "The House That Heaven Built" (2012)
Japandroids
47 points/4 votes
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Didn't vote for any T&S, but good song.

Voted for a different Japandroids.

I keep "Don't Confess" on my hard drive--think I maybe bought a remaindered CD of theirs. I don't know the Japandroids at all...remembering them doing well on Pazz & Jop one year.

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34. "For What It's Worth" (1966)
Buffalo Springfield
48 points/6 votes
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I have no serious relationship with Rush but like anybody else my age I know their songs from repeated play on classic rock radio. And the guitar thing that opens "Limelight" merited a vote from me all by itself -- it's in the inner circle of guitar things I remember from listening to classic rock radio 1985-1988. I like the repeated appearance of the Eraserhead poster in the video:

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xp sorry. "for what it's worth" another one of my votes -- in a way this too because of the opening guitar figure that's burned in my brain forever, even though this one is only two notes!

I do get why this doesn't feel Canadian at all (if anything, it feels ultra-American, in that it's one of three or four songs that gets used over every Vietnam/hippie/student-protest montage ever)...but it does qualify. I think it's fantastic, but worn out a bit for me (not always).

"Mostly say 'hooray for our side'" is a brilliant line, I'd say.

not the carly rae or tegan and sara songs I would chose but nice to see them both up here! I did end up voting for a Rush song but not Limelight though i do most of my rush listening in hockey rink bathrooms these days I still think A Farewell To Kings is a banger in a The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway sort of way.

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35. (tie) "Like a Hurricane" (1977)
Neil Young
50 points/1 vote/one #1 vote
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35. (tie) "Étienne d'Août" (2006)
Malajube
50 points/1 vote/one #1 vote
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The two songs that got in on a single #1 vote. I probably should have set the limit at 40 points, but that's fine.

The Neil clip needs better sound, but it looks like it might be right from '77.

didn't vote for the weight, tho it's obviously great. hopefully one of the other band jams make it in!

After I post this four-way tie, I've got some physio--I'll be back after four.

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28. (tie) "Subdivisions" (1982)
Rush
50 points/4 votes
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28. (tie) "After the Gold Rush" (1970)
Neil Young
50 points/4 votes
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28. (tie) "So Long, Marianne" (1967)
Leonard Cohen
50 points/4 votes
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28. (tie) "Sundown" (1974)
Gordon Lightfoot
50 points/4 votes
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The Westwood, a long-gone theatre from when I grew up (actually hung around for close to a decade, I think, as a vacated building).

Is the "So Long, Marianne" image from The Sweet Hereafter?

Yes--took me a couple of tries, but ended up liking it fine (though not as much as Affliction).

(When you live in St. Marys, you can leave for a 3:30 appointment at 3:25...)

The photographer's name who did the "Sundown" image is escaping me...someone who was discovered later in life, I think.

Clemenza, do you have an easily accessible condensed list of the top 40 (or was one posted)?

My list:
P'tit Belliveau - Income Tax 16
Rush - Limelight 16
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind 16
Neil Young - Powderfinger 16
Chilliwack - Fly at Night 15
Foot in Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want 14
Buffy Sainte-Marie - God is Alive, Magic Is Afoot 14
Grapes of Wrath - All the Things I Wasn’t 14
Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time 13
Joni Mitchell - Free Man in Paris 13
Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon 13
Les Cowboys Fringants - L'Amérique pleure 13
Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong 12
Eric's Trip - Smother 12
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Complainte pour Ste. Catherine 12
Big Wreck - Bombs Away 11
Gowan - (You're A) Strange Animal 10
SNFU - Where’s My Legs 10
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride 10
Spirit of the West - And if Venice Is Sinking 10
New Pornographers - Crash Years 9
NoMeansNo - The Tower 9
Hank Snow - I've Been Everywhere 9
Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide 9
Harmonium - Pour an Instant 8
Gandharvas - The First Day of Spring 8
Harlequin - Innocence 8
Owen Pallett - The Riverbed 8
Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style 7
Triumph- Midsummer's Daydream 7
Doughboys - Shine 7
Blue Rodeo - Trust Yourself 7
Varga - Freeze Don't Move 6
Pursuit of Happiness- She's So Young 6
Yamatanka // Sonic Titan - Hoshi Neko 6
Mother Mother - Hayloft 6
Shania Twain - No One Needs to Know 5
Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City 5
Jean Leloup - Je joue de la guitare 5
Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser 5

I made this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDMIkL-lVpdBQue-p4sMD2VeWgdhBxzCK

Have P'tit Belliveau tickets for the weekend. He sold out the last two shows before I could get them.

(xpost) Just finishing that now--give me a few minutes.

Didn't mean to rush you, sorry

43. (tie) "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl," Broken Social Scene - 45 (3 votes)
      "Early Morning Rain," Gordon Lightfoot - 45 (3 votes)
42. "The Weight," the Band - 45 (4 votes/one #1 vote)
39. (tie) "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)," Arcade Fire - 45 (5 votes)
      "Both of Us," Jayda G - 45 (5 votes)
      "Home for a Rest," Spirit of the West - 45 (5 votes)
38. "Limelight," Rush - 46 (4 votes)
37. "Run Away with Me," Carly Rae Jepsen - 47 (3 votes)
35. (tie) "The House That Heaven Built," Japandroids - 47 (4 votes)
      "Closer," Tegan & Sara - 47 (4 votes)
34. "For What It's Worth," Buffalo Springfield - 48 (6 votes)
32. (tie) "Étienne d’Août," Malajube - 50 (1 vote/one #1 vote)
      "Like a Hurricane," Neil Young - 50 (1 vote/one #1 vote)
28. (tie) "Sundown," Gordon Lightfoot - 50 (4 votes)
      "So Long, Marianne," Leonard Cohen - 50 (4 votes)
      "After the Gold Rush," Neil Young - 50 (4 votes)
      "Subdivisions," Rush - 50 (4 votes)
27. "Let Your Backbone Slide," Maestro Fresh-Wes - 50 (6 votes)
26. "Barrett’s Privateers," Stan Rogers - 51 (3 votes)
25. "All the Things I Wasn't," Grapes of Wrath - 52 (5 votes)
24. "The Safety Dance," Men Without Hats - 52 (6 votes)
23. "7/4 (Shoreline)," Broken Social Scene - 53 (5 votes)
22. "These Eyes," Guess Who - 54 (4 votes/one #1 vote)
21. "Blinding Lights," The Weeknd - 54 (6 votes)
20. "Expecting to Fly," Buffalo Springfield - 56 (5 votes)
19. "Nova Heart," Spoons - 57 (5 votes)
18. "I Beg Your Pardon," Kon Kan - 58 (4 votes)
17. "Kaputt," Destroyer - 61 (4 votes)
16. "Constant Craving," k.d. lang - 63 (6 votes)
15. "Cortez the Killer," Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 70 (5 votes/one #1 vote)
14. "Summer of '69," Bryan Adams - 71 (4 votes)
13. "Help Me," Joni Mitchell - 71 (5 votes)
12. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the Band - 73 (7 votes)
11. "Lunatic Fringe," Red Rider - 75 (4 votes/one #1 vote)
10. "Powderfinger," Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 77 (6 votes)
 9. "Aside," Weakerthans - 86 (4 votes/two #1 votes)
 8. "Drinking in L.A.," Bran Van 3000 - 87 (8 votes)
 7. "A Case of You," Joni Mitchell - 100 (7 votes/one #1 vote)
 6. "You Oughta Know," Alanis Morissette - 102 (8 votes)
 5. "Steal My Sunshine," Len - 123 (11 votes)
 4. "Mass Romantic," New Pornographers - 127 (10 votes)
 3. "Call Me Maybe," Carly Rae Jepsen - 133 (13 votes)
 2. "Echo Beach," Martha & the Muffins - 158 (14 votes)
 1. "If You Could Read My Mind," Gordon Lightfoot - 198 (10 votes/one #1 vote)

Sloan and the Tragically Hip both got a number of votes for various songs.

Sloan literally missed by one point: "Everything You've Done Wrong" had 44 points. The highest Tragically Hip song was "Fireworks," with 39. I'll put up a link to the spreadsheet.

Let me know if this works:

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Yep! Great work clemenza.

I'll have to belatedly peruse everything a little later. Nice that Lightfoot was #1. Wasn't necessarily expecting that track to be *the* track, but it *has* been a reliable highlight of easy-listening radio over here for as long as I can remember.

am i to understand that p'tit beliveau was shut out

I would appear so...I figured out an easy way to do artists, so I'll have that up tonight.

"It"

P'tit Belliveau (whoever this is) had 26 points...

Looks like we gave him his only votes, maffew12. The Ottawa-Gatineau region clearly loves him, though.

I hoped timeliness would be on the side of "Income Tax" but it looks like no.

Emm Gryner - East Coast Angel (25)
Kings - This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide (20)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Jacques et Gilles (15)
Joni Mitchell – River (13)
Jane Siberry - One More Colour (13)
Neil Young – Powderfinger (12)
Chantal Kreviazuk – Surrounded (12)
Sloan - Money City Maniacs (12)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away with Me (12)
Rheostatics – Queer (12)
Japandroids - North East South West (12)
Owen Pallett – The Riverbed (12)
Christine Fellows - Mlle. Steno (10)
Weakerthans – Aside (10)
Joel Plaskett - On and On and On (10)
Weeping Tile - Judy G. (10)
Rufus Wainwright - Beauty Mark (10)
Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean (10)
Gino Soccio – Dancer (10)
Broken Social Scene - Art House Director (10)
Jann Arden - The Sound Of (5)
New Pornographers - War on the East Coast (5)
Martina Sorbara – Claudia (5)
Band - The Weight (5)
K'Naan – Fatima (5)
Leonard Cohen - Winter Lady (5)
Leslie Spit Treeo - Book of Rejection (5)
Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach (5)
Kathleen Edwards - National Steel (5)
Stompin' Tom Connors - Tillsonburg (5)

Great poll; wish I could have participated more during the rollout. Thanks clem!

Indeed - thank you!

This Malajube song is pretty good.

48  Junior Boys - In the Morning                 42
51  Junior Boys - Birthday                       41
53  Chilliwack - Fly at Night                    40
66  Anne Murray - Talk It Over in the Morning    35

Cool that these did okay-ish. I believe I dropped my own Junior Boys nomination, thinking those two were surely more likely to place. I'd not heard the Chilliwack until a couple of years ago but it's more affecting to me than a "touring is hard work" song probably should be lol. Re Anne Murray: I have a soft spot for Paul Williams/Roger Nichols et al so came to know it from that angle. One of the better recordings of their compositions IMHO. (And seemingly very much Can Con in every other respect.)

Here are the top 60 artists by total points--including the eight who got there with one song only--with number of songs used to break ties.

 1. Neil Young - 438 points/15 songs
 2. Gordon Lightfoot - 412 points/9 songs
 3. Joni Mitchell - 401 points/12 songs
 4. New Pornographers - 270 points/9 songs
 5. Leonard Cohen - 242 points/12 songs
 6. Band - 205 points/6 songs
 7. Rush - 194 points/8 songs
 8. Carly Rae Jepsen - 186 points/3 songs
 9. Martha & the Muffins - 183 points/4 songs
10. Alanis Morissette - 167 points/5 songs
11. Sloan - 165 points/9 songs
12. Guess Who - 153 points/7 songs
13. Broken Social Scene - 149 points/5 songs
14. Tragically Hip - 136 points/6 songs
15. Buffalo Springfield - 126 points/4 songs
16. Len - 123 points/1 song
17. Bruce Cockburn - 118 points/8 songs
18. Weakerthans - 116 points/4 songs
19. Blue Rodeo - 115 points/8 songs
20. Destroyer - 104 points/5 songs
21. Sarah McLachlan - 101 points/7 songs
22. Men Without Hats - 97 points/3 songs
23. Bran Van 3000 - 97 points/2 songs
24. Bryan Adams - 96 points/5 songs
25. Arcade Fire - 94 points/4 songs
26. Junior Boys - 93 points/3 songs
27. Buffy Sainte-Marie - 91 points/6 songs
28. Grimes - 85 points/5 songs
29. k.d. lang - 83 points/4 songs
30. Anne Murray - 81 points/4 songs
31. Red Rider - 75 points/1 song
32. Spirit of the West - 70 points/2 songs
33. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - 69 points/5 songs
34. Céline Dion - 69 points/4 songs
35. Stars - 67 points/3 songs
36. Jane Siberry - 64 points/3 songs
37. (tie) Japandroids - 64 points/4 songs
      Metric - 64 points/4 songs
39. (tie) Corey Hart - 63 points/3 songs
      Pursuit of Happiness - 63 points/3 songs
      Tegan & Sara - 63 points/3 songs
42. Steppenwolf - 61 points/4 songs
43. Skinny Puppy - 61 points/3 songs
44. Drake - 60 points/4 songs
45. Kon Kan - 58 points/1 song
46. Grapes of Wrath - 57 points/2 songs
47. Shania Twain - 57 points/3 songs
48. Spoons - 57 points/1 songs
49. Nelly Furtado - 56 points/3 songs
50. Teenage Head - 55 points/4 songs
51. Wolf Parade - 54 points/2 songs
52. Weeknd - 54 points/1 song
53. Rheostatics - 52 points/4 songs
54. Gino Soccio - 52 points/3 songs
55. Joel Plaskett - 51 points/4 songs
56. Stan Rogers - 51 points/1 song
57. Feist - 50 points/4 songs
58. Jean Leloup - 50 points/3 songs
59. Chilliwack - 50 points/2 songs
60. (tie) Maestro Fresh Wes - 50 points/1 song
      Malajube - 50 points/1 song

Thanks for this; obviously this is a very different cross-section of the data that particularly spotlights veterans who didn't necessarily have the one big hit to get them into the countdown.

I wonder who was the most commercial successful or famous Canadian act to receive not a single vote? (Nickelback got one.)

Look at Sloan especially (I think they're okay): 11th place, but split over 9 songs.

I don't know what the answer to your question would be...not exactly what you're thinking about, I'm sure, but the Poppy Family didn't get a vote.

Looks like the Biebs didn’t fare too well.

For a split second I considered voting for "Sorry," but I was committed to a 30 song ballot.

This Malajube song is pretty good.

(xposts) Same: "What Do You Mean?" wasn't too far from my list, just ran out of room...When I posted my list on FB last night, I realized I forgot two songs I fully intended to vote for (mentioned at least one on the previous thread): Mainline's "Get Down To" and Reign Ghost's "Eyes Knows, So Does Ears and Carolina." I probably would have dropped Valdy and Snow. These are all at the margins of the margins.

great number 1, thanks for running this clemenza, just catching up now, my ballot...

15 Supreme Being Unit - My Transporter Room
15 Shania Twain - No One Needs to Know
15 Gordon Lightfoot - Christian Island (Georgian Bay)
15 Lowest of the Low - Rosy and Grey
15 Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
15 Morley Loon - Agajee Dona Nooch
15 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
15 Big Wreck - Under the Lighthouse
15 Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.
15 Buffy Sainte-Marie - Not the Lovin' Kind
12 Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game
12 Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
12 Cowboy Junkies - To Love Is to Bury
12 Drake - Passionfruit
12 Gino Soccio - Dancer
12 Tragically Hip - Fireworks
12 Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Log Driver's Waltz
12 Terry Bush - Maybe Tomorrow
12 Hawksley Workman - Old Bloody Orange
12 Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
8 Ian & Sylvia - Four Strong Winds
8 Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall in Love
8 Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
8 Teenage Head - Somethin' on My Mind
8 Jayda G - Both of Us
8 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
8 Rheostatics - Seven
8 Rita MacNeil - Working Man
8 Rough Trade - High School Confidential
8 Rush - Closer to the Heart
5 Halluci Nation - The Virus
5 Shabason & Krgovich - In the Middle of the Day
5 Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest
5 Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean
5 Cryptopsy - Benedictine Convulsions
5 Paul Anka - Diana
5 Sarah Harmer - Basement Apt.
5 Len - Steal My Sunshine
5 Cano - Baie Ste-Marie
5 Biosphere - Poa Alpina

Shout out to the other Morley Loon voter out there, Northland/My Land rocks. Also I appreciate this list didn't obsess too much with 90s canrock era shit like most of the top canadian music lists do, and i say that as a gigantic Rheostatics fan.

This was mine, 30 songs unranked. Definitely focused on certain decades, but narrowing it down even this much was difficult without criteria. Emotional favourites are so malleable! In the end I’m at least appreciative of most of the ones that made the final list, except Alanis, but admit that it was ‘important’.

- Blue Peter - Don’t Walk Past
- Blue Rodeo - Try
- Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
- Diodes - Tired of Waking up Tired
- Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Gowan - Criminal Mind
- Grapes of Wrath - All the Things I Wasn’t
- K-os - Man I Used to Be
- Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
- Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
- Metric - Combat Baby
- Neil Young - Rockin’ in the Free World
- New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
- Pursuit of Happiness -I’m an Adult Now
- Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
- Rheostatics - Queer
- Ron Sexsmith - Secret Heart
- Rush - Subdivisions
- Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend
- Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
- Sloan - Underwhelmed
- Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest
- Spookey Ruben - Wendy Macdonald
- Spoons - Nova Heart
- Stars - Ageless Beauty
- Strange Advance - We Run
- Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
- Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
- The Weeknd- Blinding Lights
- The Young Canadians - Hawaii

Thanks a lot for running the poll clem, this was a lot of fun.

With my ballot I tried to stick to one song per artist, but soon realized I had to make some exceptions. Threw New Pornographers songs is too much, but I couldn't decide which one to cut between the three.

54-40 - Blame Your Parents,5
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know,10
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains),5
Avril Lavigne - I'm with You,5
Blue Peter - Don't Walk Past,5
Blue Rodeo - Diamond Mine,10
Box - L'affaire Dumoutier,10
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl,15
Bryan Adams- Summer of '69,40
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe,10
Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style,5
Glass Tiger - Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone,5
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind,50
Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy,15
Gowan - (You're A) Strange Animal,5
Grapes of Wrath - All the Things I Wasn't,5
Honeymoon Suite - Wave Babies,5
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You,5
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now,5
K'Naan - Waving Flag,5
Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon,20
Len - Steal My Sunshine,35
Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne,15
Loverboy - Workin' for the Weekend,5
Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide,5
Martha & the Muffins - Black Stations/White Stations,5
Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World,10
Nelly Furtado - Maneater,10
New Pornographers - Crash Years,5
New Pornographers - Letter from an Occupant,5
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic,10
Platinum Blonde - Doesn't Really Matter,5
Rough Trade - Crimes of Passion,5
Shania Twain - You're Still the One,5
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope,10
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate,5
Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night,5
Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings,5
Trans-X - Living on Video,5
Weeknd - Blinding Lights,10

My ballot:

Lisa Lougheed - Run with Us 21
Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers 21
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind 21
Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway 20
Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher 18
Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong 17
Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach 17
Barenaked Ladies - Lovers in a Dangerous Time 16
Cub - My Chinchilla 15
Pursuit of Happiness- She's So Young 15
Tegan & Sara - Closer 14
Destroyer - Kaputt 14
Guess Who - These Eyes 14
Grapes of Wrath - All the Things I Wasn't 13
Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest 13
New Pornographers - Bleeding Heart Show 13
Remy Shand - Take a Message 13
Northern Pikes - Things I Do for Money 12
Slow - Have Not Been the Same 12
BadBadNotGood - Time Moves Slow 9
BTK - Peppyrock 8
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A. 8
Emm Gryner - Summerlong 7
Wild Strawberries - I Don't Want to Think About It 7
Motherlode - When I Die 6
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead 6
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy 5
Esthero - That Girl 5
Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style 5
Syrinx - December Angel 5
Bryan Adams - Run to You 4
Sky - Some Kinda Wonderful 4
Odds - Someone Who's Cool 4
K-os - Crabbuckit 4
Terry Bush - Maybe Tomorrow 4
Shad - Rose Garden 2
Melanie Fiona - 4 AM 2
Bass Is Base - I Cry 2
Klaatu - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 2
Blue Rodeo - 5 Days in May 2

I wonder who was the most commercial successful or famous Canadian act to receive not a single vote? (Nickelback got one.)

My guess is Michael Buble. Only one nomination, Haven't Met You Yet, but no votes.

As for most famous Canadian act without a single nomination, my guess would be Simple Plan.

Or Diana Krall, but most of her music is covers.

I’m right now perusing some earlier Bieber stuff, (because surely those are better than Sorry or What Do You Mean) and I’d forgotten what a legit jock jam Never Say Never is. He had moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5-P9v3F8w

Thanks for doing all this, Clem. The Spotify playlist made for such good listening/discovering this past month.

I've had "If You Could Read My Mind" in my head today. Talk about the most "meant for grownups" CVS banger ever. It makes me think of trying to figure out why parents are upset when they aren't articulating themselves.

Anyway, here's my ballot, unranked, 10 points each:

Austra - "Lose It"
Frazey Ford - "Done"
Morley Loon - "Agajee Dona Nooch"
Myriam Gendron - "Solace"
Metric - "Gimme Sympathy"
Metric - "Combat Baby"
The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic"
Shad - "I Don't Like To"
Be Good Tanyas - "Scattered Leaves"
Corey Hart - "It Ain't Enough"
Corey Hart - "Never Surrender"
Daniel Belanger - "La Folie En Quatre"
Fred Eaglesmith - "Carmelita"
Fred Eaglesmith - "Dangerous"
Kim Barlow - "Humminah"
Carly Rae Jespen - "Call Me Maybe"
Sarah Slean - "Get Home"
Sarah Slean - "Sweet Ones"
Dears - "Heathrow or Death Row"
Corb Lund - "Five Dollar Bill"
Gordon Lightfoot - "Early Morning Rain"
Gordon Lightfoot - "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Stompin' Tom Connors - "Sudbury Saturday Night"
Stompin' Tom Connors - "Big Joe Mufferaw"
The Guess Who - "New Mother Nature / No Sugar Tonight"
Remy Shand - "Take A Message"
Jane Siberry - "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog"
Junior Boys - "Night Walk"
k.d. lang - "Pullin' Back The Reins"
Kathleen Edwards - "In State"
Leonard Cohen - "The Future"
Mary Margaret O'Hara - "Year in Song"
Men Without Hats - "The Safety Dance"
Sam Roberts Band - "Climb Over Me"
Sam Roberts Band - "Brother Down"
Ron Sexsmith - "Nothing Good"
Rufus Wainwright - "Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk"
Rufus Wainwright - "The Art Teacher"
Gino Venelli - "Black Cars"
Bruce Cockburn - "My Beat"

Thought of another possible answer to the question of the most famous Canadian artist not to get a vote--not even a nomination, actually: Jeff Healey. He had a Top 10 single on Billboard, three in Canada, three Top 10 singles on Billboard's rock chart, two albums in the Top 30, and a story that got a lot of attention in his heyday. (Another guy, like Barry Harris, who had a show on CIUT.)

This was my ballot. Lots of write-ins, cause I was on vacation during nomination. I wonder if I'm the only francophone Québécois on the board ?

Jean Leloup - 1990 (25)
Diane Tell - Si j’étais un homme (25)
Destroyer - Kaputt (25)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Runaway With Me (20)
Mitsou - Dis-moi, dis-moi (20)
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate (15)
Corbeau - Illégal (13)
Les Colocs - Tassez vous de d’là (13)
Céline Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore (12)
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (12)
Félix Leclerc - Le petit bonheur (10)
Les Lutins - Je cherche (10)
Jean-Pierre Ferland - Le chat du café des artistes (10)
Crystal Castles - Not In Love (10)
Martha and The Muffins - Echo beach (10)
Claude Dubois - Le blues du businessman (10)
Corey Heart - Sunglasses At Night (10)
Marie Carmen - Entre l’ombre et la lumière (10)
Alanis Morrissette - You Oughta Know (10)
Robert Charlebois - Lindberg (10)
Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love (10)
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (10)
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A. (10)
Grimes - Oblivion (10)
Les Trois Accords - Hawaïenne (10)
Luba - Let It Go (5)
Platinum Blonde - Doesn't Really Matter (5)
Boule Noire - Aimer d'amour (5)
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right (5)
The Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now (5)
Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence (5)
Beau Dommage - Le blues de la métropole (5)
Caribou - Odessa (5)
Michel Rivard - Je voudrais voir la mer (5)
Ariane Moffat - Point de mire (Remix) (5)
Strange Advance - We Run (4)
Pierre Lapointe - Deux par deux rassemblés (4)
Marc Hamilton - Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer (4)
Renée Claude - Le début d’un temps nouveau (4)
Kiesza - Hideaway (4)

You might be--we had at least a couple of English voters from Quebec, I believe.

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Was just reading this retrospective of the old Toronto gay club Boots and Barry Harris of Kon Kan fame got in a few quotes, seems he DJed there a bit in the early 90s. Made me think of this thread so I thought I'd share.

https://thenandnowtoronto.com/2014/12/then-now-boots/

I’m surprised Lime has not been mentioned here, even by the “francophone Québécois” four posts back. Aren’t they one of the greatest Canadian groups? “Your Love”? “Unexpected Lovers”?

Somewhere on this thread I mentioned that Barry Harris was a DJ at the University of Toronto station when I had a show there too. But I never met him.

Something I was going to post about a few days ago but there was no Group of Seven thread and I couldn't think of anywhere to put it. I used the Group of Seven for one of the images above so, though far from ideal, I'll post it here:

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/tour-the-priceless-wonders-of-canadian-art-lost-in-that-devastating-toronto-church-fire-1.7230607

Aren’t they one of the greatest Canadian groups?

I don't think the gatekeepers of the Canadian canon hold disco in very high regard.

I saw a musical performance at that church around 20 years ago; I meant to return there but that won't happen now.

been listening to a fair amount of CanCon again lately, a few of my favourite new discoveries that don't seem to be on the voting list here...

Kon Kan - Sinful Wishes (Dance Mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O7D9mOhz2c

jacksoul - somedays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQWJk4jl7DY

Truths and Rights - Crying in the Wilderness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRM-NDvZxnk

Lillian Allen - Conditions Critical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JURewMByuw

Handsome Ned - Cryin Heartache Misery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttRCW-s327c

Point Blank - Born and Raised in the Ghetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PyF3E3aDZ8

The Shuffle Demons - Pie in the Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRSM64qaCc

...and some newer canadian shit i've liked lately

Mustafa - Air Forces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_w1hTT37b0

Cadence Weapon - SENNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqDQKE2pqi8

Cameron Whitcomb - Quitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz_e20WJqQM

Backxwash - 9th Gate (finally got around to listening to the new album and it rules of course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pLuvC1buU4

Robyn Ottolini - Tell You Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55m1-cBnmus