100 Can-Pop Classics

6. "L'Affaire Dumoutier" - The Box
7. "Bye Bye, Mon Cowboy" - Mitsou
8. "Spadina Bus" - Shuffle Demons

11. "Echo Beach" - Martha and the Muffins
12. "Romantic Traffic" - The Spoons

Is A Foot In Coldwater's "Anything You Want" any better? Or Harlequin's "Innocence"

I'm not going too obscure (obv.), but I'm assuming these need to have charted at least a little though right?

(I'm beginning to think we're gonna need more than a hundred for this)

I know you do, but I cringe everytime I hear him sing the chorus. Its Claire as a sketch. Now if they made an instrumental version then we'd be talking.

79. Wreck of The Friggen Edmund Fitzgerald. The boat went down quicker then it takes him to sing about. But if we pick the Rheo version for 61 then he gets Sundown.

so i guess that's 85.

please replace that 91 with rush - 'closer to the heart.'

Fritz, if Incredible Bongo Band are Canadian (and R. Dean Taylor??) I take back anything bad I've ever said about this country.

(I'll try and put together the list later...)

As for the Bootsauce, mercifully I do not remember any of their other songs at all. This means that it was just the ONE horrible song that caused such trauma to my psyche - hence it is deserving.

Re: the Loverboy one also deserving its dishonour, all I'm gonna say is that 2-4 don't have washed up Three's Company actresses tarting themsleves around in their videos, now do they? And don't go trying the "but that's what made it!" line. This isn't 1997 you know.

Keep you language clean eh.

Just one comment for now.

I remember Bootsauce "Every One's A Winner" was not written by them.
It's was done by another artist. So I don't think that should be listed.

Stop The Music - Body Electric
West Coast Woman - Painter
Alaskan Shuffle - Bongo Fury
Dunrobin's Gone - Brave Belt
Peaceman's Farm - Noah

wow... not only had i totally forgotten this song existed (i remember hearing it on the radio a lot?) but i had no idea it was by Christopher Ward.

"So Long Baby Jane"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A4WOUJs3kY

"I'm AN Adult Now" I mean... gah!

In one of those "we're in Canada now!" moments, this song came on the radio when I was approaching the Canadian border a week ago. It always frustrates me because I feel like it's supposed to say something either funny or insightful about aging and maturing but it never does. I still like "Hard to Laugh", though.

Just In Case You Wonder The Ugly Ducklings
Shadows of Your Mind The Plastic Cloud
Going To the City Bent Wind

Somehow I never knew this was Canadian. I had assumed it was by a California psychedelic band. According to Allmusic, it was a huge hit in Japan!

Yeah, I came across that song via that Oh! What a Feeling Juno compilation from the mid 90s.

tpoh

I played Love Junk on Spotify yesterday, feeling nostalgic for the singles. It has its moments for straight-ahead pop-rock, apparently. Produced by Rundgren! I only just got what the chorus of "Hard to Laugh" was probably describing:

Hard to laugh, when you know that she's been cheating
Had her hands around him and she's been giving it a beating

In my defence, I was 9 when it was released.

Had an urge to hear some Leslie Spit Treeo--a fabulous Toronto folky alt.rock band from the 90s--this afternoon, but my CDs are currently in another city, and I though there was no way I was going to find them streaming anywhere. Surprise, surprise--their debut album, Don't Cry Too Hard (1990), is actually on Apple Music. Not my very favourite album of theirs--that would be 1996's sprawling 2CD masterwork Chocolate Chip Cookies (also their final album)--but they never made a bad record in their brief career. Two album highlights, both on YouTube, are the expansive "UFO" and--sadly, timely--their raucous cover of John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Pb-5dWSn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGbFD5dZbWY

I was going to add Bourben Tabernacle Choir and The Rheostatics cover of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere but wanted to see how long we could stay Neiless.

Spoon, I'm So Green, Moonshake, I Want More, Half Past One, Mushroom...uhh maybe some others?? love this band but I don't think I could name 100 songs by them period

Didn't realize this thread was started by my friend...So yes, this could be the nominating thread when the time comes for the poll. I'll try to get a mod to modify the title.

i'm already curating a list in my head

I contributed a list to this book a few years ago:

https://i.cbc.ca/1.2070846.1381901652!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/top-100-singles-cover.jpg

Here's the full list of 100 songs:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2010/10/02/the_whole_100single_list.html

I'm guessing I probably have no use for at least half the list, but it's a starting point.

They really tied themselves in knots making the list "singles only", since the only place "Hallelujah" was released as a single was in France, as a b-side, which is where it made approximately 0% of its impact as a song. The 100 Canadian albums book introduced me to Harmonium at least.

I like that they've got Teenage Head and the Demics and the Ugly Ducklings on there; no Haunted, though.

Wow, 20 years ago ilx (and probably irl) me was annoying. I stand by some of my nominations though.

Kim! Hope you vote.

Motion to have The Kings' "This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide" counted as a single track? The only time I've ever heard them separated is the latter's appearance on Rhino's Just Can't Get Enough series (the Mersereau lists it correctly).

I think they're treated as one song on the radio, no?

Yeah. Only mentioned because I saw "Switchin' to Glide" listed by itself way upthread (actually, it was listed as "slip into glide" but someone immediately corrected that).

In the next few days, I'll start inputting songs mentioned here and songs from the Star list into a spreadsheet. To get a link to the spreadsheet at the top of the thread, though, I'll have to start a new thread.

NOW did a Canadian list 15 years ago or thereabouts, but I can't remember if it was albums or songs--albums, probably.

Another list:

https://indie88.com/the-top-150-canadian-songs-of-all-time/

I hope no one here is Alan Cross, because I want to say "God, I think that's Alan Cross's station."

I hope no one here is Alan Cross either.

I'll outline this later, but the qualifying criterion will be simple: either you were born in Canada or you weren't. Doesn't matter if you moved to L.A. when you were six months old and struck it rich there later in life, or if you were born in New York and left for Nova Scotia to do the same (the story of approximately no one). Neil Young is Canadian, Ronnie Hawkins is not. And it's the performer of the song--no complicated Cancon loopholes for producer/songwriter/whatever.

Bands are trickier. What do prospective voters think? If half or more of the band are Canadian, that counts?

Is half or more of The Band Canadian?

Will it go round in circles...4/5, I think--easy call.

Sorry, I'm being a smartass. I say that rule works.

I'm a lot more likely to vote for Skip Spence than K'naan, but some people might not like to see immigrants sidelined.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm trying to put a stick in the spokes every time you make a decision.

Skip Spence qualifies--born in Windsor (actually didn't know that till right now). So...I'm missing the problem there.

you all remember this, right:

https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/mapl1.png?ezimgfmt=ng%3Awebp%2Fngcb1%2Frs%3Adevice%2Frscb1-1

Isn't it still in effect?

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht/r1.htm

It seems antiquated in an internet world, but I don't make music for a living; my friend at SOCAN says it's still necessary.

I was slightly acquainted with your friend, don't know if he would remember me.

There were a few funny stories about the MAPL designation, like Bootsauce pretending they recorded their album at a non-existent Canadian studio rather than one in the States so that their Hot Chocolate cover would qualify.

Send me board email, Halfway, I'll let Howard know.

God, Bootsauce--did I ever loathe them. Our own Red Hot Chili Peppers, but (somehow) exponentially worse.

I thought this thread was going to be about songs that sample the sound of cans being popped opened.

I might open the poll up to that interpretation, just so I can vote for Basehead's "Ode to My Favorite Beer."

Also "The Beer Hunter" by Bob and Doug McKenzie fits both definitions.

I think I just stumbled onto the patron saint of this poll: Dave Madden, who played Ruben Kincaid on The Partridge Family. If I ever did I know he was Canadian--born in Sarnia--I'd completely forgotten.

Will get this up and running in a week or two, once they're counting down the country poll. I thought I was finished working for the year, but at the last minute the union bumped my supply-teaching ceiling to 95 days again. Gifted multi-tasker that I am, I'll still go forward; it may mean, when it comes time for the results, that they won't be posted on consecutive days. Should be okay otherwise.

You're going to have to have the results vetted by one of your classes.

Only if we relocate to whatever social-media site they're using now. (I won't even say TikTok, which I assume is yesterday's news.)

I should mention that I'll be invoking the Mel Brooks Rule for the poll, meaning that everyone from all corners of the world is encouraged to participate, but making fun of Canadians or Canada will only be permitted if you're Canadian yourself and can produce, on request, official documentation. Anyone not in compliance will be expelled.

oh shi

j/k i would never