In the name of all that is holy, go to this website and vote to make sure that The Diodes' "Tired of Waking Up Tired" is added to the list of classic Canadian songs

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Yeah, I know this is cheeseball, but CBC's 50 Tracks is happening again, only this time they're doing an all-Canadian edition. The panel managed to get through one week of the 70s without passing the Diodes through as one of the classic Canadian tracks.

If you care about this (and probably only the people that know who the Diodes are will even bother clicking here), why not go to the voting page ASAP and vote for them? Yeah, okay, you'll be voting for them at the expense of one Stompin' Tom song, but Stompin' Tom Will have another chance to shine, surely, either in the second round of 70s voting or as a write-in favourite. The Diodes need your help now!

http://www.cbc.ca/50tracks/vote/index.html

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm tired of waking up tired
Waking up tired
YEAH, waking up tired

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Uncle Bill, Uncle Bill, I took some pills...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I love this song a lot. I'm totally voting for it.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

stopmin tom will definitely make the list. but this is the diodes chance. great song.

― gspm (gspm), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this song on one of the AMERICAN power-pop comps in the Rhino DIY series. Surely they should have put together a Canadian power-pop comp for the Diodes.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait a minute. You neglected to mention that Sweeney Todd's "Roxy Roller" was in the competition as well.

― todd (todd), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh i love that diodes song!

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait a minute. You neglected to mention that Sweeney Todd's "Roxy Roller" was in the competition as well

Again, Nick Gilder will get his chance again. For the Diodes, there's only the one realistic chance here.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this song! Scott Woods put it on a CD-R! Thank you, Scott! It fucking rules.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

why can't i listen to the song clips? all i can hear are the pitches

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

and hoodoo gurus had a different song but same title

― La Camilla Henemark, Thursday, 10 February 2005 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

and i imagine that's Jay Ferguson of Sloan?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 10 February 2005 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, I had to vote for Roxy Roller.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 10 February 2005 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit Derrick! (Oh well, you gotta vote how you see fit in the end. But maybe we got a few more votes for the Diodes, anyhow).

Yes, that was Jay Ferguson of Sloan. I'm just surprised that he wasn't stumping for at least one April Wine song!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I voted for the Pagliaro song. Sorry.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Stompin' Tom won with 70%. Time for the write-in ballots!!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I voted for Pagliaro too, and I did it a good 9 hours after the polls closed.

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jian thinks some of Blue Rodeo's material sounds "too American"? wtf?

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got the new solo alb by one of Jian's fellow Moxy Fruvites, and frankly, it sounds too Canadian. And by Canadian, I mean shitty.

― Huk-L, Friday, 11 February 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Jian as a person, but I've never really liked the Fruvous. I'm waiting to see if someone brings in "King of Spain" or "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors" as one of their picks for the 90s in a shameless attempt to butter him up.

I've decided (again) that I'm really not a fan of this wacky format for picking the "best" songs. Today they nailed down part two of the seventies and DOA's "Disco Sucks" actually MADE the list (at the expense of the Demics' "New York City" and Anne Murray's "Snowbird", no less). The whole thing is at the whim of each week's panelists, and of course the idea that each decade only has 10-20 good songs is kinda laughable.

It also has resulted in the list featuring two Joni songs, two Gordon Lightfoot songs, two Guess Who (and one BTO) songs, while completely ignoring other Canadian artists that could well be on the list. Surely April Wine has at least one song of note from the 70s? "Tonight is a Wonderful Night" perhaps? And still no Cockburn...he still has his chance in the 80s, but the choice of "Wondering Where the Lions Are" over something like "Going to the Country" was probably the wrong one for getting him onto the 70s list, I figure.

I can already see the 80s and 90s as being full of pain. Barenaked Ladies, Alanis and Celine will probably be on there, but will the Grapes of Wrath place? If they get through this without picking at least one Rheostatics song, I think all of the results should be declared null and void.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm waiting to see if someone brings in "King of Spain" or "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors" as one of their picks for the 90s in a shameless attempt to butter him up.

Wouldn't "Stuck in the '90's" be a better choice?

― Vic Funk, Friday, 11 February 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

christ, but those Moxy Fruvous songs really are shit.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 12 February 2005 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

I love this song.

― dont blaze me dro (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 July 2009 00:52 (sixteen years ago)

i love the diodes album i have. the first one.

― scott seward, Monday, 20 July 2009 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

Cool version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJ89h8AkFA

― Sundar, Monday, 20 July 2009 01:12 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

classic track

― ian, Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

Wow, I had no idea this was a Diodes song. I'd only ever heard the Change of Heart version. Which version sucked, but could not erase the awesomeness of the song.

― Armchair Crab (staggerlee), Sunday, 28 March 2010 03:54 (fifteen years ago)

i love this song

― billion holla baby (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:59 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

They did a show in Toronto on Friday; at least two of the guys from the original band, couldn't tell with the other two. Mostly my friend and I wanted to see Crash 'n' Burn, which hardly ever screens and they showed beforehand. It's a 25-minute film shot at the Crash 'n' Burn club, a Toronto venue that was around for two months in 1977. I was never in it; I was only 15, still stuck in a small town outside the city, and happily listening to my Neil Young and Gentle Giant records. Anyway, the Diodes, Teenage Head, the Boyfriends (have to see if I can find anything by them), and the Dead Boys play a couple of songs each.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_%27n%27_Burn_(1977_film)

The sound is completely out of sync, the footage is great. Everyone's just making it up as they go along. (Well, not quite--Stiv Bators is very carefully emulating Iggy.)

We stuck around for the Gordie Lewis Band (a makeshift Teenage Head) and four songs by the Diodes. Don't look back, you can never look back.

― clemenza, Monday, 14 September 2015 12:49 (ten years ago)

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