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

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
video

Carly Rae Jepsen! Donovan Bailey!

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35. (tie) "Closer" (2013)
Tegan & Sara
47 points/4 votes
video

35. (tie) "The House That Heaven Built" (2012)
Japandroids
47 points/4 votes
video

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
video

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRuj2_czzw

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
video

35. (tie) "Étienne d'Août" (2006)
Malajube
50 points/1 vote/one #1 vote
video

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
video

28. (tie) "After the Gold Rush" (1970)
Neil Young
50 points/4 votes
video

28. (tie) "So Long, Marianne" (1967)
Leonard Cohen
50 points/4 votes
video

28. (tie) "Sundown" (1974)
Gordon Lightfoot
50 points/4 votes
video

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.

I think I nominated both So Long, Marianne and Subdivisions and for some reason didn't vote for either. Both are great, Sundown is unimpeachable. I was never a big fan of After the Gold Rush (the song, the albums is good of course) but I should give it a re-listen.

Voted for a bunch of these including "The House That Heaven Built," a personal favorite, and glad to see it rank!

voted for it too, but was honestly surprised to see it make it that high!

I need about 30 minutes to get the last seven images for today ready, will resume then.

voted for it pretty low on my ballot. an anthem!

Well, I've run into an issue--Tripod won't load images at the moment for some reason. (Yes, you read that correctly: Tripod. This poll is being brought to you by Tripod, Microsoft Paint, and a large roll of Scotch tape.) I'll try to get the last seven in a little while from now, but if I still can't, I can finish everything on Wednesday (home all day).

Problem fixed, so let me finish up.

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27. "Let Your Backbone Slide" (1989)
Maestro Fresh-Wes
50 points/6 votes
video

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26. "Barrett's Privateers" (1976)
Stan Rogers
51 points/3 votes
video

The Honest Ed's image--nothing to do with Stan Rogers, I don't think--is from the day in '84 when Mr. T was there to promote something. I lived about 5 minutes south; my friend and I were there to shoot some super-8 footage!

I've to get dinner, so I'll just plow through the last five for today.

"got to"

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25. "All the Things I Wasn't" (1989)
Grapes of Wrath
51 points/3 votes
video

If you've never seen the video for that, take a couple of minutes out to watch it--especially if you like spotting famous album covers. (And see the film I took the image from too!)

Dammit--screwed up on the points there, will repost.

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25. "All the Things I Wasn't" (1989)
Grapes of Wrath
52 points/5 votes
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24. "The Safety Dance" (1982)
Men Without Hats
52 points/6 votes
video

My favourite paradox ever: you can't call Men Without Hats "the Hats" because they didn't have any.

Iconic photo up here! Scandalized half the nation, charmed and seduced the other half.

Homer Simpson, cursing loudly.

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23. "7/4 (Shoreline)" (2005)
Broken Social Scene
52 points/6 votes
video

jpg, jpeg, let's call the whole thing off...

Once more for good luck--photo and points correct, everything clicking together. (I will politely ask a mod later on to removed all the ugly mis-posting.)

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23. "7/4 (Shoreline)" (2005)
Broken Social Scene
53 points/5 votes
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22. "These Eyes" (1968)
Guess Who
54 points/4 votes/one #1 vote
video

December '68 release, so the date is correct. Many Guess Who songs I like better, but I'm a huge fan.

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21. "Blinding Lights" (2019)
The Weeknd
54 points/6 votes
video

Will finish up Wednesday...indexed wanted to clarify that he cast a #1 vote for "The Weight." It was a numbered list with the points distributed evenly, so I wasn't sure.

I never knew about the Great Blizzard of '71 in Montreal until doing this.

I voted for "The Safety Dance". It was so big at the time. I remember we were on vacation in Miami Beach with my family and it played everywhere. The video was iconic too.

"All The Things I Wasn't" was on my long list. Great song.

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

These poll results are my Apple Music playlist of the day: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/ilm-canadian-pop-tracks/pl.u-RRbVK4JF31BKLM

And if you want to spend the entirety of your Canada Day, and then some, listening to CanPop, there's also this: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/acclaimed-music-top-songs-from-canada/pl.u-leylGZGfj3eJ1G

Thanks for the playlist!