100 Can-Pop Classics

Track Listing:
1 - Intro
2 - New York City (Demics)
3 - From New York to L.A. (Patsy Gallant)
4 - Africa (Thundermug)
5 - Hollywood (Streetheart)
6 - Get Up, Get Out, Move On (Fludd)
7 - Bye Bye Mon Cowboy (Mitsou)
8 - Nyet Nyet Soviet (BB Gabor)
9 - Je Cherche (Les Lutins)
10 - All the Things I Wasn't (Grapes of Wrath)
11 - Beautiful Second Hand Man (Ginette Reno)
12 - Big Town Boy (Shirley Matthews)
13 - Your Daddy Don't Know (Toronto)
14 - Tonite is a Wonderful Time (April Wine)
15 - Some Sing, Some Dance (Pagliaro)
16 - Sweet Thing (Goddo)
17 - Jack Hammer (Odds)
18 - Anna (Pure)
19 - I Beg Your Pardon (Kon-Kan)
20 - Even Grable (Treble Charger)
21 - Roxy Roller (Sweeney Todd)
22 - Rain Dance (Guess Who)
23 - Trees Lounge theme (Hayden)
24 - Surfin' on Heroin (Forgotten Rebels)

(I used a lot of the suggestions so thanks everyone...there's plenty for a part 2 someday.)

hey, and Chilliwack, Doug and the Slugs, DOA, Plumtree, Cowboy Junkies, Subhumans, Holly Cole, Kashtin...

DOA, Junkies and Subhumans I thought were all mentioned.

(sorry - typing lowercase/one-handed because my cat is asleep on my left arm)

The last Crash Vegas album, Aurora, is absolutely fantastic, though their first two were unremarkable. Find Aurora, though, if you can.

When I was a kid my Dad was good friends them, and they were at our house all the time. They were really nice to me, but they (and all my parents friends) had a problem with accidentally passing alcohol/drugs to children. I really thought they'd faded to obscurity. Well, I guess they have, more or less.

And I still like "No such thing" by Annette Ducharme, "Julian" by Alta Moda and "At the feet of the moon" by the Parachute Club (horrible name, though).

I somehow never realised that Trans-X song was CanCon. It's great though.

1. Sloan - Twice Removed = 4.5
2. Neil Young - Harvest = 4.5
3. Joni Mitchell - Blue = 5
4. Tragically Hip - Up To Here = 4.5
5. Rheostatics - Whale Music = 3 [!!!!!!!!!!!!]
6. Tragiaclly Hip - Fully Completely - 4.5
7. Neil Young - After The Goldrush = 5
8. The Band - Music From The Big Pink = 5
9. Cowboy Junkies - Trinty Sessions = 4.5 [!!]
10. Lowest of the Low - Shakespear My Butt = 2.5 [!!!?!!!]
11. SARAH McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy = 4.5
12. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps = 5
13. KD Lang - Ingenue = 4
14. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night = 5
15. Rush - Moving Pictures = 4.5
16. Rheostatics - Melvile = 4
17. Slow - Against The Glass = 4.5
18. Sloan - Smeared = 3 [!!!]
19. Leonard Cohen - Im Your Man = 4.5
20. Nomeansno - Wrong = 4.5

Other noteables:
21. Teenage Head - Frantic City = Not reviewed.
28. Doughboys - Whatever = 3
35. Eric's Trip - Love Tara = 3
42. Art Bergmann - Sexual Rolette = Not Even Review.
50. 13 Engines - Perpetual Motion Machine = 3
67. Circle C - S/t = 2
77. Art Bergmann - What Fresh Hell Is This = Not Reviewed
80. Hardsip Post - Somebody Spoke = 3
88. Bob Wiseman - In Her Dream: Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle = 3
90. Art Bergmann - Crawl With Me = Not reviewed
94. Art Bergmann - S/t = Not Reviewed
98. Pluto - Cool Way to Feel = Not even a release date.

1. Bootsauce "Everyone's A Winner"
It seems a touch disingenuous to declare a Hot Chocolate cover the worst Canadian song ever, but the damn thing won a Best Dance Recording Juno in '92, so if the good Juno folks can honour it, we can surely provide our own special salutation as well.

2. Alannah Myles "Black Velvet"
A favourite amongst women who try too hard to be sexy and ultimately look like twats.

3. Crash Test Dummies "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
Brad Robert's tale, sung in his obnoxious bass vocals will only get him one thing, a place on this list.

4. Barenaked Ladies "One Week"
The chorus is bad enough, but BNL really embarrass themselves with that stupid rap. "I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss?" Please.

5. Loverboy "Lovin' Every Minute Of It"
This song was so carefully calculated to appeal to the broadest range of vanilla heshers, its transparency couldn't help but backfire on the band.

Can-Pop classic: The Bells' "Stay Awhile". Dunno if Ned's familiar w/this song (it hit #7 in the U.S. in '71), but I can't describe how madly I would LOVE to hear MBV cover this song! It would shatter the heavens.

This song always reminds me of Twin Peaks.

Also I know it risks disqualification for still getting play on The Edge, but Killjoys "Today I Hate Everyone" is pretty classic pop IMHO.

[That wasn't poetic licence. Those were my actual thought processes as I typed.)

This is a timely revival because just yesterday on the Celine Dion thread I ranked Celine above BNL and Crash Test Dummies.

The moment it reaches her face is the ugliest moment in music video history.

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.