100 Can-Pop Classics

(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...)

I offer Stan Rogers song Barret Privateers for one.

I just noticed Harlequin's "Innocence" on the list--amazing track.

Meaning we got the five replacement songs (though the original 5 were all GREBT).
FORWARD, MARCH!
102. Buck65 - The Cenutar

Kim was joking with "Under a Latin Moon," but Candi did have one great pop-dance track, though can't remember which one.

Already had "These Eyes" though Im with you on American Woman.

R. Dean Taylor started his career in his home of Toronto in 1961 playing piano and singing with various groups at all the big Toronto clubs as well as recording several singles for the Audiomaster label that were poor quality and received little if no airplay.

In 1962 he recorded the single/demo "At The High School Dance" for Amy-Mala Records which gained him a bit of attention to which Taylor took the advice of a friend and pursued his dreams in Detroit.

Motown's Brian Holland offered him a position as a ghostwriter for the label and later he would finally be recognized for this talent on such songs as "I'll Turn To Stone" (The Four Tops), "Love Child" and "I'm Livin' In Shame" (The Supremes), and "All I Need" (The Temptations).

While developing his production techniques, Taylor recorded "Gotta See Jane" on his own which hit the Top 20 in England. Motown Records owner Barry Gordy Jr. decided to take a chance with Taylor on his newly established white artist's label Rare Earth from which they released "Indiana Wants Me" in 1970. The song went to No.1 across North America.

Following the release of his debut album, "Gotta See Jane" was re-released and went Top 10 in Canada. R. Dean Taylor continued writing and producing for various artists throughout the '70's.

Taylor made a brief, unsuccessful comeback attempt in 1981/82.

125. "Even Grable" - Treble Charger

(That and "Anna" made my top singles of the '90s list.)

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