100 Can-Pop Classics

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we need new 85, 87, 88, 93, 99

I offer Stan Rogers song Barret Privateers for one.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Tonite is a Wonderful Time" - April Wine
"Some Sing, Some Dance" - Pagliaro

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

s woods, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

GYBE - The Part With the Violins and the bass and the drums. You know, that one? Or the hidden track at the end of F# A# oo on cd.
Rascalz - Sharp Shooter

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

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

103. Greenfield Main - Great Short Game Rifle
(the album did really well on !earshot/CHART campus charts, so Im not counting it as obscure)

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

104. BTK - Corn Cob Pipe

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Love Inc. - "Broken Bones"

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

s woods, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

By the way, it's pretty cool that there's no Neil or Joni on this list.

s woods, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Blurtonia - "Cardboard Riot"
Fight the Monster - "Halifax"
Pillar - "We All Want Out"
k-os - "Heaven Only Knows"
Pocket Dwellers - "Concepts"
the Chieftones - "Rang-Dang-Do"

Emmet Matheson, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or Anne and Rita.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

132. Swamp Baby - Blue Tatoo

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

105. poppy family - where evil grows
106. terry jacks - seasons in the sun
107. steel river - ten pound note
108. kim mitchell - patio lanterns
109. the ugly ducklings - nothin'
110. bryan adams - cuts like a knife
111. loverboy - workin' for the weekend
112. andy kim - rainbow ride
113. de franco family - heartbeat it's a love beat
114. sweeney todd - roxy roller
115. nick gilder - hot child in the city
116. rush - limelight
117. april wine - roller
118. trooper - raise a little hell
119. max webster - toronto tontos
120. cesar et ses romans - splish splash
121. the guess who - american woman

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

121. The Smugglers - Rock And Roll Was Never This Fun
(I so wanted to say Flying Buttress of Love)

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

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

122. maestro fresh wes - let your backbone slide

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

from canoe:

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.

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

123. Do Make Say Think - The Apartment Song
124. Mean Red Spiders - Azimuth of Panama

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

And to that I add "track 3" (don't have a legit copy yet) from the Broken Social Scene album, the song with the great bass line.

s woods, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

please replace "Coax Me" with "Snowsuit Sound" and add some Pure... preferably "Anna Is A Speed Freak" or sumthin...

kate, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kate, Im trying my best to be popist. Coax Me was a single or at least a video, Jay's wonderful ditty wasn't.
But still, Kate as a closet Pure fan shockah.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

(haven't been numbering stuff, sorry...)

125. "Even Grable" - Treble Charger

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

s woods, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

126. Hayden - In September
And let us speak of the Sonic Unyon defectors nomore.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

why, i dug out my generation six-pack album and i'm listening to it right now, mwah hah hah. even my bassist laughed at me for liking pure. but they've got some ACE pop going on. denial, what a classic song. didn't care too much for the other albums that i heard, but this is just so... jeremy kane stonerboy powerpop.

kate, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

127. ronnie hawkins and the hawks - mary lou
128. klaatu - calling occupants of interplanetary craft
129. Les Sinners - Go Go Trudeau
130. avril lavigne - complicated
131. The Gruesomes - You were not Using Your Head
132. Leonard Cohen - Tower Of Song
133. Edward Bear - The Last Song
134. Les Lutins - Je Cherche
135. The SpaceShits - Can't Fool With Me
136. Langley Schools Music Project - Desperado

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 18:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Will I be an embarrassment to the nation if I mention Tuuli? (Who inexplicably flopped with the best guitar-pop album of the year?) How about:

137. "10 Miles to Go"

s woods, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

138. Kardinal Offishal -- Hustlin'
139. Sum 41 -- Fat Lip

(Tuuli are great, Scott. I always meant to get that album.)

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

140. snow - 'informer'
141. celine dion - 'where does my heart beat now'
142. parachute club - 'rise up'
143. daniel lanois - 'lotta love to give'
144. paul anka - 'lonely boy'
145. shawn desman - 'get ready'

d k (d k), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

somebody mentioned klaatu already, oops

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

146. Rough Trade - High School Confidential

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

And Leonard Cohen as well but good call on the Langley Schools one.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

tuuli are canadian? wow, i didn't know that. they beat us for "best chick band" on some web vote or other. grrrrrr. i bet we're more canadian than them, as well!

kate, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll keep an eye open for that flower guitar and steal it for you Kate.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kate, who's your band? (And sorry I don't already know this.)

s woods, Thursday, 12 December 2002 01:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

WAIT - is "gotta see jane" the backwards-in-time hidden key to that apocryphal fall/motown story?

(also: #24 owns this list. and that list over there, and all lists)

jones (actual), Thursday, 12 December 2002 01:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Somehow we've managed to avoid mentioning Ms. MacLachlan as well.
...and nary a trace of Platinum Blonde! I passed over Haywire - because their big 'hit' was shit. Chalk Circle maybe could get in here, Honeymoon Suite - probably not. Anyone got a decent single for Doug and the Slugs? I can't bring myself to nominate "Makin' it Work", Lava Hay had at least one good song but I've forgotten the title, Rose Chronicles must have something worthy as well, and while we're on the Nettwerk catalog, can an we add The Water Walk's "Turn Your Face Away"? Now, just for the sake of theoretical argument, if I had to choose between Zappacosta and Paul Janz, it'd be Paul Janz all the way. FORGET the West End Girls and John James (try anyway), but add the Gandharvas "Downtime" and the Inbreds "Amelia Earhart".

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 12 December 2002 02:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gandharvas "Downtime"

Kim and me in musical agreement shocker! I'm starting to wonder if I actually liked that song. The Rose Chronicles had nothing worthy, though, sorry. And "Dance Desire" is classic.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 12 December 2002 02:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

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.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 December 2002 02:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

tuuli are canadian? wow, ... i bet we're more canadian than them, as well!

i'm going to have to step up for tuuli here, kim. jenny used to live down the road from me, here in the mighty oak town - she's an authentic canuk. sorry.

dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 December 2002 03:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

That wasn't me dyson!

Sundar, Dance Desire? Good grief! I wonder about Downtime too, but if I hear it, I can't help liking it.

I *would* have nominated Anna's a Speed Freak too, but the last Pure album I bought was so traumatising that I couldn't think back without overwhelming pity. The breaking point for me, IIRC was the song about a tennis ball. I haven't heard the album, but I did think Jordy Birch's recent-ish Moola Moola single was kind of cute.

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 12 December 2002 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

oops, i typed the wrong name, sorry. i was dystracted by my virgin attempt at using italics on ilx.

dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 December 2002 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, in honesty, I haven't heard "Dance Desire" in at least a decade so it might not be that great. The chorus still gets in my head all the time though.

(Did "Rock You" make the list? Or the Killer Dwarfs? Varga?)

sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 12 December 2002 06:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

no. no helix either.

dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 December 2002 07:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

No Sunglasses at Night either. I'll leave that to the poppist of the bunch if he wants it ;-)

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

147. (Everything I Do) I Do it For You

(Everything I List Here) I Mean It, I Really Do

s woods, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

So we're not following the MAPL system?

Horace Mann, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, we are, far as I can see.

s woods, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

everything i do famously wasn't mapl yo

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oops, you may be right (was that the controversy way back?). Can-Con requires 2 out of the 4. Did Adams not write or produce it?

s woods, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

in the spirit of "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" I nominate...uh..."Hard Times" by Kurtis Blow.

Okay, bad example, but someone should start a new thread of songs you'd swear were Cdn but aren't.
And by someone I mean you Fritz.

Horace Mann, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

you mean like Incredible Bongo Band?

s woods, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

they ARE canadian

you just don't want to have to take back everything bad you ever said about canada, woods

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I assume you're right (I can't find confirmation) and I'm stunned.

s woods, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:31 (twenty-one years ago) link


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