Most Canadian song

The Music Canada top 20 albums chart is ... something this week: https://musiccanada.com/charts/#albums . Pom will be glad to know that 5 of the top 10, including the top 3, are Quebecois, but the composition of it seems random. #1 is trad country singer Irvin Blais, whom I know from a UOttawa radio programme, with a single. #2 is Angèle Dubeau, a violinist I was unfamiliar with, with an album that apparently includes Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Jonny Greenwood, and Olafur Arnolds compositions. #3 is Les Cowboys Fringants. Then Rob Zombie and Taylor Swift appear, below these, and just ahead of two albums by Lynda Lemay. I'm tbh wondering how these charts are compiled. (The tracks chart just looks like an American Billboard chart.) Or do French speakers just buy more albums??

Heh, I too would be very curious to know what the exact criteria are here. Angèle Dubeau is *the* classical crossover act par excellence in Quebec btw, or so it seems to me. A massive step up from the likes of André Rieu in Europe. Irvin Blais does not ring a bell, but that’s to be expected given my usual blind spots.

Has anyone already made a definitive playlist of "[this Canadian city/province] sucks" songs?

― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, March 27, 2021 4:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i can get into this, ha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_r5zXOnKio

My man Stan Rogers:

Ontario, y’know I’ve seen a place I’d rather be
Your scummy lakes and the city of Toronto don’t do a damn thing for me
I’d rather live by the sea.

In "Thoughts on a Rainy Afternoon", Bruce Cockburn asks "Jesus don't let Toronto take my song away".

Joel Plaskett dumps on Kelowna in “I Love This Town”

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, March 27, 2021 4:45 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

isn't grapes of wrath's backward town also about kelowna?

this all reminds me that the arrogant worms must have a few contenders for the thread concept

also, it seems like most songs about vancouver being crap are about e hastings, so my vote goes to hot hot heat's yvr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOeTRurNG6E

Weakerthans One Great City seems almost insincere in its hate, but it still fits the sub theme here I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlsjEP7L-k

Main topic - Besides Mitsou, there was also The Box with a few hits that bridged the language border.

One Great City is obviously a love letter disguised as a hate letter. Def still fits the sub theme.

Similar conflicted hate vein from Spookey Ruben - Leave The City. I assume it’s about Toronto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPSk92DiwU

Some days this one feels most Ontarian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ

it definitely would not be a french song!

Glad one of the Three Dead Trolls could join us.

Come on you all, it's obviously "The Rodeo Song"

― Lee626, Thursday, October 29, 2020 11:16 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

i agree with this one

alternatively log driver's waltz

"Log Driver's Waltz" ("La valse du maître draveur") might actually satisfy both pom and my Albertan friend!

If we’re going animated, “Black Fly”.

xp And girls. It pleases them completely.

OTM

I'm definitely out of my league here, but for me, this one that Kim posted must be the Most Canadian song.

https://i.imgur.com/isvPOwC.png

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

Questionable track really but it's got some poetic moments, kudos to its songwriter:

Mississauga people
Carry the weight of common evil
And go about their lives with a whisper and a whine
About Mississauga goddam

C'est the season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0r0_urwo8

I think we found it.

powerful stuff

+1 we're done here!

holy shit

absolutely voting for this in the 77, come back and fp me if I don't

i didn't think the perfect song existed.

Was Northwest Passage posted?

Because it is Northwest Passage.

Did you watch 'Income Tax' tho?

Because it is 'Income Tax'.

absolutely voting for this in the 77, come back and fp me if I don't

I never vote for tracks in the 77 but next year I will post a ballot containing only this song, come back and FP me if I don't.

Yeah it's Income Tax

Lol

Sublime guitar solo, to boot.

this is like if bill wurtz wrote a good song

Friggen A

I think the song is from 2020, unfortunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSffz_bl6zo

year of impact! xp

acadian boy summer

Jesus that song is amazing

P'tit Belliveau record is p good!

I couldn't figure out where the best place to post this, but somehow I did not know until today that the Canadian supermarket chain No Frills put out a rap album late last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDipchuzGnI

I did know about this, wish I didn't

Someone at head office is trying to take advantage of having to buy public performance licences for their stores. I've never heard this while I've been shopping there, though; grocery shopping is basically my only exposure to the music that most people listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3ubZ6fu3I

I don’t think it’s going to be a title winner in this thread, but kinda want to give a shout out to the multiple songs by Maestro Fresh Wes that incorporate/sample specifically Canadian rock hits (Haywire, Guess Who, Gowan, maybe more?)

i try to avoid no frills - crap produce, the local one is owned by an infamous slumlord family - although it is the closest grocery store to me and my immediate neighbourhood is a slight food desert, but i do end up going there for necessaries once in a while, toilet roll or that sort of thing. have definitely never heard this music before.