100 Can-Pop Classics

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