astrochimp

Ok, it's just some dude from here who's putting out a book but i like lists so here it is:

1. The Guess Who — American Woman

2. Neil Young — Heart Of Gold

3. The Band — The Weight

4. Bryan Adams — Summer of '69

5. Leonard Cohen — Hallelujah

6. Steppenwolf — Born to Be Wild

7. Gordon Lightfoot — If You Could Read My Mind

8. Bachman Turner Overdrive — Takin' Care Of Business

9. Ian and Sylvia — Four Strong Winds

10. Anne Murray — Snowbird

11. Joni Mitchell — Big Yellow Taxi/Woodstock

12. Rush — Tom Sawyer

13. Blue Rodeo — Try

14. Tragically Hip — New Orleans Is Sinking

15. Gordon Lightfoot — The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

16. Leonard Cohen — Suzanne

17. Tom Cochrane — Life Is A Highway

18. Guess Who — These Eyes

19. Gordon Lightfoot — Sundown

20. Sloan — Underwhelmed

21. The Band — Up On Cripple Creek/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

22. Maestro Fresh Wes — Let Your Backbone Slide

23. The Diodes — Tired of Waking Up Tired

25. Rush — The Spirit of Radio

25. Crowbar — Oh What A Feeling

26. Rough Trade — High School Confidential

27. Martha and the Muffins — Echo Beach

28. Stampeders — Sweet City Woman

29. Arcade Fire — Wake Up

30. Barenaked Ladies — If I Had $1,000,000

31. Robert Charlebois — Lindberg

32. The Pursuit Of Happiness — I'm an Adult Now

33. Ugly Ducklings — Nothin'

34. Sloan — Coax Me

35. Rush — Closer To The Heart

36. Teenage Head — Picture My Face

37. Guess Who — Shakin' All Over

38. Five Man Electrical Band — Signs

39. Blue Rodeo — Lost Together

40. Ron Hynes — Sonny's Dream

41. Men Without Hats — The Safety Dance

42. Rheostatics — Claire

43. Lighthouse — One Fine Morning

44. A Foot In Coldwater — (Make Me Do) Anything You Want

45. Corey Hart — Sunglasses At Night

46. Loverboy — Working For The Weekend

47. Trooper — Raise A Little Hell

48. Parachute Club — Rise Up

49. Alannah Myles — Black Velvet

50. Terry Jacks — Seasons In The Sun

51. Malajube — Montreal —40C

52. Neil Young — Cinnamon Girl

53. Alanis Morissette — You Oughta Know

54. Feist — 1234

55. Arcade Fire — Rebellion (Lies)

56. k.d. lang — Constant Craving

57. Neil Young — Rockin' In The Free World

58. Michel Pagliaro — Lovin' You Ain't Easy

59. Bruce Cockburn — Lovers In A Dangerous Time

60. Tragically Hip — Bobcaygeon

61. Joni Mitchell — A Case of You/California

62. The Demics — New York City

63. Bryan Adams — (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

64. Tragically Hip — Ahead By A Century

65. Blue Rodeo — Five Days In May

66. Hank Snow — I'm Moving On

67. Harmonium — Pour un instant

68. Steppenwolf — Magic Carpet Ride

69. Sloan — Money City Maniacs

70. Celine Dion — My Heart Will Go On

71. k—os — Crabbuckit

72. The Kings —This Beat Goes on/Switchin' To Glide

73. Neil Young — Old Man/Needle and the Damage Done

74. Jean Leloup — 1990

75. Payola$ — Eyes Of A Stranger

76. Blue Rodeo — Hasn't Hit Me Yet

77. Bachman Turner Overdrive — You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

78. Bruce Cockburn — Wondering Where The Lions Are

79. April Wine — You Could Have Been A Lady

80. Teenage Head — Let's Shake/Somethin' On My Mind

81. Joni Mitchell — Help Me

82. Trooper — We're Here For A Good Time

83. Lighthouse — Sunny Days

84. Jean—Pierre Ferland — Le petit roi

85. Bryan Adams — Cuts Like A Knife

86. Stompin' Tom Connors — The Hockey Song

87. Tragically Hip — Wheat Kings

88. Gilles Vigneault — Mon pays

89. Spirit of The West — Home For A Rest

90. New Pornographers — Letter From An Occupant

91. Guess Who — No Time

92. Mashmakhan — As The Years Go By

93. Neil Young — Hey Hey My My

94. Paul Anka — Diana

95. Daniel Lanois — The Maker

96. The Spoons — Nova Heart

97. Beau Dommage — La complainte du phoque en Alaska

98. Ron Sexsmith — Secret Heart

99. Bryan Adams — Run To You

100. Wintersleep — Weighty Ghost

statcat

no 1-2-5?

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astrochimp

Embarrassed to say i hadn't heard that before. That's fucking great

Fist of Doom

Only three Rush songs? Blasphemy!

to Summer of '69. Love that song.

inri222

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B5Erik

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NORML54601

I'd add a few Tegan & Sara songs.

Boba Fett

Only this song deserves to be #1:

dom56

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JAA

Summer of '69 is ranked far too high considering the rest of the competition. What . . . no Prism?

Trout

No Spirit of the west?

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DVD Josh

So my theory is true - every Canadian chronically overrates The Tragically Hip. Any band that says their band name in one of their own songs should GTFO.

cungar

The whoe top 10 should be Neil Young and Anne Murray needs to not even be on this list.

Coral

Plenty of changes I'd make on that list. Seems like this list is geared more towards the hit songs as opposed to the best songs.

Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 is way too high on the list (I wouldn't even have it on a top 100).

BTO, Men Without Hats, Cory Hart, Maestro Fresh Wes ? ugh

Blue Rodeo - shouldn't be on the list, nevermind being ahead of their much better "Lost Together"

Much better Tom Cochrane songs than "Life is a Highway". ie. White Hot.

The list is missing Saga:

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statcat

yeah I was kind of surprised because the Ugly Ducklings- Nothin' somehow got on there. I was almost expecting the Haunted- 1-2-5 to be on there but it wasn't and I think it's easily a better song.

Dan

Definitely need to include at least ONE Joel Plaskett song.
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Hokeyboy

Mikael79

Wilco
The Clash

Kinda:

Queen
The Who

astrochimp

For me personally the biggest omission is Matthew Good(Band). I woulda thought "Apparitions","Everything is Automatic" or maybe "The Future is X-Rated" would certainly be in any Canadian top songs list. Certainly would be on mine.

Happy to see Sloan on there a few times though

Norm de Plume

That reminds me of this classic, which used to run every night when stations went off air:




As for the list, it's one person's opinion, and I personally don't think much of it.

Drexl

They left this out:



I thought Sarah McLachlan would have been on there too.

Well, at least they didn't include:

Dan

How can you all forget Robin Sparkles:
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dolphinboy

Almost every Tegan & Sara song is better than 1234. I never take lists seriously, but that they didn't even get one song on the list shows how criminally underappreciated they are.

cactusoly

Triumph?

DVD Josh

Wilco are definitely among the most overrated bands in history.