Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today.
This is a comment on your selection of songs that best represent the spirit of Canadian music. There are some songs & artists in that list that I have not heard. The ones below I like & love.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
Sleepy Maggie - Ashley MacIsaac
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Tom Sawyer - Rush
New Orleans is Sinking - The Tragically Hip
Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young
American Woman - The Guess Who
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
However I would like to suggest:
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Our Lady Peace - Thief
Nickelback - Leader of Men
and many more. But if you ask me which is the one song that makes me think "Canada", it's "32 Down on the Robert McKensie" by Paul Gross.
Roshan
I considered Bryan Adams, Nickelback and Our Lady Peace, but at the end of the day they fell short of this prestigious acknowledgment. The top ten and those that just missed are the cream of the crop.
I don't have that Paul Gross song but I have been thinking a great deal lately about songs that are clearly Canadian. "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", for example, is a song that rekes of this nation. Perhaps I'll jot down my list later today...
