I'm a sucker for all these Canadian music features the CBC like to throw at us every few years. The latest is from CBC Radio 2. Starting this morning, CBC Radio 2 is inviting us Canadians to help select the top “49 songs from north of the 49th parallel” that would best define our country to the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama.
It wasn't long ago CBC Radio One was choosing 50 Tracks, which inspired my Best Canadian Song Search.
I wanted to compile a list of the 100 definitive Canadian songs. I wonder how CBC's 49 Songs will compare with my list. It'll be fun finding out.
- The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking
- Neil Young - Helpless
- The Band - The Weight
- Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
- Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy
- Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage
- Sloan - Underwhelmed
- The Guess Who - American Woman
- Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
- Neil Young - Heart of Gold
- Blue Rodeo - Try
- Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
- The Tragically Hip - Courage
- Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson
- Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel
- Arcade Fire - Wake Up
- Gordon Lightfoot - Early Morning Rain
- Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
- Rush - The Spirit of Radio
- The Guess Who - Share the Land
- Blue Rodeo - Lost Together
- Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
- Our Lady Peace - Naveed
- Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
- Blue Rodeo - Diamond Mine
- Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
- Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
- Five Man Electical Band - Signs
- Bachman Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
- Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
- The Guess Who - These Eyes
- Blood, Sweat and Tears - Spinning Wheel
- Hayden - Bad As They Seem
- Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
- Ian and Sylvia - Four Strong Winds
- Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
- Rush - Closer to the Heart
- Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now
- Our Lady Peace - 4am
- Maestro Fresh-Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide
- k.d. lang - Constant Craving
- The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
- Neil Young - Old Man
- Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style
- Sarah Harmer - Silver Road
- Jeff Healey - Angel Eyes
- The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
- I Mother Earth - So Gently We Go
- Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
- Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game
- The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
- The Lowest of the Low - Henry Needs A New Pair of Shoes
- Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie
- Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down the Crazy River
- Tom Cochrane - Big League
- Rush - Tom Sawyer
- Moist - Push
- Billy Talent - Nothing To Lose
- Rusty - Wake Me
- The Northern Pikes - Teenland
- Sarah Harmer - Basement Apartment
- Sarah McLachlan - Hold On
- The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings
- Sloan - Coax Me
- Spirit of the West - Home For A Rest
- Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
- Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
- Stars - Ageless Beauty
- The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century
- The Demics - New York City
- Barenaked Ladies - If I Had $1,000,000
- 54-40 - I Go Blind
- Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
- The New Pornographers - Use It
- The Watchmen - All Uncovered
- Treble Charger - Red
- Sam Roberts - Brother Down
- Randy Bachman - Prairie Town
- Sarah McLachlan - Angel
- Tom Cochrane - Boy Inside The Man
- Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
- Skydiggers - I Will Give You Everything
- Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
- Rough Trade - High School Confidential
- Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
- Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
- Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
- Metric - Combat Baby
- Rusty - Misogyny
- k-os - Heaven Only Knows
- Tokyo Police Club - Nature Of The Experiment
- Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
- Rheostatics - Record Body Count
- Odds - Heterosexual Man
- The Gandharvas - The First Day of Spring
- The Diodes - Tired of Waking Up Tired
- Feist - Mushaboom
- Gowan - A Criminal Mind
- Grapes Of Wrath - All The Things I Wasn't
- Max Webster - A Million Vacations
