CBC has unveiled their 49 Canadian Songs for Obama's iPod. These 49 won out over their top 100.
I can't really speak to the French songs or the non-pop songs, but they seem to have hit most of the essential tracks from my definitive Cancon list.
Still, how does The Band's "The Weight" not make this list? Was no Sloan song worthy? Where's the Blue Rodeo? In typical CBC fashion, it seems inclusion was deemed the higher priority.
- Arcade Fire, "Rebellion (Lies)"
- Barenaked Ladies, "If I Had $1,000,000"
- Beau Dommage, "La complainte du phoque en Alaska"
- Ben Heppner, "We'll Gather Lilacs"
- Bruce Cockburn, "Wondering Where the Lions Are"
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Universal Soldier"
- Daniel Bélanger, "Rêver mieux"
- Daniel Lanois, "Jolie Louise"
- Daniel Lavoie, "J'ai quitté mon île"
- Diana Krall, "Departure Bay"
- Gilles Vigneault, "Mon pays"
- Glenn Gould, "Goldberg Variations"
- Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy"
- Gordon Lightfoot, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
- Great Big Sea, "Ordinary Day"
- Harmonium, "Pour un Instant"
- Ian & Sylvia, "Four Strong Winds"
- James Ehnes, "Barber Violin Concerto"
- Jesse Cook, "Mario Takes a Walk"
- Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now"
- Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You"
- Karkwa, "Oublie pas"
- k.d. lang, "Hallelujah"
- Leonard Cohen, "Democracy"
- Leonard Cohen, "Suzanne"
- Malajube, "Montréal -40°C"
- Marie-Jo Thério, "Évangeline"
- Marjan Mozetich, "Affairs of the Heart"
- Measha Brueggergosman, "I'm Going Up a Yonder"
- Mes Aïeux, "Dégénérations"
- Michael Bublé, "Home"
- Moe Koffman, "Swingin' Shepherd Blues"
- Neil Young, "Rockin' in the Free World"
- Neil Young, "Helpless"
- Oscar Peterson Trio, "Hymn to Freedom"
- Oscar Peterson, "Place St. Henri (from Canadiana Suite)"
- Parachute Club, "Rise Up"
- Raymond Lévesque, "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour"
- Rush, "Closer to the Heart"
- Sam Roberts, "The Canadian Dream"
- Shad, "Brother (Watching)"
- Stan Rogers, "Northwest Passage"
- Stompin' Tom Connors, "The Hockey Song"
- The Arrogant Worms, "Canada's Really Big"
- The Guess Who, "American Woman"
- The Rankin Family, "Rise Again"
- The Tragically Hip, "Wheat Kings"
- The Tragically Hip, "Bobcaygeon"
- The Weakerthans, "One Great City!"
