Music: What are your favorite Canadian songs?

[x Tame Impala]

American songs about Canada =/= Canadian songs

I don’t know if you can tell in the clip but that’s clearly an authentic Canadian singing right there so I don’t know what the issue is

 

[Jumptheshark]

Me being old

Trooper: Raise a little hell and the boys in the bright white sports car
Spirit of the west: The Crawl/An honest gamble
RUSH: Nearly everything they did
Bryan Adams: Remember
Nickelback: Photograph
The Guess Who: American Woman, No Sugar Tonight
Gordon Lightfoot: Sundown/ Wreck/If you could read my mind
Loverboy: Working for the weekend/ Lovin every minute of it
Andy Kim: Rock me Gently/How did we get this way.

Kim is underrated.

 

[todeskultes]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
Oppression - L'amoureux
Buried Inside - Time as Surrogate Religion
Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song
Nomeansno - The End of All Things
Do Make Say Think - A with Living
Feverfew - The Master
Home Front - Kill the Time
Intensive Care - Scopophilia

Not in any order, and didn't think too much about it. Despite not being much of a post-rock fan anymore, GY!BE could have easily been half the list for me.

 

[phrenssoa]

I could easily post hundreds of songs, but I will limit myself to 75 artists and one song per artist, without mentioning songs that have already been mentioned...

Big Wreck - Ghosts
Billy Talent - Saint Veronika
Nickelback - Feelin' Way Too Damn Good
Sum 41 - In Too Deep
The Guess Who - Undun
Pierre Lapointe - Pointant le nord
Jean Leloup - Balade à Toronto
Karkwa - Le coup d'état
Joni Mitchell - River
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side of Life
The Weeknd - High for This
Feist - Gatekeeper
Sarah McLachlan - Fallen
Ron Sexsmith - Love Shines
The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
April Wine - I Wouldn't Want to Lose Your Love
Charlotte Cardin - Les jupes
Arcade Fire - My Body Is a Cage
Sloan - Money City Maniacs
I Mother Earth - So Gently We Go
Theory of a Deadman - Nothing Could Come Between Us
Our Lady Peace - In Repair
The Tea Party - Temptation
Matthew Good Band - Invincible
Arkells - Leather Jacket
Alexisonfire - The Northern
Mother Mother - Hayloft
Finger Eleven - Thousand Mile Wish
Three Days Grace - Drown
Wide Mouth Mason - My Old Self
The Sheepdogs - I've Got a Hole Where My Heart Should Be
The Watchmen - Stereo
Treble Charger - Brand New Low
The Trews - Hold Me In Your Arms
Les respectables - Amalgame
Malajube - Montréal -40
Daniel Bélanger - La folie en quatre
Econoline Crush - You Don't Know What It's Like
Protest the Hero - Bloodmeat
Thornley - So Far So Good
City and Colour - Sleeping Sickness
Sam Roberts Band - Brother Down
Harmonium - Harmonium
Beau dommage - La complainte du phoque en Alaska
Les cowboys fringants - Plus rien
Rau_Ze - L'habitude
Alanis Morissette - Uninvited
Les colocs - Tassez-vous de d'là
Half Moon Run - Razorblade
Michael Bublé - Everything
Edwin - Trippin'
Lights - Muscle Memory
Classified - Pick Your Poison
Sweatshop Union - Oh My
K-Os - Man I Used to Be
Carmanah - Roots
Default - Wasting My Time
Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Patrick Watson - Ode to Vivian - Rework
Busty & the Bass - Common Ground
Deadmau5 - Ghosts 'n' Stuff
Coeur de pirate - Place de la république
Damien Robitaille - Je tombe
Remy Shand - Rocksteady
Jesse Cook - Fall at Your Feet
Johannes Linstead - Tides of Eden
Mes aÏeux - Dégénérations
Natalie MacMaster - Volcanic Jig
Royal Tusk - Aftermath
Stabilo - Flawed Design
Tal Bachman - She's So High
USS - Nepal
Whitehorse - Sweet Disaster

 

[Ben Grimm]

I could easily post hundreds of songs, but I will limit myself to 75 artists and one song per artist, without mentioning songs that have already been mentioned...

75! Gwen Stefani and I have "No Doubt" you're Canadian irl.

 

[phrenssoa]

75! Gwen Stefani and I have "No Doubt" you're Canadian irl.

There are so many great Canadian artists and songs that really don’t get the attention they deserve. That said I listen to a ridiculous amount of music, so I have a lot to draw from. I could probably easily give you 75 great Australian songs/artists if I had to lol.

Bruce Cockburn--Lord of the Starfields

This is a really pretty song that I had never heard before. I’m glad you mentioned it!

 

[chaos4]

Random order, with the exception of the first five...

Little Darlin - cover by the Diamonds
Deadhead- Devin Townsend
Relentless- Strapping Young Lad
Roll On Down The Highway- BTO
High Road Easy- Sass Jordan

Holiday/Slow It Down- The Watchmen
Wasn't That A Party- The Irish Rovers
The Hockey Song- Stompin Tom Connors
What I Wouldn't Do- Serena Ryder
The Weight- The Band
The Kid Is Hot Tonite- Loverboy
Wheat Kings- The Tragically Hip
Heavy/ Sawed Off Shotgun- Glorious Sons
Rusted From The Rain- Billy Talent
Closer To The Heart- Rush
You Outta Know- Alanis Morissette
I Like To Rock- April Wine
Night To Remember- Prism
You Look Good To Me- Oscar Petersen
Fight The Good Fight- Triumph
A Thin Red Line/ Here For A Good Time- Trooper
Another Sunday- I Mother Earth
Sweet Jane- Cowboy Junkies
The Messenger- The Tea Party
Three Angels- The Headstones
Heavy Metal Love- Helix
Signs- Five Man Electrical Band
Harvest Moon- Neil Young
Amanda Marshall- Let It Rain
Try- Blue Rodeo
Fat Lip- Sum 41
Break It To Them Gently- Burton Cummings
These Eyes- The Guess Who
Burn It To The Ground- Nickelback
Streetheart... Everything

I'm missing a lot...

 

[chaos4]

Oh my gawd... sorry I forgot

Keep On Lovin Me Baby- Colin James
Layin Pipe- David Wilcox
See The Light- Jeff Healey

 

[End on a Hinote]

I don’t know if you can tell in the clip but that’s clearly an authentic Canadian singing right there so I don’t know what the issue is

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Mes aÏeux - Dégénérations

Euh...

 

[phrenssoa]

Euh...

That’s pretty funny! I personally don’t mind the lyrics of that song, but generally, lyrics are not the first thing I listen for anyway. Not to mention Le réel du fossé is a fantastic fiddle tune.