100 Best Canadian Songs Ever (CBC Radio, 2014)

Compiled by CBC Radio, this is one of those charts that include everything. No, really: everything. Here you'll find Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, The Band and Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire and The New Pornographers, Feist and Metric, k.d. lang and Sarah McLachlan, Paul Anka and Celine Dion, Bruce Cockburn and Bryan Adams, Alanis Morissette and Shania Twain, Japandroids and Death From Above 1979, Carly Rae Jepsen and Nelly Furtado, Steppenwolf and The Guess Who, Drake and Grimes, Ron Sexsmith and Rufus Wainwright, Stars and Broken Social Scene, Avril Lavigne and Nickelback. And many more. Even some artists that you forgot (well, I forgot) to be Canadians. Maybe the critic inside you could rate it not a 100% quality collection, but I think it's a really nice & light one. Listen to it in this Spotify playlist and/or go to CBC for some stats and a messy & mutant 4-minute YouTube mash up of the Top 100.

Enjoy!

100 BEST CANADIAN SONGS EVER

(CBC Radio, 2014, from #1 to #100)

Full list

Strikethrough tracks (11/100) are not available on Spotify. Some tracks may be not available in all countries.

1. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now
2. Neil Young - Helpless
3. The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings
4. The Band - The Weight
5. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
6. The Guess Who - American Woman
7. Rush - Tom Sawyer
8. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
9. Feist - Mushaboom
10. Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide
11. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
12. Bryan Adams - Summer of ‘69
13. Ian & Sylvia - Four Strong Winds
14. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier
15. Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
16. Blue Rodeo - Lost Together
17. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
18. Sloan - Coax Me
19. Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done
20. k.d. lang - Constant Craving
21. The Guess Who - These Eyes
22. Joel Plaskett - Nowhere With You
23. Joni Mitchell - River
24. Anne Murray - Snowbird
25. Emm Gryner - Une Canadien Errant (A Wandering Canadian)
26. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
27. Neil Young - Old Man
28. Daniel Lanois - The Maker
29. Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
30. The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster
31. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
32. Rascalz - Northern Touch
33. Shania Twain - You’re Still the One
34. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business
35. Stompin’ Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night
36. Tom Cochrane - Life Is a Highway
37. Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers
38. Sarah Harmer - Basement Apt.
39. Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Log Driver’s Waltz
40. Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
41. Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
42. Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Bombastic Jazz Style
43. Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
44. Tegan and Sara - Walking With a Ghost
45. Shad - The Old Prince Still Lives At Home
46. Harmonium - Pour an Instant
47. The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
48. Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month
49. Paul Anka - Diana
50. Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
51. Drake - Marvin’s Room
52. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
53. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
54. Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop
55. The Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson
56. Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
57. Blue Rodeo - Hasn’t Hit Me Yet
58. Sloan - Underwhelmed
59. The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
60. Constantines - Young Lions
61. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
62. 54 – 40 - I Go Blind
63. Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
64. Diane Dufresne - J'ai rencontré l'homme de ma vie
65. Nelly Furtado - I’m Like a Bird
66. Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
67. Loverboy - Workin’ For the Weekend
68. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
69. Stars - Your Ex-lover Is Dead
70. Ron Sexsmith - Strawberry Blonde
71. Hank Snow - I’m Moving On
72. Avril Lavigne - Complicated
73. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
74. Nickelback - How You Remind Me
75. Dan Mangan - Row of Houses
76. Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
77. Grimes - Oblivion
78. Thrush Hermit - The Day We Hit the Coast
79. Sam Roberts Band - Brother Down
80. Glass Tiger - Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone
81. Metric - Monster Hospital
82. Coeur de pirate - Place de la république
83. Rheostatics - A Bad Time To Be Poor
84. Patrick Watson - The Great Escape
85. Trooper - We’re Here For a Good Time
86. K-os - Heaven Only Knows
87. Kathleen Edwards - Change the Sheets
88. Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk
89. Jann Arden - Insensitive
90. Jack Scott - The Way I Walk
91. Spoons - Nova Heart
92. Terry Jacks - Seasons In the Sun
93. Karkwa - Les Chemins de verre
94. Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
95. Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
96. Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
97. Corb Lund - Five Dollar Bill
98. Kardinal Offishall - Bakardi Slang
99. The Pursuit of Happiness - I’m an Adult Now
100. Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City

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The Polaris Music Prize Spotify Encyclopedia

('Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! cover!)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! won the Polaris Music Prize 2013, "an annual award given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales or record label". Their statement of appreciation was not so appreciating. Anyway, in this month-long wait for the new album of another well-known (but not very spotify-friendly) Canadian band, I decided to update some previous playlists I made about the Polaris Prize. And I added two new ones!

So:

playlist #1(the new one): all winning albums from 2006 to 2013.
playlist #2 (the other new one): all shortlisted 2013 albums, just to catch the Canadian sound of the year

playlist #3 (updated): mammoth with all shortlisted albums from 2006 to 2013

playlist #4 (updated): mammoth lite, with three songs each shortlisted album from 2006 to 2013

Enjoy!

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE WINNERS (2006-2013)

(two albums missing: Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs)

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED ALBUMS

(all 10 albums, bingo!)

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED ALBUMS (2006-2013)

(full albums / 927 songs)

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED ALBUMS (2006-2013)

(3-tracks each album / 237 songs)

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Polaris Music Prize 2006-2011

My personal Photoshop disaster

Arcade Fire's music is on Spotify, the full catalogue! Let's celebrate with the update of Polaris Music Prize playlists. As Wikipedia says, "the Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize". Last year I made two playlists, based on all the shortlisted albums for this award. Now, I added the 2011 shortlisted albums, including the winning one, that by chance is Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. Enjoy!

P.S. I don't wanna think of how many other 2010 playlists should I update...

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POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE 2006-2011
Source: Polaris Music Prize.
Albums available on Spotify: 58/60 (96,66%)

2006
Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds (winners!)
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
Cadence Weapon – Breaking Kayfabe
The Deadly Snakes – Porcella
Sarah Harmer – I'm a Mountain
K'naan – The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Malajube – Trompe-l'oeil
Metric – Live It Out
The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary

2007
Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise (winner!)
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
The Dears - Gang of Losers
Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
Feist - The Reminder
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection

2008
Caribou - Andorra (winners!)
Black Mountain - In the Future
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
Holy Fuck - LP
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Shad - The Old Prince
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

2009
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life (winners!)
Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood)
K'naan - Troubadour
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Metric - Fantasies
Joel Plaskett - Three (actually, the condensed three-albums-in-one version)
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms

2010
Karkwa - Les Chemins de verre (winners!)
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Caribou - Swim
Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal
The Sadies - Darker Circles
Shad - TSOL
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood

2011
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (winners!)
Austra - Feel It Break
Braids - Native Speaker
Destroyer - Kaputt
Galaxie - Tigre et diesel
Hey Rosetta! - Seeds
Ron Sexsmith - Long Player Late Boomer
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
The Weeknd - House of Balloons

Listen to it on Spotify:
mammoth (full albums): HTTP Link, URI. (SR0221)
lite (3 tracks each album) HTTP Link, URI. (SR0222)

Polaris Music Prize 2006-2010 - Plenty of good young Canadian music

Karkwa: "we just won Polaris 2010 but we're not on Spotify, (canadian) d'oh!"

ACHTUNG! THESE PLAYLISTS HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN 2011. NEW VERSIONS HERE.

I just saw a movie called Frozen. Two boys and a girl stranded on a chairlift, halfway up the mountain, with none caring about them but some wolves, well... hungry like wolves. Chilling. So I decided that tonight playlist is coming from a cold country, full of wolves (I guess), chairlifts (I guess, again: they just hosted Winter Olympics!) and great rock band (I'm definitely sure). A North-American one. Not US. Yep, you got it. The other one.

From Wikipedia:

"The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize".

Deaf to the evil call of money, as usual, this Spotirama couple of playlists will involve not only the lucky winners but all the shortlisted albums in the first five years of Polaris Music Prize. First one is the mammoth, with full albums. Second one is the lite, with just three songs each album. Recently, canadian people recorded a lot of great music. Here you have a fine selection. Enjoy!

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THE PLAYLISTS

ACHTUNG! THESE PLAYLISTS HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN 2011. NEW VERSIONS HERE.

2006
Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds (winners!)
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
Cadence Weapon – Breaking Kayfabe
The Deadly Snakes – Porcella
Sarah Harmer – I'm a Mountain
K'naan – The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Malajube – Trompe-l'oeil
Metric – Live It Out
The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary

2007
Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise (winner!)
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
The Dears - Gang of Losers
Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
Feist - The Reminder
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection

2008
Caribou - Andorra (winners!)
Black Mountain - In the Future
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
Holy Fuck - LP
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Shad - The Old Prince
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

2009
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life (winners!)
Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood)
K'naan - Troubadour
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Metric - Fantasies
Joel Plaskett - Three (actually, the condensed three-albums-in-one version)
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms

2010
Karkwa - Les Chemins de verre (winners!)
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Caribou - Swim
Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal
The Sadies - Darker Circles
Shad - TSOL
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood


ACHTUNG! THESE PLAYLISTS HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN 2011. NEW VERSIONS HERE.

The Mammoth (37 full albums out of 50, 74%, 427 tracks, about 1 day)

Listen to it on Spotify: HTTP Link, URI. (SR0221)

The Lite (111 tracks, three each album, about 7 hours)

Listen to it on Spotify: HTTP Link, URI. (SR0222)