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Did Australia before. Let's go to Canada!

1. Grimes - Oblivion
2. The Band - The Weight
3. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away with Me
4. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
5. Joni Mitchell - Free Man in Paris
6. Shania Twain - You're Still the One
7. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
8. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
9. Avril Lavigne - Complicated
10. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
11. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
12. Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide
13. Cub - New York City
14. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
15. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier
16. Rush - 2112
17. Rush - Tom Sawyer
18. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
19. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
20. Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
21. The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face
22. Ghetto Concept - EZ on the Motion
23. Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
24. The Band - Ophelia
25. Tegan and Sara - Boyfriend
26. Feist - 1234
27. Rush - Fly by Night
28. Barenaked Ladies - A
29. Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
30. Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag

Honorable Mention: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson feat. Terrance and Phillip - O Canada
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1. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
2. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
3. Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending
4. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
5. Neil Young - Heart of Gold
6. Lindi Ortega - Little Red Boots
7. Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train
8. The Band - The Weight
9. Heather Nova - Walk This World
10. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Storm
11. Avril Lavigne - Don't Tell Me
12. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
13. Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
14. Shania Twain - You're Still the One
15. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird
16. Crash Test Dummies - Mmm, Mmm, Mmm
17. Neil Young - Old Man
18. Grimes - REALiTi
19. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
20. Celine Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore
21. Basia Bulat - Infamous
22. k. d. Lang - Constant Craving
23. Alanis Morissette - Thank You
24. Diana Krall - Let's Face the Music and Dance
25. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Complainte pur Ste. Catherine
26. Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Yet
27. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
28. Bryan Adams - Heaven
29. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now
30. Tanya Tagaq - Qimiruluapik
31. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
32. Avril Lavigne - Nobody's Home
33. Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
34. Shania Twain - Ka-Ching
35. Lindi Ortega - Lived and Died Alone
36. Tamia - Officially Missing You
37. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
38. Rufus Wainwright - Going to a Town
39. Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
40. Coeur de Pirate - Place de la République
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Neil Young has my #1 and #2 spot and so on, so instead of making it a Neil Young list, I'll make it more of a "everybody's a winner" list.

Bryan Adams – Summer of ‘69 (2nd: Heaven)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) (2nd: Wake Up)
The Band – The Weight (2nd: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
Leonard Cohen – Sisters of Mercy (2nd: Hallelujah)
Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (2nd: God Shuffled His Feet)
Celine Dion – If You Asked Me To (2nd: Where Does My Heart Beat Now)
Nelly Furtado – Say It Right (2nd: I’m Like a Bird)
Grimes – Oblivion
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
k.d. lang - Constant Craving (2nd: Save Me)
Loverboy – Working for the Weekend
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Heart Like a Wheel
Sarah McLachlan – Wait (2nd: Possession)
Joni Mitchell – Come in from the Cold (2nd: Night Ride Home)
Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want
Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
Robbie Robertson – Broken Arrow
Rush – Tom Sawyer
Snow – Informer
The Weeknd – The Hills
Neil Young – Like a Hurricane (2nd: Will to Love)
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My favorite Canadian songs if I were only allowed 1 song per artist (to keep Sarah and Arcade Fire from having half the list).

1. Sarah McLachlan – Steaming (Possession would be #3 overall)
2. Arcade Fire – Wake Up (Intervention would be #6 overall)
3. Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
4. Delerium (F/ Rani) – Fallen
5. Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On
6. The Weeknd – The Hills
7. Neil Young – Southern Man
8. The Tragically Hip – Nautical Disaster
9. Nelly Furtado – Say It Right
10. Gordon Lightfoot – If I Could Read Your Mind
11. Grimes – REALiTi
12. Crystal Castles (F/ Robert Smith) – Not in Love
13. Owen Pallett – The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
14. Rough Trade – All Touch
15. Alanis Morissette – Wake Up
16. Caribou – Back Home
17. Alvvays – Red Planet
18. The Band – The Weight
19. Drake (F/ Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem) – Forever
20. Black Mountain – Space to Bakersfield
21. Corey Hart – Sunglasses at Night
22. Nickelback – How You Remind Me
23. The Diamonds – Little Darlin’
24. Martha & the Muffins – Echo Beach
25. k.d. Lang – Constant Craving
26. Feist – My Moon, My Man
27. Austra – Beat and the Pulse
28. Joni Mitchell – River
29. Loverboy – Turn Me Loose
30. White Lung – In Your Home

(I'm sure I will edit once I realize I've missed songs by artists I'd forgotten/never knew were Canadian.)
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Yes, I like Arcade Fire... It's a little early to be totally accurate with their two new songs, but that seems about right for now.

1 | Rebellion (Lies) | Arcade Fire
2 | Wake Up | Arcade Fire
3 | Reflektor (featuring David Bowie) | Arcade Fire
4 | Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) | Arcade Fire
5 | The Weight | The Band
6 | 1234 | Feist
7 | Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) | Arcade Fire
8 | The Well and the Lighthouse | Arcade Fire
9 | Afterlife | Arcade Fire
10 | Keep the Car Running | Arcade Fire
11 | Heart of Gold | Neil Young
12 | Haiti | Arcade Fire
13 | The Suburbs | Arcade Fire
14 | Here Comes the Night Time | Arcade Fire
15 | Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) | Arcade Fire
16 | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | The Band
17 | The House That Heaven Built | Japandroids
18 | Across the Great Divide | The Band
19 | Suzanne | Leonard Cohen
20 | So Long, Marianne | Leonard Cohen
21 | Everything Now | Arcade Fire
22 | Creature Comfort | Arcade Fire
23 | Odessa | Caribou
24 | Nothing Special | IllScarlett
25 | Big Yellow Taxi | Joni Mitchell
26 | Both Sides, Now | Joni Mitchell
27 | Deep Blue | Arcade Fire
28 | Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen
29 | California | Grimes
30 | Crown of Love | Arcade Fire
31 | No Cars Go | Arcade Fire
32 | Genesis | Grimes
33 | The Circle Game | Joni Mitchell
34 | Hotline Bling | Drake
35 | You Oughta Know | Alanis Morissette
36 | (Antichrist Television Blues) | Arcade Fire
37 | Sweet Jane | Cowboy Junkies
38 | I Can't Feel My Face | The Weeknd
39 | Mushaboom | Feist
40 | Culture War | Arcade Fire
41 | Oblivion | Grimes
42 | Cowgirl in the Sand | Neil Young
43 | Ocean of Noise | Arcade Fire
44 | Powderfinger | Neil Young
45 | Can't Do Without You | Caribou
46 | We Used to Wait | Arcade Fire
47 | Ready to Start | Arcade Fire
48 | Cortez the Killer | Neil Young
49 | One Dance (featuring Wizkid & Kyla) | Drake
50 | Pinch Me | Barenaked Ladies
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No love here for the Guess Who? Or Bachman-Turner Overdrive? Not one fan of Len's "Steal My Sunshine"?

OK, we also stuck the world with Nickelback, Justin Bieber and Bobby Curtola, not to mention the absolute worst song ever, Terry Jack's "Seasons in the Sun".
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DocBrown wrote:No love here for the Guess Who? Or Bachman-Turner Overdrive? Not one fan of Len's "Steal My Sunshine"?

OK, we also stuck the world with Nickelback, Justin Bieber and Bobby Curtola, not to mention the absolute worst song ever, Terry Jack's "Seasons in the Sun".
I'll admit, I do like "Steal My Sunshine." I do enjoy "Takin' Care of Business" or "American Woman," but I wouldn't call either of them huge favorites of mine. (Apologies as well for leaving off anything by The Tragically Hip, whose work I'm not particularly familiar with). I'm actually reading The History of Canadian Rock 'n Roll, so Canadian music history has been very interesting to me as of lately.

Besides the additional badness of Snow, MAGIC!, and Simple Plan, I have to disagree on saying the worst Canadian song ever is "Seasons in the Sun." While that is a close second, top honors would probably go to "Havin' My Baby" by Paul Anka (and, apologies if I'm stepping on anyone's toes, but "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" would probably also be up there for me).
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StevieFan13 wrote:
DocBrown wrote:No love here for the Guess Who? Or Bachman-Turner Overdrive? Not one fan of Len's "Steal My Sunshine"?

OK, we also stuck the world with Nickelback, Justin Bieber and Bobby Curtola, not to mention the absolute worst song ever, Terry Jack's "Seasons in the Sun".
I'll admit, I do like "Steal My Sunshine." I do enjoy "Takin' Care of Business" or "American Woman," but I wouldn't call either of them huge favorites of mine. (Apologies as well for leaving off anything by The Tragically Hip, whose work I'm not particularly familiar with). I'm actually reading The History of Canadian Rock 'n Roll, so Canadian music history has been very interesting to me as of lately.

Besides the additional badness of Snow, MAGIC!, and Simple Plan, I have to disagree on saying the worst Canadian song ever is "Seasons in the Sun." While that is a close second, top honors would probably go to "Havin' My Baby" by Paul Anka (and, apologies if I'm stepping on anyone's toes, but "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" would probably also be up there for me).
Actually, I considered many Guess Who songs (probably would've settled on "These Eyes"). "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" just missed my original list. (I think it was #32.) I do like "Steal My Sunshine," "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," and (yes) even "Seasons in the Sun" (though, of course, I prefer Brel). To summarize something I've admitted to many times before, when it comes to music, I essentially like everything. (Though even I don't care for Anka's "Havin' My Baby.")
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According to my late aunt Paul Anka was the second greatest singer of all time (behind Jim Reeves). How could I overlook "Diana" and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"?

I will have to listen more to The Guess Who and Tragically Hip. BMT I only know from their hit "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".
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1. Neil Young Southern Man
2. The Band The Weight
3. Neil Young Heart of Gold
4. Sarah McLachlan Building a Mystery
5. The Guess Who These Eyes
6. Bachman-Turner Overdrive You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
7. The Band The Shape I'm In
8. Alanis Morissette Head Over Feet
9. The Band Stage Fright
10. Neil Young Old Man
11. Neil Young Only Love Can Break Your Heart
12. The Guess Who American Woman
13. Joni Mitchell Help Me
14. The Band King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
15. April Wine Just Between You and Me
16. Neil Young Alabama
17. The Band Don't Do It
18. Barenaked Ladies Baby Seat
19. Cowboy Junkies Musical Key
20. Barenaked Ladies Falling For the First Time
21. Alanis Morissette Ironic
22. Barenaked Ladies One Week
23. Bachman-Turner Overdrive Takin' Care of Business
24. Gordon Lightfoot If You Could Read My Mind
25. Neil Young Cowgirl in the Sand
26. Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know
27. Neil Young Cinnamon Girl
28. The Guess Who No Time
29. Neil Young Down By the River
30. Sarah McLachlan Black and White
31. Neil Young Cripple Creek Ferry
32. Sarah McLachlan Angel
33. Barenaked Ladies Alcohol
34. Sarah McLachlan Do What You Have to Do
35. Barenaked Ladies It's All Been Done
36. Sarah McLachlan Adia
37. Barenaked Ladies Pinch Me
38. Sarah McLachlan Fallen
39. Cowboy Junkies Speaking Confidentially
40. Alanis Morissette Hand In My Pocket
41. Cowboy Junkies Hold On To Me
42. Bran Van 3000 Astounded
43. Cowboy Junkies Something More Besides You
44. Arcade Fire Keep the Car Running
45. Rush Tom Sawyer
46. Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now
47. Sarah McLachlan Witness
48. The Guess Who Hand Me Down World
49. Sarah McLachlan I Will Remember You
50. Rush Working Man

51. Sarah McLachlan Stupid
52. Neil Young When You Dance You Can Really Love
53. Joni Mitchell Raised On Robbery
54. Neil Young Till the Morning Comes
55. Celine Dion It's All Coming Back to Me Now
56. Neil Young Goin' Back
57. Barenaked Ladies Humor of the Situation
58. Neil Young Birds
59. Bachman-Turner Overdrive Let It Ride
60. Avril Lavigne My Happy Ending
61. Alanis Morissette What If God Was One of Us
62. Arcade Fire Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
63. Neil Young Don't Let It Bring You Down
64. Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On
65. Arcade Fire The Suburbs
66. Shania Twain You're Still the One
67. k.d. Lang Constant Craving
68. Joni Mitchell Free Man In Paris
69. Neil Young After the Gold Rush
70. Arcade Fire Rebellion (Lies)
71. Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi
72. Arcade Fire Reflektor
73. The Guess Who Do You Miss Me Darlin'
74. The Band Rag Mama Rag
75. The Guess Who Share the Land
76. The Band Chest Fever
77. The Guess Who Bus Rider
78. Shania Twain That Don't Impress Me Much
79. The Guess Who Undun
80. Shania Twain Man I Feel Like a Woman
81. The Guess Who No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature
82. Sarah McLachlan I Love You
83. The Guess Who Laughing
84. Sarah McLachlan Love Come
85. Rush Jacob's Ladder
86. Sarah McLachlan U Want Me 2
87. Rush Limelight
88. Sarah McLachlan Forgiveness
89. Rush YYZ
90. Sarah McLachlan Awakenings
91. Rush Subdivisions
92. Sarah McLachlan World On Fire
93. Rush Freewill
94. Rufus Wainwright Go or Go Ahead
95. Neil Young Peaceful Valley Boulevard
96. Rufus Wainwright Nobody's Off the Hook
97. Joni Mitchell Twisted
98. Neil Young Out On the Weekend
99. Joni Mitchell Trouble Child
100. Neil Young I Believe In You

101. Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train
102. Neil Young Comes a Time
103. Joni Mitchell Coyote
104. Gordon Lightfoot Carefree Highway
105. Joni Mitchell Car On a Hill
106. Celine Dion Because You Loved Me
107. Barenaked Ladies Call and Answer
108. Celine Dion Dreamin' of You
109. Barenaked Ladies Leave
110. Celine Dion Make You Happy
111. Barenaked Ladies Helicopters
112. Barenaked Ladies Off the Hook
113. Avril Lavigne Things I'll Never Say
114. Barenaked Ladies Conventioneers
115. Avril Lavigne Fall to Pieces
116. Barenaked Ladies Go Home
117. Avril Lavigne Anything But Ordinary
118. Barenaked Ladies Too Little Too Late
119. Arcade Fire We Exist
120. Alanis Morissette Right Through You
121. Arcade Fire Wasted Hours
122. Paul Anka Put Your Head On My Shoulder
123. Arcade Fire Modern Man
124. Nelly Furtado Childhood Dreams
125. Arcade Fire Deep Blue
126. Grimes Flesh without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream
127. Arcade Fire City With No Children
128. Godspeed You! Black Emperor Piss Crowns Are Trebled
129. Arcade Fire Afterlife
130. Cowboy Junkies Small Swift Birds
131. Avril Lavigne Complicated
132. Cowboy Junkies The Summer of Discontent
133. Loverboy Working For the Weekend
134. Cowboy Junkies Just Want To See
135. Stampeders Sweet City Woman
136. Cowboy Junkies Come Calling (His Song)
137. The Band Tears of Rage
138. Five Man Electrical Band Signs
139. Destroyer Chinatown
140. Arcade Fire We Used to Wait
141. Rush The Spirit of the Radio
142. Arcade Fire Suburban War
143. Alannah Myles Black Velvet
144. Gordon Lightfoot Sundown
145. Anne Murray Snowbird
146. Neil Young My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
147. The Band I Shall Be Released
148. Gordon Lightfoot The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
149. Arcade Fire No Cars Go
150. The New Pornographers Letter from an Occupant

151. Bryan Adams Summer of '69
152. Arcade Fire Ready to Start
153. Grimes Genesis
154. The Band Up On Cripple Creek
155. Crystal Castles Not In Love
156. Feist 1234
157. Arcade Fire Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
158. Neil Young Like A Hurricane
159. The Band The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
160. Neil Young Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
161. Grimes Oblivion
162. Neil Young Cortez the Killer
163. Arcade Fire Wake Up
164. Leonard Cohen Sisters of Mercy
165. Women Eyesore
166. The Weeknd Wicked Games
167. Corey Hart Sunglasses at Night
168. Godspeed You! Black Emperor Storm
169. The Russian Futurists Let's Get Ready to Crumble
170. Sarah McLachlan Possession
171. Blue Rodeo Try
172. Majical Cloudz Childhood's End
173. Sloan Money City Maniacs
174. Doughboys Shine
175. Junior Boys Banana Ripple
176. Junior Boys Teach Me How To Fight
177. Cowboy Junkies Sweet Jane
178. Neil Young Sugar Mountain
179. The Band Unfaithful Servant
180. Kiesza Hideway
181. Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio
182. The New Pornographers War on the East Coast
183. Tegan and Sarah Closer
184. The Band Across the Great Divide
185. Neil Young Ambulance Blues
186. Neil Young Walk On
187. Sloan Coax Me
188. Crash Test Dummies Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
189. Neil Young Harvest Moon
190. Broken Social Scene 7/4 (Shoreline)
191. The New Pornographers The Laws Have Changed
192. Crystal Castles Celestica
193. Neil Young A Man Needs a Maid
194. The Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now
195. Stars Your Ex-Lover is Dead
196. Neil Young Pocahontas
197. Feist My Moon My Man
198. Broken Social Scene Cause = Time
199. Caribou Melody Day
200. Tom Cochrane Life Is A Highway

201. Grimes Go
202. Crystal Castles Crimewave
203. Arcade Fire Intervention
204. Neil Young The Needle and the Damage Done
205. Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun
206. Destroyer Kaputt
207. Joni Mitchell A Case of You
208. Alvvays Archie, Marry Me
209. Martha and the Muffins Echo Beach
210. Arcade Fire Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
211. Carly Rae Jepsen Call Me Maybe
212. Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
213. Neil Young Rockin' In the Free World
214. Leonard Cohen Suzanne
215. Caribou Odessa
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On the 150th anniversary of Canada, here's my list:

1- Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
2- Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
3- Crystal Castles - Not In Love
4- Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
5- Neil Young - Southern Man
6- Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait
7- Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
8- Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
9- Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight
10- Arcade Fire - Modern Man
11- Leonard Cohen - Master Song
12- Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
13- Neil Young - Old Man
14- Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
15- Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
16- Joni Mitchell - River
17- Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand
18- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
19- Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
20- Arcade Fire - Wake Up
21- Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
22- The Band - The Weight
23- Neil Young - Heart of Gold
24- Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
25- Rush - Fly By Night
26- Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
27- Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
28- The Guess Who - American Woman
29- Arcade Fire - In the Backseat
30- Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
31- Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
32- Rush - Limelight
33- Drake - One Dance
34- Joni Mitchell - A Strange Boy
35- Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
36- Leonard Cohen - Teachers
37- Joni Mitchell - Carey
38- Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
39- Arcade Fire - Reflektor
40- The Band - Up On Cripple Creek

Just missed:
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
Drake - Know Yourself

Yes, too much of my list in Neil Young and Arcade Fire. But Canada, in my opinion has its "Big 4" (NY, AF, Joni and Leonard Cohen), so they deserve all the representation they get.
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Since ListyGuy reminded me that today is the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the British North America Act, I guess I should stretch to 150 songs...

1 Joni Mitchell | River
2 Neil Young | Ohio
3 Stars | Your Ex-lover Is Dead
4 Neil Young | Cinnamon Girl
5 The Tragically Hip | New Orleans Is Sinking
6 k.d. lang | Hallelujah
7 Dan Mangan | Basket
8 Basia Bulat | Tall Tall Shadow
9 The Tragically Hip | Nautical Disaster
10 Barenaked Ladies | The Old Apartment
11 Cowboy Junkies | Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
12 Joni Mitchell | The Last Time I Saw Richard
13 The Weakerthans | One Great City!
14 Alejandra Ribeira | Goodnight Persephone
15 The Band | The Weight
16 Arcade Fire | Wake Up
17 Joni Mitchell | Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
18 Dan Mangan | The Indie Queens Are Waiting
19 Arcade Fire | Keep the Car Running
20 Joni Mitchell | For Free
21 The New Pornographers | Sing Me Spanish Techno
22 Cold Specks | Blank Maps
23 Neil Young | Heart of Gold
24 Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra | Austerity Blues
25 Leonard Cohen | Suzanne
26 Oscar Peterson Trio | Night Train
27 Tanya Tagaq | Umingmak
28 Joni Mitchell | Help Me
29 Arcade Fire |No Cars Go
30 Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Storm
31 Neil Young | The Needle and the Damage Done
32 Japandroids | The House That Heaven Built
33 Arcade Fire | We Used to Wait
34 Holly Cole | I Told Him My Dog Wouldn't;t Run
35 Arcade Fire | Ready to Start
36 Bedouin Soundclash | Mountaintop
37 Joni Mitchell | You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio
38 USS | N/A OK
39 Neil Young | Old Man
40 Bruce Cockburn | Wondering Where the Lions Are
41 Alanis Morissette | You Oughta Know
42 Stars | Take Me to the Riot
43 Chantal Kreviazuk | Surrounded
44 Dan Mangan | About as Helpful as You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All
45 Metric | Help I'm Alive
46 Joni Mitchell | Coyote
47 Our Lady Peace | Clumsy
48 Eric's Trip | Stove
49 Mother Mother | Hayloft
50 The Band | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
51 Neil Young | Powderfinger
52 The New Pornographers | Entering White Cecilia
53 Jann Arden | Unloved
54 Melissa Auf der Mar | Follow the Waves
55 Rough Trade | High School Confidential
56 Leonard Cohen | Who By Fire
57 Barenaked Ladies | What a Good Boy
58 Joni Mitchell | California
59 Amanda Marshall | Birmingham
60 Kim Mitchell | Patio Lanterns
61 A Foot in Coldwater | Make Me Do Anything You Want
62 Alejandra Ribeira | I Want
63 Death From Above 1979 | Romantic Rights
64 The Tragically Hip | Bobcaygeon
65 Tegan and Sara | Walking With a Ghost
66 Arcade Fire | Rebellion (Lies)
67 Neil Young | Rockin' in the Free World
68 Bran Van 3000 | Drinking in L.A.
69 Hollerado | Juliette
70 Joni Mitchell | Big Yellow Taxi
71 Barenaked Ladies | Jane
72 Sarah MacLachlan | The Path of Thorns (Terms)
73 Alanis Morissette | Uninvited
74 Rock and Hyde | Dirty Water
75 Martha and the Muffins | Echo Beach
76 Bif Naked | Daddy's Getting Married
77 k.d. lang and Jane Siberry | Calling All Angels
78 Arcade Fire | Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
79 Sarah MacLachlan | Hold On
80 Tokyo Police Club | Your English Is Good
81 Sloan | Coax Me
82 Jane Siberry | Mimi on the Beach
83 Feist | 1234
84 Social Code | Bomb Hands
85 The Trews | Not Ready to Go
86 Alannah Myles | Black Velvet
87 Neil Young | Down by the River
88 Cowboy Junkies | A Horse in the Country
89 Metric | Youth Without Youth
90 Arcade Fire | Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
91 Long John Baldry | A Thrill's a Thrill
92 Parachute Club | Rise Up
93 The Band | Up on Cripple Creek
94 Joni Mitchell | The Magdalene Laundries
95 The Provincial Archives | Church Clothes
96 The New Pornographers | All the Old Showstoppers
97 Bruce Cockburn | Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long
98 Steph Cameron | Young and Living Free
99 Robbie Robertson | Broken Arrow
100 Nuela Charles | Unfortunate Love
101 Big Wreck | That Song
102 The Wet Secrets | Secret March
103 Mae Moore | Pleasure Grounds
104 The Guess Who | These Eyes
105 The Cowboy Junkies | Speaking Confidentially
106 The Tragically Hip | At the Hundredth Meridian
107 Crash Test Dummies | Afternoons and Coffeespoons
108 Chantal Kreviazuk | M
109 The Weakerthans | Sun in an Empty Room
110 k.d. lang | Turn Me Round
111 Lighthouse | Sweet Lullaby
112 Nelly Furtado | I'm Like a Bird
113 Broken Social Scene | 7/4 Shoreline
114 Rush | Lakeside Park
115 Leonard Cohen | First We Take Manhattan
116 Neil Young | Hey, Hey, My, My (Out of the Blue)
117 Sarah MacLachlan | Building a Mystery
118 k.d. lang | Constant Craving
119 Nickelback | How You Remind Me
120 Buddy and the Boys | Working at the Woolco Management Trainee Blues
121 Sloan | Underwhelmed
122 Susan Aglukark | O Siem
123 Gordon Lightfoot | Black Day in July
124 Ian and Sylvia Tyson | Four Strong Winds
125 The Rural Alberta Advantage | Tornado '87
126 Metric | Poster of a Girl
127 Alexisonfire | This Could Be Anywhere in the World
128 Sam Roberts Band | Brother Down
129 Mobile | See Right Through Me
130 Library Voices | Regina I Don't Want to Fight
131 John K. Samson | When I Write My Master's Thesis
132 Ko | This Life (Punches)
133 The Guess Who | American Woman
134 The New Pornographers | Letter From an Occupant
135 Stampeders | Sweet City Woman
136 Five Man Electrical Band | Signs
137 The Tragically Hip | Wheat Kings
138 Bruce Cockburn | If I Had a Rocket Launcher
139 Jane Siberry | One More Colour
140 Max Webster | High Class in Borrowed Shoes
141 Powder Blues | Doin' It Right
142 Payola$ | Where Is This Love
143 Corey Hart | Boy in the Box
144 Kim Mitchell | Go For a Soda
145 Julie Doiron | Who Will Be the One
146 Cowboy Junkies | Miles From Our Home
147 Joni Mitchell | Free Man in Paris
148 Bachman Turner Overdrive | Looking Out for Number One
149 Barenaked Ladies | If I Had a Million Dollars
150 The Tragically Hip | Coffee Girl
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Re: Favorite Canadian songs

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Collectors - Lydia Purple
Chilliwack - Fly at Night (In the Morning We Land)
Sara Craig - Mr. Right
Klaatu - Around the Universe in Eighty Days
New Pornographers - These Are The Fables
Ashley Park - The Great Divide
A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug
Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
Chilliwack - Baby Blue
April wine - I'd Rather Be Strong
Zeus - The Renegade
Miracle Fortress - Sacred Flowers
Trooper - General Hand Grenade
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Rheostatics - Rain, Rain, Rain
High Dials - Winter Ghosts
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Gordon Lightfoot - Don Quixote
Klaatu - Everybody Took A Holiday
Transistor Sound & Lighting Co. - House Of Sleep
Zeus - How Does It Feel?
Klaatu - The Loneliest of Creatures / Prelude
New Pornographers - The Jessica Numbers
Rheostatics - Beerbash
Gruesomes - You Gotta Believe Me
New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature
Zeus - I Know
Neil Young - Down by the River
Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes
Winks - Abalone
New Pornographers - The Bones of an Idol
Klaatu - Sub Rosa Subway
Destroyer - New Ways of Living
Broken Social Scene - Cause=Time
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Zeus - Are You Gonna' Waste My Time?
49th Parallel - Laborer
Zeus - Kindergarten
Sadies - Anna Leigh
Arcade Fire - Intervention
Klaatu - Long Live Politzania
Chilliwack - Arms Of Mary
Transistor Sound & Lighting Co. - Crayola
Great Lake Swimmers - River's Edge
Jim Guthrie - Hands In My Pocket
Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire
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Re: Favorite Canadian songs

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Zombeels wrote: April wine - I'd Rather Be Strong
I didn't realize that April Wine was Canadian until I saw your list. Thanks! Now I've added "Just Between You and Me" to my list :greetings-waveyellow:
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Re: Favorite Canadian songs

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More great Canadian songs

Doug and The Slugs - Too Bad
Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand
Chilliwack - The Fields and the Sea
Pink Mountaintops - Holiday
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A.
Neil Young - Lotta Love
April Wine - Bad Side of the Moon
Great Lake Swimmers - Great Lake Swimmers
Harlequin - Thinking Of You
Zeus - You Gotta Tell'er
New Pornographers - Breakin' the Law
Ox - Surrender
Doug and The Slugs - Real Enough
Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary
Tegan and Sara - Call It Off
April Wine - Weeping Widow
Valdy - Rock And Roll Song
Unicorns - Emasculate the Masculine
Klaatu - Little Neutrino
April Wine - Oowatanite
Klaatu - We're Off You Know
April Wine - Fast Train
Woodpigeon - Knock Knock
Guess Who - No Time
Chilliwack - Rain-O
Gowan - Moonlight Desires
Guess Who - Undun
54-40 - In Your Image
Hashimoto - Hey Potato (single version)
Barenaked Ladies - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
Joni - Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Five Man Electrical Band - Signs
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun
Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental
Feist - Mushaboom
Most Serene Republic - In Places, Empty Spaces
Barenaked Ladies - Pinch Me
Klaatu - Perpetual Motion Machine
Lindi Ortega - Tin Star
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now
Odds - Eat My Brain
Gordon Lightfoot - Cotton Jenny
54-40 - One Gun
Tom Northcott - The Rain Maker
Loreena McKennitt - Courtyard Lullaby
Stampeders - Hit The Road Jack
Gandharvas - Downtime
Red Rider - White Hot
Fludd - Turned 21
Sloan - The Lines You Amend
Lovely Feathers - Icebergs
Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World
April Wine - Farkus / You Could Have Been a Lady
Grapes of Wrath - You May Be Right
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