All The President's iPods
CBC radio conducted a pole to select songs President Obama should include on his iPod that give him a flavor of Canada. For the most part I am in agreement with what they came up with (an early draft had no Quebec content).
I would only add this... if you want to understand the Quebec soul, you should look no further than Les Cowboys Fringants, La Grand-Messe. It's inexplicable why this is absent from consideration.
Here are the final 49 (49th parallel... get it?):
The Arrogant Worms: Canada's Really Big
Barenaked Ladies: If I Had $1,000,000
Beau Dommage: La complainte du phoque en Alaska
Daniel Bélanger: Rêver mieux
Measha Brueggergosman: I'm Going Up a Yonder
Michael Bublé: Home
Bruce Cockburn: Wondering Where the Lions Are
Leonard Cohen: Democracy
Leonard Cohen: Suzanne
Jesse Cook: Mario Takes a Walk
James Ehnes: Barber Violin Concerto
Glenn Gould: Goldberg Variations
Great Big Sea: Ordinary Day
The Guess Who: American Woman
Harmonium: Pour un instant
Ben Heppner: We'll Gather Lilacs
Ian & Sylvia: Four Strong Winds
Karkwa: Oublie pas
Moe Koffman: Swingin' Shepherd Blues
Diana Krall: Departure Bay
k.d. lang: Hallelujah
Daniel Lanois: Jolie Louise
Daniel Lavoie: J'ai quitté mon île
Raymond Lévesque: Quand les hommes vivront d'amour
Gordon Lightfoot: Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Gordon Lightfoot: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Malajube: Montréal -40°C
Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell: A Case of You
Mes Aïeux: Dégénérations
Marjan Mozetich: Affairs of the Heart
Parachute Club: Rise Up
Oscar Peterson Trio: Hymn to Freedom
Oscar Peterson: Place St. Henri (from Canadiana Suite)
The Rankin Family: Rise Again
Sam Roberts: The Canadian Dream
Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage
Rush: Closer to the Heart
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Universal Soldier
Shad: Brother (Watching)
Stompin' Tom Connors: The Hockey Song
Marie-Jo Thério: Évangeline
The Tragically Hip: Wheat Kings
The Tragically Hip: Bobcaygeon
Gilles Vigneault: Mon pays
The Weakerthans: One Great City!
Neil Young: Rockin' in the Free World
Neil Young: Helpless
posted by John Allore @ 1/21/2009 06:17:00 AM
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