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My top 100 Canadian songs of all time.

 

  1. New Orleans is Sinking by a band we call the Hip
  2. Heart of Gold, Neil Young
  3. Nothing to Lose – Billy Talent. The best song ever about a kid in high school who gets picked on and keeps a notebook.
  4. American Woman – The Guess Who.
  5. Takin’ Care of Business – BTO. Uh, quintessential, indeed.
  6. Nautical Disaster by the best Canadian singer and band ever.
  7. Hasn’t Hit me Yet – Blue Rodeo
  8. Old Man - Neil Young. Canada’s greatest songwriter, on only a slightly higher echelon than Gord Downie; arguably.
  9. 4 am – Our Lady Peace. Everybody has a favorite Our Lady Peace song.
  10. Tom Sawyer- Rush.
  11. Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot
  12. We’re here for a Good time- Trooper. So have a good time, the sun can’t shine everyday. And the sun is shinin’ in this crazy city.
  13. Locked in the Trunk of a Car. A song that had nothing at all to do with Paul Bernardo.
  14. Wheat Kings- I love this band, still.
  15. Hand in Pocket – Alanis Morrissette
  16. Nobody’s Fool – the girl we call Avril
  17. Apparitions – Matthew Good
  18. Life – OLP
  19. Fifty Mission Cap –TTH
  20. You Aint Seen Nothin’ Yet – BTO
  21. Nobody’s Home – Avril Lavigne.
  22. Red Flag – BT
  23. After the Goldrush – Neil
  24. Blow at High Dough. Woah, baby! I feel fine! I’m pretty sure it’s gen-u-ine!
  25. You Oughta Know – Alanis Morrissette
  26. Take me to the Kaptin- Prism
  27. Coulda Been a Lady – April Wine
  28. Load Me Up – Matthew Good
  29. New Mother Nature/No Sugar Tonight – The Guess Who
  30. I will give you Everything - Skydiggers
  31. Naveed – OLP. Before they went pop.
  32. Starseed- OLP. I never realized before that these two titles rhyme.
  33. Hundredth Meridian – Tragically Hip
  34. One Gun – 5440
  35. Share the Land - The Guess Who
  36. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gord Lightfoot
  37. Sunday Morning– k-os
  38. Flames to Dust – Nelly Furtado.
  39. Hey Hey My My – Neil Young
  40. Up on Cripple Creek – The Band – come on, they are not technically Canadian. What does that mean, anyway?
  41. Night Flights – Max Webster
  42. Lager and Ale – Kim Mitchell. How come no one else has a song about beer and beer only?
  43. Home for a Rest - Spirit of the West
  44. Casual Viewing – 5440
  45. All I Really Want – Alanis
  46. Complicated – Avril
  47. It’s Not Funny Anymore – Crash Vegas
  48. Springtime in Vienna – Gord! ….and the Hip
  49. April Wine - Bad Side of the Moon.  
  50. Boys in the Bright White Sportscar – Trooper
  51. Cubically Contained – the Headstones
  52. Bud the Spud – Stompin’ Tom
  53. Bobcaygeon – the Hip
  54. Wake Up – Arcade Fire
  55. Hard Road – Sam Roberts
  56. Use It – New Pornographers
  57. Smile and Wave - Headstones
  58. Surfin’ on Heroin - Headpins
  59. Underwhelmed – Sloan
  60. These Eyes- The Guess Who
  61. Everything is Automatic – Matt Good
  62. Canadian Dream – Sam Roberts
  63. Sugar Mountain - Neil Young
  64. Helpless – Neil Young
  65. 38 Years Old - Hip
  66. Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
  67. Make me do Anything you Want – Foot in Coldwater
  68. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd. They also are not really Canadian.
  69. Oh What a Feeling! Lighthouse
  70. Goin’ Right Outta my head – Junkhouse
  71. Breathe – Nelly Furtado and Swollen Members
  72. Ahead by a Century – Hip
  73. Spirit of Radio - Rush
  74. Hey You - BTO
  75. Fallen Leaves – Billy Talent
  76. Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
  77. Strange Days – Matthew Good
  78. Leave – The Tragically Hip
  79. Spaceship Superstar – Prism
  80. Fireworks – The Hip
  81. Fly at Night – Chilliwack
  82. Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) – Arcade Fire
  83. I Like to Rock – April Wine
  84. Roller – April Wine
  85. One Night in Copenhagen – The Hip
  86. This Suffering - Billy Talent.
  87. Symbolistic White Walls – Matt Good
  88. New World Man – Rush
  89. I’m Like a Bird - Nelly Furtado
  90. Raise a Little Hell – Trooper
  91. Chancellor – Gord Downie
  92. Things I do for Money – Northern Pikes
  93. Till I am Myself Again – Blue Rodeo
  94. Susanne – Leonard Cohen
  95. Spinning Wheel – Blood Sweat and Tears
  96. Lines You Amend – Sloan
  97. One Day in Your Life – 5440
  98. Antichrist Television Blues – Arcade Fire
  99. Political – Spirit of the West
  100. It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken – The Tragically Hip