26 Feb 2010: It's a Canuck-O-Rama, eh?

[Gazoo]

WOS2 Bryan Adams, speaking of annoying voices.

He's had some horrid moments, but I don't think "Cuts Like a Knife" is one of them.

[Big Fingers McGee]

I'll give a least necessary of set to Sarah McLachlan for "Possession".  I'm sure she could have found a less-overplayed song.  How about "Ice Cream", for instance?

While I still love "Possession" after all these years, I would have chose "Sweet Surrender".

[Big Fingers McGee]

Regardless of what one thinks of Bryan Adams, he probably falls into the 'quinessential' category. Of course by that logic we'd hear Corey Hart and Nickelback as well.

[RGMike]

BOS5 BNLs -- Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits!

[Davefish]

I know "One Week" has been destroyed by the radio, but it makes me very happy after those previous 3 tunes.

[Davefish]

Regardless of what one thinks of Bryan Adams, he probably falls into the 'quinessential' category. Of course by that logic we'd hear Corey Hart and Nickelback as well.

"Sunglasses at Night" would have RULED 10at10!

[RGMike]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPRHXgYVlk

[RGMike]

I know "One Week" has been destroyed by the radio, but it makes me very happy after those previous 3 tunes.

Oddly, KFOG ignored "One Week" when it was a hit, tho' Alice 97.3 played it to death. (KFOG went with the Beatlesque "It's All Been Done" instead.)

[RGMike]

Friday 2/26/10: Oh Canada!   

   1.  Joni Mitchell - Coyote
   2.  Guess Who - No Time
   3.  The Band - Chest Fever
   4.  Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
   5.  Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) (GOLD!)
   6.  Rush - Free Will (SILVER!)
   7.  Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (BRONZE!)
   8.  Sarah McLachlan - Possession
   9.  Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
  10.  Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife
(and a bonus for the Canadian exchange rate...)
  11.  Bare Naked Ladies - One Week

I totally missed the fact that AL "went to eleven" today!

[Lightnin' Rod]

I missed it, but "No Time" would have been my BOS.  I requested BTO's "Rock is my Life, This is my Song."  Didn't happen.

[urth]

k.d. lang's rendition of "Hallelujah" for the Olympics made the Hot 100 this week - only her second charter there!  I could see us getting that, if AL grabbed a copy.

(Saving for another day the question of whether the world needs another "Hallelujah.")

easily the most over-covered song of the past decade. (Even Leonard Cohen thinks so!)  But you don't really want to hear it, do you?

You can thank the late Jeff Buckley for that. It's on his Grace album, which was well received prior to his death, but lauded as a classic after as it was his last fully completed work.

So between Tinka and I, we named 10 of the 11 artists today, and Mike was first in with the one we didn't: Rush.

[urth]

It's the "other" version from the same album we don't often hear (but someone played it recently and one of us commented on that very fact)  BOS2

I see.  I really hated it.  The whole band sounds like they're overdriving their amps beyond all recognition.

That's 'cause they were. Neil wanted his fans to come out of his Rust shows saying, "MY GOD, that Neil Young show was the loudest thing I've ever heard!"

[urth]

Overall BOS for the Joni, probably because that's my all-time fave song of hers. Just love the lyrics and the phrasing and everything about it. 

Btw, fully seven songs in today's set are not previously in the DB:  Joni, Neil, Rush, Sarah M., Arcade Fire, Bryan Adams, and BNLs.

[urth]

it's pretty much all aboot playing that "all aboot Canada" clip into the ground!

who said Arcade Fire was a longshot?

OMG! "Blame Canada"  BOS4 Mrs Broflofsky!

A little editorializing from AL: "Blame Canada" ("Everything's gone wrong, since Canada came along") into the Bryan Adams song.

[ggould]

No regrets, AL. Instant BOS Joni (and proxy of gaz if he's not here).

woulda been my BOS too.  One of the all-time best albums, for so many reasons.