Music from your part of Canada

[JMacQueen 0]

Being born and raised in Halifax, my answer, although it's already been said, is Barrett's Privateers.

[Carlawarla 1]

Running Back to Saskatoon....The Guess Who

Try...Blue Rodeo

5 Long Years.... Colin James

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLbsTpuYC0I

Big Yellow Taxi....Joni Mitchell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVpCfPAog4...feature=related

[MissStacey 1]

I love the song "Waiting in Canada" by Jann Arden.

Edited July 2, 2008 by MissStacey

[carslo 0]

A song we sing at GIrl Guides with the lyric "they all call it Canada, but I call it home."

Janet

[trailmix 77]

I love the song "Waiting in Canada" by Jann Arden.

Love Jann Arden

I was just reading some of her journal online, she is so honest and her writing, to me, is a mix of poetry and 'realness' and such great humour.

"More on words…they can kill people when used without wisdom and knowledge. When they are not kind, they are like jagged blades that cause wounds that seldom, if ever, heal. It never ceases to amaze me how some people have absolutely no sense of responsibility. They see themselves with halos over their heads. They do not see what everybody else sees. They see what they want to see, however distorted that is. Everybody else is wrong. Everybody else is dumb. Everybody else hasn’t got a clue. Life for them is a tunnel. Nothing exists other than what they create and control. It is a sickness. The closer you get to these people, the easier it becomes to get sucked up like you’re in the middle of a tornado, the kind that ate Dorothy and the dog and the whole damn house".

and

"It was well after 2 in the morning and not a soul was around, and I'd had a few glasses of white wine...well, maybe 4 glasses, but no more than 6 small ones. I had my shorts and my T-shirt and my underwear in my hand and I ran like hell laughing my fool head off. I thought someone was running behind me, but it was only my breasts slapping together. Hey, when you've had enough wine, nothing seems to faze you or your breasts. It felt wonderful. It felt like I was the only person on the planet. It's one of those things that I can't believe that I did. I may have to do it again".

[Krikit 1,165]

I like Jann Arden too. The running-with-your-breasts comment reminded me of the girls weekend I had at the cottage. We had also had our wine and about 10pm decided to go swimming/skinny-dipping down at the beach. When we were getting ready to go back, my girlfriend started accusing us of hiding her clothes. (She had carried them with her.) Well we hunted and we hunted but we couldn't find anything in the dark, so we finally headed back with Arlene in tow, mad as all getout. As we were walking along, my daughter sees something on the road, picks it up and holds it out to Arlene and says "Are these what you're looking for?" OMG, I miss my girls' weekend days.

[SpiritAlight 1]

Definitely Jann Arden.

and

Anything by:

Sarah McLaughlin

Tragically Hip

Sarah Harmer

there are so many...these were just off the top of my head.

And for whatever reason, although not Canadian:

R.E.M. (Athens, GA)

Jack Johnson (Hawai'i)

Ben Harper (California)

music always make me homesick.

It's where you first listened to songs sometimes...

mmmmm.

[SpiritAlight 1]

I love the song "Waiting in Canada" by Jann Arden.

Love Jann Arden

I was just reading some of her journal online, she is so honest and her writing, to me, is a mix of poetry and 'realness' and such great humour.

"More on words…they can kill people when used without wisdom and knowledge. When they are not kind, they are like jagged blades that cause wounds that seldom, if ever, heal. It never ceases to amaze me how some people have absolutely no sense of responsibility. They see themselves with halos over their heads. They do not see what everybody else sees. They see what they want to see, however distorted that is. Everybody else is wrong. Everybody else is dumb. Everybody else hasn’t got a clue. Life for them is a tunnel. Nothing exists other than what they create and control. It is a sickness. The closer you get to these people, the easier it becomes to get sucked up like you’re in the middle of a tornado, the kind that ate Dorothy and the dog and the whole damn house".

and

"It was well after 2 in the morning and not a soul was around, and I'd had a few glasses of white wine...well, maybe 4 glasses, but no more than 6 small ones. I had my shorts and my T-shirt and my underwear in my hand and I ran like hell laughing my fool head off. I thought someone was running behind me, but it was only my breasts slapping together. Hey, when you've had enough wine, nothing seems to faze you or your breasts. It felt wonderful. It felt like I was the only person on the planet. It's one of those things that I can't believe that I did. I may have to do it again".

I absolutely LOVE this writing....this emotion...this brutal honesty.

Thank you for posting it.

[thetreble 19]

####### Spiritalight, you JUST made me think of the ULTIMATE song that reminds me of where I'm from and makes my heart thump.

The Tragically Hip= Bobcaygeon. My roommate from university and I, her from Alberta and I from Ontario, had a lot to learn about each other in our first year. One day early on into our living together, she had put on some music. She loved her country, and I my rock. All of a sudden she put on Bobcaygeon and when the lyric "That night in Toronto, with it's checkerboard floors...riding on horseback and keeping order restored..." we both sung it as loud as we can. We have been best friends every since.

I love that memory.l

[Krikit 1,165]

I agree. There are soooooooooooo many great songs and artists that remind me of Canada. Makes me homesick. Speaking of The Hip.... my cousin has a b&w picture of her and her husband in front of their old house. They're standing in the garden wearing overalls and have a pitchfork and a shovel in their hand..... kinda posed like that American master painting.... can't recall the name of it. Anyway... their friend made a frame for it and wrote some of the words from Ahead by a Century around the frame...... "First we'd climb a tree and maybe then we'd talk...." it's an awesome pic.

[Fuzzness 2]

Farewell to Nova Scotia fer sure

also as Kathryn said, anything by Stan Rogers

also, anything by stompin tom

[thetreble 19]

Just a side note about Stompin tom- At my wedding, I had the DJ get the good old hockey game pre-wedding as a surprise to all my canadian guests. It was a huge hit.

[Allie 5]

With all the recording artists and fine music from Cape Breton Island it's a tough choice. I guess anything from the Rankin Family or Matt Minglewood will do

[Reba 2]

#1 Without a doubt - Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest - about as Canadian as it gets b'y! No matter who sings it! (Enter the Haggis does it at their live gigs, even way down here in Asheville NC, and even though I may be the only Canadian in the audience, by george I feel at home for just a few minutes! And that's sayin something!)

Speaking of Enter the Haggis (awesome Toronto Celtic fusion band) they have a song called Long Way Home that never fails to make me cry and feel homesick. I even told them so one time I saw them up in Asheville

Anything by The Hip.

And The Tea Party (shame they broke up)

Gods...I have sooooooooo much Canadian music in my collection (of course...d'uh!) that all of it makes me think of home.

oh oh oh! The Arrogant Worms! Brilliant. Gotta love 'em!

If you're feeling particularly homesick and want to find out what your fave Canadian artist is doing these days but can't find any of their CDs in the local music shop in the US, check out http://www.maplemusic.com/ They carry pretty much everyone Canadian who makes music. I think.

I gotta say, some of the songs that make me feel nostalgic and think of home I don't even have in my collection. Its stuff from my childhood that my parents used to listen to. And yes, that includes some Neil Young (my Mum lived across the street from him in Yorkville for a time!)

And there's some that I *do* have in my collection that I just have not been able to listen to since I moved. It makes me so homesick I can't breathe

[Reba 2]

oh, I forgot to mention, the theme to Stargate SG1