East Coast Top 104

[Maritime Q-Scout]

With the amount of music talk that goes on here I thought it would be interesting to get a west coast perspective on this list. A local radio station here in Halifax did an East Coast Top 104 "rock" songs. They took a very liberal definition of rock, from soft rock, to the song is 'rocking' even if it is not a Rock & Roll song. Then they put selections up on the web for people to vote (while I like the idea, voting skews to newer stuff, and people's more current favourites, as opposed to the actual Top 104)

The only real criteria was that the songs had to be from the era of the radio station (so basically 30 years or so).

Here's a link to the list as well as the rationelle of the songs on the ballot:

http://www.q104.ca/index.asp?ObjID=9541

And of course, your East Coast Top 104:


1. Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Cocaine Cowgirl
2. The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nowhere With You
3. The Trews - Not Ready To Go
4. The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin’
5. Matt Mays - City Of Lakes
6. INXS - Pretty Vegas
7. April Wine - You Could Have Been A Lady
8. Bubbles & the ****rockers - Liquor & Whores
9. The Joel Plaskett Emergency - True Patriot Love
10. The Trews - So She’s Leaving
11. Joel Plaskett - Love This Town
12. April Wine - Bad Side Of The Moon
13. The Trews - Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted Me
14. Sloan - The Other Man
15. The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Come On Teacher
16. Sloan - Money City Maniacs
17. Matt Mays & El Torpedo - On The Hood
18. Wintersleep - Orca
19. Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms
20. The Trews - Tired Of Waiting
21. The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Work Out Fine
22. Matt Mays featuring Buck 65 - When The Angels Make Contact
23. Minglewood Band - Can’t You See
24. April Wine - Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love
25. Sloan - Losing California
26. Joel Plaskett - Happen Now
27. Great Big Sea - When I’m Up
28. Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Time Of Your Life
29. Sloan - The Rest Of My Life
30. Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery
31. The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Maybe We Should Just Go Home
32. Sloan - Who Taught You To Live Like That
33. Sloan - If It Feels Good Do It
34. Rawlins Cross - Reel ‘N’ Roll
35. April Wine - Just Between You and Me
36. The Mamas and The Papas - Monday, Monday
37. April Wine - Rock & Roll Is A Vicious Game
38. Sloan - The Good In Everyone
39. INXS - Devil’s Party
40. April Wine - Roller
41. Matt Mays - Where Am I Going
42. Great Big Sea - End Of The World
43. Sloan - Underwhelmed
44. Great Big Sea - Run Runaway
45. Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
46. April Wine - I Wouldn’t Want To Lose Your Love
47. The Trews - Yearning
48. INXS - Afterglow
49. John Campbelljohn - Sydney Steel
50. Joydrop - Sometimes Wanna Die
51. Sloan - Coax Me
52. April Wine - I Like To Rock
53. Tara Slone - My Little Secret
54. April Wine - Drop Your Guns
55. Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender
56. Crush - King For A Day
57. Sarah McLachlan - Adia
58. In-Flight Safety - Coast Is Clear
59. Wintersleep - Jaws Of Life
60. Great Big Sea - Sea Of No Cares
61. Sandbox - Curious
62. The Trews - Every Inambition
63. Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie
64. Sarah McLachlan - Into The Fire
65. April Wine - You Won’t Dance With Me
66. Matt Minglewood - How High Is High Enough
67. Sloan - The Lines You Amend
68. Sloan - Everything You’ve Done Wrong
69. Cool Blue Halo - Too Much Kathleen
70. Haywire - Dance Desire
71. Sloan - She Says What She Means
72. Matt Minglewood - Me and the Boys
73. Ashley MacIsaac - The Devil In The Kitchen
74. The Trews - Fleeting Trust
75. Melanie Doane - Adam’s Rib
76. Haywire - Black and Blue
77. April Wine - Like A Lover, Like A Song
78. Minglewood Band - East Coast Blues
79. April Wine - Fast Train
80. Minglewood - Rockin’ The Blues
81. Great Big Sea - Consequence Free
82. Haywire - Bad Bad Boy
83. Crush - Live
84. In-Flight Safety - Surround
85. Thrush Hermit - From The Back Of The Film
86. Sloan - Ill Placed Trust
87. April Wine - Cum Hear The Band
88. The Trews - I Can’t Say
89. Kim Stockwood - Jerk
90. Minglewood Band - Caledonia
91. Sloan - The N.S.
92. Minglewood Band - Dorchester
93. Thrush Hermit - The Day We Hit The Coast
94. The Trews - Confessions
95. Charlie A’Court - You’ve Got A Friend In Me
96. Oakley - Rock & Roll Gypsies
97. The Novaks - Doesn’t Anybody Hear It
98. Garrett Mason - Remedy
99. Charlie A’Court - Big Dark Canyon
100. Carson Downey Band - Burnin’ Up
101. The Jimmy Swift Band - Drive By
102. Mir - Invisible Science
103. Buddy & The Boys - Workin’ At The Woolco (Management Trainee Blues)
104. The Super Friendz - Karate Man

[brownie]

Where's Stompin Tom??The good 'ol hockey game??

[Knut]

I love Matt Mays..... good stuff for sure..

[Barnes]

What? This list is incomplete without any April Wine or Sloan!!!!!

[FireFly]

Holy cow. They like an artist and they pick every one of their songs for the list out East, or what? 10% of that list is April Wine! Would April Wine even be on the list anywhere else? Well, maybe, but certainly not 11 songs....

[Hack&Lube]

70. Haywire - Dance Desire
71. Sloan - She Says What She Means
72. Matt Minglewood - Me and the Boys
73. Ashley MacIsaac - The Devil In The Kitchen
74. The Trews - Fleeting Trust
75. Melanie Doane - Adam’s Rib
76. Haywire - Black and Blue
77. April Wine - Like A Lover, Like A Song
78. Minglewood Band - East Coast Blues
79. April Wine - Fast Train
80. Minglewood - Rockin’ The Blues
81. Great Big Sea - Consequence Free
82. Haywire - Bad Bad Boy

I think this is actually a Maritimes only list. Haywire sure is on this list an awful lot for a small, short-lived, 80s rock/pop Canadian outfit. Egad. But thanks to CRTC Canadian Content requirment, I hear them on Jack FM all the time. This is a pretty wierd list overall. It's like dominated by April Wine. The other surprise is the amount of songs from INXS's Switch Album. I guess everybody over there loves J.D. Fortune as he was raised in Nova Scotia. Same with Sloan as a N.S. band.

This whole list suddenly makes sense now. I don't think the original poster really explained that so that's why we are all so confused. This is basically "Homerific Maritimes Canada Top 104". This list totally makes no sense to the majority of people. None of that clicked for me until I noticed Haywire. I didn't even know Sloan and April Wine had Maritimes roots.

I think all of us see this title and think East Coast Top 104 as in U.S. East Coast, etc.


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I hope to dear god that if such a list came out for Alberta that Nickelback wouldn't dominate the list just because they are from here and not judged on the merits of their music.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Seriously, Pretty Vegas?

This is horrible, this list.

[icarus]

As a big Sloan fan, how can they not come in higher than 14? And "The Other Man" is their best song? Ridiculous. "Underwhelmed" has to be higher... like #1.

Also deplorable: no Eric's Trip! Only one Super Friendz song, and it's last on the list! Two Thrush Hermit songs, way down near the bottom!

Brutality.

Oh and I don't like April Wine after they stole the family camcorder from my brother whilst he was drunk at the HHOF for New Year's 2000.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I think this is actually a Maritimes only list.

This whole list suddenly makes sense now. I don't think the original poster really explained that so that's why we are all so confused. This is basically "Homerific Maritimes Canada Top 104". This list totally makes no sense to the majority of people. None of that clicked for me until I noticed Haywire. I didn't even know Sloan and April Wine had Maritimes roots.

I think all of us see this title and think East Coast Top 104 as in U.S. East Coast, etc.

You are right...its for the Maritimes.

The station doing this would be the equivalent of CJAY 92 in Calgary.

[the crispy badger]

Please don't judge our part of Canada by that pathetic list.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

This is horrible, this list.

You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.

[Vulcan]

I thought it was an international list when I saw the Momas and Papas but remembered that recently departed great, Denny Doherty was a local boy and sung lead on Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wI6uAOHzvo

[looooob]

Originally Posted by icarus

As a big Sloan fan, how can they not come in higher than 14? And "The Other Man" is their best song? Ridiculous. "Underwhelmed" has to be higher... like #1.

Also deplorable: no Eric's Trip! Only one Super Friendz song, and it's last on the list! Two Thrush Hermit songs, way down near the bottom!

Brutality.

Oh and I don't like April Wine after they stole the family camcorder from my brother whilst he was drunk at the HHOF for New Year's 2000.

you stole my post almost word for word

I like Matt Mays, and Joel Plaskett and even the Trews I don't mind, but Sloan has such an impressive catalogue of both album tracks and singles, I know that they are all over the list...but not until 14? underwhelmed is a near perfect single, in my mind

there isn't much Thrush Hermit, but alot of Plaskett

I'm surprised so little superfriendz/flashing lights...and no Eric's trip? that's a bummer

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Same with Sloan as a N.S. band.

. I didn't even know Sloan and April Wine had Maritimes roots.

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Sloan is fully Nova Scotian aren't they? although yes the bulk of the group has been based, off and on, in T.O. for awhile

[brownie]

Originally Posted by looooob

Sloan is fully Nova Scotian aren't they? although yes the bulk of the group has been based, off and on, in T.O. for awhile

Yup from Halifax

[Superflyer]

Not a bad list but a few suprises until it was explained, like INXS.
I love Great Big Sea, such a good band and they are awsome to see in concert if you like that type of music. Also I really like Ashley MacIsaac's music, he is a bit out there, but I like the music so I am glad to see him on there.

[droopydrew19]

2 words..... CUTTING FREAKIN CREW.... Sorry that was 3.