Rush - Red Barchetta
Neil Young - Southern Man
The Guess Who - No Time
The Tragically Hip - Looking for a Place to Happen
Rascalz feat. Kardinal, Choclair, Checkmate and Thrust - Northern Touch
Kim Mitchell - Go for a Soda
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas to Heaven...
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood 1 (or 3)
Our Lady Peace - Starseed
Maestro - Let Your Backbone Slide
DFA 1979 - Romantic Rights
Gorguts - Obscura (cause I have to pick a metal song after all)
Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife (cause I have to pick a Bryan Adams song after all)
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"Think I'm gonna be the scapegoat for the whole damn machine? Sheeee......."
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Just in terms of songwriting, doesn't get much more timeless. Other suggestions here are also for pretty specific tastes. This track has a lot of different renditions in different styles/genres and works pretty universally, hence the nomination.
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
Exp:
Something to Live For - Barney Bentall
She's So High - Tal Bachman
King of Spain - Moxy Früvous
Lighthouse - Sunny Days
Too Bad - Dug and the Slugs
Pop Goes the World - Men Without Hats
Northern Pikes - She Ain't Pretty
MMM MMM MMM MMM - Crash Test Dummies
We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) - Trooper
Ahead by a Century - The Tragically Hip
The Mummers' Dance - Loreena McKennitt
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Hallelujah - K.D. Lang
Taking Care Of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive
Go For A Soda - Kim Mitchell
He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel
He was drinking for diversion
He was thinking for himself
A little money riding on the Maple Leafs
Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
She says let me sit down
You know, drinkin' alone's a shame (It's a shame it's a crying shame)
Look at those jokers
Glued to that damn hockey game
Hey honey-you've got lots of cash
Bring us round a bottle
And we'll have some laughs
Gin's what I'm drinking
I was raised on robbery
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Now the lounge is full of farmers for the 7:30 draw
Teammates all left before they had to buy a round
When they pull the 50/50 and I've lost again, I'll go
Maybe have one more brown one for the snowy road
All the championship banners going yellow on the wall
And my name when it gets closer to last call
So Elvira brings my bottle, hold it up and let it bend
Figures of two rinks battling an extra end
And I'm peeling off the label as they peel a corner guard
Dance down the sheet to the tune of "Hurry, Hurry Hard"
And my popcorn squeaks with the question, wonders why I'm not at home
Where you wait beside a silent telephone, doodle circles within circles all alone
Have to stop myself from climbing on the table full of empties to yell:
"Why, why can't I draw right up to what I want to say?"
"Why can't I ever stop where I want to stay?"
I slide right through the day, I'm always throwing hack weight
I was in a bar in the Dominican and one of our group played this on a jukebox. The Dominicans put us to shame with their Summer of '69 singing. Basically every single one of them knew it inside out.
