The Sound Bites Canada 150 (Part 11 of 15)

To commemorate my homeland's 150th birthday, I wracked my brain for a while and came up with a long, long list of Canadian rock artists with the intention of doing a playlist of some kind. Well, because I seem to have too much time on my hands and a nagging tendency to rank things, I decided to take this to the next logical step of making a Top 150 Canadian Rock Songs of All Time. What have I done?

Before we get into this chart, allow me to set a couple of ground rules. First, there are no repeats, by which I mean I've limited it to one song per artist (there may be a teensy bit of overlap here and there in terms of solo artists vs. their bands, but no more than one song by the same solo artist or band). Secondly, I didn't get hung up on technicalities, by which I mean it doesn't matter if the artist wrote the song themselves, if they recorded it in Canada or if they currently live in Canada; my only prerequisite is that the artist performing the song is or has been a Canadian citizen. Lastly, as much debate as to what song should go where is bound to ensue in our minds, keep in mind that the point isn't so much ranking "worst to best" as it is celebrating all of the diverse and awesome music that our nation has helped produce over the years. It's all love here.

The Sound Bites Canada 150 is being presented ten at a time every weekday between June 12-30. Feel free to follow along, scoff in disapproval at the rankings and, most importantly, get patriotic and loud!

Here are songs 50 to 41:

50 COWBOY JUNKIES Misguided Angel (1988)

49 ALANNAH MYLES Black Velvet (1989)

48 FUCKED UP The Other Shoe (2011)

47 GINO VANNELLI Black Cars (1985)

46 54-40 Baby Ran (1986)

45 THE GUESS WHO American Woman (1970)

44 THE GRAPES OF WRATH All the Things I Wasn't (1989)

43 DANKO JONES Cadillac (2001)

42 BLUE RODEO Lost Together (1992)

41 JULY TALK Summer Dress (2013)

Tomorrow, we're into the Top 40!

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