Top 50 Canadian Albums

i'm not going to type in the full list right now, but Chart Magazine just released their issue with the Top 50 Canadian Albums of all time. This is the third time they've done this - they take a poll of hundreds of musicians, music journalists, music industry types etc., and tally up the results.

so let's cut to the chase. one of my favourite mind games is to list my favourite 5 albums (my so-called "desert island discs"). my current list includes the lowest of the low, weakerthans, clash, hip, and a guitarist named michael hedges. 3 of my 5 are on this magazine's list:

#6 The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
#7 The Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt
#8 - The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely.

3 in the top 10. i guess i have similar tastes to canadian music gurus, whatever that means.

the top 10:
1. Sloan - Twice Removed
2. Neil Young - Harvest
3. Joni Mitchell - Blue
4. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
5. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
6,7,8 above
9. The Band - The Band
10. Rheostatics - Whale Music (my #6 fave).

Also on the list: Rush, 3 more Sloan albums, 3 more Neil Young albums, Sarahs Harmer and McLachlan, 2 Blue Rodeos, 2 more Hip, 2 Constantines, 1 more Rheos, Cowboy Junkies, 2 Leonard Cohen, OLP, Alanis, Bryan Adams, Guess Who.....

and a CD I want to get.... Feist - Let it Die. This ablum just came out last year, and I saw her once - this tiny girl up on stage - she looked smaller than the guitar she played. She opened for Tielli a few years ago.

For the top 50 albums, there's a little blurb on each, by a band member or someone else. For the Lowest of the Low, JKS writes a poignant review of Shakespeare my Butt..... it includes "... profoundly emotional without any of the cloying sendimentality that first-person pop songs are always prone to." That pretty much sums it up. And the same could be said for JKS.

i counted that i have 20 of these top 50 albums.

i also dug up an old copy of chart magazine... they list the top 99 albums of the 90s (not just canadian). #1 was Nirvana, 2. Radiohead, 3. The Verve, 4. Radiohead again, 5. Sloan, 10. Lowest of the Low.

i imagine the same, or similar people were voting.

i should compile a list of my top 50 canadian albums. there would be some overlap, obviously. but i'd also include chris and kate, hawksley, bnl, tielli...

and i have to re-address my life soundtrack project that has been on hold since 2004....