Chesty McCheesecake's Sweet CBC Serenade - "Beginning Monday, January 5, CBC Radio 2 invites Canadians to help select the top “49 songs from north of the 49th parallel” that would best define our country to the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama."
I'm sure the suggestions will come flying in now...
h/t Bluetech











As someone else suggested: We should all make some crayon Canadian pictures for the Owe to hang on his fridge.
Wow, if that isn't the most cringeworthiest, craptastic idea ever...how embarrassing for us to still have the CBC around. Wow.
The taxes we are forced to pay to keep the CBC alive aren't nearly enough reward for these Obamagasms.
Please send money to keep the CBC squirting their juice!
This Messiah thing is getting just a little bit creepy, isn't it? or is it just me..
This Messiah thing is getting just a little bit creepy, isn't it? or is it just me...
Canadian 'Hip Hop,' apparently, is going to inform the newly elected POTUS who his northern neighbo(u)r is.
That, and the Separatists:
"I think Barack Obama really needs to hear the song "Deux par Deux Rassembles" from the album La Foret des Mal-Aimes by Pierre Lapointe. He's one of the best things going in Quebec pop music right now. The reason Mr. Obama needs to hear this song is because he needs to be reminded that not all of Canada is entirely English speaking."
Dang! I heard this on the CBC yesterday morning (after Radio Romania's painfully detailed exposé
on Romanian vs. Serbian national sausages. Seriously.). The first thing I thought was to post it here -- but I see I was beaten to it. Great minds think alike ... (cough-cough).
But here's my submission. Holiday In Cambodia, by The Dead Kennedys.
http://tinyurl.com/6zgbp2
At least they aren't offering him a cameo on Little Mosque on the Prairie..... (ooops...didn't mean for anyone to hear that.)
This could be a bonus song to make an even 50 - one for each State.... after all, he probably doesn't think about the 49th Parallel too often.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa26_esLBE
How about Bruce Cockburn's, "If I had a rocket launcher"?
uh...shouldn't that be 57 songs ?...one for each state ?
How about "The Canadian Dream" by Sam Roberts? Featuring lines like, "Socialism is the only way!" Sure to go down a treat with any POTUS.
Well we can't have the Guess Who's American Woman, because anti-Americanism is so passe now that O is president of the global community. I think I'll swoon...
I found a wonderful folk song describing us polite Canadians and how we deal with winter - The Rodeo Song!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Rqe3KLE5w
It reminds me of several weeks ago when the CBC news had an interactive feature asking Canadians who would be in their dream coalition government caucus. Yep, no bias there.
I can't wait until the CBC has their funding slashed.
Oops, I forgot it has to be "Canadian content". That only leaves one logical choice: BROCKET 99.
http://tinyurl.com/74cxub
(P.S. I don't understand the over-reaction to this CBC contest. They did this for George Bush when he was elected, too. Didn't they? Oh.)
Might I suggest American Psycho by Treble Charger. I believe it even meets the Canadian content requirement bc CBC radio 2.
What's the problem with the human race
With someone like you
No matter where I turn
I can't escape your double face
Don't want to listen to the radio
Cause they don't know
Or stick around just to hear I told you so
How could we make it without you
I should have known better to doubt you
I thought I'd heard the end of it
And now I know how far you'd go
To be the next freak show
American psycho
Cover of the magazines
Patron Saint to troubled teens
Wish I never heard your name
Tomorrow could be just another day
Means nothing to you
A misdemeanor or a felony, that's ok
Don't want to wait for a second chance
So take a stance
It's your turn for the spotlight, the big dance
How could we make it without you
I should have known better to doubt you
I thought I'd heard the end of it
And now I know how far you'd go
To be the next freak show
American psycho
Cover of the magazines
Patron Saint to troubled teens
Wish I never heard your name
They all want to know
What I already know
What am I supposed to do
When you know that it's all true
That you stole, that you lied
That you knew
Primadonna self absorbed
Wide awake and never bored
Party binge and purge, And see
results of plastic surgery
Spotted at the hottest shows
Interview on Charlie Rose
They all want a piece of you
And now I know how far you'd go
To be the next freak show
American psycho
Cover of the magazines
Patron Saint to troubled teens
Wish I never heard your name
They all want to know
How far you had to go
and I already know
How far you had to go!
What, nothing by real Canadian artists, Stompin Tom Connors, or Wilf Carter? Outrageous.
To Barry O.
(Nothing to do with skin colour):
There's a thin white line,
separating yours and mine.
You want me to believe,
that everything is fine.
And the cow jumped over the moon.
-Trooper, "Thin White Line".
" I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok.I work all night and I sleep all day"..... I know it is a british song ,but what the hell we could have our Haitian-Canadian GG sing it,or our British-American-Canadian leader of the opposition sing it,or our French-Canadian former leader of opp. sing it,or ..hell,I really like Brocket 99,(oh,the memories). On second thought the CBC crew singing Patsy Cline's 'Crazy' would be appropos.
Hopefully Harper will say "this is the last straw."
Horny Toad
I know it ain't Canuck,but how about "you ain't nothin but a hound-dog"?
Or we could just do the HNIC theme.Oh wait.
Doug and the Slugs-'Too Bad',for next year.
Swanee(sp?) River? Yeah.That's the one!!!
In the memory of DION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-po2XZ4IqVk&feature=relatedp
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1127196
I'll Always Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jzup23Ae8o&NR=1
How about 'I'm so bored with the USA' by the clash?
Since their silly point is to supposedly define Canada to Obama, I choose 2 different Rush songs. Maybe they would both serve as warnings to him before he takes the US too far down the wrong path.
First of all, to best describe this political correctness addled, Orwellian, semi-socialist society built on decades of liberal wishy-washyness, I propose "Virtuality".
And to highlight the self-destructive(and probably irreversible) political carving of this country into urban/rural, east/west, English/French, left/right and white/ethnic camps, I suggest "Subdivisions"
I wonder if they'd take independent music. lol
http:/myspace.com/fleamarketcreep
Seeing as how our music portrays anti-militant sentiment (as in gay militant groups and the like) as in our song, 'Mr. Militant', probably not. That wouldn't be very tolerant, now would it...
Why don't we just have a replay of Cretian on TV telling us what little sympathy he had for the Americans after 911 - they 'deserved' what they got according to the Cret. That should set the proper tone.
[quote]Why don't we just have a replay of Cretian on TV telling us what little sympathy he had for the Americans after 911 - they 'deserved' what they got according to the Cret. That should set the proper tone.[/quote]
Jema 54,
Or the CBC town hall meetings, and how the production planning preceded 911 events.
What were/are the names of those CBC producers
Or the raving lunatic PhD lady from UBC that called BUSH a Bloody Killer, the slime ball CBC & elites still claim her speech was protected. I hope she and her CBC supporters are on the No-fly / No-Enter List. The Video of that event with, ISO shots of Gov't Ministers cheering, and any fitting lyrics of choice.
Are CBC hypocrites or just brain dead!
"Last American Exit" - the Hip
Bwa ha ha ha ha! I couldn't have made this up if I given a thousand years to hit on it. Is the CBC going to send a little drummer boy?
A transvestite doing Heterosexual Man by the Odds but only because I couldn't find anyone with multiple personality disorder doing We Are The World
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Heterosexual+Man&search_type=&aq=f
Rodeo song for sure. "New Orleans is sinking" by the hip. "Good time, not a long time" by Trooper.
"Armageddon" by Prism.
Cuz, with global cooling, it will be 40 below, and obamamessiah will give a f@#$, if he does not straighten out the banking system, the whole country will be sinking, his fickle base will ensure it is not a long time, and if he slacks on the war on terror, KABOOM, armageddon.
BTW, happy new year and all the best to my fellow mouth breathing, knuckle dragging eaters of live kittens.
VOTE REFORM!
GO ARMY!
Carolyn Parrish doing the Canadian 2 step on an Obama doll to Stompin' Tom's version of "This Land is Your Land" should delay the Messiah's visit up north.
I suspect we will get lots of faux American "urban music"...yup distinctly Canadian there....the advantage of choosing anything french speaking is that it is distinct and non american, but cannot make it sound too much like Cajun.
Uniquely canadian music....as opposed to canadians whoi make music?
You get something like the Band who ruminated on american music and generated an interesting spin, more American than the americans...Oscar Petersen, who took the american music..jazz...and played it really well. Or you can take someone like, oh any one of a number of artists who use folk or country as their base, folk being common to European settlers to both sides of North America, country is the same. So that includes people like Blue rodeo etc.
What you are left with is Canadian content to the lyrics, reflecting actual place names or some vague Canadian political sensisbility...so you get left with vacuous things like rocket launcher or you get the old Canlit chestnut about Canadians being "close to the land", so songs about tundra, lakes, forests and prairies.....oh but wont that go against the urban thing again.
Whatever, its a unique gift or marketing ploy that might get his attention, but not necessarily in a good way.
"ulm rahm, just what he hell is this crap on my i-Pod called...ulm...Nickelback?"
wallyj Ah I too remember Doug and the Slugs but I pick 'Driftin'Away"...at least for the CBC.
"I'm mad about the boy... on the silver screen he melts my foolish heart... I'm quite aware that here and there there are traces of the cad about the boy... I'm feeling quite insane..."
Noel Coward and Dinah Washington class it up. Or maybe the theme from Titanic, for CanCon?.
I left a negative message in the comments blog for this 'project' - I suggest others do as well. http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/obamasplaylist/
The Make Believe Forever.
"This Messiah thing is getting just a little bit creepy, isn't it? or is it just me..."
No doubt. This latest "idea" is quite high on the creepy scale. The word "smarmy" comes to mind.
While our Armed Forces continue to suffer from lack of proper equipment (ie helicopters) and the RCMP are asked to take a pay cut, the CBC keeps stumbling along, flushing valuable tax dollars down the toilet. PMSH had better take steps to end this outrageous debacle .... the sooner the better. Anyone who argues that a billion plus dollars a year couldn't be better spent is either deranged or a liar.
a tape loop of the call of the Loon ,from the wildlife commercial. the loop would be played 33 million times once for each of us.
CBCpravda has gone beyond looney for Obama. they used to play with relish the Carolyn Parrish "Americans , I hate those bastards"
Maybe there will be relief from Anti American rants...at least for th 90 days while the honeymoon lasts, then there will be the inevitable disappointment that will set in.
You already see it in the American Left.
I was thinking....normally when they burn an American President in effigy at a protest he is held in a noose, lynched, and then burned. Will these now be banned at left wing rallies because this old staple is now politically incorrect. I can only imagine the debates around the "kitchen table" as they organizers plan their next protest to an American bombing somewhere.
"I left a negative message in the comments blog for this 'project' - I suggest others do as well. http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/obamasplaylist/"
I did just that. The CBC life support system that we are all forced to maintain, to be blunt, pisses me off. This latest embarrassing fiasco just adds to my state of "pissed offedness".
cant we package up Brenda Martin(I still think she looks like Cindyloo Who) Dizzy Lizzy May and send them to Obamamessiah as a gift from the land of loons. Canaduh
It's not a song, but perhaps the CBC should just send an .mp3 of a set of lips smacking on buttocks. That way, O will know the Canadian media is in lockstep solidarity with their American counterparts.
"I Wanna be Loved By You"
four strong winds
(whoever came up with this at the CBC should be keel-hauled)
Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" - irony-free at the CBC.
Canadians are such suckers to keep paying for this type of ass-kissing.
What happens if Obama flops, or worse, turns out to be more protectionist a president than ever?
Isn't this the same channel that shills for the looney left and accuses Harper of following the USA too closely.
Time to pull the taxpayer plug on this network.