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December 30, 2008

I Remember When They Did This For George Bush

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

Posted by Kate at December 30, 2008 9:04 PM
Comments

As someone else suggested: We should all make some crayon Canadian pictures for the Owe to hang on his fridge.

Posted by: Joe at December 30, 2008 11:53 PM

Wow, if that isn't the most cringeworthiest, craptastic idea ever...how embarrassing for us to still have the CBC around. Wow.

Posted by: Soccermom at December 31, 2008 12:15 AM

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!

Posted by: cbc lover at December 31, 2008 12:40 AM

This Messiah thing is getting just a little bit creepy, isn't it? or is it just me..

Posted by: Wayne at December 31, 2008 12:41 AM

This Messiah thing is getting just a little bit creepy, isn't it? or is it just me...

Posted by: Wayne at December 31, 2008 12:43 AM

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."


Posted by: irwin daisy at December 31, 2008 12:44 AM

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

Posted by: rg at December 31, 2008 12:47 AM

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

Posted by: edncda at December 31, 2008 12:50 AM

How about Bruce Cockburn's, "If I had a rocket launcher"?

Posted by: irwin daisy at December 31, 2008 12:53 AM

uh...shouldn't that be 57 songs ?...one for each state ?

Posted by: john begley at December 31, 2008 1:01 AM

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.

Posted by: Dudley Morris at December 31, 2008 1:05 AM

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


Posted by: nextstopmars at December 31, 2008 1:05 AM

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.

Posted by: Clinton at December 31, 2008 1:11 AM

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.)

Posted by: rg at December 31, 2008 1:22 AM

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!

Posted by: Clinton at December 31, 2008 1:22 AM

What, nothing by real Canadian artists, Stompin Tom Connors, or Wilf Carter? Outrageous.

Posted by: dmorris at December 31, 2008 1:32 AM

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".

Posted by: David at December 31, 2008 1:35 AM

" 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.

Posted by: wallyj at December 31, 2008 1:37 AM

Hopefully Harper will say "this is the last straw."

Horny Toad

Posted by: Horny Toad at December 31, 2008 1:42 AM

I know it ain't Canuck,but how about "you ain't nothin but a hound-dog"?

Posted by: Justthinkin at December 31, 2008 1:52 AM

Or we could just do the HNIC theme.Oh wait.

Posted by: Justthinkin at December 31, 2008 1:53 AM

Doug and the Slugs-'Too Bad',for next year.

Posted by: wallyj at December 31, 2008 2:01 AM

Swanee(sp?) River? Yeah.That's the one!!!

Posted by: Justthinkin at December 31, 2008 2:10 AM

In the memory of DION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-po2XZ4IqVk&feature=relatedp

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1127196

Posted by: Dion at December 31, 2008 2:40 AM

I'll Always Love You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jzup23Ae8o&NR=1

Posted by: richfisher at December 31, 2008 2:48 AM

How about 'I'm so bored with the USA' by the clash?

Posted by: Kursk at December 31, 2008 3:12 AM

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"

Posted by: Canadian Observer at December 31, 2008 4:06 AM

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...

Posted by: Brodie at December 31, 2008 4:30 AM

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.

Posted by: Jema 54 at December 31, 2008 4:53 AM

[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!

Posted by: Phillip G. Shaw at December 31, 2008 5:52 AM

"Last American Exit" - the Hip

Posted by: cconn at December 31, 2008 7:04 AM

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?

Posted by: Tim in Vermont at December 31, 2008 7:30 AM

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

Posted by: pgs at December 31, 2008 8:13 AM

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!

Posted by: kingstonlad at December 31, 2008 8:28 AM

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.

Posted by: Bocanut at December 31, 2008 8:51 AM

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?"

Posted by: Stephen at December 31, 2008 9:00 AM

wallyj Ah I too remember Doug and the Slugs but I pick 'Driftin'Away"...at least for the CBC.

Posted by: Speedy at December 31, 2008 9:01 AM

"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?.

Posted by: Lista at December 31, 2008 9:20 AM

I left a negative message in the comments blog for this 'project' - I suggest others do as well. http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/obamasplaylist/

Posted by: Maureen at December 31, 2008 9:21 AM

The Make Believe Forever.

Posted by: Ghost of Ed at December 31, 2008 9:26 AM

"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.

Posted by: biffjr. at December 31, 2008 9:28 AM

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"

Posted by: cal2 at December 31, 2008 9:28 AM

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.

Posted by: Stephen at December 31, 2008 9:38 AM

"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".

Posted by: biffjr. at December 31, 2008 9:46 AM

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

Posted by: cal2 at December 31, 2008 9:54 AM

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.

Posted by: Yukon Gold at December 31, 2008 10:06 AM

"I Wanna be Loved By You"

Posted by: Belisarius at December 31, 2008 10:44 AM

four strong winds

(whoever came up with this at the CBC should be keel-hauled)

Posted by: Gord Tulk at December 31, 2008 11:18 AM

Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" - irony-free at the CBC.

Posted by: Lista at December 31, 2008 11:33 AM

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.

Posted by: Cat at December 31, 2008 11:39 AM

How about a video of Tom Connors doing The Good Old Hockey game with an Obama doll taped to the plywood Stompin Tom uses with great effect.

Posted by: Joe at December 31, 2008 12:08 PM

Can we start a 'not my President' campaign up here, at the very least to be able to state the obvious?

Posted by: Shane O. at December 31, 2008 1:11 PM

How about Oh Canada. I especially like the '...we stand on guard for theeeeee...' part when sung by an American.
Kind of sends shivers up/down my leg if you know what I mean.

Posted by: CRB at December 31, 2008 1:44 PM

Welcome to the Great White North

Posted by: jlc at December 31, 2008 1:48 PM

Since Obama has not given the slightest indication that Canada is on his radar, why should the CBC care? The last comment I remember he considered Canada to be a republic. For expertise on this foreign file, Sarah Palin is light years ahead.

Posted by: Martin at December 31, 2008 2:18 PM

My thoughts are that we send Lizzie May down to Washington to do a Marilyn Monroe rendition of "Happy Birthday Mr President"...dressed in a bikini of course!
After that, I'm sure the big"O" will leave us alone and we can go on doing what Canada does best...namely being innocuous to the rest of the globe while practicing socialistic hegemony on its citizens.

Posted by: inquest at December 31, 2008 2:52 PM

My thoughts are that we send Lizzie May down to Washington to do a Marilyn Monroe rendition of "Happy Birthday Mr President"...dressed in a bikini of course!
After that, I'm sure the big"O" will leave us alone and we can go on doing what the Canada and the CBC do best...namely being innocuous to the rest of the globe while practicing socialistic hegemony on its citizens.

Posted by: inquest at December 31, 2008 2:58 PM

Raise a little hell...Trooper
Take off.....Bob and Doug McKenzie with Geddy lee
Rock Star.....Nickelback

We'll hear Anne Murray...Celine Dion etc...I'll bet

Posted by: Kelly at December 31, 2008 5:52 PM

Maybe CBC can also buy roses with our tax dollars to lay pedals before Obama as he walks to the stage at the inauguration.

Posted by: Dean at December 31, 2008 6:12 PM
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