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Subject: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: ktelqueen on 01/21/05 at 7:35 pm
here are some of my faves :)
one-hit wonderish:
Julian-Alta Moda
Wrapped In Velvet-Minutes From Downtown
Flippin' To The 'A' Side-Cats Can Fly
When I'm With You-Sheriff
Melody-Boys Brigade
Don't Walk Past-Blue Peter
Soul City-Partland Brothers
Kiss You(When It's Dangerous)-Eight Seconds
Tokyo Rose-Idle Eyes
What About Me-Belinda Metz
Out On A Limb-Eye Eye
Special Girl-Eddie Schwartz
April Fool-Chalk Circle
Gonna Get Close To You-Dalbello
Come Day O' Night Eh-Bamboo
other:
Just One Night-Triumph
Nova Heart-The Spoons
Every Time I See Your Picture-Luba
New Girl Now-Honetymoon Suite
Promises-Frozen Ghost
Under My Thumb-Streetheart
Cuts Like A Knife-Bryan Adams
Your Daddy Don't Know-Toronto
Don't It Make Ya Feel Like Dancin'-Heapins
It Ain't Enough-Corey Hart
Innocence-Harlequin
All We Are-Kim Mitchell
Black Cars-Gino Vanelli
Dancing Under A Latin Moon-Candi
My Girl-Chilliwack
Why'd You Lie-Colin James
Rise Up-Parachute Club
We Should Be Lovers-Zappacosta
A Criminal Mind-Gowan
Tell Somebody-Sass Jordan
Black Velvet-Alannah Myles
Helene-Roch Voisine
Closer Together-The Box
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: JamieMcBain on 01/21/05 at 10:01 pm
We Should Be Lovers by Zappacosta is one of my least favorite songs. I do like Strange Animal and Criminal Mind by Gowan, though.
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: Absolutely Vile on 01/22/05 at 7:43 am
Oh wow... Let me think...
City Of Night - Rational Youth
Saturdays In Silesia - Rational Youth
Living In China - Men Without Hats
Where Do The Boys Go? - Men Without Hats
Moonlight Desires - Gowan
We Run - Strange Advance
Worlds Away - Strange Advance
In The House - Images In Vogue
Call It Love - Images In Vogue
Lust For Love - Images In Vogue
Should I See - Frozen Ghost
What About Me - Belinda Metz
Radio Silence - Blue Peter
Don't Walk Past - Blue Peter
Nova Heart - The Spoons
Arias & Symphonies - The Spoons
All I can think of for now...
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: gord on 01/22/05 at 8:03 am
here's some of mine :)
Spirit Of Radio-Rush
Freewill- Rush
Tom Sawyer- Rush
Limelight- Rush
Red Barchetta- Rush
Subdivisions- Rush
Big Money- Rush
On The Loose- Saga
Scratching The Surface-Saga
Wind Him Up- Saga
White Hot-Tom Cochrane
Check-Max Webster
Battlescar-Max Webster
Diamond Mine- Blue Rodeo
Smalltown Bringdown-Tragically Hip
Blow at High Dough- Tragically Hip
New Orleans Is Sinking- Tragically Hip
Boots Or Hearts- Tragically Hip
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: vesap on 01/22/05 at 1:47 pm
Limelight - Rush
Anything by... - Rush
On the loose - Saga
Monkey on Your Back - Aldo Nova
Juggernaut - Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: Mergal on 01/23/05 at 3:42 pm
Everybody's Working For the Weekend----Loverboy
Sunglasses At Night----Corey Hart
Heat of the Night----Bryan Adams
The Best Was Yet to Come----Bryan Adams
Subdivisions-----Rush
So Hard----Sass Jordan
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: Tam on 01/24/05 at 12:04 am
Romantic Traffic - The Spoons
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: eightiesfan on 01/24/05 at 7:46 am
Here's just a few off the top of my head:
Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider
Cuts Like a Knife - Bryan Adams
Subdivisions - Rush
Bob & Doug's version of The Twelve Days of Christmas (I know, I know, Christmas is over)
Music in Me - Triumph
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: FaultyDog on 09/07/05 at 12:18 am
Wow...
Dalbello
Men without Hats
Klaatu
Lime
Trans X
Voggue
...never even realized they were Canadian.
Some of my favourites:
Dalbello - Tango (reached #7 in Dutch Top 40, btw)
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Klaatu - A routine day
Lime - Babe we're gonna love tonite
Trans X - Living on video
Voggue - Dancin' the night away
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: bj26 on 09/07/05 at 11:17 am
Fly by Night - Rush (and probably about anything else by them)
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: OliverDK on 09/08/05 at 9:40 pm
Northern Lights - Tears Are Not Enough (1985)
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet (1989)
Alannah Myles - Lover Of Mine
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: johnny5alive on 01/21/08 at 11:56 pm
tomcat prowl doug and the slugs
day by day doug and the slugs
makin it work doug and the slugs
chinatown calculation doug and the slugs
too bad doug and the slugs............. hummm anyone see a pattern here? ;D
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: whistledog on 01/22/08 at 10:07 am
My list would be 10 pages long ;D
Here are some brief standouts that I listen to constantly ...
Ain't Good Lovin' - Diamond in the Rough
Where is Love - Diamond in the Rough
Walk on the Wire - Diamond in the Rough
Shooting From My Heart - Big Bam Boo
Just Like You - FM
Chains - The Arrows
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: Streethawk! on 01/22/08 at 1:20 pm
Anything by Tim Feehan, Bryan Adams, Honeymoon Suite and Kim Mitchell. There are single songs I like too but my main canadian music usually comes from the 4 Artists I mentioned. Singers of Canadian origin usually rank highly in my book for some reason.
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: midnite on 01/22/08 at 7:04 pm
Definitely "My Forbidden Lover" by Tapps. Then anything by Rush and "Never Surrender" by that guy who wears sunglasses when it is dark outside.
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: whistledog on 01/22/08 at 8:15 pm
Definitely "My Forbidden Lover" by Tapps.
Fantastic dance classic 8)
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: ladybug316 on 01/23/08 at 1:20 pm
"All Touch" - Rough Trade (searching for this song is how I happened upon this website many moons ago!)
"I Like" by Men Without Hats (or anything by them, really)
Most Rush songs but especially "Digital Man"
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: Foo Bar on 01/31/08 at 1:23 am
"All Touch" - Rough Trade (searching for this song is how I happened upon this website many moons ago!)
I loved High School Confidential (if for nothing else than the lines using the word "b*bleep*h" and "*blank* my jeans" that got faded out at ever roller skating rink across the country) and was amazed to see Alphaville (yep, of soft-euro-rock "Forever Young" fame) come out with an even harder-edged version in 1998 on "Dreamscapes 5ive".
Back to Canada -- am I the only one who remembers the ultra-obscure Canadian pop-princess (never quite made it to pop-queen status, even by Canadian standards) Shari Ulrich? Totally underrated, got some airplay in British Columbia. Given the right producer, she could have given Laura Branigan a run for her money.
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: whistledog on 01/31/08 at 1:27 am
Back to Canada -- am I the only one who remembers the ultra-obscure Canadian pop-princess (never quite made it to pop-queen status, even by Canadian standards) Shari Ulrich? Totally underrated, got some airplay in British Columbia. Given the right producer, she could have given Laura Branigan a run for her money.
She was in a 90s supergroup called UHF which was a collaborate effort between her, Roy Forbes (Canadian singer who was known in the 70s as 'Bim') and Chilliwack lead singer Bill Henderson
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: Foo Bar on 02/01/08 at 9:11 pm
(.sig) PROUD TO BE CANADIAN
"Pass me another beer!"
- Dayglo Abortions
ObCanadiana: Trooper. Even more so than Raise A Little Hell (which could have been sung in any bar in North America on any night), their Real Canadians was like a three-and-a-half minute beer commercial.
Subject: Re: What are your favourite Canadian 80s songs?
Written By: whistledog on 02/01/08 at 11:33 pm
"Pass me another beer!"
- Dayglo Abortions
ObCanadiana: Trooper. Even more so than Raise A Little Hell (which could have been sung in any bar in North America on any night), their Real Canadians was like a three-and-a-half minute beer commercial.
'Raise A Little Hell' was their only entry into the US chart. They had alot of good songs, totaling 17 hits in Canada between 1975-1982; 1989-1991