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[koganbot]

Inspired by Scott Woods' list of His Top 10 Canadian singles, here are my Top 10 Connecticut songs. Criteria have something to do with important bandmember being reared in Connecticut, rather than, say, living there in your old age like Keith Richards. (And if you think the pickings are sparse for Connecticut, you should try Colorado, which gives us the Fray and Big Head Todd And The Monsters. And a bunch of people I've never heard of who for all I know may be good. Actually, Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire is from Denver.)

Oh yeah, and I put a limit of three on the Cassie songs allowable. And the only eligible Monkees songs were ones that Peter actually had something to do with:

1. Cassie "Turn The Lights Off"
2. Gene Pitney "Mecca"
3. Cassie "In Love With U"
4. Cassie "Me & U"
5. The Wildweeds "No Good To Cry"
6. Steam "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"*
7. The Monkees "Daydream Believer"
8. Weezer "The Good Life"
9. Sonic Youth "Kotton Krown"
10. Moby "Honey"

*Seems to contain a xylophone or glockenspiel.

Comments

[sm-woods.livejournal.com]

Well, my comment was clearly somewhat in jest... lots of other good-to-great Can-pop I can come up with, though the Celine song I like best is probably considered one of her more boring entries (I mean by people who listen more closely to her stuff than I have) - "A New Day Has Come," which I just find really pretty. The one Lime song that came close to making it was "Angel Eyes," which I like better than songs called "Angel Eyes" by both Abba and Jeff Healey. Lime are a group I probably like more than I'm aware of, if that makes sense (I mean, I really like what I've heard -- love the helium-voiced singer -- but haven't put in the hours with them to figure them out.) As for Neil... obviously, it's a big oversight, and he's my favourite Canadian pop artist, but none of my favourite songs by him were official singles, and that was a pretty clear instruction from the publisher. (Though maybe I should've checked Wikipedia for his full singles list... there may be stuff that charted low which I didn't consider. I would include the song "After the Goldrush," for instance, if it was a single.)

[koganbot]

If you can figure out how to conjure up a Voice link to Pazz & Jop 2002, you're a better man than I, but if one did exist and old ballots were available, mine would read:

SINGLES
1. Paulina Rubio - "Don't Say Goodbye" (Universal)
2. Tweet* - "Oops (Oh My)" (Gold Mind/Elektra)
3. N.O.R.E. - "Nothing" (Def Jam)
4. Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Capitol)
5. Celine Dion - "A New Day Has Come" (Epic)
6. Serial Rhyme Killers - "Something About Mary" (High Times)
7. Truth Hurts feat. Lata Mangeshkar and Rakim - "Addictive" (Aftermath)
8. Ian Van Dahl - "Castles in the Sky" (Robbins)
9. Tony Touch feat. Fat Joe, N.O.R.E., & Juju - "Capicu" (Tommy Boy)
10. Brandy - "What About Us" (Atlantic)

*As featured in Brak55's Rochester list from above.