http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax1RI8rbyVQ
Ragged Ass Road by Tom Cochrane
Yellowknife, however, was different. Here, she felt that she'd stepped backwards into small-town life, especially in the unplanned old part of town where there was outdoor plumbing and the streets were unpaved and had names like Ragged Ass road.
From the book Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay.
The weather has turned nearly perfect as we approach our Canadian Thanksgiving and our election. This country deserves everyone to have their say, the election turnout needs to be high, these are important times. Last election less than 65% of the people chose to have their say, hopefully this time it will be closer to 75% and we will be smart enough to not allow Harper a majority government.
I think they should reset the markets at zero and start new. Most of our financial systems are flawed in some form and need fixing. It would be nice if we could shut down the economy for a month or so and figure things out, too bad we can't and have to do it on the fly.
"Blue, blue windows behind the stars, yellow moon on the rise, big birds flying across the sky, throwing shadows on our eyes."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5KRVtjgMkM
Helpless sung by K.D. Lang
A pause, and then Eddy deigned to give a cold sober account of his movements. About a year ago, he said, leaning against the wall, he was driving around one day, aimless and bored, and he came to a fork in the road. He was in Montana at the time. The sign had two arrows, one pointed north, the other south. He could have gone either way. But the singer on the car radio was Neil Young, so he turned north, and then he decided he might as well follow the road until it ran out, which it finally did on the north shore of Great Slave Lake.
"Are you always so impulsive?" asked Dido, who by now had joined them.
"Try decisive," Eddy replied.
"So what was Neil Young singing?" she persisted with a faint smile.
Harry, through the pain in his heart, saw exactly what he was up against. Eddy had no sense of humour, and Dido, serious Dido, didn't care. European to the core, she'd fallen for the lean, sardonic, tight-lipped cowboy in jeans.
Eddy flipped through Harry's records - then dropped the needle directly onto the first note of "Helpless."
After that Dido stopped giving Eddy a hard time, she yielded her rights to tormenting him. And Harry, watching the play of feeling on her face, understood the power of a song to advance a man in a woman's heart. Songs, he thought, were the seven-league boots of romance.
Also from Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay.
Below is another edition of the countdown, top 100 songs out of 1388. The featured clip is Alan Jackson's Small Town Southern Man, a song which will definitely move up from its current spot of 94.
Enjoy the last Canadian long weekend of the year. Above all be thankful you live in a country of peace and a country where your voice does matter, when it is added up with the voices of others who value what you value. No matter how strong or weak those voices are, they are the echoes of Canada like water on our shores and trees in our forests.
john.
Top 100 Songs Played This Year On My iTunes Player
1. You Can't Count On Me by Counting Crows (1)
2. The One I Love by David Gray (2)
3. All The Trees Are Hers by Hawksley Workman (3)
4. Supernatural Superserious by R.E.M. (4)
5. No One's Gonna Love You by Band of Horses (5)
6. When I Dream of Michelangelo by Counting Crows (6)
7. Always by Neverending White Lights (8)
8. You Are My Face by Wilco (7)
9. Empty by Ray LaMontagne (10)
10. Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder (9)
11. Waiting by City and Colour
12. Boy With A Coin by Iron and Wine
13. Have You Ever Seen The Rain? by C.C.R.
14. Wonderwall by Oasis
15. One by U2
16. Creep by Radiohead
17. Everything by Michael Buble
18. Say It To Me Now by Glen Hansard
19. O Valencia by The Decemberists
20. A Long December by Counting Crows
21. Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder
22. Long Road To Ruin by Foo Fighters
23. Chase This Light by Jimmy Eat World
24. Calling All Friends by Low Stars
25. Where The Streets Have No Name by U2
26. The Blues by Switchfoot
27. The Hardest Part by Coldplay
28. Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles
29. Your Heart Is An Empty Room by Death Cab For Cutie
30. Blanket of Ghosts by Dustin Kensrue
31. Thinking About You by Norah Jones
32. Every Part of Me by Sam Roberts
33. Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison
34. Sing by Travis
35. Lemon Parade by Tonic
36. Off He Goes by Pearl Jam
37. My List by The Killers
38. Naked As We Came by Iron and Wine
39. Accidental Babies by Damien Rice
40. Catapult (Acoustic) by Counting Crows
41. Against The Wind by Bob Seger
42. Southern Girl by Amos Lee
43. When You Were Young by The Killers
44. Have You Ever Seen Me Lately (Acoustic) by Counting Crows
45. Cowboys by Counting Crows
46. Hard Candy by Counting Crows
47. Antichrist Television Blues by Arcade Fire
48. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles
49. Hospital Beds by Cold War Kids
50. If You're Gonna Leave by Emerson Hart
51. Gotta Be Somebody's Blues by Jimmy Eat World
52. Girl In The War by Josh Ritter
53. The Bends by Radiohead
54. Hannah by Ray LaMontagne
55. Gold In Them Hills by Ron Sexsmith with Chris Martin
56. Everybody Knows by Ryan Adams
57. Kite by U2
58. Sky Blue Sky by Wilco
59. These Girls by Ryan Adams
60. Only The Lonely by Roy Orbison
61. Alright by Pilot Speed
62. A Time To Be So Small by Interpol
63. Falling Slowly by The Frames
64. The Weight by The Band
65. 1492 by Counting Crows
66. Society by Eddie Vedder
67. NYC by Interpol
68. Tears and Rain by James Blunt
69. Bedshaped by Keane
70. You're Always Going Too Soon by Matthew Jay
71. The Grace by Neverending White Lights featuring Dallas Green
72. Jumpin' Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones
73. Please Be Patient With Me by Wilco
74. The Con by Tegan and Sara
75. Hello Sunshine by Super Furry Animals
76. On Again, Off Again by Sean Lennon
77. Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
78. Barfly by Ray LaMontagne
79. Invincible by Muse
80. Mind Games by John Lennon
81. 1973 by James Blunt
82. If I Had Eyes by Jack Johnson
83. Love Hurts by Incubus
84. Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy
85. Your Song by Elton John
86. The Crane Wife 3 by The Decemberists
87. Los Angeles by Counting Crows
88. Diamonds On The Inside by Ben Harper
89. Hotel Roosevelt by Augustana
90. Impossible Germany by Wilco
91. Anna Molly by Incubus
92. Miller's Angeles by Counting Crows
93. Mr. Jones by Counting Crows
94. Small Town Southern Man by Alan Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhaqUHGeQU
95. Let It Be by The Beatles
96. Some Surprise by The Cake Sale (Lisa Hannigan + Gary Lightbody)
97. Rain King (acoustic) by Counting Crows
98. Soul Meets Body by Death Cab For Cutie
99. Oceanside by The Decemberists
100. No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature by The Guess Who
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