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15 Feb 2016

14 February 2016

Show 272: Canadians to celebrate Justin Trudeau

Love Games by Strange Advance. 3^rd single from their debut album, Worlds Away in 1983. They are Canadian, formed in Vancouver in 1982 by Drew Arnott, Darryl Kromm and Paul Iverson.

+I Beg Your Pardon by Kon Kan. The 1988 debut single by this Canadian band. They were inspired by the Pet Shop Boys’s I Beg Your Pardon. They featured gay musician Barry Harris.

You Oughta Know by Alannis Morissette. Request.

Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams. Request.

+Call me by Ferron. Aka Debby Foisy, another Canadian folk singer/songwriter and poet. In addition to being one of Canada’s most famous folk musicians, she is one of the most influential writers and performers of women’s music, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco and the Indigo Girls.

+Yes to Life by Heather Bishop. Request.

If I had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies. Canadian band, released 2 versions of this song – 1991 indie release The Yellow Tape and 1995’s Shoe Box EP.

+Dance After Curfew by Nash the Slash. AKA Jeff Plewman is a Canadian musician who came out in 1998. Though a multi-instrumentalist, he is known primarily for playing electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and others. This is from the 1982 album, And You Thought You Were Normal. The single became a surprise club and radio hit in Poland.

+High School Confidential by Rough Trade. Canadian band formed by lesbian Carole Pope and Kevan Staples, whom I believe is also gay but I can’t be certain. This 1981 hit was one of the first explicitly lesbian-themed Top 40 hits in the world! Pope often performed it in bondage gear…

+Juste Une Aventure by Lucie Blue Tremblay. Request.

Aussies who are Canadians…ok, so mostly Wendy Matthews and her work!

*Let’s Kiss by Models. Written by Sean Kelly for their 1986 album, Models’ Media; it was their last studio album. Wendy Matthews had joined the band as a back-up singer and worked with them for 3 years. She was born in Montreal, Canada and arrived in Oz in 1983 after working with Glenn Shorrock of Little River Band fame.

*I don’t Want to be with Nobody But You by Absent Friends. Partners Sean Kelly and Wendy Matthews, after Models broke up, worked together in this short-lived Sydney band. This was their only hit at no. 4 on the chart in 1990. It was the third single from their debut album, Here’s Looking Up Your Address.

*Jump by Rockmelons. A Wendy Matthews lead vocal tune on their debut album, Tales of the City. It was released as a single in 1988.

*The Day you Went Away by Wendy Matthews. 1992 solo hit after all her work with Models, Absent Friends, Rockmelons, and others.

*Only a Love Affair by Hiroshi Sato and Wendy Matthews. A 1982 single from when she was working in Japan. She did the lead vocals on his entire album from that year, Awakening.

The Bazaar by The Tea Party. The Tea Party was formed in 1990 by Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood and Jeff Burrows after a marathon jam session in Toronto. Today Martin lives in Perth and Byron Bay…so not really an Aussie band but featuring a Canadian who lives here so it’s close enough!

Innocent by Luba. 1986 single from this Ukrainian Canadian. I LOVED this track back in 1986-7! It’s from her 5^th studio album, 3^rd Eng language one, Between Earth and Sky, also from 1986.

+Sexuality by K.D. Lang. Katherine Dawn Lang… from her rural childhood on the Canadian prairie to being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996, and along the way came out as a lesbian in a 1992 article of the LGBT-related news magazine The Advocate. This is from 1995’s All You Can Eat, her third solo album, as well as the Friends soundtrack.

Tom Sawyer by Rush. This song was so big in my high school! Fellow Canadians and strong influence on the Barenaked Ladies. Their drummer, Neil Peart, was in the studio when the Ladies were recording Gordon and helped shape a few of the songs.

Fantasy by Aldo Nova. Aldo Caporuscio is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and producer. He gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1981, and its accompanying single “Fantasy”, which climbed to #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Turn me Loose by Loverboy. Released on Canadian band Loverboy’s eponymous debut album in 1980, and as a single in 1981. The band formed in Calgary in 1980.