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Stompin' Tom Connors - The Hockey Song: 9 Not quite Kurtis Blow basketball but I presume the technology just wasn't there yet

April Wine - Oowatanite: 6 God this reminds me of so many bands but I can't place the exact one's itch this is scratching rn

Prism - Spaceship Superstar: 7 Treat yourself to over 60 minutes with Prism

Trooper - Raise A Little Hell: 8 Nice to see The Sound of classic rock radio is the same no matter which side of the border you're on

The Kings - This Beat Goes on/Switchin' to Glide: 8 Oh hey, its you again

Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach: 11 Thats exactly the jangly sound I would expect from a band called Martha & the Muffins

Loverboy - Working for the Weekend: 9 I saw the title and everything. Still was shocked when the riff came in that this is the song we're rating

The Payolas - Eyes Of A Stranger: 6 "Mom, can the radio play The Police?" "We have The Police up north" The Police up north:

Helix - Rock You: 6 Hair metal if done by a Broadway musical who wanted a classic hair metal song but didn't want to become a jukebox musical

Spirit Of The West - Home For A Rest: 7 My body wants to repel this from my system

Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment: 4 Oh, One Week set my quirk expectations way too high

Our Lady Peace - Clumsy: 8 Is that Billy Corgan wearing a glasses & a mustache on lead?

Great Big Sea - When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down): 7 Buying a gun to protect myself from this cover becoming possessed and brutally murdering me

The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon: 10 Just really good alt rock

Bif Naked - Spaceman (Boomtang Boys Remix): 5 The Canadians yearn for Eurodance

Prozzak - Sucks to Be You: 9 There's so many words I wanna use but don't know how to combine them to fully describe how this sounds

k-os - Crabbuckit: 8 IT'S CRAB TIME 🦀🦀🦀

Billy Talent - Devil In A Midnight Mass: 6 Rock Band music

Marie-Mai - Mentir: 7 A prime Canadian Eurovision entry

Sam Roberts Band - Bridge to Nowhere: 9 The type of safe alt rock I see at musical festivals every year, but it's also the first thing that's really perked my ear all rate

Lights - Drive My Soul: 5 Could be nice but those are some weak ass synths

Kreesha Turner - Don't Call Me Baby: 8 A bit too plain overall, but there's some nice standout moments

Melanie Fiona - Give It To Me Right: 10 Shit, I was so ready to hate this sample but this works

Down With Webster - Your Man: 5 I feel a weird nostalgia for this type of bad music

K'NAAN - Wavin’ Flag: 6 Do I know this from somewhere?

Shawn Desman - Electric: 5 Bleh.

Fefe Dobson - Stuttering: 7 It's fourth place in a TV singing competition type pop rock, which I don't really gel with, though its definitely in the upper middle tier of that

Anjulie - Brand New Bitch: 7 That was fun

Marianas Trench - Desperate Measures: 8 There's a Canadian teenage version of me that probably gets super into this, then slightly regrets it, and years later eventually embraces it

Dragonette - Let It Go: 7 Tegan & Sara synthpop before Tegan & Sara went full synthpop

Victoria Duffield - Shut Up And Dance: 5 I'm so glad this isn't the Shut Up and Dance that got overplayed for me

Serena Ryder - Stompa: 5 No bite

Classified - Inner Ninja feat. David Myles: 5 Canadian Asher Roth for people who like Canadian Jason Mraz

Riit - qaumajuapik: 7 Nice Vibes

Rêve - CTRL + ALT + DEL: 9 That was FUN.

Charlotte Cardin - Confetti: 5 🎊

BONUS TRACKS:

Young Artists for Haiti - Wavin' Flag: 7 Finally, the Nelly Furtado/Sum 41/Metric/Avril Lavigne/Drake/Justin Bieber collab we've all been waiting for

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