Top Ten Canadian Albums (from author of upcoming book)
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:42 pm
This was sent by Bob Mersereau...read, and participate!
Sorry for the form letter, but I have a lot of people to contact. I'd like to ask you for your participation in an exciting project. It's not a whole lot of work, and lots and lots of fun. Plus, you'll get to be part of what hopefully will be the biggest and best survey of Canadian music experts ever.
This fall a new book will hit the shelves across the country. Goose Lane Editions, a national literary publisher with an exceptional reputation in the book industry, will introduce THE 100 BEST CANADIAN ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, by music writer Bob Mersereau (see bio below). This book is just what it says on the cover. Through a comprehensive survey of knowledgable music fans across the country, we'll count the votes and tell Canadians what makes up their top 100. This has never been done before, in such a broad format. There's no reference book out there, nothing for our own country's music fans. You can find out what Rolling Stone thinks but what's number one in Canada?
Is it Neil, or Joni? The Band or The Tragically Hip? Blue Peter or Blue Rodeo??? It's your choice. You make up your own top ten, and we'll compile them all, and come with the final list.
The rules are simple. If it's a band, the majority of the members have to be Canadian by birth or residency. So The Band counts, but Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young don't. We don't care that Feist or Buck 65 moved to Paris, we know what their birth certificates say.
So, figure out your ten favorite Canadian albums ever, and list them in order of preference, one through ten. Here's an example:
1. Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
2. Oliver Jones - One More Time (jazz, jazz counts)
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Neil Young - Decade (yes, Greatest Hits are acceptable)
5. Harmonium - Les Cinq Saisons (don't forget Quebec and Acadian)
6. Dutch Mason – Janitor Of The Blues (blues counts)
7. Bruce Cockburn – Humans
8. Joni Mitchell – Miles of Aisles (live albums okay too)
9. Ian & Sylvia - You Were On My Mind (folk counts)
10. Prairie Oyster - One Kiss (hey, country is popular, too)
I hope this will be fun for you. Please feel free to bring it up at parties or around the office, and if anyone else wants to create their own top ten list, send it along too! The more the merrier. Hopefully, there will be hundreds and hundreds of submissions. If possible, we hope to print the contributors names, space permitting. Once your list is complete, send it along to [email protected]. And if you feel like changing or updating your choices, send a revised list and hopefully it can be updated before deadline. We'll update you as the publication date nears.
Thanks for your interest and time.
Regards,
Bob Mersereau
Bob Mersereau is a veteran music and arts reporter from Fredericton, NB. In addition to his full-time job as the arts producer for CBC TV in New Brunswick, his music review column Backbeat appears in the Telegraph Journal newspaper each week. He also reports on East Coast music weekly for CBC Radio.
Sorry for the form letter, but I have a lot of people to contact. I'd like to ask you for your participation in an exciting project. It's not a whole lot of work, and lots and lots of fun. Plus, you'll get to be part of what hopefully will be the biggest and best survey of Canadian music experts ever.
This fall a new book will hit the shelves across the country. Goose Lane Editions, a national literary publisher with an exceptional reputation in the book industry, will introduce THE 100 BEST CANADIAN ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, by music writer Bob Mersereau (see bio below). This book is just what it says on the cover. Through a comprehensive survey of knowledgable music fans across the country, we'll count the votes and tell Canadians what makes up their top 100. This has never been done before, in such a broad format. There's no reference book out there, nothing for our own country's music fans. You can find out what Rolling Stone thinks but what's number one in Canada?
Is it Neil, or Joni? The Band or The Tragically Hip? Blue Peter or Blue Rodeo??? It's your choice. You make up your own top ten, and we'll compile them all, and come with the final list.
The rules are simple. If it's a band, the majority of the members have to be Canadian by birth or residency. So The Band counts, but Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young don't. We don't care that Feist or Buck 65 moved to Paris, we know what their birth certificates say.
So, figure out your ten favorite Canadian albums ever, and list them in order of preference, one through ten. Here's an example:
1. Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
2. Oliver Jones - One More Time (jazz, jazz counts)
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Neil Young - Decade (yes, Greatest Hits are acceptable)
5. Harmonium - Les Cinq Saisons (don't forget Quebec and Acadian)
6. Dutch Mason – Janitor Of The Blues (blues counts)
7. Bruce Cockburn – Humans
8. Joni Mitchell – Miles of Aisles (live albums okay too)
9. Ian & Sylvia - You Were On My Mind (folk counts)
10. Prairie Oyster - One Kiss (hey, country is popular, too)
I hope this will be fun for you. Please feel free to bring it up at parties or around the office, and if anyone else wants to create their own top ten list, send it along too! The more the merrier. Hopefully, there will be hundreds and hundreds of submissions. If possible, we hope to print the contributors names, space permitting. Once your list is complete, send it along to [email protected]. And if you feel like changing or updating your choices, send a revised list and hopefully it can be updated before deadline. We'll update you as the publication date nears.
Thanks for your interest and time.
Regards,
Bob Mersereau
Bob Mersereau is a veteran music and arts reporter from Fredericton, NB. In addition to his full-time job as the arts producer for CBC TV in New Brunswick, his music review column Backbeat appears in the Telegraph Journal newspaper each week. He also reports on East Coast music weekly for CBC Radio.