Mar*Star Great Canadian Songs – 2011
In 2011, the Mar*Star – our small, family newsletter that my sister Charlotte then edited – decided to poll its readers again to determine Canada's greatest songs and albums for a Canada Day edition.
Here are the songs that were selected in 2011:
- Demics – New York City
- Ian & Sylvia – Four Strong Winds
- Spirit of the West – Home for a Rest
- Band – The Weight
- Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
- Tragically Hip – Wheat Kings
- Sloan – Underwhelmed
- Rheostatics – Record Body Count
- Tragically Hip – New Orleans Is Sinking
- Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind
- Neil Young – Helpless
- Lowest of the Low – Rosy and Grey
- Neil Young – Heart of Gold
- Blue Rodeo – Try
- Joni Mitchell – River
- Cowboy Junkies – Misguided Angel
- Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
- Five Man Electrical Band – Signs
- Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
- Tragically Hip – Fifty-Mission Cap
- Great Big Sea – The Night Pat Murphy Died
- Black Cabbage – Chester
- Grievous Angels – Crossing the Causeway
- Band – Acadian Driftwood
- Arcade Fire – Wake Up
- Corb Lund – The Truck Got Stuck
- Stan Rogers – Barrett's Privateers
- Great Big Sea – Rant & Roar
- Ron Hynes – Sonny's Dream
- Rankin Family – Gillis Mountain
- Spirit of the West – Political
- Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy
- Sarah McLachlan – Building a Mystery
- Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown
- Pursuit of Happiness – I'm an Adult Now
- Guess Who – Share the Land
- Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage
- Neil Young – Old Man
- Northern Pikes – Things I Do for Money
- Diodes – Tired of Waking Up Tired
- The Barenaked Ladies – Who Needs Sleep?
- Kathleen Edwards – Hockey Skates
- Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Murray McLauchlan – Child's Song
- Bruce Cockburn – Wondering Where the Lions Are
- 54-40 – Baby Ran
- Jane Siberry – Mimi on the Beach
- Band – Up on Cripple Creek
- Sarah McLachlan – Ice Cream