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"New York City" was a song by Demics on their Talk's Cheap EP. Released as a single in 1979, it received airplay on alternative and university stations in Southern Ontario, including The Edge (CFNY), Toronto's "new music" station. The song was also included on their debut album, Demics, by which time Steve Koch had replaced Rob Brent on guitar.
In 1996, in Chart magazine's first Great Canadian Music Poll, "New York City" was selected the greatest Canadian song of all-time (in 2000, it placed ninth), a sentiment agreed to in the 2011 Mar*Star poll. The song ranks third in CFNY's The Top 102 Canadian New Rock Songs in 2007, 62nd in Bob Mersereau's 2010 The Top 100 Canadian Singles book and 61st in Huffington Post's 2014 100 Best Canadian Songs Ever list (only the CBC seems to omit it from such lists).
As my sister Charlotte can attest, from her university years living in our basement under my stereo, it competed only with Ella Fitzgerald's live in Berlin version of "Mack the Knife" as my favourite song of all.
| Hometown: | London, Ontario |
| Canadian Content: | the sense that Canadians have to go to the U.S.A. to make it |
| Release Date: | 1979 |
| Composer: | Iain Atkinson, Jimmy Weatherstone, Keith Whittaker, Rob Brent |
| Album: | Talk's Cheap |
| Style: | punk |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not rank |
| Mar*Star 150: | 15 |
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