{"id":4194,"date":"2010-06-20T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2010-06-25T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:25:37","slug":"nova-scotia-road-trip-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/20\/nova-scotia-road-trip-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia road trip playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> tweeted the other day that I was having fun sorting through iTunes to make a Nova Scotia road trip playlist, and Susan <\/a>asked me if I’d blog my playlist. Sure, why not? <\/p>\n

Except, now that I have a second to do it, iTunes is being persnickety and I can’t get it to open. So I’m going from memory here, but this is the gist of it, all pulled from my existing music collection.<\/p>\n

It starts with a whole lot of Great Big Sea. Lukey’s Boat<\/em>, of course (it’s Lucas’s signature song!) and Ordinary Day<\/em> and Rant & Roar<\/em>. Simon’s favourite song is Home for a Rest<\/em> by Spirit of the West, so that’s in there. Then 7\/4<\/em> by Broken Social Scene, Feist’s 1234 <\/em>and Life on Mars<\/em> by Arcade Fire with David Bowie. The boys love K-OS’s Crabbuckit<\/em>, so that’s on there. I figured it was high time the boys learned about Rush, so we’ve got Tom Sawyer<\/em>, Limelight <\/em>and Spirit of Radio<\/em> on there. Then things folk up a bit with Gordon Lightfoot (Sundown <\/em>and If You Could Read My Mind<\/em>) and Jann Arden with Good Mother<\/em>. Then Clumsy <\/em>by Our Lady Peace, and then some Barenaked fun with Pollywog in a Bog<\/em> from their Snacktime album, and Sarah Maclachlan’s take on Rainbow Connection<\/em>. I’ve got two from one of my fave bands ever, The Pursuit of Happiness (She’s So Young<\/em> and I’m an Adult Now<\/em>) and at least one by the Hip, but damn if I can remember which one I chose.<\/p>\n

The only thing I’ve got from this, um, decade is the Young Canadians for Haiti cover of Waving Flag<\/em>. I’ve also got Tristan’s signature song on there, Loggins and Messina’s Danny’s Song<\/em> (not really Canadian, I know, but Anne Murray did a cover that’s not as good so I figure that counts.) Representing Montreal, we’ve got Corey Hart’s Sunglasses at Night<\/em> (don’t judge me) and then a really jarring transition (more Montreal, you say?) into Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah<\/em>. It was going to finish there, but Simon MacDonald<\/a> mentioned I need some Stan Rogers on there and he’s so totally right, so I downloaded Barrett’s Privateers<\/em> and made that the big finish.<\/p>\n

Not so much a Nova Scotia playlist as a really random sort through my music library. I had to keep it at that because I’m burning them to CD for the car, or else I’d’ve added some Burton Cummings, Holly Cole Trio, and a little Bryan Adams. I think I’ve got the CanCon spectrum pretty well represented through the last 30 years though, eh?<\/p>\n

I’ve still got $6 left in my iTunes account (after I finally got around to replacing my old Purple Rain CD with digital music — yay!!) What do I need to add to round out my Canadiana road trip mix?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tweeted the other day that I was having fun sorting through iTunes to make a Nova Scotia road trip playlist, and Susan asked me if I’d blog my playlist. Sure, why not? Except, now that I have a second to do it, iTunes is being persnickety and I can’t get it to open. So … Continue reading “Nova Scotia road trip playlist”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadianisms","category-ottawa-to-nova-scotia-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}