{"id":570,"date":"2006-08-09T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2006-08-09T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T11:35:00","slug":"canadas-favourite-road-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/09\/canadas-favourite-road-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s favourite road songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing like a summer road trip, with the windows open, wind whipping your hair, and the Wiggles <\/a>blaring on the stereo.<\/p>\n

Ugh. Man, do I miss the days when I controlled the CD player in the car. And it’s not just the preschoolers – Beloved, who used to have at least a semblance of taste in music, now rips Wiggles and Dora and Thomas the Tank Engine compilations for the boys, and has even threatened to burn the David Hasselhoff Pingu rap <\/a>onto a CD for the car. And I thought it was bad when he was simply a fan of Duran Duran.<\/p>\n

There was a time I would never dream of leaving the house without a decent collection of mixed tapes or CDs with me. (Now that I’m a big girl and have an iPod, you know the car kit is on my Christmas wish list!) And I was very particular about my road music, too. Nothing too new or unfamiliar, nothing too soft, nothing too sappy.<\/p>\n

Road music is energy music, as confirmed by national polling results announced <\/a>yesterday that found Canada’s favourite driving song is Bryan Adams’ anthemic Summer of ’69<\/em>. I adored this song when it came out in the mid-1980s, partly because of my earth-shaking crush on Bryan Adams and partly because my idol was actually singing a song about the time when I was born (and ironically, a time when he would have been about five years old, if I do the math right.) I figured it meant we were destined to be together, in the manner only a lovesick 15 year old can reason.<\/p>\n

According to the poll results, Canada’s top seven favourite road songs are:<\/p>\n

Summer of ’69 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Bryan Adams;
Bohemian Rhapsody \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Queen;
Born to be Wild \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Steppenwolf;
It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Rolling Stones;
Drive My Car \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Beatles;
Free Fallin’ \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Tom Petty;
Radar Love \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Golden Earring.<\/p>\n

Eh, not a bad list. I could do better, and I know you<\/em> could do better. Oh, the agony of choosing! Hmmm, let’s see. In no particular order, my top driving songs would be:<\/p>\n

New Orleans is Sinking – The Tragically Hip
(That one’s for you, UberGeek and Fryman!)<\/p>\n

It’s the End of the World as We Know It – REM<\/p>\n

Home for a Rest – Spirit of the West
(also appears on my soon-to-be-announced best drinking songs list!)<\/p>\n

Baba O’Reilly – The Who<\/p>\n

Radar Love – Golden Earring<\/p>\n

Spirit of Radio – Rush<\/p>\n

Bat Out of Hell – Meatloaf<\/p>\n

… and just about anything by Queen, especially from the Highlander sountrack.<\/p>\n

Your turn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing like a summer road trip, with the windows open, wind whipping your hair, and the Wiggles blaring on the stereo. Ugh. Man, do I miss the days when I controlled the CD player in the car. And it’s not just the preschoolers – Beloved, who used to have at least a semblance of … Continue reading “Canada’s favourite road songs”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}