It’s the new year and celebrating a different 90s CanRock song every day is SO 2021, but I haven’t finished the recaps yet so still a couple more posts to come.
What I love though is that the exercise inspired me to choose a song of the day every day to reflect on – 21 days to create a habit and that sort of thing. You can catch the songs of the day on my Twitter feed.
Now, let’s get to finishing last year’s project.
Day 21 – Bif Naked – Lucky
Call The Office, sometime around 1998, my then girlfriend and I saw Bif Naked play this song. It was already sort of our song when it played at the pool hall we went to for our first date and we had our first kiss.
This brings me back to all the good times we had in our short relationship.
Day 22 – Blue Rodeo – Lost Together
An absolute campfire classic and one that is in heavy rotation for me when the guitar sees any daylight. One of the best CanRock songs of the 90s.
Day 23 – Tristan Psionic – 25 Cents
I’m in a bar in downtown Toronto. I can’t remember which one, but we had to go downstairs to get here. There are a bunch of bands performing and one of them is Tristan Psionic. I honestly can’t remember if they played this song that night, but hearing it again after so long brought me right back, so at the very least it captures the mood and vibe of what was an awesome night out, being underage, in places you shouldn’t be.
Day 24 – Barenaked Ladies – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (with Sarah McLachlan)
This was a natural choice for Christmas Eve and I still remember sitting there, on the floor of the Horseshoe Tavern, for CFNY’s Acoustic Christmas where they performed this. I still can’t believe they got us all to sit on the floor. I can still feel the sticky on my hands, but it was such a great series of performers and such an intimate feeling… one of the best live shows I saw in the 90s.
Day 25 – Rymes With Orange – She Forgot To Laugh
Absolutely no date significance when I posted this on Boxing Day, I simply forgot this song existed as it never made the transition to digital for me and so has not been on any playlists, until now.
It embodies the whole spirit of both the hashtag challenge and this blog, rediscovering the music that has kept the beat to my life.
Day 26 to 30 will be posted later this week and we close out this chapter of the blog and move onto the sounds of the past and of 2022.