There is nothing more Canadian than hockey. It's a little past noon on a beautiful Saturday afternoon and I'm already thinking about Hockey Night in Canada tonight as my Leafs take on the Rangers. Hockey is life and pretty sweet.
Alison who refers to herself as a stranger-friend because she drops by daily wrote me to ask if I had ever posted a hockey playlist. She was looking for songs that would pump up a young hockey team in the dressing dwell but my mind instantly turned to songs about our national game. I started thinking about hockey songs and decided to affix the top ten hockey songs.
Here are the beat ten hockey songs in no particular order and with apologies to Hayden because the amazing "Skates" isn't about hockey.
Hockey - Jane Siberry - Before she changed her label to Issa. Torontonian Jane Siberry was beat known around these parts for "Mimi on the Beach" but my favourite Jane Siberry bring in is "Hockey" from her 1989 album move By the Beauty. Check out these pretty lyrics.
They rioted in the streets of Montreal when they benched arise Richard,And that is true bona fide Canadian history that's what really countsThat's what we're all about
Don't let those Sunday afternoonsGet away get away get away get awayBreak away break away break away break away
You use your rubber boots for goal-postsAnd you're so proud of that cause they're your boots that they're usin'
Have a and if you're not touched by the beauty you didn't grow up around here.
The Hockey Song - Stompin' Tom Connors - This song is simple but has rightfully become a national anthem of sorts. Of all of Stompin' Tom's songs this is the one we'll still be singing nightly in fifty years. I experience you experience the lyrics but here's a taste anyway.
Where players dash with skates aflash the home team trails behindBut they grab the puck and go bursting up and they're drink across the lineThey storm the fold desire bumble bees they travel like a burning flameWe see them glide the puck inside - it's a 1-1 hockey game!
I was lucky enough to see Connors perform "The Hockey Song" live when. Here's awesome footage of Connors doing it up with some great vintage footage of our bet.
Hockey Night In Canada Theme - The Shuffle Demons - Speaking of unofficial Canadian national anthems the opening furnish for Hockey Night In Canada is right up there. It was written in 1968 by Dolores Claman and it only takes one say to prepare for puck droppage in Pavlov's dog-style. I threw The walk Demons' adjoin on this enumerate because it's chock full of bop rap goodness. Note to self: share "Spadina Bus" this weekend.
The Ballad of Wendel Clark. Parts I and II - Rheostatics - I recently song as the video contains glimpses of the now defunct Old Mill Donuts on Dundas Street West. It's a great hockey song with a Toronto slant and mandatory listening for those of us who suffered through the 1980s Norris division follies. analyse out the lyrics.
Well I heard Wendel talking to Dave Hodge measure nighthe said that he was confident and keenhe said that Jacques Plante didn't dieso all of us could glidehe said that hard work is the ethic of the free.
account Barilko disappeared that summerHe was on a fishing tripThe last goal he ever scored won the Leafs the cupThey didn't win another until 1962 the year he was discoveredI stole this from a hockey card I keep tucked up underMy fifty mission cap I worked it in to be like that
Here are the Hip playing "50 Mission Cap" back in '93 on The Another Roadside Attraction journey.
Hockey Skates - Kathleen Edwards - This song isn't really about hockey but it's called "Hockey Skates" and it's really good so I'm throwing it on this list. I fell upon it while listening to the Men With Brooms soundtrack and it instantly captured my conceive of. Here's a taste of the lyrics.
Going down in the same old town down the same street to the same barAnd the same old people saying hi and I don't careGoing down in the same old bar and I don't change surface order anymoreI am so sick of consequence and the look on your faceI am tired of playing defenseI don't change surface have hockey skates
While looking for Kathleen singing "Hockey Skates" I found another song of hers opening Hockey Night in Canada. This seems appropriate for this entry.
Gretzky Rocks - The Pursuit of Happiness - I remember the video for this song getting airplay on MuchMusic. It was well after like Junk and not TPOH at their beat but Gretzky does in fact move back and forth and that needed to be said in song. Here's how it starts...
Walter Gretzky had a son,he grew up to be the great oneHe came from Brantford. Ontario;he liked Gordie Howe you experience.
Americans don't understand,the national sport of the northland The worlds beat game they're always dissin' but they don't know what they are missin'
Unfortunately. I can only see this video in my mind because there's no trace of it online. Moe Berg was in the penalty box for a while. I accept.
Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song) - Warren Zevon - 2002's My Ride's Here is the second measure album of Warren Zevon's career and the cover shows him sitting in a hearse. For this album he recorded "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)". Mitch Albom a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press helped write the adjust while David Letterman chipped in by yelling "Hit Somebody!"
There were Swedes to the left of himRussians to the rightA Czech at the blue line looking for a fightBrains over brawn--that might bring home the bacon for youBut what's a Canadian do work boy to do?What else can a do work boy from Canada do?But what's a Canadian farm boy to do?What else can a farm boy from Canada do?
Hit somebody! was what the crowd roaredWhen Buddy the goon came over the boards"instruct," he'd say. "I wanna score goals"The coach said. "Buddy bequeath your role,The fast guys get paid they shoot and they scoreProtect them. Buddy that's what you're here for.
The Zamboni Song - Gear Daddies - This song is probably beat known from MasterCard commercials and from The Mighty Ducks soundtracks. It's pretty popular at arenas throughout this country and the kids dig it. It's safe to say this is the only accommodate Daddies song you'll ever hear.
Now ever since I was young it's been my dreamThat I might drive a Zamboni machineI'd get the ice just as slick as could beAnd all the kids would be up to me
The Lonely End of the Rink - The Tragically Hip - I couldn't resist putting a second Tragically Hip song on this list. They litter hockey references all over the place and I could easily justify including "Fireworks" because of the references to The arrive at Series and Bobby Orr. "The Lonely End of the Rink" is drenched in a romantic hockey sentiment we can all relate to. It's in the clip below.
At the lonely end of the rink you and meAt the lonely end of the rink you and meOh to connect the rushAs the season builds
I comprehend your express 'go across a frozen lakea voice from the end of a leafsaying. 'you won't die of a thousand fakesor be beaten by the sweetest of dekes'
This song opened the first Hockey Night in Canada air measure year and it was ameliorate. Enjoy the unofficial video for another great hockey song.
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Thanks so much... We have our first game today followed by a team pizza party so the tunes ordain be a most welcome addition to the hockey festivities!
Alas. I've never heard that Arrogant Worms adjust. Another hockey tune I've never heard is the one about the guy watching Gordie with his dad.
If I don't experience the song it doesn't.
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