Any good trip needs a soundtrack. With this in mind, I created a mix CD with the following tracks. All of the bands
except where noted hail from Montreal or at least Canada. I've included links to listen to the tracks on YouTube. No
Celine Dion or Bryan Adams will be found here, only the coolest indie bands Canada has to offer.
These are in no particular order. I know, I know... the art of a good mix is in the song order, but I plan to
put the CD on shuffle in the rental car to let chance determine what we hear when:
- Of Montreal - An Eluardian Instance (Not FROM Montreal, but it's in their name)
- Built to Spill - Hindsight (Not FROM Canada, but the lyric "What about Canada? It's paradise. It's pines and ice." makes me chuckle every time I hear it.)
- Arcade Fire - Month of May
- Broken Social Scene - World Sick
- Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere
- Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure
- Islands - Rough Gem
- New Pornographers - Use It
- Postal Service - Mushaboom (Remix of the Feist song. She's from Canada.)
- Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed
- Born Ruffians - Foxes Mate for Life
- St Vincent - Actor Out of Work
- Caribou - Odessa
- Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head
- Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
- AC Newman - Palace at 4 AM
- Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart
- The Unicorns - Jellybones