Barack Playlist

Tue, Jan 20, 2009

Elling Lien

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The votes have been cast, and the 49 songs that will help define Canada to president (as of 1:26pm Newfoundland Standard Time) Barack Obama have been selected. Neil Young is on the list, as are The Tragically Hip and Leonard Cohen. Representing Newfoundland and Labrador is Great Big Sea’s “Ordinary Day”. (I was rooting for “When I’m Up (I Can’t Get Down)” myself.) What other local songs should have made it?

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