By Aaron Levy (CIVL DJ) – Email
Print Edition: May 9, 2012
Aaron Levy is the station manager at CIVL Radio 101.7 FM, and this semester he’s got some Canadian summer jams for you to rock out to.
Len – “If You Steal My Sunshine”
Certainly the most polished Canadian release—summer of 1999—winning a Juno for best single and infecting eardrums across the world; too bad we never heard from Len again, or is it? For a band whose singers share the surname Costanzo, at least they went out on a high note.
Snow – “Informer”
Sure, you don’t actually know what he says in the chorus before “I go blam” and “I leekie boom boom now?” Ok, fine, you don’t really know what he says at all in any of the song other than the chorus word “informer,” but this song was an instant classic.
Gob – “Soda”
You may know this song better by it’s chorus of “I want to jump in a lake, sun shining down on a beach in the summer.” Langley’s own went on to cover the Rolling Stones and redefine pop-punk for the Canucks and Treble Charger, but don’t hold that against them.
Sloan – “The Good in Everyone”
I know, most Sloan fans would say that “Money City Maniacs” (“Hey, you, we been around for a while”), or “If It Feels Good Do It” should be Sloan’s entry to the summer music megalith, but here we go a little further into the crates with this 1995 classic. Ooooooooh…
