CIVL’s Aaron Levy brings you some seasonal selections of mostly-Can Rock royalty for the April edition of the shuffle! Touch grass, enjoy the sunshine, and be excellent to each other!
The Gandharvas – “The First Day of Spring”
This is a song I learned was a huge hit in the 90s for the London, Ontario-based grunge rockers, but one that never actually made its way to my mind until I started revisiting the era’s Canadian Classics last year. Featuring lyrics that include words like “catatonic” and “decompose”.
Another big hit for a band that I was at least vaguely aware of but not as completely familiar with as others, the song “Today I Hate Everyone” was the one I always remembered, while this was the one inserted into the Big Shiny Tunes legacy, first edition, at that!
Oliver Tree – “Jerk”
Not a Canadian track, but it qualifies as an “other” because the original and more notable public representation of this tune is in the banger Robin Schulz remix, entitled “Miss You,” which gives a different impression than the title of this one does. Different vibe, different mood, similarly very good.
I Mother Earth – “When Did You Get Back From Mars”
In honour of the recently heralded “NASA’S lunar comeback,” and Gosling being in that kind of sequel to the Damon flick, this one is a good ‘ol East Coast classic ballad that no one ever asked for and I’m so glad we got, once Edwin (unfortunately) ditched their Mother Earth compatriots.
