The Ultimate Canada 150 Playlist: Rock Out This July 1

You’ve just cracked open a Molson. Or perhaps you’re enjoying a Caesar (created in Calgary circa 1969).

As the sun sets over the lake, you pull your Hudson’s Bay blanket tightly around your shoulders and cast your gaze across our home and native land.

But once the fireworks have finished and you’ve sung ‘O, Canada!’ for the fifteenth time, how on earth will you fill the silence?

Well, luckily for you, we’ve rounded up some of the most seminal Canadian artists…and some of the less groundbreaking musicians from the Great White North.

For your listening pleasure, we give you: The Ultimate Canada 150 Playlist. Yes, Tom Stompin’ Connors is in there, and yes some of the “artists” on the list are cheesy (Celine Dion may or may not have made the list…) But we figured there was no better time to celebrate all the musical Canucks to have graced the airwaves on Canada’s 150th birthday.

Happy listening and don’t forget to check out the full list on our Spotify playlist!

Arcade Fire – Wake Up

Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown

Great Big Sea – Ordinary Day

Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage

K’NAAN – Wavin’ Flag

Keshia Chante – Been Gone

The Sheepdogs – The Way It Is

Kiesza – Hideaway

The Tragically Hip – Bobcaygeon

Tommy Cochrane – Life is a Highway

Paul Brandt – My Heart Has a History

Tom Stompin’ Connors – The Hockey Song

Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi

PARTYNEXTDOOR – Run Up

Michael Buble – Haven’t Met You Yet

The New Pornographers – Use It

Barenaked Ladies – One Week

Neil Young – Heart of Gold

Tegan and Sara – Closer

Shania Twain – Man, I Feel Like a Woman

Celine Dion – I Drove All Night

54/40 – I Go Blind

Sam Roberts – Brother Down

Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

Metric – Gimme Sympathy

Drake – Hotline Bling

Justin Bieber – Sorry

Nelly Furtado – Maneater

The Weeknd – Can’t Feel My Face

Honeymoon Suite – Feel It Again

Death From Above 1979 – Trainwreck 1979

Avril Lavigne – Complicated

National Anthem – O Canada

Sarah MacLachlan – Sweet Surrender

Shawn Mendes – Treat You Better

The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Grimes – Oblivion

Rush – Time Stand Still

Sum 41 – Fat Lip

Chantal Kraviazuk – Feels Like Home

The Guess Who – American Woman

Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69

Trooper – Raise a Little Hell

Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Alanis Morisette – Ironic

Feist – 1, 2, 3, 4

Alexisonfire – This Could Be Anywhere in the World

Arkells – Knocking At The Door

Rufus Wainright – Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Who did we miss? Let us know in the comments!