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You voted, and we've narrowed down our list of more than 60 nominated champion anthems to your top 10 favourites.

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What Canadian song would get Rocky running up those stairs? Choose your favourite from the short list now:

Cast your vote, then check back this Friday to see which three songs landed on the podium. We'll reveal your number one choice this Friday on the R3-30, and on the blog at CBC Music.

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#1 posted by
ubiquita
on Aug 01, 2012

Argh! Tough choice! But I liked Electric Pow Wow Drum best.

#2 posted by
OpalJagger
on Aug 01, 2012

I voted for them too!

#3 posted by
mmckiver
on Aug 01, 2012

Electric Pow Wow Drum hands down!

#4 posted by
tonyarsenault
on Aug 01, 2012

Where's "Saturday Night", by The Dudes?? That should be the new Hockey Night in Canada anthem for sure!

#5 posted by
urbancree705
on Aug 01, 2012

Tribe Called Red ELECTRIC POW WOW!!!!! HANDS DOWN!

#6 posted by
Jeddore
on Aug 01, 2012

giving it to my tribe!

#7 posted by
Christine McAvoy
on Aug 01, 2012

Stadium Love!!!

#8 posted by
Benoit from Ottawa
on Aug 01, 2012

(From prev. blog, T&C: "someone walked off with my pyrex porridge container!

Darned lunchroom pilfering.")

The death penalty is too lenient.

#9 posted by
Benoit from Ottawa
on Aug 01, 2012

I'm waiting for the first WOOOOO!

#10 posted by
Benoit from Ottawa
on Aug 01, 2012

That's actually a then-original thought, isn't it?: No-one's getting out / Without stadium love!

#11 posted by
zoot aloors
on Aug 01, 2012

What, no D.O.A - World War III to vote for champthem?

Yep, you guys above have the winner pegged. A Tribe Called Red rules all.

#12 posted by
garfielduk
on Aug 01, 2012

@BfO, wrong blog post, we're here

#13 posted by
garfielduk
on Aug 01, 2012

@zoot, at leat you get a vote

#14 posted by
Funhog
on Aug 01, 2012

So is this where do we vote? I'll vote for A Tribe Called Red - Electric Pow Wow then.

#15 posted by
Benoit from Ottawa
on Aug 01, 2012

grf, thx.

#16 posted by
zoot aloors
on Aug 01, 2012

You'd probably vote Radio Radio - Jacuzzi if you had your druthers, eh, Garfy? I still love that tune, too!

#17 posted by
ejardin
on Aug 01, 2012

Out of that list it has to be Rich Aucoin or Classified :)

#18 posted by
garfielduk
on Aug 01, 2012

@zoot #16, that reminds me, I still need to pick up their last album

#19 posted by
zoot aloors
on Aug 01, 2012

This live version of The Crossover can be found on the CBC Radio Sessions 3 CD.

#20 posted by
Benoit from Ottawa
on Aug 01, 2012

Jacuzzi's the best because it's this close to leering.

#21 posted by
zoot aloors
on Aug 01, 2012

I do GL, but it's scratched beyond recognition.

#22 posted by
axis
on Aug 01, 2012

There's a button up there that says create your own poll now that I've voted. That's tempting.

#23 posted by
axis
on Aug 01, 2012

Arg, I thought it would let me make a poll on R3. It's not so much fun if it's just linking externally. :)

#24 posted by
garfielduk
on Aug 01, 2012

@axis, did it take you to surveymoney?

#25 posted by
zoot aloors
on Aug 01, 2012

You make up a poll, axis, and I'll vote on it! Book it.

#26 posted by
garfielduk
on Aug 01, 2012

survey monkey?

#27 posted by
onlytony
on Aug 01, 2012

only pow wow lives

#28 posted by
axis
on Aug 01, 2012

polldaddy. I'm not sure what I want to survey, the possibilities are making my head swim.

#29 posted by
zoot aloors
on Aug 01, 2012

@ axis- How many times will Grant accidentally blurt out "Olympics" during today's show.

#30 posted by
hotpants
on Aug 01, 2012

Electric Powwow is the only song on here that's anything close to a sports anthem! But is claiming this as Canada's "champthem" amount to an attempt to colonize or stake claim to Independent Aboriginal music? Don't get me wrong - it's still rad, but I bet those boys are going to laugh when they hear this one.

#31 posted by
zoot aloors
on Aug 01, 2012

hotpants, I would hope not!

My reaction to Electric Pow Wow was one of the defining musical moments that hit my ears this year. I felt both the modernity and the history of life in Canada. I respect that emotion very much, and that is why I voted that way.

#32 posted by
marie_curious
on Aug 01, 2012

I'm having trouble voting... I'm stuck between four:

Stadium Love - Metric

Wavin' Flag - K'naan

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

Electric Pow Wow Drum - A Tribe Called Red

#33 posted by
CBC Music
on Aug 01, 2012

Hey @marie_curious, the issue with the voting tool has been fixed.

#34 posted by
Katto H
on Aug 01, 2012

DIVINE FITS!!!!!!!!! Technically part Canadian. So excited for this album!

#35 posted by
Paul Fisher
on Aug 01, 2012

Okay.

Watching the Olympic swimming stream there was a crowd shot with some Canadians wearing amazing maple leaf pyjama pants. They rival Norwegian curling pants in awesome pantsness.

#36 posted by
Paul Fisher
on Aug 01, 2012

Whoops, wrong thread.

#37 posted by
PureDaisy
on Aug 01, 2012

I can't make the voting tool work either... But Electric Pow Wow definitely gets my vote.

Blood pumping, Canadiana warming in my heart.

#38 posted by
marie_curious
on Aug 01, 2012

@CBC Music: Not a technical problem, just a matter of personal taste.

#39 posted by
Brian Cauley
on Aug 01, 2012

my suggestion - Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" made it!!

#40 posted by
Bobisme
on Aug 01, 2012

None of these make good 'anthem' songs. You need something that's engergetic, has clear simple lyrics that people with little or no musical talant can sing along with and remember. The closest is Stadium Love but it would have to be remixed to have the lyrics louder than the music and be sung by someone who is enthusiastic. Electric Pow wow has the energy but between the lack of lyrics and the complex beat it's hard to get a group of people joining it. The rest are all low energy songs (and an anthem song shouldn't include the words "Everything is slow").

Don't get me wrong they are all good songs but they aren't anthems.

#41 posted by
lyndaler
on Aug 02, 2012

Indeed tough choice. I had earworms after listening to them. I fnally made my decision when I kept hearing two over and over in my head. Seriously, in a stadium or at a game...you're just going to be chanting a few phrases over and over...think of 'We are the Champions, We are the Champions'....What would be more spine tingling than hearing 30/40/50 thousand people chanting 'OH CAN-ADA.......OH CAN-ADA....OH CAN-ADA'...my vote is for Classified's 'Oh Canada'.

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