Canadian music fans can now cast their votes for CBC Radio 3′s second annual Bucky Awards.
Voters get to have their say in a number of unconventional categories, including “Best Song To Listen To In A Fetal Position,” “Musician Most Likely To Have A Future Career In Television,” “Best Falsetto” and “Best Reason To Learn French (Excluding Giselle Webber).”
To vote, head over to http://radio3.cbc.ca/. You can vote once a day in each category until Nov. 30.
The Bucky Awards were created to celebrate and promote independent Canadian music.
In case you’re wondering, Bucky is the network’s unofficial mascot, a cartoon animal with the body of a duck and the head of a moose.
Here are the nominees for this year’s Bucky Awards:
Song Most Likely To Be A Future Classic:
- Arcade Fire — “Intervention”
- Feist — “1 2 3 4″
- Handsome Furs — “Cannot Get Started”
- The New Pornographers — “My Rights Versus Yours”
- The Weakerthans — “Civil Twilight”
Best Song To Listen To In The Fetal Position:
- Camaromance — “28 Balloons”
- Dustin Cole with The Specialest — “Oh! My Captain”
- Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton — “Doctor Blind”
- Lightning Dust — “Listened On”
- Octoberman — “Run From Safety”
Best Rap:
- Abdominal — “Pedal Pusher”
- Grand Analog — “I’ll Walk Alone”
- Josh Martinez — “Last Train”
- Notes To Self — “Lifelines”
- Politic Live featuring Rochester AKA Juice, Shad, Jerys and Oozeela — “Block O RMX”
Best Yacht Rock:
- Andrew Rodriguez — “Astonished Heart”
- Krief — “What We Wanted”
- Patrick Watson — “Drifters”
- Peter Elkas — “Fall Apart Again”
- Young Galaxy — “Swing Your Heartache”
Best New Band Name:
- Better Friends Than Lovers
- The Got To Get Got
- The Rural Alberta Advantage
- Said The Whale
- The Sweet Homewreckers
Best Gang Vocals:
- The Besnard Lakes — “Devastation”
- Carbon Dating Service — “Starbeat Academy Graduation March”
- The Choir Practice — “Red Fox”
- The Junction — “Components Of Four”
- Tokyo Police Club — “Your English Is Good”
Best Video:
- Bend Sinister — “Time Breaks Down”
- Cadence Weapon — “Sharks”
- Chad Vangaalen — “Flower Gardens”
- The Joel Plaskett Emergency — “Fashionable People”
- Malajube — “Etienne D’Aout”
Sexiest Canadian Musician:
- Grand Analog (Odario Williams)
- Melissa McClelland
- Maygen Kardash (from The Blood Lines)
- Peter Elkas
- Rufus Wainwright
Musician Most Likely To Have A Future Career In Television:
- Abdominal
- Joel Plaskett
- Ryan Guldemond and Kenton Loewen (from Mother Mother)
- Scott Ross (from The Dudes)
- Shane Nelken (from The Awkward Stage)
Best Lyric:
- Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton — “The Bank”
“Whatever it is, spit it into a bottle and sell it to me/ I’m looking to buy freedom from my sobriety/ Just like Huey Lewis, I need a new drug”
- Great Lake Swimmers — Your Rocky Spine
“I traced my finger along your trails/ your body was the map, I was lost in it/ Floating over your rocky spine/ the glaciers made you and now you’re mine”
- J-Bru featuring Classified and White Mic — “Put My Work In”
“Excuse me, are you from Canada?/ Oui, yes sir/ I got the heart of Trudeau/ but look like Guy Lafleur”
- The Two Koreas — “U-Boat Commander”
“You rushed the stage at the Morrissey show/ but you only touched the bassist”
- The Weakerthans — “Civil Twilight”
“For the most part I think about golfing and constantly calculate/ all the seconds left in the minutes, and so on, etcetera/ Or recite the names of provinces and Hollywood actors/ Oh, Ontario, oh, Jennifer Jason Leigh”
Most Unpronounceable Name:
- Anemones
- Basia Bulat
- Camaromance
- 9Nyne
- The Phonemes
Best Road-Trip Song:
- Jason Collett — “Reunion”
- Maybe Smith — “Hearts Like Bears”
- Po’ Girl — “9 Hrs To Go”
- Stars — “Take Me To The Riot”
- Two Hours Traffic — “Backseat Sweetheart”
Best Falsetto:
- Caribou — “Melody Day”
- The Joel Plaskett Emergency — “Fashionable People”
- Miracle Fortress — “Have You Seen In Your Dreams”
- Patrick Watson — “Luscious Life”
- Two Hours Traffic — “Nighthawks”
Best Song Title:
- The Consumer Goods — “Looking For Love (While) In(vading) The Muslim World”
- Donovan Woods — “My Cousin Has A Grey Cup Ring”
- The Got To Get Got — “No One Riots In Winter”
- Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy — “True Love Killed My True Love’s Love For Me”
- The Wet Secrets — “Grow Your Own Fucking Moustache, Asshole”
Best Reason To Learn French (Excluding Giselle Webber):
- Les Amis Au Pakistan — “Mon Soldat De Plomb”
- Karkwa — “La Fuite”
- Numero# — “J’amie La Bourgeoisie (Vive Le Rock)”
- Omnikrom — “NaNaNaNah”
- We Are Wolves — “Magique”
Best Sweatin’ To The Indies Workout Song:
- Champion — “Keep On (Champion’s Alternate Take)”
- Chromeo — “Fancy Footwork”
- Numero# — “J’aime La Bourgeoisie (Vive Le Rock)”
- Pride Tiger — “Let ‘Em Go”
- The Wet Secrets — “Secret Match”
Best Bass Line:
- Pride Tiger — “Sweet Dreams”
- Tokyo Police Club — “Your English Is Good”
- Two Koreas — “U-Boat Commander”
- The Western Investor — “If You Wanna Go”
- The Wet Secrets — “Secret Match”
Catchiest Hook:
- Akido — “Dancing In Chains”
- Buck 65 — “Indestructable Sam”
- Feist — “I Feel It All”
- The Saint Alvia Cartel — “Don’t Wanna Wait Forever”
- The Western Investor — “If You Wanna Go”
