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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - 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/ Im 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 youre 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"