My Concert Ticket Stubs 3rd Annual CFNY Canada Day Celebration 1989 Molson Park

  $3 Bucks to see The Tragically Hip, The Spoons, Sarah McLachlan, and some other fantastic music, and to end the night we would always find our way to the top of the hill, stretch out on our backs and wait for the music to start that kicked off the fireworks… wonderful memories of a time gone by.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

CFNY "The Spirit of Radio" – Best of 1983

    Back when Toronto radio station CFNY "The Spirit of Radio" was worth its weight in music I listened to it religiously, but as the years went on and they played the same song 6 or 7 times a day I lost all interest. Now thanks to the The CFNY Spirit Of Radio Fan Page I have been compiling videos off of YouTube to go along with the year end "Best Of" lists that they have gathered and displayed on the website. So if you want to have your very own "Retro Night" press play on this Best of 1983 list and enjoy.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

CFNY: 30 Years Ago

     This New Year's Eve was turning out to be the usual for me, the usual being staying in, rockin' the M&M's Oriental Party Pack and watching the ball drop online....but there was more this year.

   A week before or so I had been poking around this great website called 'The CFNY Spirit Of Radio Fan Page'; they have everything you want to know about the heyday of Toronto's CFNY (when it was the Spirit of Radio). I got looking at the old year-end chart lists, some of them very good; in 1984 the Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves record was #1 …and some really bad, the years '89 & '90 saw both New Kids on the Block and Vanilla Ice make appearances on the charts. So I thought it would be fun to pick a list and post videos to go along with all of the artists. I decided on the 1982 list "CFNY's The Best Damn Music of '82"...a list of the top 82 records from 1982 that was tabulated from votes cast by CFNY listeners. It turned out to be more work than I had expected but I love doing things like this and I have gotten some really positive feedback for it. 

So here's the link to the complete list on YouTube and here is the actual list so you can follow along (just click on the pic so you can read it)

Look for the 1983 YouTube Chart List coming soon.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

What's On My Turntable?

      So What’s On My Turntable Today?  Well today we have the 1984 Record “It’s My Life” by Talk Talk.

     I never really liked the Synthpop label that was used to describe Talk Talk, yes they used Synth’s, but there was much more to them and the much more I speak of is the voice of Mark Hollis. We all know of those bands that if their lead singer up and quit there would be no way in hell that they could carry on under their current name, well Talk Talk was one of those bands. Mark Hollis just has one of those voices that is so distinct that no one could even come close to copying it.

     From “Dum Dum Girl” to “Such a Shame” this record just screams listen to me more, the way the vocals dance with the instrumentation is like listening to a wave. I remember when the video for “It’s My Life” started getting play on Much Music and CFNY in Toronto added “Such a Shame” and “It’s My Life” to their rotation, the bands success skyrocketed but they still had that “indie” feel to them…which was cool in my books. Hollis retired from the music business years ago .  

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS