Even though our traditional alliances at the Straight run towards unvarnished punk, gunsmoke country, underground alternative, classic hip-hop, and candy-crunch pop, we’ll argue long and hard that “Turn Me Loose” is one of the greatest songs ever to come out of this waterlogged (even in summer) city.
Need proof? Glad you asked.
Back in 2017, when the Straight was celebrating its half-century anniversary, the good-ship-lollipop’s various music obsessives came up with a list of the 50 best albums in the history of Vancouver—one for each year of the paper’s existence. You can read about the 50 albums that shaped Vancouver here.
Because that list predictably made everyone (except for those on it) irate, we followed that up with a secondary list titled, “The Straight’s highly subjective list of the 50 best-ever songs to spring from Vancouver”. Before you click through here, feel free to guess our all-time number one pick. And if you disagree, sorry, but you’re wrong.
Loverboy’s “Turn …