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The Weakerthans

Voting for CBC Radio 3's Bucky Awards is underway, and Canadian music fans can choose their favourites in a variety of amusing categories until Nov. 30.

You can vote once per day in each category. So, without further ado, 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, et cetera/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"

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