Tokyo Police Club And Joel Plaskett Emergency Take Two Buckys Apiece

12/20/07 5:30pm

Tokyo Police Club and Joel Plaskett Emergency were the only two-time winners of CBC Radio 3's Bucky Awards, which were voted on by fans in November.

The Toronto band with a Japanese city in their name were recognized for best gang vocals and bass line for their song, "Your English Is Good." Plaskett took the top video and best falsetto titles for "Fashionable People."

A Bucky Awards podcast and video podcast can be downloaded from the CBC Radio 3 website.

Here are all of the Bucky Award winners:

Catchiest Hook: Buck 65 — "Indestructable Sam"
Best Sweatin' To The Indies Workout Song: Chromeo — "Fancy Footwork"
Best Song Title: The Wet Secrets — "Grow Your Own Fucking Moustache, Asshole"
Best Lyric: 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")
Best Falsetto: Joel Plaskett Emergency — "Fashionable People"
Best Bass Line: Tokyo Police Club — "Your English Is Good"
Best Rap: Abdominal — "Pedal Pusher"
Best Road Trip Song: Two Hours Traffic — "Backseat Sweetheart"
Best New Band Name: Said The Whale
Best Yacht Rock: Patrick Watson — "Drifters"
Best Reason To Learn French (Excluding Giselle Webber): We Are Wolves — "Magique"
Most Unpronounceable Name: Basia Bulat
Best Gang Vocals: Tokyo Police Club — "Your English Is Good"
Best Song To Listen To In The Fetal Position: Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton — "Doctor Blind"
Song Most Likely To Be A Future Classic: Feist — "1234"
Best Video: Joel Plaskett Emergency — "Fashionable People"
Sexiest Canadian Musician: Peter Elkas
Musician Most Likely To Have A Future Career In Television: Shane Nelken (from The Awkward Stage)
Biggest Fan: Justin Beach
Old And Awesome Award: Bob Wiseman