I don’t know if it’s because of the recession, because nobody expected the Canadiens to even make the playoffs – much less be able to compete against the Washington Capitals – or just because the Justiciers Masqués aren’t on the air anymore, but the number of Habs songs and Habs-related song parodies produced in preparation for this year’s playoffs is pretty sad compared to previous years.
And if there was ever a year we needed more songs, it’s this one. We can’t just take the songs from last year and replay them – it’s hard to get excited about Saku Koivu, Alex Kovalev, Mike Komisarek and Christopher Higgins since they all play for other teams now.
Still, a few amateur songsters have stepped up to the challenge:
Les Canadiens
by Clermont (featuring Kra-Z-Noize)
Montreal Canadiens 2010 playoff song
by Vince Colletti/Tanya Kassabian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtnicmGhXfg
Go Canadiens!
by Alex G.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1fzkvHMTA
Make it 25!
by Alex G. (also available in French)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUNBp6spgs
Go Habs Go! (Séries 2010)
by Martin Scully
CH en série
(also translated – badly – into English)
Habs Romance
by Patrick Charles, Cat Spencer and Mark Bergman for CJFM. Sung by Lissa Vescio
UPDATE:
Feels like ’93 (2010 version)
by Annakin Slayd
Habs Fight (woo-hoo!)
by CHOM FM
The Cheese of Philadelphia
by Daniel Iorio
Je déteste les Flyers
by Justiciers Masqués
Bye Bye Flyers
by Virgin Radio
Gold’Halak
by Porn Flakes
Stand By Your Habs
by Christopher Pennington and Felicity Hamer
Old stuff that’s still good
And there are those songs from previous years that don’t reference any individual players (by far the minority) or reference some of the few still around:
Go Habs Go!
by Christopher Pennington
Bring the Cup Back Home
by Daniel Iorio
via Team 990
Bleu Blanc Rouge la chanson
via CKAC
Ghosts of the Forum
by Bob Olivier and Sylvie Choquette
via Team 990
Go Go Habs Go
by Éric Allar
La coupe est à Montréal
Les Habitants Go Habs Go
by Vilain Pingouin
Go Habs Go (Nous sommes les plus forts) (YouTube)
by Marc Onana
Halak!
And in honour of our goaltender:
Halak (Get Back)
by Justiciers Masqués
Chanson de Halak
via CKAC
This parody of Brown Eyed Girl actually dates from December 2007 – when Halak was a backup to Cristobal Huet and David Aebischer.
And finally…
In case we win this series against the Capitals:
Let’s have a riot
by Paul Brown, The Paul Brown Show on Edmonton’s The Bear 100.3
Go Habs Go!
totalement d’accord avec toi! je suis tellement déçue qu’il n’y ait pas plus de chansons d’encouragement pour le CH en séries 2010… je m’attendais au moins à ce que NRJ et CKOI en fasse une… mais bon! j’aime bien le premier que t’as mis : “Les Canadiens” Clermont feat. Kra-Z-Noize
je présume qu’il faudra attendre à ce que le CH atteigne la finale pour espérer quelques chansons *officielles*?
To be fair, everytime they came out with an awesome song, Habs didn’t make it far! They didn’t do one this year, and they come back after game 2 with home-ice advantage against the team with the best record in the league.
Tell you what! Just make a really good one when the Habs win the Cup! ;) (nb: I didn’t say this year! ;) )
The second song’s OK, but when I first heard the music to Sweet Caroline, I thought, oh, no.