Each week Peter your musical archeologist unearths a CJSW chart from the past as featured in the annals of Vox magazine. Listen to how these building blocks of indie rock echo down through the music of today.
Top Of The Vox for 1989Playlist: The Waterboys - Fisherman's BluesLou Reed - Hallowen ParadeXTC - King For A DayGravity Thugs - Shotgun LoveSame Difference - Cigarette (You Say)Big Bang Theory - Battle Cry Of FreedomCitrus Park - The Morning At HomeProclaimers - My Old Friend The BluesThe The - The Beat(en) GenerationPublic Image Ltd - DisappointedWestern Bloc - Broken Glass HymnHuttch - Full SpeedAxiology - Winter QueenThe Drin - Lease On Life
Top 50 Albums of '87 VOX v.49Playlist: Husker Du - These Important YearsThe Replacements - Can't Hardly WaitThe Cure - Why Can't I Be You?Jr. Gone Wild - CosmosFuneral Factory - Heartbreak Hotel54-40 - One Day In Your LifeJerry Jerry & The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra - MistakenPrince - Starfish And CoffeeR.E.M. - Ages Of YouSinead O'Connor - MandinkaTurnarounds - Breaking SignsLaughing - BruisedJay Eye - SomethingGolomb - Sixth Sense
Top of the Vox January 1987Playlist: XTC - Season CycleThe Smiths - AskNew Order - Bizarre Love TriangleThe Lucy Show - A Million ThingsNo Limbo Lasso - TreesBig Bang Theory - SympathizeRip Chords - Living Like GamblersWorld Party - Ship Of FoolsSNFU - I ForgetSpirit Of The West - The Crawl [Symphony Version]La Luz - Good Luck With Your SecretBridgeland - DisappearerSoftcult - Spiralling OutIron Tusk - Pagan
April 2011Playlist: The Raveonettes - IgnitePeter Bjorn & John - Second ChanceTV On The Radio - Will DoLab Coast - Pictures On The WallSamantha Savage Smith - The ScorePapermaps - Can't Make A LivingTimber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' OnMountain Goats - Damn These VampiresRadiohead - Lotus FlowerLow - Try To SleepThe Hi-Tops - Waking UpGlitter Glue - One Of The BoisDBR - Small AmountBring On The Storm - Visionary
Sled Island 2010Playlist: Built To Spill - HindsightTed Leo and the Pharmacists - The Mighty SparrowBlack Lips - New DirectionWomen - Heat DistractionMark Sultan - Go BeserkJane Vain & The Dark Matter - C'mon Baby Say Bang BangNight Committee - Amen/GangwayDeerhoof - The Tears Of Music And LoveDinosaur Jr. - PiecesMariachi El Bronx - Revolution GirlsTwelve Gage Brewer - Occam's RazorDump Babes - Known LiarBlue Odeur - DownKristjan Eastman - Power Man And Astro Girl
Sled Island 2008Playlist: Drive-By Truckers - The Righteous PathDodos - FoolsOf Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean CurseThe Wet Secrets - Secret MarchTegan & Sara - The ConChad VanGaalen - Burn 2 AshWoodpigeon - If Only I Were A Painter, I'd Paint For You The MoonDeerhunter - CryptogramsYo La Tengo - Mr. ToughKara Keith - Kick This CityHeavydive - AftersunMotorists - DeciderCrooked Spies - VanityBootlicker - Billionaire Bunker
August 2007Playlist: Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry BombThe Rentals - Little Bit Of You In EverythingLiars - HousecloudsHot Little Rocket - Call The Wedding OffFucked Up - For My FriendsWax Mannequin - Animals JumpRaising The Fawn - Palace GatesBad Religion - Requiem For DissentPissed Jeans - A Bad WindBattles - AtlasFlood Plain - Bow Rivers RisenThe Anti-Queens - Love's Heavy BurdenCosmic Club - Don't Dream At NightLightning Bug - Morrow Song
December 2005Playlist: Son Volt - Bandages & ScarsTapes 'N Tapes - Crazy EightsClap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love?Cripple Creek Fairies - Livin' LargeBroken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd BoyCaribou - Melody DayKnucklehead - SheltersSinead O'Connor - Throw Down Your ArmsLagwagon - AutomaticPropagandhi - A Speculative FictionScratch Buffalo - You Got Me ShakingLittle Super Dangerous - Love 2 BurnMeatbodies - Criminal MindsGeo - Is Set Free
June 2003Playlist: Yo La Tengo - Little EyesStarlight Mints - Brass DiggerStephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Vanessa From QueensNew Pornographers - The Laws Have ChangedCripple Creek Fairies - We Are The BombMico - Cheers For SubversionMoneen - Are We Happy With Who We Are Right Now?The Hidden Cameras - Ban MarriageBuzzcocks - Sick City SometimesWire - In The Art Of StoppingThe Wesleys - Death By The BiteNo Brainer - Broke & BrokenThe Ar-Kaics - CornerstoneYard Act - We Make HitsBuffalo Bud Buster - Mixtape
March 2002Playlist: Idaho - Wandering The FieldsTanya Donelly - Days Of GraceCranes - Don't Wake Me UpThe Primrods - Take It OutsideSquare Root of Margaret - All Blonde TreesThe Plaid Tongued Devils - MiserlouSet Fire To Flames - There Is No Dance In Frequency And Balance...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Days Of Being WildDe La Soul - Watch Out feat. Jose 'Perico' HernandezBad Religion - SorrowMETZ - Glass EyeSchedule 1 - Nothing At AllThe Jesus and Mary Chain - Girl 71Alejandro Escovedo - John Conquest
April 2000Playlist: Beck - Mixed BiznessThe Apples In Stereo - Stream Running OverPedro The Lion - Never Leave A Job Half DoneCarolyn Mark - EdmontonHot Little Rocket - Suit UpTristan Psionic - Red DotsKid Koala - Fender BenderModest Mouse - Never Ending Math EquationThe Cure - Maybe SundayGiant Sand - ShiverHigh Five - Weight Shifts To The Open AirDucks Ltd - Train Full Of GasolineJ Mascis - You Don't Understand MeOmni - Common Mistakes
November 1998Playlist: Beck - Nobody's Fault But My OwnPJ Harvey - The WindPortishead - All MineThe Von Zippers - We Better Get ReadyHot Little Rocket - Velvet AddressAirship One - Airship DownGreat Uncle Bull - Bury Me Beneath The WillowMudhoney - OblivionCake - Never ThereFrank Zappa - Agency ManSunglaciers - CursedVailhalen - Golden AgeSheer Mag - Playing FavoritesTouching - CauldronCongealed Flesh - Heavy Scarring
January 1997 VOX v.155Playlist: Wilco - Outta Mind (Outta Sight)Guided By Voices - Heavy Metal CountryJon Spencer Blues Explosion - Chicken DogAirship One - Love SpielThe Shinolas - PreoccupationSoft Tips - Beginning To ShowLotus Galaxy - Misanthropic MeChavez - Our Boys Will Shine TogetherLuscious Jackson - Naked EyeLois - Capital APointed Sticks - SnapshotSpectres - Chain ReactionThe Black Keys - On The GameVarious Artists - I Remember - The Grinning Barretts
January 1996 VOX v.143Playlist: Pere Ubu - Beach BoysBoss Hog - SickMojo Nixon - Girlfriend In A ComaThe Primrods - Army PicnicCurse Of Horseflesh - Long Tall TexanThe Von Zippers - Out Of Our TreeFord Pier - It Hurts When I ExhaleStereolab - French DiskoSparklehorse - Sad And Beautiful WorldSuper Deluxe - She Came OnSunglaciers - I Remember The DaysParlour Panther - OMGBluffing - Fragile EgoLamniformes - Prayer Of The Open Plain
June 1994 VOX v.124Playlist: Hole - PlumpHeavens To Betsy - AxemenGreen Day - BurnoutElmo's Dream - Seeing ThingsMaud - I-95Glider - Bridge BurnerWild Strawberries - Life Sized Marilyn MonroeElvis Costello - 13 Steps Lead DownThe Magnetic Fields - The Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She SentMorrissey - The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I GetVailhalen - Frozen EvilPharmax - On My OwnSheer Mag - Mechanical GardenPowerwasher - Same Time / Same Channel
April 1993 VOX v. 110Playlist: Daniel Ash - BluebirdNova Mob - Shoot Your Way To FreedomNOFX - Please Play This Song On The RadioField Day - TimeJeff Kushner - WaterKilgore Trout - Saturday GirlSpy Lemon - 4 WatersSloan - LemonzingerNeil Young - Unknown LegendUltra Vivid Scene - CandidaHomeshake - Letting GoMother Mother - The MatrixOmni - Plastic PyramidMannequin Pussy - Loud Bark
Best Of 1992 VOX v. 107Playlist: XTC - Wrapped In GreyTeenage Fanclub - What You To Do MeSugar - If I Can't Change Your MindSloan - SugartuneFurnaceface - About To DrownJerry Jerry & The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra - Jimmy ReevesJr. Gone Wild - Just The Other DaySonic Youth - Youth Against FascismBuffalo Tom - Velvet RoofThrowing Muses - FirepileChurch Of Trees - Pet SemataryDucks Ltd - The Main ThingBrass Lip - The Pearlthe umbrellas - GoneJ Mascis - Can't Believe We're Here
August 1991 VOX v.90Playlist: Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car DriverVolcano Suns - Total EclipseThe Candy Skins - Submarine SongQuitters - White InsideHuevos Rancheros - Rumbletion - Rage13 Engines - King Of Saturday NightThe Silencers - Hey Mr. Bank ManagerMazzy Star - Blue FlowerBlake Babies - NirvanaErin Ross - Grease And GasolineMean Jeans - Break Up With YouR.M.F.C. - Rock TuneChemtrails - Business Class War Paint
February 1990 VOX v.74Playlist: The Psychedelic Furs - HouseGrant Hart - Twenty-Five Forty-OneMelvins - At A CrawlEnemy Mind Feel - Church Of The One ElectronD.O.A - Where Evil GrowsSattalites - Too Late To Turn Back NowJames Keelaghan - Red River RisingLes Thugs - Dead DreamsVoodoo Gearshift - China WallHalf Japanese - Lucky StarGolden Lava Club - Charismatic LeaderBrass Lip - The PearlPylon Reenactment Society - Fix ItIDLES - Dancer
January 1989 VOX v.61Playlist: Sugarcubes - BirthdayPixies - Where Is My Mind???Talking Heads - Totally NudeColor Me Psycho - Untamed WorldCowboy Junkies - Sweet JaneSons Of Freedom - The CriminalNoMeansNo - The Day Everything Became NothingPogues - Turkish Song Of The DeadRobyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Balloon ManPrince - I Wish U HeavenFlood Plain - Hard TimesHot Garbage - LoweringLiquor Store - Not MarioDismania - Denying The Rot
March 1987 VOX v.38Playlist: Los Lobos - Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)The Stranglers - Always The SunCamper Van Beethoven - Devil SongBig Bang Theory - ColourLiquid Light - I'm So Glad About Dyin'Tau Ceti - It's All Too MuchNo Limbo Lasso - TreesAnimal Slaves - Garbage SongThis Mortal Coil - I Want To LiveThe Mission - WastelandStolen Moon - Sunday MorningThe Dead South - A Little DevilGrazia - CheapSleater-Kinney - Needlessly Wild
January 1986 VOX v.25Playlist: The Replacements - Bastards Of The YoungHusker Du - Divide And ConquerSiouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In DustThe Lucy Show - UndoneGrapes of Wrath - Love Comes AroundGolden Calgarians - Guitar CurseTau Ceti - RadiationKate Bush - Hounds Of LoveThe Cure - In Between DaysThe Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His SideRedhead Mack Band - Desert Is A Hard PlaceJulius Sumner Miller - Never Gonna' HappenWACK - Blue LagoonPile - Exits Blocked
January 1985 VOX v.14 - The Best of Top of the Vox IIPlaylist: The The - The Sinking FeelingThe Smiths - Hand In GloveThe Cramps - Human FlyRip Chords - Language In DisorderBruce Cockburn - Lovers In A Dangerous TimeImages In Vogue - Rescue MeNash the Slash - Hey JoeTones On Tail - HappinessX - Poor GirlHunters & Collectors - 42 WheelsDial Up - Killer Flowers On The MoonMotoroshno - Pale HorseStill Ruins - Left AgainstTy Segall - Reflections
The Best Of Top Of The Vox 1984 v.14Playlist: XTC - Wake UpThe Cure - The CaterpillarEcho & The Bunnymen - Seven SeasThe Lucy Show - The Price Of LoveThe Golden Calgarians - Thousand ChainsThe Nex'd - One Hand ClappingOhama - Midnite NewsHusker Du - Chartered TripsJason & The Scorchers - Both Sides Of The LineR.E.M. - Second GuessingFlood Plain - Heart Of The CityElijah Lucian - WorkLiquor Store - Safety MeetingAlien Boys - Anecdote Master
All Your Ears Can Hear: Underground Music in Victoria, BC 1978-1984Playlist: Infamous Scientists - Canada's PissedPink Steel - Here We Go AgainAutomatic Shock - MushroomsNomeansno - Almost Like HomeThe Keys - Ups & DownsEasy Money - No Stranger To DangerThe Trouble Boys - Not So BadThe Sickfucks - P.O.W.The Tumours - It Hurts When I ThinkRed Tide - It's More A FeelingThe Salty Seamen - CufaFishe Townsen - Fishe PunkeHot Garbage - LoweringPsychedelic Porn Crumpets - Cpt. Gravity Mouse WelcomeTurnarounds - Wasted Summer
New Wave 1970sPlaylist: X-Ray Spex - I Am A PoseurGary Numan - MetalDevo - Smart/PatrolRough Trade - ShakedownThe Payola$ - China BoysMartha and the Muffins - Insect LoveThe Dishes - Police BandB-52's - 52 GirlsThe Jam - Down In The Tube Station At MidnightMadness - One Step BeyondWild Coulee - Let Them OutPearly Moon - (I've Been) Waiting For The DayYoung Neighbours - Slow RebellionLol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - We Got To Move (with Isaac Brock)
Power Pop III 1970sPlaylist: Badfinger - Know One KnowsThe Scruffs - She Say YeaDwight Tilley Band - I'm On FirePezband - Stop! Wait A MinutePointed Sticks - What Do You Want Me To Do?The 'B' Girls - 'B' SideThe Mods - Step Out TonightEasy Money - Getting LostTodd Rundgren - I Saw The LightRichard Lloyd - Should Have Known BetterOff Broadway USA - Full Moon Turn My Head AroundThe Real Kids - All Kindsa GirlsAstrocaster - Getting OldDe Bouquet - When I SayThe Knot No Howz - Don't BotherA Giant Dog - I Believe
Sled Island 2012Playlist: Thurston Moore - CirculationThe Hold Steady - The WeekendersStephen Malkmus & The Jicks - TigersNight Committee - Amen/GangwayCowpuncher - Light That Never ShinesShadowy Men On Shadowy Planet - Having An Average WeekendDuchess Says - Subtraction Of ObedienceTeledrome - ReplacementsLadyhawk - FootprintsLou Barlow - SharingTori Morley - Eyebrow HighbrowMusing - Hurry WaitIn Search of Sasquatch - StayViji - Anything
Sled Island 2011Playlist: The Raveonettes - IgniteWild Flag - RomanceMoon Duo - CirclesLab Coast - Happy Go LuckyMiesha & the Spanks - Drop The AnchorThe Shrapnelles - Desert FursSamantha Savage Smith - The ScoreDum Dum Girls - There Is A Light That Never Goes OutLee Ranaldo - Off The WallBuzzcocks - What Do I Get?Western Bloc - Time MachineThe Muster Point Project - Grub StreetNight Lunch - I Think You Love Her More Than MeAstrocaster - The MachineDismania - Maize
Sled Island 2009Playlist: Githead - Before TomorrowThe Blind Shake - Soft ZodiacThe Pack A.D. - CrazyPine Tarts - CityThe Bownesians - Echo BeachJapandroids - Young Hearts Spark FireThe Evaporators - Oh NonWomen - Black RiceNovillero - Lost PossibiltiesMonotonix - My NeedsNo Museums - Does It Even Float?Victrix - DysfunctionalSmall Pleasures - New YearBaby Jey - Little TroubleHot Bagels - Red Sweater
Sled Island 2007Playlist: Spoon - The UnderdogThe Walkmen - Lost In BostonTwin Fangs - More Can Go WrongHot Little Rocket - Cough Me OutDestroyer - 3000 FlowersChad VanGaalen - Burn 2 AshJane Vain & The Dark Matter - C'mon Baby Say Bang BangCat Power - The GreatestEx-Boyfriends - Chinese New Year In VancouverVailhailen - Pop ViolenceMilk For The Angry - Four Letter FriendHard Copy - AirlinesPip Blom - Where'd You Get My Number?Boris the Forest - Her Name Was Beautiful
April 2005Playlist: Doves - Black And White TownSpoon - Sister JackM.I.A. - SunshowersFalconhawk - Try A Little LongerChixdiggit - Paint Her ToenailsAgriculture Club - Strong And FreeA Northern Chorus - WinterizeKills - Rodeo TownBloc Party - BanquetTheivery Corporation - The Heart's A Lonely Hunter (feat. David Byrne)The Knot No Howz - Mustang RidePaige Drobot - Formula Of Grand DesignWet Dip - StrayA Giant Dog - Happiness Awaits Inside
January 2003Playlist: The Raveonettes - Attack Of The Ghost RidersJets to Brazil - You're The One I WantRoots - Rock YouLorrie Matheson - Waiting For The WeightTegan And Sara - Living RoomThe Sadies - Monkey & CorkHot Hot Heat - Talk To Me, Dance With MeBeck - The Golden AgePaul Weller - Now The Night Is HerePretenders - Walk Like A PantherDe Bouquet - In A Months TimeIn Search of Sasquatch - ZipperNight Lunch - Flames Of LoveMalled - PacerCitric Dummies - Drugs In The Snow
Guest Host Steve August 1995 / Vox Magazine, Issue 138Playlist: Huevos Rancheros - 64 Slices Of American CheezeBruce McCulloch - EraserheadFugazi - Latest DisgraceThe Super Friendz - 10 lbs.Sloan - Stood UpThe Hardship Post - Garbage TruckDBS - Won't ForgetSeam - Halo ReduxTrusty - There Goes SallyHissanol - AnamoshKendra Smith - In Your HeadC.O.F.F.I.N - Night BreakerZoo! - Sweet Talkin'Silicone Prairie - CowsSunforger - Jump InHalf Dreams - Too MuchPJ Harvey - A Noiseless Noise
October 1999Playlist: Cafe Tacuba - La LocomotoraLos Lobos - Turn AroundGuided By Voices - Surgical FocusHuevos Rancheros - The WedgeAaron Booth - Stay On The GroundJoel Plaskett - Weigh It DownJulie Doiron & The Wooden Stars - Gone GoneLuscious Jackson - LadyfingersSuperchunk - 1000 PoundsThe Flaming Lips - A Spoonful Weighs A TonThe Deadly Skulls - The Sound Of NothingC.O.F.F.I.N - Keep It DarkWants - DeclineApollo Suns - Sisyphus
December 1997 VOX v.166Playlist: Superchunk - The Popular MusicHelium - Devil's TearPlumtree - You Just Don't ExistThousandsticks - SecondhandThe Von Zippers - Wife Swappin' SantaPuritans - Possum = S.O.B.The New 1-2 - Telescoping HeroesSilver Scooter - Solid GlassStereolab - Ticker-Tape Of The UnconsciousPortishead - Only YouCivilization Days - DestinationsZoo! - Watchout For SasquatchThe Spanish Flies - El TiempoVoid Comp - Reflector
September 1995 VOX v. 139Playlist: Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's DreamThe Pietasters - Maggie MaeSicko - RehashedLemonjade - HairpinJigsaw - LazyYr Scapegoat - Twenty Twenty ForesightMaud - Sink Or SwimPrimus - Wynona's Big Brown BeaverFugazi - Bed For The ScrapingThe Supersuckers - Born With A TailDefective Lingerie - Beauty In Your EyesGourd - Shape ShifterMSTRBSTRD - HimSingle Bullet Theory - Winter Is Melting AwaySick Thoughts - My Heart Is Breaking Over YouSquelch - Blame Game
Funding Drive 2023 - One Radio, Endless AdventurePlaylist: Queen II - Ogre BattleDio - Killing The DragonMetalhawk - Game Of Thrones ThemeBlack Mountain - Queens Will PlaySpinal Tap - StonehengeSavatage - Hall Of The Mountain KingVisigoth - Dungeon MasterKing Gizzard & Lizard Wizard - The Lord Of LightningHoward Shore - The End Of All Things
February 1993 VOX v. 108Playlist: Sebadoh - Brand New LoveBeat Happening - Sleepy HeadWeen - Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)Brass - Voice Of HateHuevos Rancheros - Cindy With An SRed Autumn Fall - Beyond The Fiery HillGiant Sand - NowhereGumball - Tell Me Have You Ever Seen MeMudhoney - Blinding SunSwirlies - Didn't Understandyep - Waters Of MarchBeams - Morning WaitsThe Deadly Skulls - #1 In SwedenC.O.F.F.I.N - Cut You Off
January 2006Playlist: Beck - Ghost Range [Remix By Homelife]Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On IceAnimal Collective - BeesWoodpigeon - Jonathan Ashworth RollercoasterKnucklehead - SheltersThe Pants Situation - High FiveTwin Fangs - More Can Go WrongPink Martini - LillyBlockhead - The Art Of Walking [feat. Cage]Minus Story - Knocking On Your HeadLa Sécurité - Hot TopicHarsh - BurdChirchLeather Jacuzzi - Warm WormPrivate Wives - Pity Party
February 2004Playlist: Mekons - Work All WeekShins - Saint SimonStrokes - Meet Me In The BathroomEvaporators - (I've Got) Icicles On My TesticlesThe Unicorns - Ghost MountainChad VanGaalen - I Miss You Like I Miss YouThe Stills - Of MontrealAir - Surfing On A RocketStereolab - Cosmic Country NoirDescendents - Here With MeTough Age - Give It A DayTaxi Girls - Good GraceDeep Covers - SimulacrumBig Blood - In My HeadSweeping Promises - Connoisseur Of Salt
May 2002Playlist: Paul Westerberg - Mr. RabbitCornershop - The London RadarBuffalo Daughter - Volcanic GirlRadiogram - Love VigilantesYoung and Sexy - The City You Live In Is UglyHot Hot Heat - 5 Times Out Of 100Porter Hall - That November, This ResponseWeezer - SlaveThe White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty GroundFace To Face - Bill Of GoodsGood Looking Son - Confirmed BachelorChinos - Haley Was A CometOranje - Good BoyOwls & Eagles - Leave Me Be