OGIC: 50 Tracks, revisited

Lots of good feedback on last week’s link to CBC’s “50 Tracks,” much of it focused on the hip-hop. Quoth the ‘Fesser, “I bemoan the Clashlessness of the CBC list, and would toss 4 back, and ask the dealer for 4 new to go with Public Enemy as my hole card.” Musician extraordinaire and FOOGIC Kenneth Burns is more inclined to praise the panel for what they got right; one senses his expectations for this sort of exercise have been sanded down to a bare sliver: “The CBC is rightly taking pains to have its 80s ranking include hip-hop. It’s an essential 80s pop genre, but it’s routinely ignored in at least the more fatuous remembrances of the decade. I’m thinking especially of 80s radio stations, which