u/BrF5

Hear that? The sounds of the whispering winds of shit. It was a blowout, with Lahey moving on to the next round.

Today’s matchup is:
Mike & Norm from Canmore (Air Farce) vs. The Great Root Bear (A&W)

To play, vote on either of the characters in today’s pairing to decide who moves on to the next round. The character with the most upvotes in each matchup advances until we declare our winner, “The Greatest Canadian Character”.

Notes:
• Two official ‘voting comments’ (with pictures of the characters) will be used to determine the winner. Feel free to upvote whatever and wherever else you like, but make sure you also upvote either of those two official comments if you want your vote to count.
• I’ll try to make these posts around the same time each day (~3:30-4:30 pm Eastern Time).
• For those asking, I used standard seeding practice of matching best against worst (#1 vs. #32, #2 vs. #31, #3 vs. #30, and so on) based on the voting results from nomination day.

I’m looking for songs that sound similar to:

Mgmt - kids
Mgmt - electric feel
Empire of the Sun - we are the people
Empire of the Sun - walking on a dream
Empire of the Sun - chrysalis
Tame impala - feels like we only go backwards
Tame impala - new person, same old mistakes
Foster the People - Helena Beat
Foster the People - Houdini
Foster the people - sit next to me
Foster the people - Pumped up kicks
Strfkr - open your eyes
Strfkr - being no one, going nowhere
Strfkr - tape machine
Strfkr - Atlantis
Børns - 10000 emerald pools
Sombr - back to friends
Angus & Julia Stone - Bug Jet Plane
Almost Monday - Can’t slow down

My reasoning:

BC: Gandalf (tall like giant trees, smokes a lot)
Alberta: Gollum (obsessed with precious oil & gas to the point of treachery)
Saskatchewan: Boromir (fell victim to a corrupting influence, still redeemable)
Manitoba: Legolas (can navigate harsh environments with ease)
Ontario: Frodo (the main character and core of the Fellowship…without them, there is no journey)
Quebec: Aragorn (used to cold northern wilderness, and second-in-command importance)
New Brunswick: Samwise (salt-of-the-earth, humble, and dependable)
Nova Scotia: Gimli (vaguely Scottish heritage)
PEI: Pippin (is smol)
Newfoundland: Merry (the life of the party)