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  The New Alone

Posted by: pj105
08-27-2004, 09:49 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I just wanted to bring this band up, who opened for the Hip in Ottawa at this year's Bluesfest. Basically, they kicked ass, and blew me away - as I'm sure they did everyone else in the crowd.

Anyway, their website is finally up, www.thenewalone.com and you can hear some snippets from their upcoming dubut album, definately worth a listen!

-Patrick

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  one happy boy

Posted by: vicariousmartyr
08-27-2004, 07:18 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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So I get home from vacation, and whats waiting in the mailbox for me, but my very own new copy of Heksenketel, won off of ebay. Just thought I'd share my joy with you fine folks.

Think they'll ever release this on DVD?

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  cool album covers

Posted by: opiated
08-27-2004, 06:54 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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which i think today are a lost art...here's a couple i love.and i'm sorry..i can't seem to figure out how to put more than one attachment to a post

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  Bell tolls for Nova Scotia

Posted by: grooveless touque
08-27-2004, 04:23 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Well, that's it. The last oil and gas company has packed up and left town. After spending $80 million on a dry run, Marathon Petroleum has given up and plugged the well. Not one of the other expired contracts have been picked up, and after spending $1.2 billion since the Deep Panuke discovery SIX YEARS AGO, not another drop of oil has been found by any of the companies.

This has been the death knell of the offshore gas here...the bell tolls for we. None of the licenses are going to be renewed any time soon - AKA anytime at all. Looks like we've got another century on the losing end of things to contend with.

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  Solidarity, brother

Posted by: cferneyh
08-27-2004, 02:46 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Want a good chuckle? Look at what some of these clowns are going to paid this season (if there is a season):

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In particular, look at what Jagr, Yashin, Tkachuk, Leclair, Guerin, Holik, and Joseph are going to make.

Its sad to think of how a few moronic owners have screwed it for everyone else. Nice work New York! Nice work St. Louis!

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  ISO Promo Hip discs

Posted by: tim_mac
08-27-2004, 11:59 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I'm looking for promo hip discs, particulary Roxy and Elsewhere. I know it can be obtained from hundredthmeridian ftp site, but I'm looking for an original. Any suggestions other than looking at the hip merch on ebay periodically would be greatly appreciated. It seems that there are some singles released with live b tracks. I'm also interested in those as well. I live in St. Louis so finding one used at a store is fruitless. It is difficult to find anything other the IVL and IBE at stores.

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  Another ebay auction

Posted by: farmerdan
08-27-2004, 10:52 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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looks like the Ultimate Warrior has run out of $$

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  Anybody still looking for Gmail accounts? (sorry, all gone!)

Posted by: cferneyh
08-27-2004, 10:02 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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I've got four to give away. All you have to do is PM me with the correct answer to this trivia question:

What is your favourite Hip CD today?

First four with the correct answer get a gmail account!

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  Chicago

Posted by: Dire Wolf
08-27-2004, 08:35 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just booked our trip to Chicago. Anyone else planning a road trip to ChiTown?

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  Great Hip Review

Posted by: heavy liquid
08-27-2004, 07:34 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I hope this hasn't been posted before...

When I listen to CD's while I'm at work, I usually do so through Windows Media Player. I've gotten in the habit of clicking on the album cover to read the reviews of whatever I happen to be listening to at the time. Anyway, the review for IBE is great and well written! I also found it online:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg...jowojka~T1

The first few seconds of In Between Evolution offer a summation in miniature of both why the Tragically Hip are so great and why mainstream success has eluded them, at least in the United States. A distorted guitar chimes out a road-ready riff, soon joined by a taut rhythm section. Then lead singer Gordon Downie shouts out "Here's a glue guy, a performance God," in a pinched howl that sounds like it's ready to veer off-key at any second. That combination of arena rock and indie sensibility is exactly what fans have come to expect from the band; the approach isn't all that different from Pearl Jam's more recent work, except that Downie's lyrics have always been, well, weirder and more literate than the hits that took Pearl Jam to the top of the charts.

None of that explains why the Hip still sell out stadiums and sell millions of albums in their native Canada, but In Between Evolution is both accessible and challenging enough to satisfy longtime fans and newcomers. The slight dissonance that marks that opening track, "Heaven Is a Better Place Today," fits perfectly the combination of mourning and triumph that the band captures in the song, a tribute to hockey player Dan Snyder, who died in a car crash in late 2003. When Downie sings "If and when you get into that end zone, act like you've been there a thousand times before," he breathes new life into the tired sports cliché because what's come before is so evocative and honestly rendered, and also because there's not another cliché to be found for the duration of the album, which is one of the band's hardest rocking and most politically charged. "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" takes aim at Toby Keith and the mindless, macho jingoism he represents, while "Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park" further dissects the "us and them" mentality Downie sees overtaking the world around him, particularly in the U.S.

As usual, guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois offer sympathetic accompaniment, giving "Gus" a sinewy, sinister feel that perfectly mirrors the lyrics' portrayal of a beast out to destroy whatever frightens it. The band thunders through almost every track, a juggernaut of guitars and drums that lets up only toward the end, easing back on the sonic assault on the rueful "Are We Family," where Downie tries to comprehend our common humanity in the face of a world where we're "taking care of each other one bullet to another." In Between Evolution is as rewarding as it is relentless, another fine addition to the Tragically Hip's catalog of thinking person's rock.

~ Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, All Music Guide

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