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Pretend, Last Night I Dreamed and In View are the casualties in Round 1; off to Round 2!
Eliminated Round 1
Pretend
Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me
In View
Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on World Container and after 48 hours, we will remove the two songs that have the most votes. As before, a song must have at least 10% of the vote in order to be removed otherwise it will carry forward into the following round.
The poll will end Friday at 9:11am Eastern.
Happy voting!
Shane
We have only two songs eliminated in Round 2; Heaven is a Better Place Today and Summer's Killing Us are both leaving with 18 songs remaining.
Eliminated Round 1
Silver Jet
Boots or Hearts
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
As Makeshift We Are
Eliminated Round 2
Summer's Killing Us
Heaven is a Better Place Today
Vote for the song you think is weakest from That Night In Toronto and after 48 hours, we will remove the four songs with the most votes. As before, a song must have 10% of the votes in a round in order to be eliminated.
This round will end on Thursday at 9:29am Eastern.
Happy voting,
Shane
With Goodnight Josephine taking IBE, we are now onto World Container.
So far our champions are:
EP - Smalltown Bringdown
UTH - New Orleans is Sinking
RA - Three Pistols
FC - Locked in the Trunk of a Car
DFN - Nautical Disaster
TATH - Ahead by a Century
LBU - Grace, Too
PP - Emperor Penguin
M@W - Lake Fever
IVL - The Dire Wolf
IBE - Goodnight Josephine
YF - No Threat
Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on World Container and after 48 hours, we will remove the three songs that have the most votes. As before, a song must have at least 10% of the vote in order to be removed otherwise it will carry forward into the following round.
The poll will end Wednesday at 8:52am Eastern.
Happy voting!
Shane
Well, we got 25 votes so we will push forward with That Night In Toronto. We see Silver Jet, Boots or Hearts, Gus and Makeshift lead the voting in round 1. Here we go with round 2!
Eliminated Round 1
Silver Jet
Boots or Hearts
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
As Makeshift We Are
Vote for the song you think is weakest from That Night In Toronto and after 48 hours, we will remove the four songs with the most votes. As before, a song must have 10% of the votes in a round in order to be eliminated.
This round will end on Tuesday at 9:29am Eastern.
Happy voting,
Shane
I had forgotten that Sean had asked about doing this and since we did LBU, we might as well throw this into the mix as well.
Choose the song you believe to be the weakest on That Night In Toronto; after 48 hours we will remove the four songs with the most votes and move on to round 2. As before, a song must have at least 10% of the votes in a round to be eliminated or it will carrying into the following round.
This poll will end on Sunday at 9:00am Eastern.
Happy voting,
Shane
Before we move on to World Container, a brief check in with the two previously unreleased tracks on Yer Favourites.
Vote for the song you believe is the weaker of the two and after 48 hours, the song with the fewest votes will be the champion!
Voting will end Friday at 10:03am Eastern.
Shane
With New Orleans is Beat getting the majority of the votes, we have our final two.
Eliminated Round 1
Summer's Killing Us
Heaven Is A Better Place Today
Eliminated Round 2
The Heart of the Melt
One Night in Copenhagen
Eliminated Round 3
Mean Streak
You're Everywhere
As Makeshift We Are
Eliminated Round 4
It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
Eliminated Round 5
Are We Family
Eliminated Round 6
New Orleans is Beat
Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on In Between Evolution and after 72 hours, we will remove the song that has the most votes and the remaining song is the champion.
A couple of minor changes - 3 days of voting since we're starting on Saturday and I don't want anyone to miss out due to the weekend. Also, based on recommendations in the IVL final, I've added text to the poll options so hopefully there are no mistake votes.
The poll will end Tuesday at 9:07am Eastern.
Happy voting!
Shane
New month means new show!
For February, we tread into the waters of Trouble at the Henhouse.
This month's selection is brought to you by Hipbaser kieffer!
kieffer Wrote:I've settled on the following show: 1996-08-17 - Cleveland, Ohio.
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I chose this show simply because it was one I hadn't heard before and seemed interesting.
Some highlights from this show include:
"Some kids from grade 6 wrote the Hip a letter, asking
us what "Daredevil" was about, this is called "Gift Shop".
This is sort of what we wrote them back, because you can't
neglect a grade sixer. If you do, you ain't worth shit."
The show includes a 12 minute version of 100th that has snippets of Poets, Radio Show and possibly others I didn't pick up on during my first listen. NOIS also includes a very early version of Escape.
Closing out the main set with Put it Off was also something I don't think I've heard before.
Springtime In Vienna
Fully Completely
Gift Shop
Grace, Too
Butts Wigglin
Opiated
700 Ft. Ceiling
Flamenco
At The Hundredth Meridian
Don't Wake Daddy
Courage (for Hugh Maclennan)
Ahead By A Century
New Orleans Is Sinking
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
The Wherewithal
Put It Off
Encore
Nautical Disaster
Little Bones
Another great soundboard show! I did state in the last month's bootleg club that the Halifax 95 version of Opiated may be the best available, however I may need to wipe some egg off of my face with this version...
Hopefully I can create the poll correctly and we don't need a do-over this time. Are We Family is eliminated and we are left with the final three songs on In Between Evolution.
Eliminated Round 1
Summer's Killing Us
Heaven Is A Better Place Today
Eliminated Round 2
The Heart of the Melt
One Night in Copenhagen
Eliminated Round 3
Mean Streak
You're Everywhere
As Makeshift We Are
Eliminated Round 4
It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
Eliminated Round 5
Are We Family
Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on In Between Evolution and after 48 hours, we will remove the song that has the most votes.
The poll will end Saturday at 9:07am Eastern.
Happy voting!
Shane
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Pretty cool. Headed over to KEXP to hear some great lunchtime tunes and was greeted by a familiar, striking portrait.
KEXP is one of the best indie rock radio stations in the US. Love to see Gord getting some props here.
Here's the story:
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on The Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole, is “A Natural” by Gord Downie, a song from the album Introduce Yerself, which is available via Arts & Crafts.
As a richly observed evocation of childhood and summertime that deftly shifts between younger and older perspectives, Gord Downie’s “A Natural” would deliver an emotional wallop even if it didn’t carry the baggage it does. Nearly two years ago, the frontman of the Tragically Hip was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. Unsurprising given the band’s national-hero status up north, the Hip’s final tour in 2016 generated very big emotions. Yet more tears were shed when Downie died in October of last year at the age of 53. Such was the intensity of the collective grief, no one mocked Canada’s panda-hugging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for breaking down on camera as he spoke about Downie.
Written and recorded during his final months with the help of Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and other friends, Downie’s Introduce Yerself encapsulates a wide range of feelings as the end loomed. Since Downie was leaving four children behind, the songs that touch on his feelings as a parent may have the biggest impact. Yet “A Natural” boasts a sense of gentleness and joy rather than despair. Always a careful, detailed-oriented songwriter, Downie creates a vivid vignette that positions him as an observer of another kid – maybe a childhood BFF, maybe one of Downie’s own children – “taking deadly aim with your BB gun” at a row of cans and fully savoring the attention. Somewhere in there is a certain envy that adults feel about all the things that are gone to them but fresh to the kids in their lives, especially on those summer days that felt so endless. Downie sings it in an unhurried manner over the kind of spacious, low-key setting that was more characteristic of Downie’s idiosyncratic solo endeavors than the Hip’s more arena-ready rock sound.
And while his voice sometimes faltered during his band’s last shows, that edge of fragility adds yet more poignancy to the sentiment here, which is that the moments that often carry the most meaning are the ones that initially don’t seem to carry anything at all. As he sings, “I’ll probably miss those days whiled away with you spent on nothing much.”
“A Natural” is out now on streaming services and Gord Downie’s website and Facebook pages. Below, you can watch one of the Tragically Hip’s final performances.