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  GD Belleville Show Review

Posted by: tigerthelion88
06-20-2010, 02:17 AM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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Setlist(notorderd) (Edited with all songs)

the dance and its dissapearance
figment
christmastime in toronto
vancouver divorce
yer psosessed
who by rote
east wind
as a mover
11th fret
the drowning machine
moon over glenora
night is for getting
--i missed the opener :what, and maybe another , 2nd was figment, closer was night for getting

--the set was great and so was GD
-"a shooting seagull"
-"go protest something"

------big sugar was awesome!; traffic ,marley cover, ended with the national anthem on a two neck'er
---finger eleven was great too; they were the most nsync with the crowd, pretty cool, and ended with a paralyzer-(i forgot)-zeppelin-another brick in the wall-paralyzer
-- collective, meh
--zz; wicked ,,,,killler screen background, wit a dedication to jimi;, onesong; hey joe-purple haze-spanish castle magic-joe

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  ATTN MAV: hip site giant wtf-ery

Posted by: Graham
06-19-2010, 01:51 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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"thehip dot com" lasts about 2 seconds...then redirects to "linkbucks dot com" which is giant whatthefuckery.

My GF is sitting here saying maybe you didn't renew the site or something or other, but if you just google "thehip" I am free to browse the gift shop, which was my target destination in the first place.

Just lettin you know.

Anyone else have this weirdo thing happen to them?

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  Death Cab on The Hip in Pemberton video?

Posted by: sean.bonner
06-18-2010, 12:26 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hey everybody,
I've tried a search to find this video on this site, google, and mtv.ca, as I think that is where the video was from. Alas, I have come up with nothing.
Can anybody point me in the right direction to find this video?

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  World Cup of Rock - Vote Hip!

Posted by: Shane Kroeker
06-17-2010, 10:24 PM
Forum: [Hip 64] - The Great Match Up
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Well it seems as though the good folks at 92CITI fm winnipeg snaked my bracketed tournament concept and used it for 64 classic rock bands against each other. Instead of whining about it, I am urging all Hipbasers to rise up and let the hip take the championship!
TTH defeated U2 in an upset in the first round.
They take on CCR in the second round. Voting is hourly, so check often!
visit http://www.92citifm.ca/feature/
**Note that you do not need to sign up to vote!

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  Gord Downie - Buck 65 - Collaboration

Posted by: Tthip
06-16-2010, 03:26 PM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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...the EP '20 Odd Years: Volume 1 -- Avant.' On this first installment, singer Jenn Grant tempers Buck 65's gruff delivery with a sweet melody on the track 'Who by Fire,' while Coral Osborne, daughter of 54-40 frontman Neil Osborne, shows up on the banjo laced 'Red Eyed Son.'

Indeed, the vast majority of tracks on the forthcoming '20 Odd Years' are collaborations. Terfry set out to "work with talented musicians of all stripes," and he recruited singers such as Gord Downie, Meaghan Smith, John Southworth and Gentleman Reg to add a quality elusive from his previous offerings. The result might be his most accessible offering to date.

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  New Pornographers

Posted by: andy42g
06-15-2010, 07:28 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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NP are playing in the UK, in September, and in Manchester on of all dates my birthday. Fine timing Big Grin

http://www.thenewpornographers.com/liveA/live.php

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  Fight Game

Posted by: Marcus1970
06-13-2010, 07:23 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Here's a game that tests your knowledge of Hip lyrics. All you need is a pen and paper to keep track of your score through each round.

The rules are displayed at the beginning of the video but it's pretty simple. It's just a matter of guessing the song titles that match the lyrics on the screen. It goes by quickly so you have to be fast.

If you are successful in Fight #1 you can advance to Fight #2 which I believe is more difficult.

Best of luck!
-Marcus
[youtube]DU4zw42bgbM[/youtube]

Fight #2

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  Thinking...

Posted by: Dusk13
06-12-2010, 01:48 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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So I'm thinking of moving to Canada from the UK next year. I will soon have my Network Technician qualification. Thinking of heading in a general Toronto direction. Thoughts?

(I know it wasn't a very detailed plan, I'm currently just toying with the idea.)

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  Poets Lyrics

Posted by: uvicgrad85
06-11-2010, 02:14 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Does anyone know what lyrics the background vocalist uses in Poets?

They are very difficult to pick out...

Gotta gig with 700+ this weekend and this is a special request.

Help!

JB

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  Buffalo News: The Grand Bounce 4 Stars

Posted by: rich3677
06-11-2010, 08:37 AM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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Updated: June 11, 2010, 7:04 am /
Published: June 11, 2010, 12:30 am

Rock

Gord Downie & the Country of Miracles

The Grand Bounce

[Get Music/Universal]

★★★★

“Dance disappears almost at the moment of its manifestation. It is an extreme expression of the present, a perfect metaphor for life ... I find it strangely beautiful to be creating something that is made of us—made of our breath and blood and bones and minds. Something that is made of the space we occupy and made of the space between us. We embody both the dance and its disappearance.”

This is Gordon Downie, quoting choreographer Crystal Pite in the liner notes accompanying his third effort sans his Tragically Hip mates, the eloquent and elegant “The Grand Bounce.” It’s hardly a surprise that Downie can so incisively illuminate his own work by refracting the light of another artist upon it. The man has more than a touch of the poet about him. He seems to accept the interconnectedness of things unquestioningly.

Downie has been on quite the roll of late. His last two albums with the Hip—“World Container”and “We Are the Same”—have proven him to be one of the finest singers, sculptors of melody and conjurers of lyrical imagery currently masquerading beneath the moniker “rock musician.”With the Hip, Downie summons something akin to the phrase Robert Plant once employed to describe the gifts of his collaborator Jimmy Page—“A beauty somewhere to the left of heaven.”He consistently offers us something surprising, occasionally disconcerting, yet always strangely familiar.

Attempting to describe just what it is that Downie does with such seeming effortlessness— and I’ve been trying to do just that for more than a decade — is a bit like trying to embrace a beautiful statue made of smoke. Like the dance he’s chosen as overarching metaphor for this new album, it disappears almost at the very instant you’ve noticed it.

“The Grand Bounce” is Downie at his best. Like recent Hip fare, it’s grandiloquent and achingly melodic more often than it’s skittish and jarring — though Downie does both incredibly well. This isn’t Downie making Hip music without the Hip. His Country of Miracles band— Julie Doiron, Josh Finlayson, Dale Morningstar and Dave Clark—trades in the subtle manipulation of sonic space, weaving nimbly beneath, between and behind the singer’s melodic lines and unfailingly serving the imagery of the lyrics through the fine art of under-playing. That’s wonderful, because these songs sell themselves.

With the production tutelage of Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla providing sonic continuity, “The Grand Bounce” proceeds as a vivid fever-dream. The stirring wall of acoustic guitars heralding “The East Wind,” and its keening insistence that “It doesn’t go around you/It goes through you” — a phrase gifted to Downie by his neighbor — makes it clear that “Bounce” is not some casual “what I did on my summer vacation” throwaway. This tune is impossibly well-crafted, but it’s no anomaly here—all 13 tracks are borne along on an air of necessity. You feel that they’ve been patiently waiting there for you to discover them all along. Fall in love with them, and you’ll note, to borrow Pite’s language, that they are “made of our breath and blood and bones and minds.” No mean feat for a rock song.

—Jeff Miers

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