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December 1st. You know what that means. We are going to need some major reprieve from all the horrendous holiday music about to be jammed down our throats.

Good thing there's a solution for that.

We are currently going through a show for every tour era per month. December brings us to Fully Completely (1992-1993)

Our selection this month is brought to you by Hipbaser edgoffin

Quote:Here's my Fully Completely tour choice -- Ottawa, July 26, 1993:
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I chose this one because I was there, and I also don't have a great selection of good FC tour shows. This was from the ARA stop at then Frank Clair Stadium, now TD Place in Ottawa.

My memory of the show. Crash Vegas, Hothouse Flowers, Daniel Lanois, and Midnight Oil. The crowd was insane. We were down on the field for most of the day, and the crowd really hit a frenzy during the Hip and we bailed about halfway through for some seats in the stands. This was by far the largest crowd I'd seen for The Hip, just a year earlier they'd played the few 1000 capacity Congress Center and now headlining a stadium.

This recording quality is quite good, except at some stage it's been transferred and there's a bit of tape warble. I've never figured out the source. Possibly a radio broadcast, as I think it's maybe missing a few tracks (16 songs is a slightly shorter set that other ARA shows). I have a pretty good memory, but not down to a 1993 set list. It was one of the first Hip boots I bought, from a now closed antiques place in Kingston.

Some highlights:
* 100th Meridian, "I need more practice, I rub when I should pull"
* Unplucked, "your fingers start to wiggle"
* Courage, "here's a song about my favorite nuclear submarine", "vengeance is a waste of time"
* On the recording the end of Wheat Kings, but really intro to NOIS and "laminar flow"
* NOIS -- a pretty much complete version of Nautical in the middle (rhythm guitar parts are slightly different). I saw a few shows in this era, and was really hoping it would appear on an album. Closes with some water on fire, and a few lines frogman and clean and scrub, with a great closing line
* Really cool jam opens FC, and "four things you can see from the moon"
* "This is a song by Fredrick Nietzsche"

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There's a FLAC version in the Hipbase archive as well:

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Quote:The Tragically Hip
Landsdowne Park
Ottawa, ON
July 26th,1993


Unknown source, except it sounds like it has been transfered from a cassette at some point in time.

This has a great version of NOIS with Nautical Disaster in the middle.


1)Locked in the Trunk of a Car
2)Three Pistols
3)At the Hundredth Meridian
4)Last of the Unplucked Gems
5)Lionized
6)Courage
7)Eldorado
8 )Wheat Kings
9)New Orleans is Sinking
10)Fully Completely
11)The Wherewithal
12)Pigeon Camera
13)We'll Go Too
14)Fifty Mission Cap
15)Little Bones

Yeah, this sounds way better than Mariah Carey to me.

All you need to know about previous editions are found here:

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Music@Work: Released June 6, 2000

"My Music at Work"
"Tiger the Lion"
"Lake Fever"
"Putting Down"
"Stay"
"The Bastard"
"The Completists"
"Freak Turbulence"
"Sharks"
"Toronto #4"
"Wild Mountain Honey"
"Train Overnight"
"As I Wind Down the Pines"

It was an "art versus commerce" discussion thread on this album that made me think it could be interesting to run through the albums in a thoughts and insights approach.

Steve Berlin returned to produce his second album. I recall Rob had a comment about producers always able to get one good album out of the band (understanding he's also quite self-deprecating). This is possibly my most confusing Hip album. My opinion, the first five tracks are great. Tiger The Lion was something different, and I love belting out (badly) that intro. I'll bump The Completists up into that top track category, along with Toronto #4 and As I Wind Down The Pines.

Listening to the album recently thinking about this thread, I don't dislike any of the other tracks (there's no Coconut Cream) but they've never drawn me in. I can't really say why, and I recall having the same impression when the album was released. It's likely the album I've listened to the least.

I've always considered this a Hip turning point, where following the huge success of Phantom Power they made a record that then starts to move away from the more standard Hip song template. REM, another favorite band of mine, had done something similar earlier where following the huge success of Green they moved away from jangle guitar rock to release two primarily acoustic albums. With hindsight, it's a bit of a mid-career reset for both bands. Add in to the mix for The Hip is Coke Machine Glow. We can do a separate thread for that album, but I do put that first solo album also into the category of a "reset".

I also think this is the last big seller (at time of release -- exclude last summer) for the band. Intentional or not, beyond the lead single there's not a lot of radio play songs on the album, I don't recall a second single? -- I assume Lake Fever. Despite all this, I remember these tours were huge. The two sets was a draw to hear some older songs. The addition of Kate Fenner worked in some areas, less in others IMO. I think they figured out the keys better when Jim Bryson joined the WATS tour, but Brown added some interesting elements. My lasting memory of this tour will be a version of Meridian in Ottawa, with a single spotlight on Gord when he did the "if I die section".

I'll add, the remastered vinyl version of this is really good, and brought a new level of appreciation for an album I've always struggled with. "As I Wind Down The Pines" is incredible.

And then there were four; Something On and Vapour Trails are voted off in Round 3 leaving us with four songs to go.

Eliminated Round 1
The Rules
Membership
Save the Planet

Eliminated Round 2
Fireworks
Chagrin Falls
Thompson Girl

Eliminated Round 3
Something On
Vapour Trails

Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on Phantom Power and after 48 hours, we will remove the song that has the most votes.

The poll will end Friday at 12:24pm Eastern.

Happy voting!

Shane

With Round 2 we see Fireworks, Chagrin Falls and Thompson Girl leave and we have our final six.

Eliminated Round 1
The Rules
Membership
Save the Planet

Eliminated Round 2
Fireworks
Chagrin Falls
Thompson Girl

Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on Phantom Power 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 Wednesday at 11:29am Eastern.

Happy voting!

Shane

With Round 2 we see Fireworks, Chagrin Falls and Thompson Girl leave and we have our final six.

Eliminated Round 1
The Rules
Membership
Save the Planet

Eliminated Round 2
Fireworks
Chagrin Falls
Thompson Girl

Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on Phantom Power 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 Wednesday at 11:29am Eastern.

Happy voting!

Shane

With the end of the first round we say goodbye to The Rules, Membership and Save the Planet.

Eliminated Round 1
The Rules
Membership
Save the Planet

Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on Phantom Power 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 Monday at 11:18am Eastern.

Happy voting!

Shane

FYI. There are Hip posters on sale here,
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if anyone is looking. Prices are in US dollars.
I have dealt with them in the past with no issues.
They also have many other classic rock bands' posters for sale.

With Ahead by a Century walking away with the title for Ahead by a Century, we move on to Phantom Power. 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

Vote for the song you believe to be the weakest on Phantom Power 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 Saturday at 9:09am Eastern.

Happy voting!

Shane

here is where it starts (3:10)

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what song is he singing? "of all my lovers, no one compares to you" or "as a lover, no one compares to you" ??

New Kate Fenner album released on Bandcamp yesterday. Didn't even know she was recording one. Sounds pretty damn good.

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