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Match-up #43 - Bobcaygeon Vs. Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
I ask you to listen to the two songs in the match-up Back to Back, and consider the lyrics of the song. Feel free to post an unbiased analysis of both songs in this thread, but please refrain from cheerleading or making predictions for your favourites.

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The Tragically Hip
1993-05-01
University Of Buffalo
UB Stadium
Amherst, NY

05/01/93 - University Of Buffalo, Amherst, New York


Lineage: unknown mics > unknown recorder > CDWave > Flac 1.1.3
(Possible Lineage: Sony ECM-121 >Sony D6 > CDWave > Flac 1.1.3)

This show was cut short at the end as the band walked off the stage.
Gord Downie was hit in the head by a shoe/boot.
Many people contribute the line in 100th Meridian, "I remember Buffalo"
to this show because of the shoe incident. That is actually incorrect.
This show is one year after Meridian was released on Fully Completely.


Setlist:

01. Fifty-Mission Cap
02. Three Pistols
03. Courage
04. Fully Completely
05. Eldorado
06. Twist My Arm
07. Bring It All Back
08. The Wherewithal
09. Pigeon Camera
10. Locked in the Trunk of a Car
11. Last of the Unplucked Gems
12. Lionized
13. New Orleans is Sinking
14. At the Hundredth Meridian
15. Little Bones
16. They Fuckin' Blew It

Just saw this on Chris and Kate's website, I would kill to see this show!

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HIP CHECK
The biggest band in Canada is not from Montreal
By Jon Langston



Canada’s favorite band doesn’t garner four-star reviews in Rolling Stone. They get no fawning fluff jobs in indie rags, no name checks at cooler-than-thou music websites. No, the biggest band in Canada is not some quirky-cute hipster collective from Montreal (neither is it an aging power trio that admirably churns out albums year after year). It’s a quintet called The Tragically Hip, and they’ve just released their 11th album, World Container, which was produced by veteran twiddler (and fellow Canadian) Bob Rock and is a welcome return to form.


The Tragically Hip’s early sound, bluesy and tinged with twang, was an immediate hit up north. By the early ’90s, the band had matured sonically into a more polished rock that maintained its wry lyrical hues, and The Hip endured a groundswell of popularity, cementing their status as Canada’s favorite sons. To date, they’ve sold more than six million albums worldwide, have won more Juno awards (Canada’s Grammys) than anyone ever and have been inducted into the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They routinely sell out arenas from Vancouver to Halifax. But The Hip, which still boasts its five original members—vocalist Gordon Downie, guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay—have never ventured past cult status in the U.S. And after 25 years together, they’re just fine with that.


“Something as mundane as ‘breaking’ in the States is certainly not an ambition of ours at this point in our career,” says Downie. (Indeed, on playing the SXSW Festival earlier this year, Downie said the band felt decidedly un-hip: “That slouch,” he says with a laugh, “comes straight out of some manual that I sure didn’t get.”) When touring America the band plays smaller, midsized venues, and Downie admits that he and his mates relish the intimate challenge.


“When you’ve been doing this as long as we have, you take a certain amount of pride in being able to play anywhere, at any time—on the ass of an elephant, if need be,” says Downie. The Hip’s live shows are legendary in Canada; the band’s versatility and Downie’s onstage antics and peculiar banter make every performance distinctive. The band squelched a black market early on by allowing the recording of its shows; the Internet is rife with fans’ dubs, which these days include numerous digi-vid files as well as audio clips. The band embraces the new technology and Downie, for one, doesn’t mind the effect downloading has had on the music business.


“I don’t lament it or despair for the industry,” he explains. “I’ve always felt that rock ’n’ roll is just melodious air. I get perplexed when music gets blunted at the border by some artificial demarcation line—whether a corporate border or a technological one. Music, or any kind of art, is like water, and it needs to be able to find its way. Fifteen years ago, we would have needed a licensing deal, some kind of emissary to chaperone our music into the same kinds of places that it’s getting to naturally these days. It’s fluid; it’s just doing what it should be doing.”


As for the recent popularity of Canadian bands such as Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene, Downie understands the appeal. “Those bands are exuding exuberance and enthusiasm,” he says. “People want authentic, organic music these days. As the old model of the music industry shrinks daily, there’s so much more room to make it up. And given the opportunity to make it up, what do you do? You speak from the heart. Kids want to hear the sound of guitars going through amps. They’re sick to death of being virtualized.”

April 24-25, Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Pl. (at 15th St.), 212-777-1224; 9, $25 (SOLD OUT).

Since I could not find a thread where the Canadian dates were listed:

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Friday, April 20, 2007
By MIKE KERWICK
STAFF WRITER


Mug shots, he confides. Gord Sinclair is getting mug shots taken.

Sinclair is not at a police station. And he doesn't really mean mug shots. He is busy posing for ID photos for The Tragically Hip's upcoming trip to the Cayman Islands.

If you do not recognize the face in the photos, don't be alarmed. Most Americans wouldn't. The Tragically Hip (or simply "The Hip," as they've come to be known) have always had far more popularity north of the border.

"It was a little mysterious when we were around our second, third or fourth record," Sinclair said during a recent phone interview. "We were still with Universal at the time, MCA in the States. They were pulling out a lot of stops, trying to run us up the media flagpole. It never seemed to take off. You kind of learn not to get frustrated with it. The road is littered with media casualties."

The Kingston, Ontario-based band is not one of those casualties.

Stars up there, familiar down here, The Hip are popping by for two sold-out shows at Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza on Tuesday and Wednesday. The group's new album, "World Container," is a socially conscious offering, but Sinclair doesn't think it's any more socially aware than previous Hip albums.

"I think there's always been a social consciousness to what [Hip frontman Gordon Downie] writes," Sinclair, the band's bassist, said. "Over the last three or four years, if you weren't aware of your relationship to where you live and your planet and your environment and who you are, you certainly would be now. It's become such a huge concern for everybody that, God, even politicians are beginning to talk about it."

No song personifies that ideal more than the title track, the final song on the album.

There's a world container with your name on it

And a billion ways to go berserk

When the country quits on you it must be dinner

And the Himmler on this one is there's no dessert

(He's the one who couldn't imagine all the people living life in peace).

"It's actually one of my favorite songs to play live now," Sinclair said. "We ended up using the title of the song as the title of the record because it encapsulated loose themes that [are] running [through the album]."

Reaching for a singular theme that connects the 11 tracks, Sinclair zeroes in on love.

"When it comes time to start writing for a record," Sinclair said, "we literally sit around in a circle, and take turns throwing out ideas."

What they came up with this time around was an album of love and maturity, an album tweaked by former Metallica producer Bob Rock.

It is an album Canadians love, an album some Americans love, too.


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