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  Triple Shot

Posted by: MAverick
03-23-2007, 05:00 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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For the weekend. Cheers.

MAv.

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  Thank you random-Canadian-man, now where next?

Posted by: Guest
03-23-2007, 07:15 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hello all.

So, I've known of the Hip for maybe about 7 years or so now, I remember some Canadian guy who was in the same 'galaxy' as me in an online game (I'm sounding cool aready right?) sent me a couple of songs to listen to (Poets, Scared, Nautical Disaster, Ahead by a Century). Well, I always liked those songs a lot, but that was it, never went any further until just recently. I got a bunch of albums. I started in order (a lot to choose from so . . .) with Up to Here, Road Apples and Fully Completely, and then also got Day for Night and Phantom Power (skipped Trouble at the Henhouse, but these two had songs I'd known/loved for a long while). I'm now pretty much in love with the band (and I'm hoping to spread this to friends, who unsurprisngly have never heard of them).

umm, anyway, to the point: Where next? I'm thinking I want another album. Trouble at the Henhouse maybe? But I hear opinion is quite divided on it? I've also heard World Container is great, and I've heard Luv (sic) which was awesome (imediately hit me, really great, powerful song). So what would you choose next?


And sorry if this thread is boring, I'm sure it's the kind of new-poster thread you see all the time.

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  Hockey Fights

Posted by: Lizard King
03-23-2007, 07:00 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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The old debate is heating up again, should fighting be taken out of hockey for good?

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I guess the other question is: Would hockey be better or worse without it?

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  Meaning of lyrics: Bobcaygeon

Posted by: in_violet_light
03-22-2007, 10:43 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I have always been curious about what the meaning behind this bit of the lyrics is:

That night in Toronto with its checkerboard floors
Riding on horseback and keeping order restored
Til the men they couldn't hang
Stepped to the mic and sang
And their voices rang with that Aryan twang

If anyone could give me some insight that would be great!

Thanks!

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  Hip Profile on MMM

Posted by: ryan93
03-22-2007, 09:39 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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It was probably already posted, but the Hip's profile on Much More Music was on this evening, and it's going to be on again at 4am.

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  B-Sides Album...

Posted by: RJB
03-22-2007, 08:37 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I know this has been discussed ad nauseum, but I was checking out Oasis' new greatest hits album, Stop the Clocks, and saw that four tracks from their b-sides album, The Masterplan, were included. To think that from an album of rejected songs there could be four to include on a greatest hits is incredible.

When are the Hip ever going to get a b-sides album together? They have a tonne of songs that could easily make it. Furthermore, what tracks would make it onto a Greatest Hits? I think Get Back Again and Montreal are sure bets.

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  Hip Tracker Upload - Dallas Texas 03-16-07

Posted by: dreyfuss
03-22-2007, 07:54 PM
Forum: Hipfans.com Tracker
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Fresh of the BBQ, come and get it

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  Hep to the Hip from The OC Weekly

Posted by: NegPhil
03-22-2007, 06:54 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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The OC Weekly

Hep to the Hip

Crying in my moosehead over the Tragically Hip
By KATE CARRAWAY
Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 3:00 pm


Writing about the Tragically Hip feels like coming out of the closet. I was born and raised in Canada, and have revealed as much in print and to my American colleagues, but the Hip are to Canadians what Mariah is (and Cher was) to the gays: canonical, emblematic signposts imbued with an excessive interest in or knowledge about uncovering their true colours. I mean, “colors.” I feel like I might cry.

The Tragically Hip played a vital role in my musical upbringing because a) I was spoon fed their music and other Can-Rock due to strict radio and TV content laws promoting home-grown talent, b) because my ridiculously influential older siblings were bar-going students when this consummate bar-band hit it big, and c) I heard the Hip’s raucous bluesy-rock single “Courage” at the exact moment that I wondered if maybe the Aladdin soundtrack was kind of babyish.

The Tragically Hip are from Kingston, a beautiful eastern Ontario port town with a preppy university and a massive jail (Dan Aykroyd, the very same who invited the Hip to play SNL when he hosted in 1995, and Ryan Malcolm, who won the first Canadian Idol, bless his misguided heart, are also from Kingston). My first Hip show was at “Another Roadside Attraction,” the summer tour series they founded (and named after Tom Robbins’ first novel) to support Canadian rock. I was probably 4’2” at the time, so my heroic brother David upturned a garbage pail and stood me on it. It was a rapturous event, being a little kid spending her midnight in a field of FUBARed grownups, protected only by the haphazard efforts of her siblings. Staring through the cone of blinding white stage light at the gyre of howling frontman/super-performer Gord Downie from my trash can roost was nothing less than Holy Communion.

The band makes complete sense as a musical institution in a country like Canada. The Hip are adored the most by the “Mr. Canada’s,” a subculture hallmarked by plaid flannel, maple leaf tattoos, and tons of “WOO-HOO”ing. My trashcan brother is a Mr. Canada. Much like the Hip, these men and their derivatives are the natural cultural product of a rebellious frontier nation that grew into a thoughtful pillar of civility. The band has always played roadhouse rock and roll, their albums melodic bangers tempered by the occasional stoic ballad about the land and about freedom.

Downie springs from Canada’s fertile literary tradition, and his lyrics are often richly elegiac. He’s made (Canadian) hits out of distinctly Canadian subjects, like David Milgaard, a wrongly imprisoned son of the prairies (“Wheat Kings”); hockey; and tiny northern outposts (“Bobcaygeon,” named for a town I speed past every summer en route to the cottage). The band has turned in the fistfight epics for music that’s more in tune with modern rock radio, though not purposefully so—the Hip are a band with an easily discernible character, and it doesn’t involve forsaking their lifelong devotees for a shot at commercial success.

The Hip have the financial misfortune of only having grazed the American consciousness. Their anthemic sing-along “New Orleans is Sinking” was hit with a sensitivity ban post-Katrina by U.S. radio types, but on the whole, the biggest rock band in Canadialand is absent from the American mainstream. The Hip are good to the fans they have, releasing a new record every few years, including B-sides, live tracks, and fan-selected collections. My high school friends still love them; have them all over their iPods. Even though I quit on the Hip in 1996 when I didn’t buy their record “Trouble at the Henhouse,” or any albums after that (by then I was a surly teen, exclusively listening to Joy Division and the Velvet Underground), I admire their endurance. I also admire their output, and I admire their allegiance to values that I’ve long abandoned. Again, I feel like I might cry. What a hoser, eh?



The Tragically Hip with the Sadies at House of Blues, 1530 S. Disneyland Dr., Anaheim, (714) 778-2583; <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hob.com">www.hob.com</a><!-- w -->. Fri., 7:30 p.m., $22.50-$25.

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  Match up #11

Posted by: Shane Kroeker
03-22-2007, 06:28 PM
Forum: [Hip 64] - The Great Match Up
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Match-up #11 - The Completists Vs. It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
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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  Amy Winehouse

Posted by: opiated
03-22-2007, 06:16 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just picked up her latest album after hearing it blast in Future Shop yesterday...I went in to buy the new Joss Stone(which i did as well..i guess i was in the mood for soulful english gals)...

Amy Winehouse is incredible..such a classic soul/jazz voice..almost billy holiday-ish in its sound...she can get a little raunchy, but it's open, honest, stunning music...i'm blown away by her voice...

I hear she's a bit of a train-wreck though, so not sure how long her career will be...Tiger..you'd LOVE her!!!

PS..haven't even listened to Joss yet

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