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  Is Avril LUV (sic) or Dam (sic)?

Posted by: hip
12-20-2006, 04:13 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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On her Myspace webpage, Lavigne says the album will be called "The Best Dam (sic) Thing" and that the first single, "Girlfriend," will be out in February. The 22-year-old from Napanee, Ont., is currently riding the charts with her song, "Keep Holding On," written for the fantasy film, "Eragon."


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  Organist wins rights in Procol Harum lawsuit

Posted by: laliber
12-20-2006, 01:19 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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interesting article

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Especially the line..
"It is effectively open season on the songwriter," the statement said. "It will mean that unless all musicians' parts are written for them, no publisher or songwriter will be able to risk making a recording for fear of a possible claim of songwriting credit."

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  MMM Profile

Posted by: sean.bonner
12-20-2006, 12:53 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I was channel surfing today and saw that MMM Profile was coming up, so I decided to see who it was. It was The Hip! I though this would be old news because the date in the information said 2003, but then they showed promo photos from World Container, clips (and then the complete video) for In View, a Gord Downie interview from 2006 and also really REALLY short clips from on of their Club shows from this fall.

Also, footage from 1991 Seattle (Little Bones & She Didn't Know), 1996 show in Toronto, and (guessing by the way Gord was dressed) a 2000 show.

Didn't find anything in the search feature. Midly entertaining, nothing too special though.

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  Our Shovels Meeting in Some Crisis

Posted by: Chris Tanz
12-20-2006, 11:34 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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This line from The Drop Off ... anyone have any guesses on what's going on here? It comes after the Bob Dylan name-drop -- does it have anything to do with Dylan or a Dylan song.

To me it evokes a "dumping the body" kind of motif as in Locked. You know, it's summer time, everything's going well, nobody has their prices, nobody's in a crisis. It's a regular All Canadian Surf Club -- then something "I Know What You Did Last Summer" happens and you end up killing somebody and you have to dump their body ... so you go out to a dark field somewhere in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere and you start digging a hole.

In the midst of all this hole-diggin', you hear a metallic clank as your shovel makes contact with the shovel of some other guy digging a hole to bury HIS homicide victim.

You both realize that you've gone swimming past the Drop Off ... and the summer is done.

any other interpretations.

ct

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  a good show from "an evening with" tour?

Posted by: thesellout
12-19-2006, 03:23 PM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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can anyone recommend one?

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  My favorite Hip song is....

Posted by: Ballgame
12-18-2006, 11:19 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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....And Grace Too.


Sorry for a stupid thread but Im bored so wanted to share the story about the song that got me hooked on the Hip.
Ive always heard of the Hip and even heard them but really never gave it much thought. I went to school in upstate NY on a hockey scholarship in 1995 so of course most of my teammates were Canadian. So the after hour parties usually ended up at an apartment of one of the Canadians on the team. So one drunken night they put in Day for Night and of course the first song is And Grace Too. Its so dark and ambient. To this day I still remember the feeling of hearing that song. Not sure if any of you read that thread about Rory and trading boots. Rory said one of his motivating factor for trading was the hope that whoever was the recipient of his shows would get the same feeling he got when he got his first shows. Well the feel is universal and if a song talks to you its the best experience. So after hearing And Grace Too I went out the next day and bought Day for Night. My opinion of DfN is its more alternative than the previous albums with a darker edge to it. Who produced it? Would of loved to be a fly on the wall for that one.
And out of the Hip catalog its my fav album even though my mood can determine which album I prefer on that given day.

Also from looking at the setlist so far this tour it isnt getting much play

So anyway so for the stupid thread and story.

The Secrets prove of engagement
Are hard to endorse

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  Christmas Elf

Posted by: PRINCESS
12-18-2006, 10:00 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Ha,, post your own elf,,,

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  Hip @ Artpark named Buffalo's Top Arena Concert for 2006

Posted by: rich3677
12-18-2006, 04:26 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Buffalo News music critic and Hip Fan, Jeff Miers, made a list of his favorites from 2006. The article was published on Sunday, 12/18/06 with a large promo ad earlier in the week which prominently featured Gord in mid-song.

Hip related exerpts:


The Top Arena Concert

Tie: The Tragically Hip, Artpark, June 18; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with the Allman Brothers Band, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Aug. 16

The Tragically Hip burned down the house during this fiery Artpark show, previewing a few songs from the then-unreleased "World Container" album. A great set list and a performance smacking of conviction made this one a winner.

The Top Downloads

1) Ratdog - Live, Oct. 28, Town Ballroom, Buffalo

2) Tragically Hip - "The Lonely End of the Rink"

3) Lindsey Buckingham - "Cast Away Dreams"

4) U2 and Green Day - "The Saints Are Coming"

5) Beck - "Nausea"




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2006 [reprise]


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From local shows to blockbuster albums, News Critic Jeff Miers runs down his lists of favorites from an eventful year in pop music

By JEFF MIERS
News Pop Music Critic
12/17/2006


Bjork, Beck, Cee-Lo, Chan Marshall and Andrew Stockdale photos by Getty Images; Bruce Springstein by Associated Press





Getty Images
Guitarist Brendan Benson, left, and singer/guitarist Jack White, right, of the Raconteurs.


Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News
The always-pleasing Gord Downie and his band the Tragically Hip kicked off the summer concert season with a fiery show at Artpark.

There is no one unified theme connecting the best of 2006 in popular music. Taken together, the music doesn't present itself as a cogent novel - it's more like a collection of short stories with little connecting them, aside from a certain spirit of exploration.
The usual tropes didn't apply this year.

Popular music has long been held to be the terrain of youth, but some of this year's strongest music was made by artists in their 50s and even 60s. Hip-hop is said to be the most radical pop music of today, but many of the strongest records released paid that form little mind, and the lion's share of genuine hip-hop records were far from daring.

Heavy metal is sniffed at and written off as a dinosaur, but a few unabashedly metal-loving artists did some fantastic work in 2006, stuff that doesn't sound so much dated as it does timeless and logical.

Protest music, long held to be an annoying vestige of the '60s, made a surprising comeback, and not just among the folk who started making records way back when - the modern punk-rock crowd was sounding off on social and political issues as well.

And while digital downloading continues to be a controversial aspect of the way we gather and listen to music, its tangible effects are tough to discern. The strongest artists made albums, not singles. And while 2005 saw online purchasing of music explode, this year that blaze cooled considerably.

In all, 2006 was a very good year for pop music. Here's the best of what went down:

The Top 10 albums

1)Tom Waits - "Orphans" (Anti-)

Three discs of prime Waits. The man doesn't write songs - he writes movies, and scores them with the help of wife Kathleen Brennan. Every song offers a character, inhabited by Waits in the author's voice, and populated by sounds both ghostly and glaring. A one-of-a-kind album, both of and ahead of its time.

2) The Flaming Lips - "At War With the Mystics" (Warner Bros.)

Production, songwriting and performance head and shoulders above the competition. A record that fully transcends the year of its making, yet somehow seems the perfect record for this year. A little down, but not out. Wizened, but hopeful.

3) TV On the Radio - "Return to Cookie Mountain" (Interscope)

The birth of the new, weird, progressive music. A long time coming. Finally, with "Return to Cookie Mountain," TV On the Radio makes sure the '90s are dead.

4) Bob Dylan - "Modern Times" (Columbia)

Forget the legend. This is the sound of a songwriter and storyteller for whom the past, present and future are all rolled into one. An incredible record redolent of its own milieu.

5) Bruce Springsteen - "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" (Columbia)

Springsteen takes Seeger out of the town hall sing-along, and straight into the arena. New Orleans music is celebrated throughout, and as is his wont, Springsteen makes these songs his own, while at the same time passing them on for the next generation.

6) The Strokes - "First Impressions of Earth" (RCA)

The Strokes outrun their "buzz band" status with their third, most adventurous album. It may not have sold as well as the first two, but it heralds a new beginning for a band that should be around for a good long while.

7) The Mars Volta - "Amputechture" (Universal)

Whacked-out progressive rock for a new generation. Brave, flawed, heroic.

8) Pearl Jam - "Pearl Jam" (J Records)

The Seattle band continued its winning streak with this collection of songs at once sentimental and scathing, melodic and punk-fueled, idealistic and unbelievably angry. "Pearl Jam" placed the band firmly in the present once again.

9) Paul Simon - "Surprise" (Columbia)

One of the greatest songwriters in the history of popular music teamed with one of the few true maverick producers still working, Brian Eno. The result reimagined Simon's poetic lyrics and stately, melodic songs as post-modern rock. It worked, beautifully.

10) Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)

Chan Marshall emerged from the indie-rock murk to make transcendent modern soul.

Honorable mentions: Donald Fagen, Morph the Cat (Reprise); Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love); The Who, Endless Wire (Universal Republic)
The Top Independent Album


Willie Nile - "Streets of New York" (00:2:59) A flawless collection of folk-based rockers from the Buffalo native.


The Top Metal Albums

1) Iron Maiden - "A Matter of Life and Death" (Sanctuary) Progressive, bold, over-the-top, and incredibly fun.

2) Tool - "10,000 Days" (Volcano) Harsh, often brutally so, and redolent of a remarkably consistent dark vision.


The Top Hip-hop Albums

1) Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere" (Downtown) A hilarious pastiche of pop references run through a hip-hop filter.

2) Outkast - "Idlewild" (Arista) The duo continues to forge its own path through modern hip-hop, bending the rules and stretching the envelope as it goes.

3) Tech N9ne - "Everready: The Religion" (Strange Music)

The West Coast's most virtuosic, rapid-fire rapper returns with an album of hyper beats, clever rhymes and forward-looking production values.

4) Ghostface Killah - "Fishscale" (Def Jam)

Ghostface Killah emerges from the Wu Tang Clan as a towering MC. This record is soulful and smart, raw and occasionally disturbing, but always a fitting representative of the Wu Tang legacy.

5) Public Enemy - "Beats and Places" (Slam Jamz)

Still the reigning kings of the form, for my money. This collection features obscure B-sides and unreleased gems. There is no stronger voice in hip-hop than Chuck D's.

The Top New Artists

1) Wolfmother

The time was perfect for a band to come along wailing like banshees in the spirit of Robert Plant and Chris Cornell, and taking as much joy from its megaton riffage as did Black Sabbath. A fun, loud, always interesting record.

2) The Raconteurs

White Stripes leader Jack White teams with indie-rock legend Brendan Benson to create a charming blend of power-pop and whacked-out electric blues.

The Top Music DVDs

1) Bob Dylan - No Direction Home (Paramount)

2) The Flaming Lips - The Fearless Freaks (Shout! Factory)

3) Robert Plant & the Strange Sensation - Sound Stage Performance (Rounder)

4) My Morning Jacket - Okonokos: The Concert (ATO)

5) Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest (Weasel Disc)

The Top Reissues

1) The Beatles - "Love" (EMI)

Sir George Martin and son Giles Martin remix and reimagine the Beatles catalog in this stunning suite. The pair went way above and beyond the call of duty for this soundtrack to the Cirque de Soleil performance "Love.

2) The Doors - "Perception - Box Set" (Rhino/Elektra)

All the band's studio albums in a double-disc set. Disc one of each set boasts remastered versions of the original programs with bonus tracks. Disc two repeats the program in a 5.1 surround mix and tosses in live performance videos and rare clips. Outstanding, top to bottom.

3) Talking Heads - "Box Set - Remasters" (Sire)

Incredibly, the Talking Heads' work still sounds ahead of its time, and these surround-sound mixes are absolutely state-of-the-art.

4) Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition" (Columbia)

Finally, we hear through the Phil Spector-inspired wall of sound to the heart of Springsteen's vision, a stirring blend of orchestral pop, '50s and '60s rock, and a street-wise poet's words falling somewhere between Jack Kerouac and James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause."

5) Tie: Bjork - "Surrounded" (Rhino/Elektra)

The most daring woman in modern music finds her entire catalog remastered and remixed in 5.1 surround sound. Brilliant.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Live at the Fillmore" (Warner Bros.) The definitive Crazy Horse lineup plays a visceral set in the early '70s, on a bill that also included Miles Davis.

The Top Comeback Releases

Ray Davies - "Other People's Lives" (V2)

As close as we'll ever get to a new Kinks album from one of the finest songwriters of the rock era.

David Gilmour - "On An Island" (Columbia)

The Pink Floyd guitarist makes his first solo album in more than 20 years, and it's a striking one.

The Top Downloads

1) Ratdog - Live, Oct. 28, Town Ballroom, Buffalo

2) Tragically Hip - "The Lonely End of the Rink"

3) Lindsey Buckingham - "Cast Away Dreams"

4) U2 and Green Day - "The Saints Are Coming"

5) Beck - "Nausea"

Top Local Band Concert

Sleeping Kings Of Iona, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, June 20

This still-young Buffalo band logged some serious road miles this year, along the way bringing an increasing amount of electronic influence to bear on its dreamy art-pop. At this show, the band opened for new wave legends Blondie and turned in an inspired set.

The Top Arena Concert

Tie: The Tragically Hip, Artpark, June 18; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with the Allman Brothers Band, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Aug. 16

The Tragically Hip burned down the house during this fiery Artpark show, previewing a few songs from the then-unreleased "World Container" album. A great set list and a performance smacking of conviction made this one a winner.

Petty and the Allmans played like the truly seasoned pros they are. This show pulled an audience spanning several generations out to Darien Lake for the feel-good gig of the year.

The Top Development in Music

YouTube

It's just too perfect. As MTV has all but abandoned actual music videos and performance clips, the people pushed You Tube through the roof, as the site's music video catalog increased dramatically. Whether you're looking for vintage rock clips from the '60s and '70s or the latest in emo, You Tube became the ether world meeting place of choice this year.

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  Can someone post Fiddler's Green from Calgary here?

Posted by: rocketsan22
12-18-2006, 01:59 PM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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Would love the audio track from this show...

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  Healing old Scars

Posted by: joshwayy
12-18-2006, 01:32 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I was going through the setlist for the '06 club tours and I noticed Vaccination Scar was nowhere to be found. I wouldn't find this odd except for the fact it was one of the few singles off IBE and a show staple from the last tour. Is it because of the lap steel? (I didn;t know it was a lap steel until I stumbled upon this nice link). The setlist archive on the hip.com is also very cool...I'd like to see josephine taken back out for a spin too, I think it would fit nicely into the new song mix..

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?...c=3SOSWXXA

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