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  What song should be released as the Second Single?

Posted by: joshwayy
10-14-2006, 11:58 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Here's the chance to cast your vote as to what the second single should be.

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  Gord Downie in Edmonton Journal

Posted by: tth_fan
10-14-2006, 04:21 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Don't know if it's been posted, but it's a gooder, and it's definitely worth reading:

A Hip displacement of water
Love and liquid abound on band's liveliest disc in years
Published: Saturday, October 14, 2006
EDMONTON - It's almost too tragic to even think about -- life without The Hip.

Frontman Gord Downie won't come out and say his group was on the verge of breaking up, but he does admit the 23-year-old Canadian rock institution didn't have any plans after recording the first four songs for World Container, in stores Tuesday.

"We weren't convinced we were going to see each other again," he says during a brief promotional stop in Edmonton.

"There was no tension or anything, but nothing was planned. It wasn't like, 'Oh, we're going to make a record.' It was like, 'We'll meet in Vancouver and we'll cut a few songs and we'll go from there.' That's about as planned as it got."

Two studio sessions and a year later, The Tragically Hip give us their liveliest album in years, World Container, featuring hints of reggae, gang vocals, Moogs, '70s punk, sexy bass grooves and some of most straightforward, personal and powerful lyrics ever written by Downie. "I love you / You know I do," he sings on the first single, In View, a boppy, rootsy ditty about phone calls.

Love and water, in lakes, oceans or frozen sheets of ice, play a central role in The Hip's songs.

One of the most touching is The Lonely End of the Rink, a cold-climate number propelled by the sunny reggae rhythms of Jamaica.

It's also a tale of silent solidarity, inspired by Downie's dad.

"I was a rink-rat growing up," he says. "I was a goalie and my father was a busy father of five, so he would come when he could. When he did show up, I'd look up and there he would be. He'd never go so far as saying 'I'll be there,' because you don't break promises to children -- unless you're Stephen Harper -- and then I'd make a couple of saves, look up and he'd be gone. So it was a really cool phantom in my life."

Downie credits The Hip's newfound exuberance to powerhouse producer Bob Rock, who recently severed ties with Metallica after a decade of recording with Lars Ulrich and company.

You wouldn't know it by listening to The Hip's 50 Mission Cap or Little Bones or Fireworks, but the Kingston rockers are big fans of Rock's work on Motley Crue's 1989 metal classic, Dr. Feelgood.

"Every musician I knew of every stripe had that record, because the snare drum just sounded so good," smiles the singer.

"I think Bob brings an artistry to everything he does. I think he's underestimated, I think people assume too much about him. He's very much an artist in temperament, inquisitiveness, work ethic. He's got the heart and soul of a painter."

As the "benevolent dictator" of the project, Rock tried to wring every ounce of passion out of the musicians and push them in new directions. Every day in the studio was an unpredictable adventure.

"He would hear (a song) and say, 'I want to do this.' He'd preface everything with 'Call me crazy or this might be in-sane ... . ' It was endless," says Downie.

"He doesn't plan too far ahead, he doesn't plan two lines ahead in a song or chorus. This is what's in front of him, this is what he thinks we should do, this will be our next step. That's very refreshing. That's how we approached it. I'm very lucky to have met him when we did. It feels like we just started (as a band)."

Downie says working on World Container in bits and pieces was also a big help for The Hip, who released their self-titled debut in 1987. For the first time in the group's recording history, the five musicians were able to take a break from their songs and contemplate them over a few weeks.

"It was a real boon to the record to be able to step away, in my case, and listen to the lyrics and reconfigure and edit them. As opposed to being immersed in them for six weeks. You can get very lost in that. This way, it was very civilized -- do a few tracks, step back, listen to them, go back in, mix things, change things. I would do it the same way from now on. It's not very practical, but it was the way to go," says Downie.

"It allowed the record to organically develop, for it to make its needs known, as opposed to us forcing too much, trying too many changes. It allowed us to be very patient with the material. You have to -- you have to allow something to tell you what it wants to be." For the first time, the enigmatic lyricist was also challenged by one of his producers.

Rock wanted to know the meaning behind all of Downie's cryptic lyrics and persuaded him to use repeating choruses on Fly -- a songwriting convention he usually spurns. He even uses the same opening line -- "You said, 'If I ask you a question, are you gonna lie to me?' " -- in two songs, The Kids Don't Get It, a clangy punk number, and Pretend, a soaring piano ballad.

"I was definitely shooting for conciseness. Bob did a lot for adding a whole chapter to my book on how to be a songwriter," he says. "He was very, very helpful. It wasn't easy. We'd talk a lot, which to date, I hadn't really done much. It's fine -- producers have a lot on their plate when they're making records, but Bob manages to fit it all in."

More importantly, Downie says he has a greater appreciation for his friends and bandmates, guitarist Rob Baker, drummer Johnny Fay, bassist Gord Sinclair and guitarist Paul Langlois.

They'll tour Canada in January and February, but exact dates haven't been announced yet.

"You sort of get so lulled into thinking of yourself as this five-headed thing, the group, the band, The Hip, I guess you just forget," he admits. "It's a family, and like every good family, you can forget. But you're also committed to each other, so there's always room to grow, to learn and relearn."

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  Looking for a good (and idiot simple) audio editor

Posted by: hotmetal401
10-14-2006, 01:58 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hey folks.

I'm looking for an audio editor for Windows that is
a/good quality
b/easy to use
c/preferibly free

I picked up K-OS's new record Atlantis, which is brilliant by the way, and am looking to split the last track in two. There's a hidden track on the album, after his colab with Buck 65.

Any help would be awesome.

Cheers,

Pat

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  Jurrasic 5 and The Hip

Posted by: jpolowski
10-14-2006, 11:37 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Can anyone tell me if Jurassic 5 will be playing with the Hip on Nov 1st in Calgary. I recently noticed that both acts are to play the same venue on the same night. Anyone know anything about this?

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  Luv(sic) tab.... well, most of it

Posted by: tragicallysteve
10-14-2006, 11:08 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Luv(sic)

Tabbed by Steve Proulx (<!-- e --><a href="mailtoConfusedteveproulx5@msn.com">steveproulx5@msn.com</a><!-- e -->)



Dm - XX0231
G - 320033
A5 - X022XX
C5 - X355XX
G5 - 355XXX
C/B - X255XX
F5 - 133XXX


Riff A:
Dm G
|----1-----3-----------3-----1---------|
|-3------3-----3----3------3------3----|
|-2-----------------0------------------|
|-0-----------------0------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|



Riff A
There are words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Clung to
Glad of
Uncommonly held
Peculiarly interlaced
Remembered and felt

A5 C5
Am I lovesick?
G5 C5 C/B
It’s as if love’s the only virtue there is
A5 C5 F5 G5
Am I lovesick?

Riff A
The plot thins, emotions get frayed
Attractions move through the shade
Done for
Delight in
And forever held
Influence
Given life
Remembered and felt

A5 C5
Am I lovesick?
G5 C5 C/B
It’s as if love’s the only virtue there is
A5 C5 F5 G5
Am I lovesick?


It’s nothing to hate
Who can’t hate can
Got nothing ‘gainst hate ----> I can't figure out this part to save my life
It’s all the planning
It gets hard to remember
We’re best when we’re tender

D5
There are words I carry in my heart
Riff A
Words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Clung to
Glad of
Uncommonly held
Peculiarly interlaced
Remembered and felt

A5 C5
Am I lovesick?
G5 C5 C/B
It’s as if love’s the only virtue there is
A5 C5 F5 G5
Am I lovesick?

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  Edmonton Eskimos fans....

Posted by: thedarkcanuck
10-14-2006, 10:23 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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welcome to the world of being a Rider fan....they sure choked today :lol:

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  Buffalo Folks

Posted by: Andre Cardinal
10-14-2006, 09:24 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hey Dana, Drez, make sure to lift with your legs, and not your back!

Snow's so merciless.....

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  Downie interview- Calgary Herald

Posted by: direwolf74
10-14-2006, 06:31 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hey gang. I don't think this has been posted yet. Enjoy!

The Hip's new Rock: Heavy metal producer gives beloved Canadian rockers new lease on music.
Heath McCoy, Calgary Herald
Published: Saturday, October 14, 2006

Gordon Downie softly singing a John Lennon song in the lobby of the Westin Hotel. "Ohhh Yoko. My love will turn you on," he coos shyly, eyes closed. Now that's a memorable moment, and those are hard to come by on these media blitzes the record companies arrange when they want to promote a new album.

The new release is The Tragically Hip's World Container, which hits stores Tuesday, and Universal Music Canada is whisking Downie, the Hip's eccentric singer, from city to city, where each reporter get about 20 minutes with him, if they're lucky. Despite this face time, it's usually a pretty impersonal and unrevealing process.

But a nerve is struck when I mention a John Lennon lyric in conjunction with In View, the album's first single. It's not that the song sounds remotely Lennon-esque. Its pretty keyboard riff recalls The Cure more than Lennon. But the song's lyric is so simple and direct. It's a sweet love song, a pop song, and I wonder if the Hip's fans, weaned on Downie's deep and poetic, metaphor-heavy lyrics might consider it a dumbing down of sorts. Folks said that about the literary Beatle when he wrote simple, heartfelt lyrics like I Want You (She's So Heavy), I mention. In response Downie breaks into the similarly simple chorus of Oh Yoko! off the Imagine album.

The elementary, heartfelt approach was not a dumbing down, but liberating, Downie says, and there's one man to thank, or blame, depending on one's perspective, for that new found freedom. That man is Bob Rock. The famed Vancouver producer manned the boards for the Hip's latest album, recorded over a year in Toronto, Maui and Vancouver, and from Downie's perspective he's the greatest producer the Hip has ever worked with, challenging them like no one else has.

"In View is a direct lyric, and that's what Bob wanted to hear," says Downie, 42, who looks slim and stylish in an earthy green suit and a newsboy cap.

"Bob would challenge me to decide where I was coming from -- the head, the heart, or somewhere in between -- and I think he wanted the emotion, the heart and soul. . . . There's a lot of heart on this record, a lot of love, and these are both areas I've avoided. I think your head tells you it's the domain of suckers and saps, romantics and cliches. But you know, maybe your head isn't always right when it comes to love."

Will some turn their noses up at the idea of Rock producing the Hip? At first glance it seems like a mismatch. This is, after all, the cerebral, literary Hip -- who rose out of Kingston, Ont. in the late '80s to become one of Canada's most beloved bands. The idea that they're now being guided by Rock, 52 -- who's famous for steering hard rock brutes like Metallica and Motley Crue towards their greatest commercial success -- could be mortifying to the Hip's hardcore fans. But Downie is quick to defend the producer.

"I would answer 'Why Bob Rock?' with 'How, ever, without Bob Rock?' " he says. "You should never underestimate him. He's an artist through and through. . . . Who else would venture into a room full of 40-something musicians, who have been together for 20 years with their inside jokes and innuendo and ingrained-in-the-wood cynicism? I think you'd rather stick your head in a hornet's nest, but he does it willingly and he enjoys it. He's like a 16-year-old who can't believe he makes records for a living. . . . I've met a lot of supposed mystics and oracles of the production world . . . but I've never seen anyone like (Bob Rock)."

Artistically the Hip -- who are coming to the University of Calgary for a four night run at MacEwan Hall, Oct. 28, 29, 30 and Nov. 1-- felt stuck in a rut, and that's exactly what brought them to Rock. Here was a producer unafraid to take the Hip in a fresh direction.

"Sometimes a band will doggedly pursue 'our sound' until eventually they become prisoners of that pursuit, because you measure everything with 'How does that fit our sound?'. . . . We're finally mature enough to admit that (we don't have) a self-proclaimed manifesto, that 'This is what we'll do now.'

"We needed Bob. . . . He had ideas constantly . . . and he's a song guy too. He's a writer and a player.

"Other producers wanted us to make the record we wanted to make. That's great if you know what kind of record you want to make. . . . But in Bob's case he had definite suggestions to make on the songs. . . . He wants to hear excitement. He works on passion and emotion in the performance, and we haven't run into a lot of that making records.

"The band's never played like this before and I don't know if we would without someone suggesting it."

Rock also helped the Hip become less self-conscious about acknowledging their roots, Downie says.

"The Kids Don't Get It, that hits me as having a bit of a Clash vibe and we all love The Clash . . . but in the past we'd never let anyone know that. When I read the rock 'n' roll handbook, on page one it said 'Avoid affiliation. . . . ' But Bob broke down that obstacle.

"It's OK to show the undergarment a bit, to show where you come from musically, to celebrate that. The music we grew up listening to

"We're happy with it and proud of it."

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  CBC Quiz

Posted by: beanmedic
10-13-2006, 03:26 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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From the main page at cbc.ca

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  2006-10-15 - Toronto, ON - CBC Toronto Broadcast Centre

Posted by: mrlayance
10-13-2006, 11:51 AM
Forum: 2006 Show Reviews
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Post Your Review, I am sure this was pre recorded.

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