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Best Hip album is?
Music@Work is my current favorite, I think ...
Music@Work is my current favorite, I think ...
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Check out Fully, Completely, as well, if you like Road Apples. Very nice progression.
cheers from Boston
...Fellow Hip heads..
my sig speaks for itself.. everyone in "the Pit" thinks it means I'm in jail..
"it'd be better for me if you don't undertand.."
Fully Completey and Road Apples are the closest thing to representing the Hip live.. (where the real magic is) don't bother buying their live CD (Live in between) its is god awful...
Like PJ , the Hip has Tons of Boots and SBD's that are 10 times better than the live CD
But their new DVD..
"That night in Toronto" captures them in one of their greatest performances Ever!
defintely worth buying
("You want Fully... AND Completely..")
They also have a new greatest hits CD.. "Yur Favorites".. that's equally as good..
I'd start with those two..
Stay Hip..
Scott
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but all of them awesome though..
Seen them live about 15 times and are amazing live ..If you haven't seen them "live" do yourself a favour and go see them
WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10/25/13 Hartford
live like your dying today
you haven't missed much...
that's not a big deal when they play it live...
yeah, right!
aaaaarrrrrrrrrghhh..
nothing worse than the dreaded "setlist curse"!!!!
Your time will come my friend!
"then the dream ends...."!
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when the phone rings, off what I would sya is easily the best record. becasue it marks the start of a more experimental band. Fully Completly is as good a pure rock record there is but with day for night they started towards where they kind of are now which is a little more artistsic I find.
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In Edmonton once, the entire audience was singing it as we were filing out, that was pretty cool. I even mentioned it to Rob Baker that summer at Stage 13, and he said he'd try to get it on the setlist. I even gave him some of the BC grown, but no.......
Gord sinclair is the man with the setlist pen..
2002 somervillle, before the second show I told him that "Locked" hadn't been played in Boston since 1998 and we got it two nights in a row...!
sweet!
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10/25/13 Hartford
holy crap, I couldn't disagree with you more (with all due respect)...the live between us CD is amazing, and is the hip at their best IMO, while in that Toronto DVD they seem old, predictable, and unnatural. It's wierd how people can see things so differently. The hip were in their prime during that Live between us album, and Gord Downie was a man possessed. Now he just seems to do his thing like its scripted and he does it because people expect him to. I have seen the hip live about 6-7 times, and they've gotten progressively worse, not in terms of playing, but overall stage presense, mainly because Gord's antics just seem like a put on now. There was a time that they were the best band in the world...around Day for Night and Henhouse years...man, they were so freakin' good
"We don't declare a war on idleness / when outside, it's cold and shitty"
Brilliant lyrics.
gord downie is one of the great canadian "poets", in my opinion. i met him on the day that johnny cash passed away and it was bitter sweet...always wanted to meet gord downie and talk to him, but we talked about johnny and it was quite somber...i found him the lyrics for "the man comes around" and he played it that night though, so i'll never forget that.
it's solid cover to cover, i think. my friends and i made a trip to new york to see them in a club, so we always love to hear the lines about new york in "escape is at hand...". for me, songs like "vapour trails, "thompson girl", and "emperor penguin" are some of my favourtite hip tunes ever. the hits from phantom power are as good as any they've released too. i agree...not quite up there with "fully completely", but i have to admit i listen to it more than "day for night"...although i have much love for "day for night"
The Hip released a live album on universal in 1997. "The Tragically Hip Live Between Us" It was taken from a show in Detroit Nov 23 1996. Song list: grace,too; fully completely; springtime in vienna; twist my arm; gift shop; ahead by a century; the luxury; courage; new orleans is sinking; don't wake daddy; scared; blow at high dough; nautical disaster; the wherewithal.
I think that's a great place to start, but then I almost always prefer live albums to studio cuts. I love the one-take feel of live shows. Often studio albums get bogged down (and, let's face it, the arrangement gets taken away from the band and put into the hands of the producer... which MIGHT not be a good thing).
Can any hip fans think of any good introduction-to-the-band songs missing from that list? Ok, Little Bones isn't there... (that's a great fun song for the guitar players out there). (Am I saying that their best days are behind them?)
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there's so many great tunes from the earlier albums...cordelia, three pistols, 38 years old, boots or hearts, locked in the fuckin' trunk of a car!, small town bringdown, everytime you go, long time running, fiddler's green, wheat kings, flamenco, so hard done by, 50 mission cap, evelyn, bring it all back, she didn't know, at the 100th meridian, .......i could go on for days!
from the more recent stuff i like tunes like silver jet, sharks, the bastard, it's a good life if you don't weaken, stay, vaccination scar, gus the polar bear from central park...so i'd say that they don't make cover to cover albums like they used to, but i still love at least half the stuff they put out now.
i'll go see them any time they come to the east coast
i noticed you said this before and forgot to comment on it, maybe because i was in shock, red! i forget how many times i've seen them now...i think 9 or 10, and i don't remember a show where they didn't play it. it was "locked in the trunk of a car" for me for a while...they finally played it the last time i saw them!
"...they're turning this song into a movie...starring peter o'toole as the curmudgeonly lighthouse keeper...and jodie foster in the role of susan...it's called the nurse patient...i had this dream..."... i'm going to listen to it now....:)
Talk of my namesake brings my back..
"Locked" is my favorte Hip sing of all time,,
the live version is simply explosive!
but isn't your Gord quote an intro to Nautical disaster, not "Locked"..
Just askin??
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yeah, it's nautical disaster. red said that she hadn't seen them play it live, despite the fact that she'd seen them 17 times or so. amazing eh? i was just replying that "locked in the trunk of a car" was like that for me for the first 8-9 times i saw them. i always wanted to see them play it, but they only got around to playing it the last time i saw them.
...thought i would throw that intro in there for red...seeing as they've played nautical disaster every time i've seen them...
nice name on ya by the way...i wondered if that is what it alluded to. "locked..." is definitely one of my faves.
Thanks.. keeping the same user name (Locked) is easy for me to go to remeber going from forum to forum ...but I can't tell you the number of Pearl Jam and DMB thread responders who ak me whether it means I'm posting "from Jail"???
Yikes...!
so "locked" for me "in the pit" becomes a code word for any other fanatical Hip fans to recognize...
In fact "locked" is excatly how Gord Sinclair lists the song on setlists so I use it in the same manner..
Peace ..and stay Hip!
Scotty in Boston
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Anyone else a little frightened/excited that Bob Rock is producing the new album?
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yeah, a few years ago they did back to back nights in halifax. i was talking to him after a show at the club i work at (we were throwing a party for them...) and was begging him to put "locked" on the setlist for the next night, or at the very least "emperor penguin"...they didn't play locked, but they did play the penguin. i doubt i had much influence on that decision, but he did say he was the man to talk to if you had a request.
Thompson Girl
Membership
Vapour Trails
Escape Is At Hand for The Travellin' Man
Emperor Penguin
and, even though overplayed on radio and Muchmusic, Poets is a great track as well as Bobcaygeon. Something On was ok too.
Though my all-time fav Hip tune is Nautrical Disaster, and that live album is the shit.
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo