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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Song of the day at thehip.com: An absolutely killer version of "Cordelia" from the Fillmore in San Francisco, 1996.

    http://www.thehip.com

    bad ass! thanks direwolf, you are the man! :D
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    ...some kinda beer feuled olympic frenzy problem?...this is called damaged goods, it's yeah..."shakespearean"...brilliant! :)
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    These guys are really pulling stuff out of the archives for the "song of the day" feature. Their webmaster posts often over at the Hipbase, and he mentioned that the band has recorded EVERY show they've played since '96. Just imagine the box set they could put together with all that material! Anyway, today's song is "Put it Off" live from Saskatchewan Place, 11/18/96.

    http://www.thehip.com
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    thanks so much for being the first person ever to not scold me for not liking courage! :)

    i think we agree on almost all the songs! :D especially emperor penguin and flamenco...two of the best. i find i always skip "the rules" as well...not the worst song, but i just tend to skip by it...

    :D

    For the longest time I thought there was something wrong with me...since I don't like Courage at all! :rolleyes: I guess, not anymore! Glad to know I'm not alone in this. :)

    And yes...I noticed we agree on a lot of the Hip tunes, including the Gord Downie solos also.

    :D
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    direwolf74 wrote:
    These guys are really pulling stuff out of the archives for the "song of the day" feature. Their webmaster posts often over at the Hipbase, and he mentioned that the band has recorded EVERY show they've played since '96. Just imagine the box set they could put together with all that material! Anyway, today's song is "Put it Off" live from Saskatchewan Place, 11/18/96.

    http://www.thehip.com

    Excellent! :D

    I am really hoping for a future box set...that would be so sweet! I hope they will. The tunes for the "Song of the Day" had been all killer versions.
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    the only album i have is Up to Here and that's been the case for 10 or 11 years. a friend of mine in college tuned me in on that record, and i've never personally met any Tragically Hip fans since so i've never heard any other albums! i'm usually not motivated to listen to an album unless someone recommends it personally. and of course radio doesnt play them around here, so i cant just stumble upon it.

    but now that i've stumbled upon this thread, i have some ideas of what albums i may check out soon.

    the Tragically Hip will always remind me of college. a cigarette long season...
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    hey man go get the albums, start with fully completely or road apples, then work to phantom power and violet light
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II, Sea I+II '24
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    the only album i have is Up to Here and that's been the case for 10 or 11 years. a friend of mine in college tuned me in on that record, and i've never personally met any Tragically Hip fans since so i've never heard any other albums! i'm usually not motivated to listen to an album unless someone recommends it personally. and of course radio doesnt play them around here, so i cant just stumble upon it.

    but now that i've stumbled upon this thread, i have some ideas of what albums i may check out soon.

    the Tragically Hip will always remind me of college. a cigarette long season...


    If you're looking for a good representation of the Hip's music, a good place to start would be their recently released double-disc greatest hits album, "Yer Favourites". But if you've got some cash burning a hole in your wallet, I definitely recommend spending a few extra dollars and picking up the entire box set. Here's all the info:

    "HIPEPONYMOUS" 2 DVD & 2 CD Box Set:

    The two CDs in the set, entitled
    "Yer Favourites" features 37 digitally remastered classic Tragically Hip songs chosen by 150,000 fans. Of "Yer Favourites" 37 tracks, 35 were chosen from The Hip's 10 studio albums including The Tragically Hip (1987), Up To Here (1989), Road Apples (1991), Fully Completely (1992), Day For Night (1994), Trouble At The Henhouse (1996), Phantom Power (1998), Music @ Work (2000), In Violet Light (2002) and last years In Between Evolution (2004). "Yer Favourites" also includes two brand new tracks.

    The DVD entitled "That Night in Toronto, a Film by Pierre & Franois Lamoureux" catches THE TRAGICALLY HIP live in concert at Toronto's Air Canada Centre in November 2004 and was filmed in High Definition and mixed in PCM Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound. HIPEPONYMOUS also includes an exclusive bonus DVD that features all 23 of THE TRAGICALLY HIP'S music videos, a 50-minute film directed by Christopher Mills entitled "Macroscopic", and 11 visual vignettes set to new original scores from The Tragically Hip. The limited edition package also includes a 48-page bound book."

    As for their albums, I'd definitely pick up Day for Night and Phantom Power. If you like those, then I guarantee you'll become addicted and end up buying everything else just to complete the collection.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    reborncareerist wrote:
    Best Hip album is?

    Music@Work is my current favorite, I think ...

    Road Apples
    I'll dig a tunnel
    from my window to yours
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Do you guys have any idea if any of their videos are available in any websites or anywhere else for that matter (plus Gord Downie solo vids)? I know they have everything in HIPEPONYMOUS...but I haven't picked it up yet, since it's too costly right now.

    The Hip Base do have a list and screenshots (http://hipbase.com/index.php?page=sights-videos), but that's about it. I haven't seen any of the HIP videos for quite sometime now...oh these kind of "Hip fix" are kind of annoying sometimes :rolleyes:.

    I'll probably will have to settle with the Toronto live dvd instead. :D

    Edit: I found the "Darkest One!"

    Bubbles: "Gord's gonna give us some chicken if we get him a new motor."
    Ricky: "How much chicken?"
    Gord: "ONE BUCKET"

    :D:D:D

    Oh I love Don Cherry's cameo too...everytime I see that part now...he reminds me of Colonel Sander's because of the chicken!

    I never get tired of this vid, cracks me up each time.

    http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1NX4IYDYGT97W1TNRFHME6TIGE
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    good video

    side question: who knows when new season of TPB starts up?
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    mariposa wrote:
    Bubbles: "Gord's gonna give us some chicken if we get him a new motor."
    Ricky: "How much chicken?"
    Gord: "ONE BUCKET"

    Best video they've ever done!
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Song of the Day: "Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man", from Brussels, Belgium 11/05/02

    http://www.thehip.com/
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • Peatrical
    Peatrical Posts: 59
    I love the hip, I saw them live back in November 2004. It was a great show, only they didn't play fireworks.. We did get Little Bones and New Orleans is Sinking though so all is well.
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    hodge wrote:
    good video

    side question: who knows when new season of TPB starts up?

    From what I kept on hearing...

    Sunday, April 17!

    TPB the movie is supposed to be release this year as well.
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Holy crap! Today's song of the day is a full recorded version of the long lost unreleased gem "Blonde Solid" from 1995. Parts of this song used to be played during extended onstage jams of New Orleans is Sinking and At the Hundredth Meridian, but I don't think I've ever heard a full version of the song until today. Wow. The band's webmaster recently told the Hipbase forum that the boys are planning to release a rarities/b-sides album sometime in the future. I can't wait to hear it! Hopefully they'll take a page out of Pearl Jam's book and make it a double-disc. Anyways...ladies and gentlemen, I give you BLONDE SOLID:

    http://www.thehip.com
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Thanks again direwolf, for keeping us up to date with the "Song of the day" and whatever it is happening over at the The Titanic Terrarium. That is some great news indeed! It reminds me why I love this band so much! :D

    It's great to finally hear Blonde Solid! I found the lyrics over at the Hip Museum...and some info too...

    "Blonde Solid: Fully Completely outtake whose lyrics were inspired by a painting Gord saw. Played live on 4/18/92, and brought back during jams in 1996-99."

    Me I'm dirty all the time
    In a quite becoming squalor
    She's blonde solid
    She's blonde solid

    The kind I'd follow anywhere
    So I accidentally did so
    She's blonde solid
    She's blonde solid

    I was the funniest guy in the room
    For half an hour or so
    At a party filled
    With the likes of which
    I'll never know

    She stuck close to the TV set
    I was back here in the kitchen
    She's blonde solid
    She's blonde solid

    I was the funniest guy in the room
    For half an hour or so
    Pretty much until
    This guy kicks me out
    He says it time to go

    And that's the way Mark painted her
    Brown, yellow, stolid
    She's blonde solid
    She's blonde solid

    I was the funniest guy in the room
    For half an hour or so
    At a party filled
    With the likes of which
    I'll never know
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • ediger
    ediger Posts: 308
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Holy crap! Today's song of the day is a full recorded version of the long lost unreleased gem "Blonde Solid" from 1995. Parts of this song used to be played during extended onstage jams of New Orleans is Sinking and At the Hundredth Meridian, but I don't think I've ever heard a full version of the song until today. Wow. The band's webmaster recently told the Hipbase forum that the boys are planning to release a rarities/b-sides album sometime in the future. I can't wait to hear it! Hopefully they'll take a page out of Pearl Jam's book and make it a double-disc. Anyways...ladies and gentlemen, I give you BLONDE SOLID:

    http://www.thehip.com

    No fucking way.. This is awesome. I've had a really really bad studio recording of this for years, but this is so much better. You just made my day
    Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me your name?
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Holy crap! Today's song of the day is a full recorded version of the long lost unreleased gem "Blonde Solid" from 1995. Parts of this song used to be played during extended onstage jams of New Orleans is Sinking and At the Hundredth Meridian, but I don't think I've ever heard a full version of the song until today. Wow. The band's webmaster recently told the Hipbase forum that the boys are planning to release a rarities/b-sides album sometime in the future. I can't wait to hear it! Hopefully they'll take a page out of Pearl Jam's book and make it a double-disc. Anyways...ladies and gentlemen, I give you BLONDE SOLID:

    http://www.thehip.com

    right on once again direwolf..and thanks for the lyrics mariposa! :)

    a rarities / b-sides would be great! one of my faves is problem bears. i listen to it as much as some of the regular album tunes sometimes.
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Ahh Problem Bears, great lyrics....I really should listen to that tune more often. :)

    So it's been non-stop "In Between Evolution" as of late...for me. And I've been listening to nothing but the Hip for the past weeks now...."chronologically". This is nuts. :D
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."

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