Tragically Hip ...

mookie blaylock 10

you'd much rather do almost everything in the states ...not just the hip!

direwolf74

Today's song of the day at thehip.com:

A killer version of Lake Fever from the June 23rd show at Fort York. I love Gord's intro: "1832, there was a cholera epidemic all up and down the lake. Many people died where you stand tonight. This is a song about two young people who don't give a shit."

civ_eng_girl

direwolf74 wrote:

Today's song of the day at thehip.com:

A killer version of Lake Fever from the June 23rd show at Fort York. I love Gord's intro: "1832, there was a cholera epidemic all up and down the lake. Many people died where you stand tonight. This is a song about two young people who don't give a shit."

i was there!! i was there!!

that was a great intro to Lake Fever... the second best Gord quote of the night... next to:

"here we are, in the heart of toronto, cradled by the Gardiner Expressway..."

or did he say 'armpit of the Gardiner Expressway'.... i can't remember...

civ_eng_girl

BUMP for the Canadian long weekend!!

But I thought you beat the death of inevitability to death just a little bit.
I though you beat the inevitability of death to death just a little bit


i LOVE the rhythm of these two lines....

what a tongue twister!!

mookie blaylock 10

this song's about a man, sorta down on his luck...so he takes to the streets shaking a banana at people, trying to convince them that it's making a sound...

direwolf74

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

this song's about a man, sorta down on his luck...so he takes to the streets shaking a banana at people, trying to convince them that it's making a sound...

I love that introduction! Gord is easily the most quotable frontman in rock. Here's a few of my favorites:

""Here's a song about a window-washer who saw a corporate executive boffing his secretary. He saw too much! The corporate executive leans out the window, snips the wires. He plunges 48 stories to his death, on the way with a massive erection. With the time he had left, the split second, the fractions of seconds he had left on the face of this planet, he chose to fantasize about a woman. And had the most incredible orgasm of his entire life as he hit the ground."

-Utrecht, Netherlands, '97


"Jean Chretien will be here tonight. President Jean Chretien. Just got back from kissing some major ass."

-Ottawa, '96


"We've had a wonderful summer, touring around your entire country, since May. Now it's time to go home and explore the realms within our fingertips. Play with somebody else for awhile. You know, like besides myself."

-Washington, D.C. '96


"All right, what I was trying to establish there at the end was a litany of voices, just different diversity of voices of people singing 'Sing to end all songs to end all songs', and I thought I'd try to do an Eddie Vedder imitation, and then I got stuck on that 'cuz I didn't quite get it right."

-Seattle, 2000


"Hello there, good morning. I feel Woodstockeriffic! Of course, we've come here to study you. Of course, it's us that gains the most, right? It's us that really benefits. I'm getting a message from beyond. We crossed when the lake was frozen. Like exiles from the Canadas of your soul!"

-Woodstock '99

mookie blaylock 10

beautiful, direwolf! he's a genius!

thanks for sharing those!

GORD! HIP!

reditalian

Anyone else going to see them in Stratford Sept 9? This will be number 10 for me and I hope not the last!!!

hipfan

I'll be there!

reditalian

hipfan wrote:

I'll be there!

Right On!!!!!!!!!!

direwolf74

*bump*

Just wanna keep this thread alive. Still no further news about the new album. I'm thinking it won't be long before they make the official announcement regarding the release date (Oct.17) and the tracklisting. I'm anxiously waiting for some U.S. tour dates so I can start making my travel plans!

Just for fun, here are some more words of wisdom from Gord Downie:

"A standard break-up tune, sort of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, and then boy-sets-out-to-kill-girl."

-Toronto '89 (introducing Boots or Hearts)


"This song is about delivering pizza to a crack house. This is called Twist My Arm."

-Los Angeles '91


"Last time we were here, it rained like shit. I mean not like the rain was brown, but that it rained a lot, like say you had pizza the night before. How many of you were there? Well, bless your hearts. I remember that very well, and I was going to send you all thank-you notes, but you know how it is. A guy gets busy on the road."

-Saskatoon '91


"Here's a song for les filles du roi. Daughters of the King. Brought over from France by Hugh Hefner four centuries ago to help populate the new continent."

-Chicago '95


"This is a song about the benefits of maggots in your life. They're actually very clean, and they'll fix up a cut faster than Neosporin, or any band-aid on the market presently."

-Dallas '95


"We wrote this next song during this past winter, up in Canada. If you're from Canada, then you understand...then you'll know that there's really not a whole lot to do for a few months there in the year. Uh, really not a whole lot to do. And, so like the Swedes, you know, we contemplate throwing ourselves from windows, but ultimately the lull of drunken patriotism lulls us back. This is 700 Ft. Ceiling."

-Dallas '96


"This song is sort of a peace-keeping mission gone horribly awry. Led by Marlon Brando, a rag-tag group of peacekeepers, decide to stay behind enemy lines, open up a gated community of their own, with their Polynesian...Vietnamese princesses. 'Who's in charge here? Ain't you?"

-San Francisco '98


"I see the Canadian flags, I see the American flag. We've got about two American flags and about fifteen Canadian flags. With the exchange rate, that makes it about even."

-Toledo '98


"I believe in endorsements. This is good stuff, but it makes you burp a lot. Like constantly. A little saxophone rising up from your belly. Actually, I don't believe in endorsements unless you're allowed to swear. Good fuckin' drink! I've had a lot of pop. That's a helluva pop!"

-High Sierra Festival, CA '98


"This is a song about an animal that was given a key to the cage, opened the cage, let the door swing open, and in a moment of conscience, turned around, closed the cage, and threw the key outside. This is called Stay."

-Minneapolis, '00


"Is there some kind of unrest in the pit? Is there some kind of problem with the - your view? What's wrong? Please, I want to know. Because you can't keep giving me the finger and expect me to go on with the show. It has an effect. How could it not? I could try to ignore you, but, that's not the ticket you bought. And what about your friend, young Castro? Where'd he go? That's how Milosevic started."

-Syracuse '00


For the ultimate list of Gordie quotes, check out this page:

http://www.killerwhaletank.com/rory/ConcertList.htm

ediger

most people may well have it already, but for pure gold Gord Downie ranting, get the Hengelo '91 bootleg. He's absolutely trashed and just yelling about garbage the entire time.

A couple of memorable ones

"Here's our little docu-tragedy, our little weepy song. Its a true story about some people that don't exist. It's called 38 Years Old for all of you keeping score."

"Ok, what do you want to do? All Canadian? Oh, thats what you want to hear? I'll put that down. Blow Me. Blow At High Dough"

reditalian

Tom Petty Sept 8 At The Molson Ampitheater With "special Guest",
The Hip Sept 9 In Stratford. Man Would That Be Awesome To Them Open For Mr. Petty.

direwolf74

Ladies and gentlemen, the latest news from thehip.com:

"World Container: Coming Tuesday October 17th.

Hey folks,

We are very proud to announce some information about our new album.

The album title is "World Container". It will be released in Canada on Tuesday October 17th. The first single is "In View".

Be sure to visit http://www.thehip.com for album news updates and all things hip."


I don't know about the rest of ya, but I think I just had a small orgasm. I can't wait to hear this thing! Oct. 17th seems so far away. It's a good thing there's been so much great new music released this year, otherwise I'd be losing my mind right about now.

mookie blaylock 10

direwolf74 wrote:

Ladies and gentlemen, the latest news from thehip.com:

"World Container: Coming Tuesday October 17th.

Hey folks,

We are very proud to announce some information about our new album.

The album title is "World Container". It will be released in Canada on Tuesday October 17th. The first single is "In View".

Be sure to visit http://www.thehip.com for album news updates and all things hip."


I don't know about the rest of ya, but I think I just had a small orgasm. I can't wait to hear this thing! Oct. 17th seems so far away. It's a good thing there's been so much great new music released this year, otherwise I'd be losing my mind right about now.

right on, right on! and a nice CDN winter tour to follow i'm sure...sweet!

locked

Woo Hooo!!!!!!!!!

I smell NA tour dates!!

In the meantime, how about some more Somerville/ Boston sourced songs from the Vault!!!!

To my count we've only had one somerville, mass show for the SOD..

where's the friggin love?

Scott in Boston

MCG

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

right on, right on! and a nice CDN winter tour to follow i'm sure...sweet!

I can't wait! I keep checking the TTH website everyday! The new album and tour can't come soon enough.

direwolf74

Check out the song of the day at thehip.com. An incredible version of Grace, Too from Holland in '97, with probably the best song intro I've ever heard from Gord. Great stuff!

MCG

direwolf74 wrote:

Check out the song of the day at thehip.com. An incredible version of Grace, Too from Holland in '97, with probably the best song intro I've ever heard from Gord. Great stuff!

Awesome! Thanks

ediger

the new single is streaming on the site. I consider the Hip my favourite band, but this is awful. Easily the worst Hip song I've ever heard.