Ok gang, post your own version of "Yer Favorites" (36 tracks). Here's what I would've chosen:
Disc 1:
1. Gift Shop
2. Springtime in Vienna
3. Opiated
4. Cordelia
5. Daredevil
6. The Lonely End of the Rink
7. It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
8. Tiger the Lion
9. Save the Planet
10. Bobcaygeon
11. Pigeon Camera
12. At the Hundredth Meridian
13. Fiddler's Green
14. Fully Completely
15. Ahead by a Century
16. Put it Off
17. Emperor Penguin
18. The Dire Wolf
Disc 2:
1. Grace, Too
2. Everytime You Go
3. Lake Fever
4. Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
5. Greasy Jungle
6. Nautical Disaster
7. The Luxury
8. Yawning or Snarling
9. Locked in the Trunk of a Car
10. The Heart of the Melt
11. Membership
12. The Drop Off
13. On the Verge
14. Fight
15. Don't Wake Daddy
16. Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man
17. Family Band
18. Wheat Kings
Damn, that was difficult. There are so many great songs I left off (38 Years Old, Leave, Impossibilium, Kids Don't Get It, Are We Family, Last of the Unplucked Gems...I could go on and on.) I also didn't include New Orleans is Sinking or Blow at High Dough, which most Hip fans would think is insane. But hey, that's me.
"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."
I will start at the beginning and get to World Container.
DISC 1
1.Small Town Bringdown
2.Last American Exit
3.38 Yrs Old
4.Vaccination Scar
5.Born In The Water
6.Bring It All Back
7.Little Bones
8.Twist My Arm
9. In View
10. Family Band
11.Courage
12.Pigeon Camera
13.Lionized
14.Fully Completely
15.Fifty Mission Cap
16.Grace, Too
17.Daredevil
18.Fire In The Hole
DISC 2
1. Inevitability Of Death
2.Emergency
3.Inch an Hour
4.Springtime in Vienna
5.One Night In Copenhagen
6.Thompson Girl
7.Vapour Trails
8.Escape is at Hand
9.Music at Work
10.Stay
11.Lake Fever
12.Its a good Life
13.Silver Jet
14.Leave
15.Dire Wolf
16.Darkcanuck
17.Heart of the Melt
18.Goodnight Josephine
There. Good Mix I Think
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
1.Small Town Bringdown
2.Last American Exit
3.38 Yrs Old
4.Vaccination Scar
5.Born In The Water
6.Bring It All Back
7.Little Bones
8.Twist My Arm
9. Three Pistols
10. Cordelia
11.Bobcaygeon
12.Pigeon Camera
13.Lionized
14.Fully Completely
15.Fifty Mission Cap
16.Grace, Too
17.Love (sic)
18.Fire In The Hole
DISC 2
1. Let's stay engaged
2.Apartment song
3.Fight
4.Springtime in Vienna
5.Long time running
6.Thompson Girl
7.Vapour Trails
8.The kids don't get it
9.Fiddler's green
10.Stay
11.Gift Shop
12.Its a good Life
13.The drop off
14.Leave
15.Don't wake Daddy
16.Wheat Kings
17.Pretend
18.World container
mine is very close to DW's
(are we separated at birth dude? those are great picks!)
but some minor changes:
Disc 1:
1. Blow at High Dough
2. Gift Shop
3. Opiated
4. Cordelia
5. Daredevil
6. The Lonely End of the Rink
7. It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
8. Tiger the Lion
9. So Hard Done By
10. 50 Mission Cap
11. Pigeon Camera
12. At the Hundredth Meridian
13. Fiddler's Green
14. Fully Completely
15. Ahead by a Century
16. Put it Off
17. Emperor Penguin
18. The Dire Wolf
Disc 2:
1. Grace, Too
2. Everytime You Go
3. Lake Fever
4. Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
5. Bring It All Back to Me
6. Nautical Disaster
7. Silver Jet
8. Yawning or Snarling
9. Locked in the Trunk of a Car
10. Something On
11. Membership
12. The Drop Off
13. Lionized
14. The Bear
15. Another Midnight
16. Sherpa
17. Thugs
18. Wheat Kings
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Anybody looking for some long lost Hip bootlegs? I just stumbled upon this website, which I knew existed but had totally forgotten about. Lots of great stuff to download here:
The username and password are both "download". A couple of these shows I already have on CD, but there are some surprises here that I'd never heard before. I highly recommend the following shows if you don't already have them. These are all A+ soundboard quality recordings:
1998-07-29-Sausalito_CA (acoustic performance/interview)
1991-05-24-Hengelo_Netherlands (classic show. Gord sounds very drunk.)
1994-12-07-Gino_Sweden (great rare version of Titanic Terrarium)
1995-07-01-Bear_Valley_CA (amazing show with some classic Gord rants)
1996-05-29-Washington_DC (best version of Put it Off I've ever heard)
1996-07-20-Boulder_CO (two words: Pigeon Camera!)
Enjoy!
"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."
The username and password are both "download". A couple of these shows I already have on CD, but there are some surprises here that I'd never heard before. I highly recommend the following shows if you don't already have them. These are all A+ soundboard quality recordings:
1998-07-29-Sausalito_CA (acoustic performance/interview)
1991-05-24-Hengelo_Netherlands (classic show. Gord sounds very drunk.)
1994-12-07-Gino_Sweden (great rare version of Titanic Terrarium)
1995-07-01-Bear_Valley_CA (amazing show with some classic Gord rants)
1996-05-29-Washington_DC (best version of Put it Off I've ever heard)
1996-07-20-Boulder_CO (two words: Pigeon Camera!)
Enjoy!
AHHHHH.. More Hip boot porn..
I was listening the the Tuscon Arizona boot from 1991 the other day..
Gord is a nutjob throughout that entire show..
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
whats the show with the whale tank guy? i want some classic rants here....any other recommendations for these? ive never really delved into the hip boots.
name some more greats
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
okay, highway girl from Tucson is EXACTLY what im looking for. that was amazing. i love when he tells those stories....id like to make a whole cd or two full of those types of things. that was great.
please list a few, if you know them. there was a tragically hip torrent that was HUGE with BOOTS but i couldnt be bothered to go through them all and eventually just got rid of them....
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
okay, highway girl from Tucson is EXACTLY what im looking for. that was amazing. i love when he tells those stories....id like to make a whole cd or two full of those types of things. that was great.
please list a few, if you know them. there was a tragically hip torrent that was HUGE with BOOTS but i couldnt be bothered to go through them all and eventually just got rid of them....
There were two specific bootleg CDs from the early 90s called "Roxy & Elsewhere", and "Glastonbury & Elsewhere" that each had plenty of great stuff. You can download each one from the website I mentioned. The "Killerwhaletank" version of New Orleans is Sinking and the "Double Suicide" version of Highway Girl are both on Roxy & Elsewhere.
"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."
There were two specific bootleg CDs from the early 90s called "Roxy & Elsewhere", and "Glastonbury & Elsewhere" that each had plenty of great stuff. You can download each one from the website I mentioned. The "Killerwhaletank" version of New Orleans is Sinking and the "Double Suicide" version of Highway Girl are both on Roxy & Elsewhere.
thanks for the help, getting both now.
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
really, really loving the bootlegs. that site is awesome, go so many friends into it now, too.
i wish gord still ranted on stage, those early shows i saw with him in the late 90's were so great. i saw an interview with him about his ranting, he said he's changed from ranting to body movements, beacause they can say so much more than he can put into words.
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
really, really loving the bootlegs. that site is awesome, go so many friends into it now, too.
i wish gord still ranted on stage, those early shows i saw with him in the late 90's were so great. i saw an interview with him about his ranting, he said he's changed from ranting to body movements, beacause they can say so much more than he can put into words.
He's actually gotten more hyper on stage in terms of movement. The last two times I saw the Hip (Seattle last summer and Virgin Fest in Calgary), he was entertaining as hell. Lots of leaping, running, spasmodic dancing, gyrating, invisible dogs nipping at his pantleg, and various other forms of craziness. I still think he's the best frontman in rock. He still rants a bit during certain songs, just not as much as he used to. I was watching a recent Youtube clip from 2007 where Gord goes off on this amazing rant during Grace, Too about "Prime Minister Bush" and Canada's involvement in Afghanistan, talking from the point of view of a young soldier saying "I told them I was afraid of the dark and they still sent me over. I told them I'd never fired a gun in my life, and they still sent me over." It was riveting stuff. I'd post the link, but it appears Youtube has taken it down. I wish i could find it.
"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."
i bought the actualy yer favorites the other night, just to have the remastered versions of the old tunes. they really need to go back over their catalog u2 style.
have you guys checked out the "bad trader" thread on "porch" utlizing my favorite Hip song in his user name...?
Haha, yea I saw that. The guy sounds like a real douchebag. Too bad he's a Hip fan. There's no way that reference could come from anywhere else.
And I couldn't agree more regarding Gord's Woodstock performance. He was amazing that day. I remember some friends and I paid for the pay-per-view feed just to watch the Hip's set. They kicked so much ass and made most of the other bands on the bill look like amateurs. It was fantastic. The gigantic sea of Canadian flags was pretty cool too.
"We've come here to study you. We crossed when the lake was frozen. Like exiles from the Canadas of your soul."
-Gord, Woodstock '99
"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."
It's always interesting hearing other bands talk about the Hip. Reminds me of back in the early 90s when Gord S. and Johnny did a radio interview in Seattle and the DJ mentioned that Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament had called in asking for tickets to their show. Then he told them that Bridget Fonda had also phoned in for tickets, to which Johnny replies: "Bridget Fonda, eh. I think we can work that out."
"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."
My band is covering 'Poets' on the 3rd, should be fun!
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
And I couldn't agree more regarding Gord's Woodstock performance. He was amazing that day. I remember some friends and I paid for the pay-per-view feed just to watch the Hip's set. They kicked so much ass and made most of the other bands on the bill look like amateurs. It was fantastic. The gigantic sea of Canadian flags was pretty cool too.
not to mention the full frontal nudity of the chicks on top of the van!!!!
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
not to mention the full frontal nudity of the chicks on top of the van!!!!
Haha, yea that was pretty good too.
"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."
Been wanting to get into these guys... I have Fully Completely... any other suggestions?
Um, everything? Seriously, though, my favourites are, in no particular order:
- Day For Night
- Road Apples
- World Container
- In Between Evolution
I don't know, though, they are amazing but their sounds can vary so much even within an album... Maybe start with Live Between Us, and see what you like? It was recorded in 1997, so it doesn't have anything from Phantom Power on... They're such an amazing live band, though, and if nothing else it's worth it for the version of "Nautical Disaster".
Hope in all my indecisive verbal diarrhea some help was given.
Been wanting to get into these guys... I have Fully Completely... any other suggestions?
phantom power is the album that got me hooked on them. it's one of their least idiosyncratic albums i think. but day for night is excellent. i'd start with one of those two.
This is a shot in the dark but....
I heard a hip tune a few yrs back and Gord goes off on one of his stories about a guy in a room with a shotgun and a train goes by it moves and blows his GF away and the last lines are "thats my story and I'm sticking to it"
Any one have a copy of this ?I'd love to hear it again...
Thanks
This is a shot in the dark but....
I heard a hip tune a few yrs back and Gord goes off on one of his stories about a guy in a room with a shotgun and a train goes by it moves and blows his GF away and the last lines are "thats my story and I'm sticking to it"
Any one have a copy of this ?I'd love to hear it again...
Thanks
Once you enter the site, click on "compilations" and download the one called "Roxy & Elsewhere". I believe it's track #11. The song is called Highway Girl.
"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."
Um, everything? Seriously, though, my favourites are, in no particular order:
- Day For Night
- Road Apples
- World Container
- In Between Evolution
I don't know, though, they are amazing but their sounds can vary so much even within an album... Maybe start with Live Between Us, and see what you like? It was recorded in 1997, so it doesn't have anything from Phantom Power on... They're such an amazing live band, though, and if nothing else it's worth it for the version of "Nautical Disaster".
Hope in all my indecisive verbal diarrhea some help was given.
Those are all great suggestions. I'd also recommend starting out with their double-disc greatest hits album "Yer Favourites". It's a great cross section of their entire career so far and it'll give you a good indication of what they're all about. I've said it before and I'll say it again: these guys are the best rock n' roll band in the world, and once you're hooked, you'll be hooked for life. Their live show is highly addictive.
Happy listening!
"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."
and does anyone else think their shows seem better inside or at night..??
the daytime gigs just put a weird vibe on a very dark cool band..
I love the outdoor festival gigs. When I was at the Sasquatch Fest in '06, my sister and I were standing beside this girl who had never heard of them, and before they went on stage she asked us what they sound like. My sister called them "art rock", which is a pretty accurate description of them. I described them as a combination of poetry and kick-you-in-the-nuts rock n' roll. Once the boys hit the stage and launched into Grace Too, this girl was hooked. You could tell by the huge smile on her face as Gord danced and ranted up a storm. They went on stage right after the craziest hail storm anyone had ever seen. It halted the proceedings for about an hour and they had to shovel all the snow off the stage before the Hip could go on. After their set she asked me what albums she should start with and immediately made a b-line for the CD tent. There's something very satisfying about turning someone onto a band that you really love.
"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."
There's something very satisfying about turning someone onto a band that you really love.
On other forums, I've become known as The Tragically Hip Fan - being mostly American and Australian they don't really know the Hip... So people come to me to get suggestions on what to listen to, and I've actually sent two CDs of mixed Hip tunes to one girl who showed interest... Glad to see I'm not alone!
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Disc 1:
1. Gift Shop
2. Springtime in Vienna
3. Opiated
4. Cordelia
5. Daredevil
6. The Lonely End of the Rink
7. It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
8. Tiger the Lion
9. Save the Planet
10. Bobcaygeon
11. Pigeon Camera
12. At the Hundredth Meridian
13. Fiddler's Green
14. Fully Completely
15. Ahead by a Century
16. Put it Off
17. Emperor Penguin
18. The Dire Wolf
Disc 2:
1. Grace, Too
2. Everytime You Go
3. Lake Fever
4. Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
5. Greasy Jungle
6. Nautical Disaster
7. The Luxury
8. Yawning or Snarling
9. Locked in the Trunk of a Car
10. The Heart of the Melt
11. Membership
12. The Drop Off
13. On the Verge
14. Fight
15. Don't Wake Daddy
16. Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man
17. Family Band
18. Wheat Kings
Damn, that was difficult. There are so many great songs I left off (38 Years Old, Leave, Impossibilium, Kids Don't Get It, Are We Family, Last of the Unplucked Gems...I could go on and on.) I also didn't include New Orleans is Sinking or Blow at High Dough, which most Hip fans would think is insane. But hey, that's me.
-Tom Waits
DISC 1
1.Small Town Bringdown
2.Last American Exit
3.38 Yrs Old
4.Vaccination Scar
5.Born In The Water
6.Bring It All Back
7.Little Bones
8.Twist My Arm
9. In View
10. Family Band
11.Courage
12.Pigeon Camera
13.Lionized
14.Fully Completely
15.Fifty Mission Cap
16.Grace, Too
17.Daredevil
18.Fire In The Hole
DISC 2
1. Inevitability Of Death
2.Emergency
3.Inch an Hour
4.Springtime in Vienna
5.One Night In Copenhagen
6.Thompson Girl
7.Vapour Trails
8.Escape is at Hand
9.Music at Work
10.Stay
11.Lake Fever
12.Its a good Life
13.Silver Jet
14.Leave
15.Dire Wolf
16.Darkcanuck
17.Heart of the Melt
18.Goodnight Josephine
There. Good Mix I Think
DISC 1
1.Small Town Bringdown
2.Last American Exit
3.38 Yrs Old
4.Vaccination Scar
5.Born In The Water
6.Bring It All Back
7.Little Bones
8.Twist My Arm
9. Three Pistols
10. Cordelia
11.Bobcaygeon
12.Pigeon Camera
13.Lionized
14.Fully Completely
15.Fifty Mission Cap
16.Grace, Too
17.Love (sic)
18.Fire In The Hole
DISC 2
1. Let's stay engaged
2.Apartment song
3.Fight
4.Springtime in Vienna
5.Long time running
6.Thompson Girl
7.Vapour Trails
8.The kids don't get it
9.Fiddler's green
10.Stay
11.Gift Shop
12.Its a good Life
13.The drop off
14.Leave
15.Don't wake Daddy
16.Wheat Kings
17.Pretend
18.World container
and well plus another 20 songs perhaps...lol
(are we separated at birth dude? those are great picks!)
but some minor changes:
Disc 1:
1. Blow at High Dough
2. Gift Shop
3. Opiated
4. Cordelia
5. Daredevil
6. The Lonely End of the Rink
7. It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
8. Tiger the Lion
9. So Hard Done By
10. 50 Mission Cap
11. Pigeon Camera
12. At the Hundredth Meridian
13. Fiddler's Green
14. Fully Completely
15. Ahead by a Century
16. Put it Off
17. Emperor Penguin
18. The Dire Wolf
Disc 2:
1. Grace, Too
2. Everytime You Go
3. Lake Fever
4. Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
5. Bring It All Back to Me
6. Nautical Disaster
7. Silver Jet
8. Yawning or Snarling
9. Locked in the Trunk of a Car
10. Something On
11. Membership
12. The Drop Off
13. Lionized
14. The Bear
15. Another Midnight
16. Sherpa
17. Thugs
18. Wheat Kings
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/ftp.html
The username and password are both "download". A couple of these shows I already have on CD, but there are some surprises here that I'd never heard before. I highly recommend the following shows if you don't already have them. These are all A+ soundboard quality recordings:
1998-07-29-Sausalito_CA (acoustic performance/interview)
1991-05-24-Hengelo_Netherlands (classic show. Gord sounds very drunk.)
1994-12-07-Gino_Sweden (great rare version of Titanic Terrarium)
1995-07-01-Bear_Valley_CA (amazing show with some classic Gord rants)
1996-05-29-Washington_DC (best version of Put it Off I've ever heard)
1996-07-20-Boulder_CO (two words: Pigeon Camera!)
Enjoy!
-Tom Waits
AHHHHH.. More Hip boot porn..
I was listening the the Tuscon Arizona boot from 1991 the other day..
Gord is a nutjob throughout that entire show..
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
name some more greats
please list a few, if you know them. there was a tragically hip torrent that was HUGE with BOOTS but i couldnt be bothered to go through them all and eventually just got rid of them....
There were two specific bootleg CDs from the early 90s called "Roxy & Elsewhere", and "Glastonbury & Elsewhere" that each had plenty of great stuff. You can download each one from the website I mentioned. The "Killerwhaletank" version of New Orleans is Sinking and the "Double Suicide" version of Highway Girl are both on Roxy & Elsewhere.
-Tom Waits
thanks for the help, getting both now.
i wish gord still ranted on stage, those early shows i saw with him in the late 90's were so great. i saw an interview with him about his ranting, he said he's changed from ranting to body movements, beacause they can say so much more than he can put into words.
He's actually gotten more hyper on stage in terms of movement. The last two times I saw the Hip (Seattle last summer and Virgin Fest in Calgary), he was entertaining as hell. Lots of leaping, running, spasmodic dancing, gyrating, invisible dogs nipping at his pantleg, and various other forms of craziness. I still think he's the best frontman in rock. He still rants a bit during certain songs, just not as much as he used to. I was watching a recent Youtube clip from 2007 where Gord goes off on this amazing rant during Grace, Too about "Prime Minister Bush" and Canada's involvement in Afghanistan, talking from the point of view of a young soldier saying "I told them I was afraid of the dark and they still sent me over. I told them I'd never fired a gun in my life, and they still sent me over." It was riveting stuff. I'd post the link, but it appears Youtube has taken it down. I wish i could find it.
-Tom Waits
He was absolutely insane!
great rants....especially during NOIS about "jaws" amnd dirty harry"..
and "Its the song i hate..." intro to "Fire in the Hole"..
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Haha, yea I saw that. The guy sounds like a real douchebag. Too bad he's a Hip fan. There's no way that reference could come from anywhere else.
And I couldn't agree more regarding Gord's Woodstock performance. He was amazing that day. I remember some friends and I paid for the pay-per-view feed just to watch the Hip's set. They kicked so much ass and made most of the other bands on the bill look like amateurs. It was fantastic. The gigantic sea of Canadian flags was pretty cool too.
Poets from Woodstock '99:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzBAs9HFkdk
Grace, Too (Gord is so hyper he screws up the phrasing during the first verse):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxB6zfoWf9M
"We've come here to study you. We crossed when the lake was frozen. Like exiles from the Canadas of your soul."
-Gord, Woodstock '99
-Tom Waits
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/07/28/video-chris-walla-explains-the-tragically-hip-at-pemberton/#
It's always interesting hearing other bands talk about the Hip. Reminds me of back in the early 90s when Gord S. and Johnny did a radio interview in Seattle and the DJ mentioned that Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament had called in asking for tickets to their show. Then he told them that Bridget Fonda had also phoned in for tickets, to which Johnny replies: "Bridget Fonda, eh. I think we can work that out."
-Tom Waits
My band is covering 'Poets' on the 3rd, should be fun!
not to mention the full frontal nudity of the chicks on top of the van!!!!
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Haha, yea that was pretty good too.
-Tom Waits
so un-tragically hip..
and does anyone else think their shows seem better inside or at night..??
the daytime gigs just put a weird vibe on a very dark cool band..
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Thanks
Roberto Clemente.
Um, everything?
- Day For Night
- Road Apples
- World Container
- In Between Evolution
I don't know, though, they are amazing but their sounds can vary so much even within an album... Maybe start with Live Between Us, and see what you like? It was recorded in 1997, so it doesn't have anything from Phantom Power on... They're such an amazing live band, though, and if nothing else it's worth it for the version of "Nautical Disaster".
Hope in all my indecisive verbal diarrhea some help was given.
phantom power is the album that got me hooked on them. it's one of their least idiosyncratic albums i think. but day for night is excellent. i'd start with one of those two.
I heard a hip tune a few yrs back and Gord goes off on one of his stories about a guy in a room with a shotgun and a train goes by it moves and blows his GF away and the last lines are "thats my story and I'm sticking to it"
Any one have a copy of this ?I'd love to hear it again...
Thanks
You can download it here:
http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/ftp.html
Once you enter the site, click on "compilations" and download the one called "Roxy & Elsewhere". I believe it's track #11. The song is called Highway Girl.
-Tom Waits
Those are all great suggestions. I'd also recommend starting out with their double-disc greatest hits album "Yer Favourites". It's a great cross section of their entire career so far and it'll give you a good indication of what they're all about. I've said it before and I'll say it again: these guys are the best rock n' roll band in the world, and once you're hooked, you'll be hooked for life. Their live show is highly addictive.
Happy listening!
-Tom Waits
I love the outdoor festival gigs. When I was at the Sasquatch Fest in '06, my sister and I were standing beside this girl who had never heard of them, and before they went on stage she asked us what they sound like. My sister called them "art rock", which is a pretty accurate description of them. I described them as a combination of poetry and kick-you-in-the-nuts rock n' roll. Once the boys hit the stage and launched into Grace Too, this girl was hooked. You could tell by the huge smile on her face as Gord danced and ranted up a storm. They went on stage right after the craziest hail storm anyone had ever seen. It halted the proceedings for about an hour and they had to shovel all the snow off the stage before the Hip could go on. After their set she asked me what albums she should start with and immediately made a b-line for the CD tent. There's something very satisfying about turning someone onto a band that you really love.
Here's the intro to Grace, Too from Sasquatch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP49wsLAeu0
More Grace, Too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBjqah9sUHk
-Tom Waits
On other forums, I've become known as The Tragically Hip Fan - being mostly American and Australian they don't really know the Hip... So people come to me to get suggestions on what to listen to, and I've actually sent two CDs of mixed Hip tunes to one girl who showed interest...