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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    locked wrote:
    Curious though.. Gord S. says the new CD will be Titled "Plan A"..

    but maybe they will spell it:

    "Plan EY?"

    to mock the canadian expression?

    Good stuff!

    eh, it's "EH", eh?
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • IgotshitID
    IgotshitID St.john's Newfoundland Posts: 895
    New song is pretty sweet
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Official video for At Transformation:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ost6Eupxss
    "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
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    on a side note, I am listening to Nautical Disaster from the live album right now
    1998 ~ Barrie
    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
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • left the porch
    left the porch Posts: 504
    I am also loving At Transformation. It sounds to me like it could have been on Phantom Power or Trouble At The Henhouse. Pure Rock and Roll! :D

    Now for them to change up the live shows. It's time to bust out some old school Hip. How awesome would it be to hear Another Midnight or Trickle Down? Born In The Water, Pigeon Camera, We'll Go Too, Greasy Jungle, Titanic Terrarium, 700 Foot Ceiling, Tiger The Lion, the list goes on! Still play the hits too, just mix in some hidden gems that weren't singles. They need to take a page from PJ and Dave Matthews and mix it up. They are just too predictable live. I know they mix up the order most nights and they will change a song or two but it's time for some songs from the vault. If they played Get Back Again I'd lose my shit! This is why my favorite tour was for Music At Work, when they did the Night With The Hip thing with Kate Fenner and Chris Brown. Those shows were EPIC! I'll never forget seeing them break out Opiated at a show in Vermont at a ski hill. The stage lights were all green and I was on mushrooms. Fucking life altering shit. I also saw them in LA at the House of Blues from the front row. Two hour and a half + sets. Un-real!
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    left the porch wrote:
    I am also loving At Transformation. It sounds to me like it could have been on Phantom Power or Trouble At The Henhouse. Pure Rock and Roll! :D

    Now for them to change up the live shows. It's time to bust out some old school Hip. How awesome would it be to hear Another Midnight or Trickle Down? Born In The Water, Pigeon Camera, We'll Go Too, Greasy Jungle, Titanic Terrarium, 700 Foot Ceiling, Tiger The Lion, the list goes on! Still play the hits too, just mix in some hidden gems that weren't singles. They need to take a page from PJ and Dave Matthews and mix it up. They are just too predictable live. I know they mix up the order most nights and they will change a song or two but it's time for some songs from the vault. If they played Get Back Again I'd lose my shit! This is why my favorite tour was for Music At Work, when they did the Night With The Hip thing with Kate Fenner and Chris Brown. Those shows were EPIC! I'll never forget seeing them break out Opiated at a show in Vermont at a ski hill. The stage lights were all green and I was on mushrooms. Fucking life altering shit. I also saw them in LA at the House of Blues from the front row. Two hour and a half + sets. Un-real!

    this is part of the reason I'm kind of "meh" when it comes to seeing them live now. I've seen them so many times and it's always so predictable. If I heard Tiger The Lion I'd lose my fucking mind. Get Back Again would be awesome too!

    We need a rarities Hip theatre tour! No casual douchebag fans allowed! :lol:
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • left the porch
    left the porch Posts: 504
    :clap:
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    left the porch wrote:
    I am also loving At Transformation. It sounds to me like it could have been on Phantom Power or Trouble At The Henhouse. Pure Rock and Roll! :D

    Now for them to change up the live shows. It's time to bust out some old school Hip. How awesome would it be to hear Another Midnight or Trickle Down? Born In The Water, Pigeon Camera, We'll Go Too, Greasy Jungle, Titanic Terrarium, 700 Foot Ceiling, Tiger The Lion, the list goes on! Still play the hits too, just mix in some hidden gems that weren't singles. They need to take a page from PJ and Dave Matthews and mix it up. They are just too predictable live. I know they mix up the order most nights and they will change a song or two but it's time for some songs from the vault. If they played Get Back Again I'd lose my shit! This is why my favorite tour was for Music At Work, when they did the Night With The Hip thing with Kate Fenner and Chris Brown. Those shows were EPIC! I'll never forget seeing them break out Opiated at a show in Vermont at a ski hill. The stage lights were all green and I was on mushrooms. Fucking life altering shit. I also saw them in LA at the House of Blues from the front row. Two hour and a half + sets. Un-real!

    this is part of the reason I'm kind of "meh" when it comes to seeing them live now. I've seen them so many times and it's always so predictable. If I heard Tiger The Lion I'd lose my fucking mind. Get Back Again would be awesome too!

    We need a rarities Hip theatre tour! No casual douchebag fans allowed! :lol:

    :clap:
  • Nami
    Nami Newfoundland Posts: 5,999
    got a little bones feel to it... pretty good.
    Hamilton 9-13-05; Toronto 5-9-06, Toronto 8-21-09, Toronto 9-12-11, Hamilton 9-15-11....
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    left the porch wrote:
    I am also loving At Transformation. It sounds to me like it could have been on Phantom Power or Trouble At The Henhouse. Pure Rock and Roll! :D

    Now for them to change up the live shows. It's time to bust out some old school Hip. How awesome would it be to hear Another Midnight or Trickle Down? Born In The Water, Pigeon Camera, We'll Go Too, Greasy Jungle, Titanic Terrarium, 700 Foot Ceiling, Tiger The Lion, the list goes on! Still play the hits too, just mix in some hidden gems that weren't singles. They need to take a page from PJ and Dave Matthews and mix it up. They are just too predictable live. I know they mix up the order most nights and they will change a song or two but it's time for some songs from the vault. If they played Get Back Again I'd lose my shit! This is why my favorite tour was for Music At Work, when they did the Night With The Hip thing with Kate Fenner and Chris Brown. Those shows were EPIC! I'll never forget seeing them break out Opiated at a show in Vermont at a ski hill. The stage lights were all green and I was on mushrooms. Fucking life altering shit. I also saw them in LA at the House of Blues from the front row. Two hour and a half + sets. Un-real!

    Last summer's festival tour was definitely more of a "greatest hits" kind of thing. I've been told that part of the reason for that was because they were filming a documentary at the time, so for continuity purposes they weren't changing things up too much, as they had camera crews filming each show. Although, they did surprise us in Edmonton when they broke out "Kids Don't Get It" during the encore, and the crowd went bananas. That was a great moment.

    But the 2009 We Are the Same tour; now that was pretty incredible as far as rarities popping up in the setlist. It was a very similar format to the Music@Work tour with two long sets and an encore. Songs like Tiger the Lion, The Bear, Looking for a Place to Happen, Pigeon Camera, Titanic Terrarium, Fiddler's Green, Save the Planet, Eldorado, Escape is at Hand, Long Time Running, Throwing off Glass, The Dark Canuck, Daredevil, and Thompson Girl all made appearances on that tour. When I saw them in San Francisco at the Fillmore they pulled out Thugs and The Dire Wolf, and I completely lost my shit. Amazing. I'm certainly hoping for more of that on the upcoming tour.
    "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
  • left the porch
    left the porch Posts: 504
    direwolf74 wrote:
    left the porch wrote:
    I am also loving At Transformation. It sounds to me like it could have been on Phantom Power or Trouble At The Henhouse. Pure Rock and Roll! :D

    Now for them to change up the live shows. It's time to bust out some old school Hip. How awesome would it be to hear Another Midnight or Trickle Down? Born In The Water, Pigeon Camera, We'll Go Too, Greasy Jungle, Titanic Terrarium, 700 Foot Ceiling, Tiger The Lion, the list goes on! Still play the hits too, just mix in some hidden gems that weren't singles. They need to take a page from PJ and Dave Matthews and mix it up. They are just too predictable live. I know they mix up the order most nights and they will change a song or two but it's time for some songs from the vault. If they played Get Back Again I'd lose my shit! This is why my favorite tour was for Music At Work, when they did the Night With The Hip thing with Kate Fenner and Chris Brown. Those shows were EPIC! I'll never forget seeing them break out Opiated at a show in Vermont at a ski hill. The stage lights were all green and I was on mushrooms. Fucking life altering shit. I also saw them in LA at the House of Blues from the front row. Two hour and a half + sets. Un-real!

    Last summer's festival tour was definitely more of a "greatest hits" kind of thing. I've been told that part of the reason for that was because they were filming a documentary at the time, so for continuity purposes they weren't changing things up too much, as they had camera crews filming each show. Although, they did surprise us in Edmonton when they broke out "Kids Don't Get It" during the encore, and the crowd went bananas. That was a great moment.

    But the 2009 We Are the Same tour; now that was pretty incredible as far as rarities popping up in the setlist. It was a very similar format to the Music@Work tour with two long sets and an encore. Songs like Tiger the Lion, The Bear, Looking for a Place to Happen, Pigeon Camera, Titanic Terrarium, Fiddler's Green, Save the Planet, Eldorado, Escape is at Hand, Long Time Running, Throwing off Glass, The Dark Canuck, Daredevil, and Thompson Girl all made appearances on that tour. When I saw them in San Francisco at the Fillmore they pulled out Thugs and The Dire Wolf, and I completely lost my shit. Amazing. I'm certainly hoping for more of that on the upcoming tour.

    I did see one show from the We Are The Same tour in Kitchener and it was awesome. They played a couple rarities that night, The Dark Canuck was fantastic. I think I was ruined though by the show in Bala at the Kee; fan club only, front of the stage, Thugs and CORDELIA! I completely lost my shit! It will be hard to top that!
    But for the life of me I can't figure out why there is no love for Up To Here other than New Orleans and Blow At High Dough? Once in a while they break out 38 Years Old and Boots Or Hearts but I would LOVE to hear She Didn't Know, Trickle Down, or Another Midnight. I can't believe a band with such a rich catalog is so selective. I know they will do it one of these days, I just hope I'm there for it. I love The Tragically Hip; always have and always will and in no way am I putting them down, they are one of the best live bands I have ever seen. I just wish I could write their setlist! :D
    I completely agree with Hugh Freaking Dillon that they need to do a theater tour for just the die hard old school fans, full of rarities! An accoustic set to start the night off, followed by a two hour electric set to blow us all away! Hey, a Hip fan can dream right? 8-)
  • left the porch
    left the porch Posts: 504
    New tour, same old setlist, except for the new songs. :yawn:
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    1995-1996 tours were the pinacle for this band..

    Good stuff too with the "Evening with the Tragically Hip" tour of 2000.

    Thought they were burned out for sure..

    then suddenly they were completely rejuvenated in the 2002 tour...putting "Blow at High Dough" third song in the set.. blistering!..

    since then... its been pretty stale..IMO..

    the only bright spots for me were the first live performances of "Fiddlers Green" and "The Bear" (my favorite Hip gem of all time) in an acoustic setting in 2010.

    If Gord could just have confidence that the audience doesn't need him to be constantly writhing and tap dancing with his "microphone stand/ I'm a man" rant and just allow the band to groove onstage without his overdone antics..
    they would be making progress..
    I mean a little is ok but every tour he seems to be ADHD on the visuals..

    Just one Hard core Hip fan since 1994 opinion..
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    locked wrote:
    If Gord could just have confidence that the audience doesn't need him to be constantly writhing and tap dancing with his "microphone stand/ I'm a man" rant and just allow the band to groove onstage without his overdone antics..
    they would be making progress..
    I mean a little is ok but every tour he seems to be ADHD on the visuals..

    Just one Hard core Hip fan since 1994 opinion..

    he seems to think that his ridiculous improvs are what make him what he is. I'm sick of them. they used to be special, now they're just annoying. and you can tell they aren't even improvs anymore, they're totally pre-written.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I've never seen Heskentenel or whatever the hell that was called. Anyone have a download link?
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    edited July 2012
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    locked wrote:
    If Gord could just have confidence that the audience doesn't need him to be constantly writhing and tap dancing with his "microphone stand/ I'm a man" rant and just allow the band to groove onstage without his overdone antics..
    they would be making progress..
    I mean a little is ok but every tour he seems to be ADHD on the visuals..

    Just one Hard core Hip fan since 1994 opinion..

    he seems to think that his ridiculous improvs are what make him what he is. I'm sick of them. they used to be special, now they're just annoying. and you can tell they aren't even improvs anymore, they're totally pre-written.

    Disagree. His rants and improvs have been part of the Hip's live show since the early days. Ever since I first saw them in 1992, the guy has never stopped moving when he's on stage. Some of his rants are bits of new lyrics that he's working on, so your comment about them being pre-written is partly true. But many of them are still made up on the spot. On Wednesday night in Calgary, he took some comments made by Stephen Harper in an interview at the Stampede earlier in the day and worked them into a hilarious rant/intro to Grace, Too that went on for a good 3 minutes or so before he started into the first verse. It was awesome and mesmerizing at the same time. Later in the set he used the weather, making up a story about how he helped build the first railroad through Calgary in the sweltering summer heat, and then he started singing one of those turn of the century style chain-gang songs to emphasize the story. I don't care what anybody says. That's good stuff, and it adds a unique element to the Hip that no other band has.

    My favorite Gord-ism was a story my buddy told about when he saw them in 2008. Some woman threw her bra up on stage and Gord proceeded to make up a song on the spot called "Here come the tits". Personally I don't know if I'd ever want to see them live anymore if he stopped doing stuff like that. But hey, maybe that's just me. To each their own of course.

    Anyways, the show at Fort Calgary on Wednesday was excellent. A little too heavy on the greatest hits for my liking. But the band was in fine form, and the new songs sounded amazing. In particular a song called "Attawapiskat" which blew me away. Great melody in the chorus and a rippin' solo from Rob Baker during the song's outro. This new album is gonna be VERY good. Oh, and they also played "Last of the Unplucked Gems", which absolutely made my night.
    Post edited by direwolf74 on
    "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
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    I've never seen Heskentenel or whatever the hell that was called. Anyone have a download link?

    The entire thing is on youtube. Here's part 1:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yPhRaVjOvc
    "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
  • mattseattleusa
    mattseattleusa North Idaho, USA Posts: 346
    Can anyone lend a hand as to where to download At Transformation? I don't run torrent and have been having a hard time getting a good link anywhere else...I'll pay if I have to! Thanks :)

    Nevermind! I just saw that August 21st release date on amazon....didn't think to look there.. :oops:
    I will not lose my Faith, it's an Inside job today....
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    edited August 2012
    Hi Folks,

    We are pleased to announce that our latest record Now For Plan A will be released on October 2nd, 2012. Now For Plan A was produced by Gavin Brown at the band's Bathouse Recording Studio and Noble Street Studios in Toronto. Starting Tuesday August 28th, you will be able to pre-order a physical copy of the album on thehip.com and digitally through iTunes. A deluxe digital version of Now For Plan A will also be available at iTunes, which will include 3 live tracks from our recent Calgary show.

    Starting today, you will also be able to listen to our new single, 'Streets Ahead''.

    click here: http://www.thehip.com/

    Stay tuned for more news in the coming weeks.

    Now For Plan A Track listing:

    01. At Transformation
    02. Man Machine Poem
    03. The Lookahead
    04. We Want To Be It
    05. Streets Ahead
    06. Now For Plan A
    07. The Modern Spirit
    08. About This Map
    09. Take Forever
    10. Done And Done
    11. Goodnight Attawapiskat
    Post edited by restlesssoul on
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    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    i am a little dissapointed and shocked that Drip Drip didnt make the album, but that must mean they had a great bunch of songs to leave that one off. EDIT - it seems like it is on there, just under the title WE WANT TO BE IT. :D


    i like the new single, dont love....it sounds very Grand Bounce to me...
    a little underwhelmed. doesnt matter....bring on some wintery canadian tour dates!!!!!!
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