I'm running a tournament style bracket to crown the best song by The Tragically Hip.
Voting on the first matchup opened today: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9X9o1B4JcqgsDKouqGtoy8TLmpmJ3xjURdpJsGu2aymseGQ/viewform?usp=header
The full bracket can be found here: https://challonge.com/i1k442mw
Play along!
Quick one for anyone who hasn't run into it before - The Tragically Hip On Shuffle is a weekly live stream where a small panel sits down and talks about one randomly drawn Hip song. No setlist, no theme, just whatever the shuffle spits out that week.
This week it's Coffee Girl from "We Are The Same" (2009). Wednesday, May 20.
Stream and live chat here if you want to drop in:
I was watching Flash point and at the end of season 2 episode 11 change of address, Now The Struggle Has A Name started playing.
I don’t think I’ve heard the hip in any tv or movies. It makes sense for Flash Point with it being a Canadian show.
Thoughts on using Ahead By a Century as a song for a father/daughter dance at a wedding??
The Tragically Hip "Live July 22 – August 20, 2016" comes out August 21st. Featuring recordings from the band’s final cross-Canada tour
In commemoration of the MMP tour's anniversary. The day before release, CBC will also rebroadcast the Hip's final show, A National Celebration, on their Youtube channel as well as on TV. Here's a link to the Hip's Linktree to preorder/presave, and here's the tracklist of the CD version:
Disc 1
Disc 2
Still required👍
Wonder if anything on the new live album is from this show?
Also, the tape at the top is blocking it but they opened with Boots
My Husband and I will be traveling to Quebec City from the States in August and I am wondering if there is anything Hip related there, or in the surrounding area. Tribute band, a place that sells anything Hip related, or anything Hip related at all.
Dumb post idea but I’m bored lol
Highway Girl
Small Town Bringdown
Blow At High Dough
New Orleans Is Sinking
38 Years Old
Boots Or Hearts
Trickle Down
Little Bones
Twist My Arm
Three Pistols
Courage
Looking For A Place To Happen
At The Hundredth Meridian
Pigeon Camera
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
We’ll Go Too
Fully Completely
Fifty Mission Cap
Wheat Kings
Grace Too
Greasy Jungle
So Hard Done By
Nautical Disaster
Scared
Ahead By A Century
Gift Shop
Poets
Bobcaygeon
Fireworks
My Music At Work
In View
The Lonely End of the Rink
Get Back Again
Wait So Long
What songs have you heard on the airwaves?
No word from Hip socials yet on what this is, a new live album on the way to mark 10 years since the MMP tour?
Edit: it's now been confirmed by fine folk here that a live album of the last tour is on the way, 29 songs and just over two hours long, set to release on August 21, the day before CBC rebroadcast A National Celebration
…at least, that’s a theory I’m working on.
- Australia has Midnight Oil
- Ireland has the Frames
- New Zealand has Crowded House
- Germany has Die Toten Hosen (or Scorpions?)
I’m thinking of bands that may be known abroad or even popular, but they are spectacular back home because they sing about their country, and have a sound that many other bands of that country would tap into.
Help me with any others? Does Noir Desir belong in this? Stone Roses? Runrig?
EDIT: To add people’s suggestions…
USA - REM, Grateful Dead
UK - Stone Roses, Blur
Australia - Cold Chisel, Men at Work
Norway - A-Ha
Croatia - Crvena Jabuka
I like the newer albums over the older ones…. I love the hip either way, but the more I listen to The Hip the more I like albums like World Container, and We Are The Same more than Fully and Up To Here? Thoughts?
hey everyone!! i’m getting my second Hip tattoo next week, and i was hoping for something kinda specific that i know might be hard to accomplish. one of my favorite songs is The Depression Suite, and the lyric “don’t you wanna see how it ends?” means a lot to me because of my personal mental health journey. it really feels like Gord speaking to me, and for that reason, i was looking to get that line tattooed. however, does anyone know of a place where i could maybe find it in Gord’s handwriting specifically? on first search, i didn’t see any resources online that had it, but i know there’s a lot of hardcore fans who seem to be able to find anything lol. i’m aware my job is made harder by the fact this tune is kinda a deep cut. any help at all would be greatly appreciated!!
What's your favourite Tragically Hip music video? They've got a good chunk to choose from, but let's include live performances too for fun.
I've got to go with 'The Darkest One'. As someone who grew up in New Brunswick, The Hip could sometimes feel a little Ontario centric, with all the talk of cottage country and Kingston and Toronto. But having the Trailer Park Boys (pride of the Maritimes, at least until Mike Smith's recent allegations) in there really made them feel like peak Canadian for the era. Now it's my go-to Hip video that usually turns into grabbing a beer and watching a few more.
So what video do you land on?
Edit: typo.
