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I am kinda loving the body of ideas we're accumulating about the Hip's work in these Weakest Link posts, & I'm wondering whether people would consider adding 'Coke Machine Glow' into the timeline of albums we discuss. I know it's not Hip per se, but I just think it comes at a really specific & important time in Gord's writing/performing career/life, & would love to hear what people have to say about how it does or doesn't fit in the Hip's trajectory, & especially Gord's songwriting trajectory etc.
Yays? Nays? Thoughts?
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In favour. Would it be too much to run in in parallel with IVL? (I ask mostly because of how much enjoyment I am getting out of this)
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I'm in favour of doing Battle of the Nudes, The Grand Bounce, and The Conquering Sun as well.
Not sure about the two most recent yet...
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I'm more inclined not too, just because this is about The Tragically Hip, and not Gord Downie. Obviously he plays a huge role in the band, but musically speaking, his solo albums are quite different than the bands. I don't think they belong in the timeline of the band, per se, and I don't think they add much to the conversation of the band as a whole. If we are talking about Gord only, then sure, but as The Tragically Hip, I feel those albums fall outside of that purview. Are we going to include Stripper Union's albums, and Paul's as well?
Hopefully I'm not coming off as a jerk, and I can understand why people would want to do this, but I find sometimes so much attention is put on Gord, and not as much on the band as a whole. I honestly listen to them for the music first, and some times don't pay a whole lot of attention to the words (although I can sing along to almost every song they've released when I hear it); to me they are so great not because of Gord, but because of the whole. Clearly Gord is an all-time great lyricist - I'm not trying to diminish that fact - but I listen to The Tragically Hip for The Tragically Hip, not for Gord...if that makes any sense.
And while I'm ranting...what's with news articles/magazines not capitalizing the word "The" in the band's name anymore. They are "The Tragically Hip", not "Tragically Hip". AAARRGGGHHH :nooooo
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Escape@Hand Wrote:And while I'm ranting...what's with news articles/magazines not capitalizing the word "The" in the band's name anymore. They are "The Tragically Hip", not "Tragically Hip". AAARRGGGHHH :nooooo
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I'd prefer that we do all the Hip records, then move on to Hip solo projects. Best of all worlds.
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I'd like to go through the Hip records before veering into solo territory, and then I'd be up for additional polls like an album weakest link, eliminating one Hip album at a time. Or, maybe take all the first round exit songs from these polls and do a weakest link among those.
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I think we should stick to just Hip, to me it just seems a tad disrespectful to the rest of the guys compiling Gords solo efforts with the band releases.
We have a solo discussion forum, once this is done we can do a solo album weakest for all solos released.
