After listening to every full-length Hip album on the drives to and from the homestead over the Holiday weekend (Thanksgiving for us States-folk), I logged on here to start a thread on this topic, only to see that two such threads already exist (perhaps an administrator could consolidate the two). The reason for my inspiration?
Coconut Cream.
When I first heard this song, I laughed at it, thinking it was a joke of some sort (it seems I am not alone in my impressions). What an aberration. I am prone to being adverse to great pieces of music upon initial sampling, especially Hip cuts, and have learned to give all music sufficient consideration. But it’s been over seven years, and
Cream just gets worse with age. I had always assumed that this track was the last to make the final cut, possibly due to some technical snafu or something. So, I explored the official site discography for a possible explanation, and came up with this (from Mark Vreeken, Co-Producer):
Quote:At the end of every week I made a compilation tape of all the songs we recorded that week. There would a bunch of different versions and they would pick the ones they liked best. In the week that followed they would refine those versions until the band was completely happy with them. A song like Coconut Cream was like that. They had played that song quite a bit and had plenty of different arrangements. When they did the version that's on the record the power went out at the very end of the take, that's why it doesn't have the usual cadence ending.
What a shame that the power-outage didn’t occur mid-take. Maybe they should have deliberated over this one just a day or two longer.
Anyway (I know this is lengthy, but get used to it - I post very infrequently, so when I do, you’re gonna get the full nine yards), there isn’t a single release that doesn’t have songs I regularly skip over. These include:
Up to Here -
I’ll Believe in You / Everytime You Go
Road Apples -
Born in the Water
Fully Completely -
Lionized
Day For Night -
Fire in the Hole (a favourite of many, but I loathe it - deal with it) /
Impossibilium
Trouble at the Henhouse - The Hideous
Coconut Cream
Phantom Power -
Save the Planet (yes, I’m sure....loathe this one too)
Music @ Work -
Tiger the Lion / The Bastard / Toronto #4 / As I Wind Down the Pines
In Violet Light -
Use it Up (sometimes, only because of that stupid-ass chorus) /
A Beautiful Thing
Well, that’s my nine-thousand cents. By the way....Saw too much mention of
Sharks to pass up comment....to dislike this song, in my humble opinion, is to resist the essence of this band’s artistry - thick, dark, dynamic, and evocative. “
Steal a look over your shoulder / at the chandeliers of your firmament.....”
Absolutely delicious.
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