GREAT
1.) Day for Night
2.) Road Apples
3.) Fully Completely
4.) In Between Evolution
AWESOME
5.) MMP
6.) Phantom Power
7.) Up to Here
8.) Trouble at the Henhouse
REALLY GOOD
9.) World Container
10.) We are the Same
11.) In Violet Light
12.) Now for Plan A
LISTENABLE
13.) Music at Work
14.) EP
DFN is really the only one I'm sure about though
Dev Wrote:9. Trouble at the Henhouse
This one could get a lot more love. It's so weird to me. I can't really get where The Hip were at this moment. Any ideas ?
the peak of their creativity, friend. I suspect a lot of weed was involved.
Yeah, they were high. They were
Sherpa high.
Marcus1970 Wrote:After 33 submissions, here is how the albums rank:
1.Day For Night - 84
2.Fully Completely - 117
3.Phantom Power - 131
4.Road Apples - 148
5.Trouble at the Henhouse - 199
6.Up To Here - 211
7.Man Machine Poem - 263
8.In Violet Light - 264
9.In Between Evolution - 276
10.Music At Work - 289
11.World Container - 308
12.We Are The Same - 331
13.Now For Plan A - 340
14.EP - 432
Thoughts?
I'm all for subjectivity but I cannot accept IBE being in the bottom half. I am going to make it my life's goal to convince everyone it's top five at worst. The guitars on this album are just killer. Gus is a top five Hip song for me and Nashville can't be too far out either. Mean Streak is the only one that gives me pause and I even love that one. I demand a recount!
andrew sharpe Wrote:13.Now For Plan A - 340
Hipbase has been hittin' the crack pipe IMO
andrew sharpe Wrote:I'm all for subjectivity but I cannot accept IBE being in the bottom half. I am going to make it my life's goal to convince everyone it's top five at worst. The guitars on this album are just killer. Gus is a top five Hip song for me and Nashville can't be too far out either. Mean Streak is the only one that gives me pause and I even love that one. I demand a recount!
This summer my brother and I made our lists before attending the London concert. On first pass, I had IBE second from the bottom. I just never connected with that album when it came out. Thinking back, it may be because of the phase of my life - I had a 2 year old and a second child on the way and there wasn't the time to sit and soak in a new Hip CD.
At the London concert, we got IBE and the songs blew me away. New Orleans is Beat has become one of my favorite songs over the last month. I've been revisiting a few of the albums I hadn't ranked as highly, but I'm having trouble moving albums around too much. The problem of having so much material I like...
Here it goes, as of today...
1. Fully Completely (So familiar that it has almost become tragically unhip. But if you imagine yourself a newbie listening to all of the albums for the first time, this one has to be the one you'd be most impressed with)
2. Day for Night
3. Phantom Power
4. Trouble at the Henhouse
5. Road Apples
6. In Violet Light
7. Up to Here
8. Man Machine Poem
9. We are the Same
10. In Between Evolution
11. Music @ Work
12. Now for Plan A
13. World Container
14. EP
andrew sharpe Wrote:Marcus1970 Wrote:After 33 submissions, here is how the albums rank:
1.Day For Night - 84
2.Fully Completely - 117
3.Phantom Power - 131
4.Road Apples - 148
5.Trouble at the Henhouse - 199
6.Up To Here - 211
7.Man Machine Poem - 263
8.In Violet Light - 264
9.In Between Evolution - 276
10.Music At Work - 289
11.World Container - 308
12.We Are The Same - 331
13.Now For Plan A - 340
14.EP - 432
Thoughts?
I'm all for subjectivity but I cannot accept IBE being in the bottom half. I am going to make it my life's goal to convince everyone it's top five at worst. The guitars on this album are just killer. Gus is a top five Hip song for me and Nashville can't be too far out either. Mean Streak is the only one that gives me pause and I even love that one. I demand a recount!
Because I can get behind anything, I will back you on your admirable goal, provided you can accept a 6th place finish for IBE. Those top five are firmly entrenched in my mind. I think once the dust settles on the MMP album and people take the time to re-evaluate, IBE will be restored to it's rightful place (ahead of MMP) in the Hip catalog hierarchy. For illustration purposes, I'm going to turn this into a 2-2 hockey game between IBE and MMP with 30 seconds remaining. MMP ices their best five (Hot Mic, Machine, Ocean's Next, What Blue, and IAWP) while IBE is so confident it's going to sit the top line (Vaccination Scar, Gus, Nashville, Heart of the Melt, and You're Everywhere) and is putting out the second line (If New Orleans is Beat, Goodnight Josephine, Makeshift, Mean Streak, and Summer's Killing Us). It's close, and Machine is a big threat, but I'm still taking IBE for the win even with the big guns on the bench.
Works container
Day for night
Fully completely
Road apples
Now for plan A
Phantom Powee
Trouble at the Henhouse
Music @ work
Man machine poem
Up to Here
In Between evolution
We are the same
In violent light
EP
Escape@Hand Wrote:Hmmm...tough question, especially as I don't listen to albums much anymore, everything is just shuffled, but here goes:
1 DFN
2 FC
3 PP
4 IBE
5 TATH
6 M@W
7 IVL
8 WATS
9 WC
10 RA
11 NFPA
12 MMP
13 UTH
14 EP
This is a pretty hard thing to do, in all honesty. While there are certain albums that really stand out to me (DFN, FC), most everything they have put out is excellent and I could swap out almost everything between #2-12.
After giving a lot of the albums a listen lately, I'd have to lower M@W. Some great stuff on it but it's "consistently inconsistent". I'd put it below everything but MMP, UPT and the EP.
1 DFN
2 FC
3 PP
4 IBE
5 TATH
6 IVL
7 WATS
8 WC
9 RA
10 NFPA
11 M@W
12 MMP
13 UTH
14 EP
IBE
DFN
TATH
PP
M@W
MMP
FC
RA
IVL
WATS
NFPA
UTH
WC
EP
A lot of you guys may beg to differ, but I'm into more of their new stuff:
In Violet Light
Fully Completely
We are the Same
Now for Plan A
Phantom Power
World Container
In Between Evolution
Road Apples
Man Machine Poem
Up to Here
Music at Work
Day for Night
Trouble at the Henhouse
EP
potsie Wrote:andrew sharpe Wrote:I'm all for subjectivity but I cannot accept IBE being in the bottom half. I am going to make it my life's goal to convince everyone it's top five at worst. The guitars on this album are just killer. Gus is a top five Hip song for me and Nashville can't be too far out either. Mean Streak is the only one that gives me pause and I even love that one. I demand a recount!
Because I can get behind anything, I will back you on your admirable goal, provided you can accept a 6th place finish for IBE. Those top five are firmly entrenched in my mind.
I will accept it. I have always felt UTH was overrated but I understand it was an entry point for many and gets sentimental points. Or maybe I've just heard NOIS too many times and hold it against the album.
In any case, I accept your plea bargain of 6th place plus time served.
Very hard for me to even consider not having the five '90s albums in my top 5. Guess it shows what my age is.
this thread is a great read. i could pore over opinions about hip albums all day long really. which is to say: more opinions please, if you got 'em.
Subject to change,
I really only have a top 2, & that's 'Day For Night' & IVL. They just soar above everything else for me. Other albums have 2 or 3 tracks I love or lyrics & experiments that knock me out, but for amazing from start to finish, complete immersion, take-me-on-a-journey impact, only those 2 albums possess that. For me.
& now I'm just gonna wave the IVL praise like Gord Downie's hanky:
direwolf74 Wrote:Dire Wolf Wrote:HandsInTheRiver41 Wrote:Glad to see IVL near the top of a few other lists. With the exception of the opening track, I still think it's one of the best put together albums the band has done.
I agree. Sonically speaking, the last great sounding Hip album IMO. Engineered and mixed by Hugh Padgham at Compass Point Studios, Nassau (Johnny's second home). Plus it has The Dire Wolf and The Dark Canuck on it :music
I still enjoy IVL. I always thought it sounded a little too slick production-wise, but it's certainly not as excessive as the Bob Rock era. Overall I think Hugh Padgham did a pretty decent job. There are some really great songs on that record (Darkest One, Good Life, Leave, Beautiful Thing, Dire Wolf, Dark Canuck). Also, Gord's singing is excellent throughout.
IVL is a mystery to me. Everytime I rank the albums I immediately put it at the bottom. And then every time I hear it, I remember I love it. I love the album cover, I love the videos, I love how Gord mostly reigns in the "out of meter" style vocals. So I'm not sure why it's always at the bottom for me. Lyrically it's definitely better than NFPA and WATS, which have some annoying repetition and weird stuff (eyes up and ears down low, hens cluck and roosters crow, drip drip drip click click click, certain certain certain you want to want to want to, etc). And it has some standout tracks like The Darkest One.
BAH ok you IVL lovers win, I'll bump it up a couple spots.
You want an open concept? I'll give you open concepts!