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I guess I'll take one song from each album + BOTN and CMG.

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Highway Girl
From: The Tragically Hip

Quote:...yeah she just got back from around the world.

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Everytime You Go
From: Up To Here

The whole damn song but...

Quote:He closed both his eyes and sorta gave her a kiss.

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The Luxury
From: Road Apples

This album's got a lot of sentimental value for me. I think the best examples of Gord's poetic prowess can be seen in this song. It reminds me of a night I spent in Hamilton after a show where I stayed in a horrible 'Motor Inn' of likeness to the one described in the song.

Quote:The Golden Rim Motor Inn,
Soft water and a colour TV...

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Pigeon Camera
From: Fully Completely

This song, for some strange reason, reminds me of Ian McEwan's novel 'Atonement'. If anyone else here has read the book they can probably draw the same conclusions through the tone and mood of the song.

Quote:This house it has its politics,
Over there: that's my room,
And that's my sister's...

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Emergency
From: Day For Night

This song just plain makes me sad.

Quote:From until it's no longer fun
to that's no longer relevant.
From until we're no longer one
to that's no longer permanent.
From the last survivors of those terms
to the bona-fide embodiment
of an endless emergency
without end.

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Membership
From: Phantom Power

I can't help it. This whole damn album reminds me of Parry Sound. Must be because of Fireworks.

Quote:Bring on the springtime bring on the houseflies
bring on the butterscotch river overspilling its banks

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Lake Fever
From: Music @ Work

This is one of Gordie's best story-songs.

Quote:Ya didn't say yes or no either...
You whispered 'Hurry...'

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The Dire Wolf
From: In Violet Light

One of Johnny's best performances. Love the drums on this tune. When Johnny and Gord S. come in at the first chorus I get shivers...

Quote:But never more 'here',
expanse getting broader,
though bigger boats been,
done by less water.

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Goodnight Josephine
From: In Between Evolution

Bam. Way to end an amazing album.

Quote:Eyes flickering you're trying
to let a coffee cup warm your hands
maybe we're born lost
born to persevere
honey I'd walk into your painting
until I'd reappeared.

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Canada Geese
From: Coke Machine Glow

Quote:and talk just to their cars
We can talk just to ourselves
or we can talk just to the stars

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Steeplechase
From: Battle of the Nudes

Amazing song. I've never heard anything like it before. The bass and the extremely faint guitar go so well together. This song is a NEED HEADPHONES song.

Quote:a sound coming down...
of an entirely different race.

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Anyways, My name is Mike. Hello.

:welcome to The Hipbase. And that is quite an effort-full and awesome first post. Hope you have fun here :thumb:

buzz882 Wrote::welcome to The Hipbase. And that is quite an effort-full and awesome first post. Hope you have fun here :thumb:

Thanks for the welcome.

I agree that is one hell of a first post. Welcome to the hipbase indeed!

:thumb:

I don't think I could do a concrete/set in stone post like that. My favs changed pratically from day to day.

buzz882 Wrote:I don't think I could do a concrete/set in stone post like that. My favs changed pratically from day to day.

I get that same feeling, but for me there are definitely some constants. I have a selection of songs that are always top of my list regardless of the day or mood. I wont go into quotes, but from each album I have definite list of favorites that never change, plus Im waiting for my wife to get home and Im bored so here goes..

EP
Small Town Bringdown
Last American Exit

UTH
Opiated
Another Midnight
Everytime You Go

RA
Three Pistols
Long Time Running

FC
Fully Completely
Pigeon Camera
Locked in the Trunk of a Car

DFN
Titanic Terrarium
Nautical Disaster
Thugs

TATH
Flamenco
Ahead By a Century

PP
Something On
Bobcaygeon

M@W
Lake Fever
Stay

IVL
Throwing Off Glass
The Darkest One
Good Life If You Dont Weaken
Ultra Mundane*

IBE
One Night In Copenhagen
Gus The Polar Bear
If New Orleans Is Beat

Yay favorites rule!!!! 8)

buzz882 Wrote:I don't think I could do a concrete/set in stone post like that. My favs changed pratically from day to day.

Yeah, I agree with you. Check my list again... These aren't necessarily my 'favourite' songs.

The closest thing to a favourites list would go something like.

Nauitical
38
Stay
Etc..

I dont know what I would call this list...

How about "List of Amazingness in the Field of Being Great"

Starpainter Wrote:I dont know what I would call this list...

How about "List of Amazingness in the Field of Being Great"

:lol: Works for me, I guess it is pretty hard to nail it down, but I do enjoy those songs I posted, above all others. Ill just call em "my go to guys" they make a winning team for sure.

Great post! And welcome to the 'Base!

direwolf74 Wrote:Great post! And welcome to the 'Base!

Thanks man. I love the Hip so much it wasn't really possible for me to avoid membershp much longer.

I remember I did a very similar post whenever I first started posting, but times change, so I guess I can do my favorites again...

EP:

Tie- Smalltown Bringdown & Killing Time

This album is short, but the songs are very good and underrated in my opinion, of the nine, those too are the best.

Up To Here:

Everytime You Go

One of my favorite Hip songs, very underrated, and the chorus is killer.

Road Apples:

Long Time Running

Very mellow. It's best listened to while laying on your bed thinking random thoughts.

Fully Completely

Locked In The Trunk Of A Car

Best.Hip.Song.Ever....From their best album.

Day For Night

Inevibility Of Death

Very underrated, and the chorus is killer in this one too.

Trouble At The Henhouse

Butts Wigglin

This was a tough one to choose, but Butts Wigglin is like no other Hip song and it's very good and original.

Phantom Power

Vapour Trails

I've said it alot, but this is another underrated song, it is, in my opinion, one of their best.

My Music At Work

Lake Fever

Great song, and a great story.

In Violet Light

It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken

The best Hip song to raise your lighter too.

In Between Evolution

Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park

I like how Gord wrote this song, using Gus as an allegory.

Welcome to the hipbase. Here's my current faves from each album:

Highway Girl
Opiated (and New Orleans of course)
Long Time Running
At the Hundredth Meridian
Scared
Ahead By a Century
Escape is at Hand...
Lake Fever
Dark Canuck, Dire Wolf, Problem Bears
Nashville