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  The Weakest Link - The Weakest Links - Round 3

Posted by: gsmacleod
11-06-2018, 10:08 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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We have The Rules taking third as we head to round 3.

1 - Another Midnight and Lionized
3 - The Rules

For the last of The Hip Weakest Link polls, we are going to turn the voting around; instead of voting for the song you think is the weakest, you are going to vote for the song you think is the strongest. We will then eliminate the song with the most votes and continue until we are left with the "champion" - the weakest song in the discography.

Vote for the song you feel is STRONGEST from the list. After 48 hours we will remove the song with the most votes and move on to round 4. In the event of a tie, both (or more) songs will be eliminated.

This round will end Thursday at 10:08am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  FS: Signed Live Between Us CD - $200 Plus shipping

Posted by: radiogod53
11-04-2018, 12:34 PM
Forum: Hip Merch Discussion
- Replies (3)

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Purchased from a charity auction in Burlington, VT in the early 2000s.

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.htm...1392744981

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  The Weakest Link - The Weakest Links - Round 2

Posted by: gsmacleod
11-04-2018, 10:00 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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Another Midnight and Lionized are tied so are eliminated first.

1 - Another Midnight and Lionized

For the last of The Hip Weakest Link polls, we are going to turn the voting around; instead of voting for the song you think is the weakest, you are going to vote for the song you think is the strongest. We will then eliminate the song with the most votes and continue until we are left with the "champion" - the weakest song in the discography.

Vote for the song you feel is STRONGEST from the list. After 48 hours we will remove the song with the most votes and move on to round 3. In the event of a tie, both (or more) songs will be eliminated.

This round will end Tuesday at 10:00am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  Hipbase Bootleg Show of the Month: November 2018

Posted by: sean.bonner
11-01-2018, 11:39 AM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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With Hipbase rumoured to be saved, we are back! And if not... here's to one more!

We move onto World Container... and would you look at that? My turn to pick.

2006-11-09 - Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis

To celebrate World Container, I decided to pick a show with a very World Container heavy setlist. I was at this show! Fantastic memories. Will elaborate later.

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FLAC Link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bw93T0mNqQzpZzdEcmF3UXB0ODg?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing</a><!-- m -->

Quote:09Nov06 The Tragically Hip
Metropolis - Montreal, QC

Recording:
Neumann KM184s > Lunatec V3 > Edirol R-4 (analog)

Transfer:
direct to hard drive recording

Conversion:
Originally recorded at 48.0kHz/24-bits
Dithered down to 16-bits using Sound Forge 8.0
Re-sampled down to 44.1kHz with anti-alias filter using Sound Forge 8.0
Individual tracks cut up using CDWave 1.95 with DirectWAV conversion
WAV MD5 checksum created using MD5Summer v1.2.0.11
FLAC Files created using FLAC Frontend version 1.7.1 with level 8 encoding
FLAC Fingerprint created using FLAC Frontend version 1.7.1
FLAC MD5 checksum created using MD5Summer v1.2.0.11

Recorded/Transfer/Encoded by: <!-- e --><a href="mailto:markslog@hipfans.com">markslog@hipfans.com</a><!-- e -->

Freq.: 44.1
Bitrate: 16-bits
Time: 112:38

Notes:
V3 setting: (L/R = 20, HPF = 1)

Setlist:
t01 - announcement
t02 - Lonely End Of The Rink
t03 - New Orleans Is Sinking
t04 - In View
t05 - Don't Wake Daddy
t06 - The Drop-Off
t07 - Ahead By A Century
t08 - Fly
t09 - Poets
t10 - Fiddler's Green
t11 - World Container
t12 - Luv [sic]
t13 - At The Hundredth Meridian
t14 - It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
t15 - Kids Don't Get It
t16 - Grace, Too
t17 - Wheat Kings
t18 - Yer Not The Ocean
t19 - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
t20 - Family Band
t21 - **encore break**
t22 - Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man
t23 - Pretend
t24 - On The Verge

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  The Weakest Link - The Weakest Links - Round 1

Posted by: gsmacleod
11-01-2018, 08:45 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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For the last of The Hip Weakest Link polls, we are going to turn the voting around; instead of voting for the song you think is the weakest, you are going to vote for the song you think is the strongest. We will then eliminate the song with the most votes and continue until we are left with the "champion" - the weakest song in the discography.

Vote for the song you feel is STRONGEST from the list. After 48 hours we will remove the song with the most votes and move on to round 2. In the event of a tie, both (or more) songs will be eliminated.

This round will end Saturday at 9:45am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  "Fly" and the misquoting of Freddie Mercury

Posted by: potsie
10-31-2018, 10:08 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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The Queen biopic opens this coming weekend and it got me thinking about the Freddie Mercury reference in "Fly". In "Bohemian Rhapsody" Mercury sings the despondent line "I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all" whereas in "Fly" Gord misquotes it slightly, singing "I've sometimes wished I'd never been born at all". In Gord's world honest mistakes are rare and meaning can be ascribed to most lyrics. Was this change - "I" to "I've", "wish" to "wished" - intentional, and if so, what does it mean? Does it remove the narrator's negative mindset from the present tense in Bohemian Rhapsody to the past tense in "Fly"? Does this subtle difference impact the tone of "Fly", lifting it to something slightly more uplifting?

Different meanings and interpretations abound for "Bohemian Rhapsody" as Mercury never provided an explanation for the lyrics beyond it being about relationships. The remaining members of Queen are on record about it being a very personal song for Freddie but have refused to elaborate beyond that. One popular thought is that the song is a thinly disguised confession of his sexual orientation. "Mama, just killed a man" is Freddie killing the straight person he was in the early 70's when he had a serious relationship with Mary Austin. Is there also a third person struggle with self-identity (not necessarily sexual, although there is a "glowing pair of thighs" in the song") in "Fly" that hews closely to the first person struggle in Bohemian Rhapsody?

"no one's gonna hear me fall"
"I've sometimes wished I'd never been born at all."
"I Remain unphotographed"
"but I'll never be one of them."
"a guy who cries before he fights."
"I don't want em to see me like this"
"they stop kicking once you're down."
"There are places I've never been and always wanted to go."
"Where ya been all my life."

This all stems from wondering why Gord would include "Freddie Mercury" directly in the song. He could have just sung the line and foot-noted it in the liner notes (not that anyone would have needed that to know where the line originated) like he did with Northrop Frye and many others. Why did he stick Mercury's name right in the song? It seems awkward but maybe it was to draw more attention to a link between this song and Bohemian Rhapsody?

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  The Weakest Link - Gold Medal Champion - Nautical Disaster

Posted by: gsmacleod
10-29-2018, 10:33 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
- Replies (3)

Locked is out and we're down to the final two.
1 - Nautical Disaster
2 - Ahead By A Century
3 - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
4 - Emperor Penguin
5 - Three Pistols
6 - New Orleans Is Sinking
7 - The Dire Wolf
8 - Machine
9 - Morning Moon
10 - Lake Fever
11 - Family Band
12 - Goodnight Josephine
13 - At Transformation
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you feel is weakest from the list of album champions. After 48 hours we will remove the song with the most votes and the other will be declared the champion.

This round will end Wednesday at 11:33am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  Selling some of my HIP stuff

Posted by: ashtrayrock
10-28-2018, 03:05 PM
Forum: Hip Merch Discussion
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They might as well go to a fan first

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All Tragically Hip items. Original owner
THC(the hip club) rolling papers. $20 each
THC card $15
Vault release cd from 1994(belgium) $50 unopened
Hipeponymous box set with autograph card $160
We Are The Same 24"x36" poster thick card stock $30 2 staple holes(small)
Winter 2000 tour poster #203 of 300. Mint $100 11"x17"
Summer tour 2000 poster $50 crease on back $50 14"x22"
Photography of the Hip poster $40 18"x24" mint

Contact me for shipping rates.

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  The Weakest Link - Gold Medallists - Round 12

Posted by: gsmacleod
10-27-2018, 10:30 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
- Replies (2)

With the physical impossibility being eliminated, we have three songs left.

4 - Emperor Penguin
5 - Three Pistols
6 - New Orleans Is Sinking
7 - The Dire Wolf
8 - Machine
9 - Morning Moon
10 - Lake Fever
11 - Family Band
12 - Goodnight Josephine
13 - At Transformation
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you feel is weakest from the list of album champions. After 48 hours we will remove the song with the most votes and move on to round 13. In the event of a tie, both songs will be eliminated.

This round will end Monday at 11:31am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  The Weakest Link - Gold Medallists - Round 11

Posted by: gsmacleod
10-25-2018, 09:26 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
- Replies (3)

Three Pistols is out and we have the final 4.

5 - Three Pistols
6 - New Orleans Is Sinking
7 - The Dire Wolf
8 - Machine
9 - Morning Moon
10 - Lake Fever
11 - Family Band
12 - Goodnight Josephine
13 - At Transformation
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you feel is weakest from the list of album champions. After 48 hours we will remove the song with the most votes and move on to round 12. In the event of a tie, both (or more) songs will be eliminated.

This round will end Saturday at 10:26am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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