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The Tragically Hip - opiated - 12-02-2004

why not start a thread that brought us all here to begin with...i'm interested how you first heard them or got into them..that "instant" that you believed they would be a part of your life forever! i'll never forget hearing New Orleans in an A and B sound in vancouver...grabbed me right away..."what the hell is this?" i asked the clerk.."it's amazing"...the guy told me, showed me, i picked it up and my life has never been the same since...

- jkdiamond - 12-02-2004

grade 8 ahead by a century/gift shop

grade 9 all my friends liked them bought lbu......grade 10 bought PP and in feb of grade 11 saw them at acc when they opened it and fell in love with them

- chancellor - 12-02-2004

i wont say anything because beanmedic will freak out if i repeat the story again

- Lizard King - 12-02-2004

12 years ago, a friend of my brothers bought Fully Completely and he didnt like it so he offered it to me for 10 bucks, I didnt really know much about the Hip at the time, but I didnt have many CDs to listen to at the time so I thought 10 bucks what the hey, I mean CDs cost alot more then than now, so I gave it a listen and immediatley I was hooked, I fell in love with it, so I saved my money and bought RA, UTH, and the EP and I havent looked back since. Greatest band ever!!! :thumb:

- joshwayy - 12-02-2004

1992, I worked with a guy who saw them on the Lake Champlain Ferry (funny...know knowing Gord's water/boats fetish)...this guy played Little Bones and that was it.....

- Killer Whale Tank - 12-02-2004

I was idly flipping channels...this must have been around 1989 or so...when I came across MuchMusic and the last minute or so of NOIS:

Hey there's a light-bulb...
Haaaa-AAAAAAAAAA-YEEEAAAAAHHH!!!

Well, that was EXACTLY the music I wanted to hear at that time in my life---an irate, bright 20-year old looking for punishment---it was as though the Hip had a direct line to my consciousness. On the basis of that 30-60 seconds of music I went out and bought UTH. I remember my astonishment that the whole album was so good. Here was a band that ferociously kicked ass musically AND lyrically. I've been a fan ever since.

It took my until FC to finally see them live, though. I kept underestimating how popular they were; their club shows in the early days sold out like *this* (snaps fingers)

- lord brazle - 12-02-2004

Heard Little Bones on the radio when I was like 10....
Heard a few Hip song over the following 7 years, NOIS, ABAC...
No big deal or anything. "Oh, the Hip are pretty cool..."
Saw PP on the shelf in the music store one day and said,
"I don't have any Hip in my collection."
Bought it and gave it a spin. INSTANT ADDICTION!
Downloaded a bunch of other Hip songs to verify that I loved this band.
Bought all their albums and started downloading live stuff from the FTP.

Now I find myself here..... everyday.... Smile

- tragicallymike - 12-02-2004

Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire

- Killer Whale Tank - 12-02-2004

Yah yah, but that's how I heard it at the time. :lol:

- Billy - 12-02-2004

My story is similar to a few I have heard here. I was in grade 12, back in 1989, and I saw NOIS on MuchMusic. My immediate thought was, who the hell is this 70's band, and why haven't I heard of them before? I thought the song was just awesome and when it said "Tragically Hip" I knew this was something I had to buy. I lived in small town Saskatchewan back then, and we didn't have any decent music store. The only time I could get any music was on a trip to Yorkton, which happened once or twice a month, and then I'd buy 5 or so tapes and stock up. Well I drove to Yorkton the weekend after I heard NOIS and bought the album. Of course I fell in love instantly and have been a Hip freak ever since.

- Billy - 12-02-2004

Killer Whale Tank Wrote:Yah yah, but that's how I heard it at the time. :lol:

I knew that was what you were meaning. I didn't actually read the lyrics to UTH for quite some time and I used to sing all kinds of miscorrect lyrics when I listened to it.

"When the rain, comes down..."

"Old Einstein, got left behind..."

- cferneyh - 12-02-2004

In high school I worked at a Zehr's (grocery store for you non-SW Ontarioans) in Cambridge. One of the most disgusting, but strangely relaxing, parts of the job was to spend all day Saturday (8am to 5pm) cleaning the "meat room" (i.e. where the butcher did his business). So it involved cleaning the blades, knives, saws, grinders, floors, walls, etc etc etc (yeah, too much info, I know). Anyway, the best part of being on "Meat Room Duty" was being able to listen to the radio instead of the store's muzak. Back then I listened to 97.7 Hits FM and one day I heard NOIS. Right from the opening chords the song knocked me on my ass and all I could do was stop what I was doing and stand there and listen. Later that night I purchased the cassette. Never before had I owned a cassette where I instantly liked every single song. And to top if off, the band was from just down the 401 from where I'd been born and lived until I was 13 (Brockville).

- akoso - 12-02-2004

When UTH came out, I was only 8, so I didn't care much for music then. It wasn't until FC came out (I was 11) that I started to give them a listen, but even then, Courage was the song I heard the most and it really didn't grab me too much. Then when I was in grade 8, my friend was raving about the Tragically something 'n this album DFN. I borrowed it from her, listened to Nautical a couple of times and never gave the CD back. I ended up listening to it so much and getting it so scratched that I ended up keeping it for myself and bought her a new one.

Ever since then, I still call Nautical my favourite song of all time and still rate DFN as my fav. Hip album. From there, all the others (newer and older) just started to fall into place.

Anthony

- tragicallymike - 12-02-2004

Killer Whale Tank Wrote:Yah yah, but that's how I heard it at the time. :lol:


:thumb: oh i gotcha now!!

- skippy the wonder dog - 12-02-2004

Showing my age..... :oops:

I think it was 1985, because that was the last year I took geography in high school. Waiting for that class to start, I was doing the standard, "whatcha got in yer Walkman?"

"The Tragically Hip," said the other guy. He was one of those kids that was ahead of the musical curve. I knew the Hip only by reputation, as some Kingston band that was making a buzz.

So I gave them a listen. It was a pretty clear bootleg. They sounded okay, but nothing special.

I didn't become a fan until Up to Here came out.

And, oh, yeah, the Hip's reputation had already spread to musically-conscious high school students in London by 1985. Looking back, I think that's pretty impressive.