[Tthip]

As seen on TheHip.com:
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This week's reviews: Bright Eyes, Paul Wall, Redman, the Hip and more
Here's this week's Cliff's Notes on the record reviews:
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> The Tragically Hip is "Canada's most consistently brilliant rock band," says longtime devotee Edna, and have come up with an album "that finally captures the punch of the band's live sound."
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The Tragically Hip, World Container * * * 1/2 Contents may explode while playing

Canada’s most consistently brilliant rock band (consistently overlooked south of its border) enlisted Metallica producer Bob Rock for this effort, a pairing that might have meant a tragic buffing of Hip’s edges but instead resulted in a tighter, more accessible record that finally captures the punch of the band’s live sound. Arena anthems and a romantic piano ballad, a rarity in the Hip catalog, lean toward mainstream tastes, but the Ontario band keeps close to the slightly bent, lyrically smart, blues-clued organic rock that in-the-know fans have been hip to for ages. — Gundersen

>>Download: high-energy In View, rocking The Drop-Off, rough-hewn The Kids Don’t Get It >>Consider: reggae-tinged The Lonely End of the Rink

[FighterAndLover]

reggae-tinged Lonely End Of The Rink? cratch:

[trevor]

reggae-tinged Lonely End Of The Rink? cratch:

I had a good chuckle at that one too!

[tigerthelion]

reggae-tinged Lonely End Of The Rink? cratch:

Uh, that is how the song was described in a number of articles. It is reggae-tinged in that it has constant reggae-like guitar strumming throughout. There's nothing far fetched about that comment at all IMO.

[trevor]

reggae-tinged Lonely End Of The Rink? cratch:

Uh, that is how the song was described in a number of articles. It is reggae-tinged in that it has constant reggae-like guitar strumming throughout. There's nothing far fetched about that comment at all IMO.

Clearly I don't know enough about my music genres. Those are rock cords to me, not reggae ones.

[The Horrible Esthete]

I concur with tiger -- the strum patterns over Gord's bass line during the verses could farily be described as "reggae-tinged", imo.

[opiated]

agreed..could be reggae tinged

[spottrax]

I would say more "ska" sounding in parts....IMO

[The Horrible Esthete]

I would say more "ska" sounding in parts....IMO

Yes, though "ska" itself could also be described as "reggae-tinged" I suppose......

[tigerthelion]

Sorry, FighterAndLover and Trevor, I didn't mean to come off as rude. I was looking at my post and it could come off as sounding rude. I don't know much about music theory and chords and genres.

I don't think reggae has a specific designation of chords. The way I see it, it's more in the strumming pattern rather than actual chords. Of course, I could be way off.

[Roy-at-tth]

Drums definitely have a calypso beat going on.

[FighterAndLover]

I don't know, I guess the phrase seems misleading in an article presumably for people who have never heard The Hip before. (Especially as I listen to No Woman, No Cry :thumb

But maybe the term "tinged" is more miniscule/general than I thought.

[u8555]

Not much on musical theory either, but isn't emphasis on upbeats, as opposed to downbeats a trait of raggae? If so, Rink fits - at least to a tinge.