08-04-2016, 01:55 PM
“The first time you listen to one of their records it kind of sneaks up on you,” Lee says. “It sounds simpler than it is. There is a particular way the power of those guitars work together.… [They] always sound sinewy and muscular. Then you put Gord's voice and his lyrics on top of that, and after repeated listening, you really start to love it. It just gets inside you. I think that's a trademark of the Hip.”
This is very perceptive. I wouldn't make this case about "Fully Completely," as Lee does here - that album seems chock-a-block with "big" songs with epic hooks, hit singles - but it very definitely describes later Hip stuff. This was precisely my experience with NFPA, for example, an album I initially rejected as uninteresting, but which ended up getting under my skin so that I had to go back and re-evaluate. Sharp insight by Lee...and it also explains why some critics always shat on the Hip, having dismissed them on a listen or two (as well as for wearing the wrong clothes and having many frat-boy fans).
(I don't care a fig for Rush, though - can't stand Lee's vocals and 'prog rock' in general ain't my thing).
This is very perceptive. I wouldn't make this case about "Fully Completely," as Lee does here - that album seems chock-a-block with "big" songs with epic hooks, hit singles - but it very definitely describes later Hip stuff. This was precisely my experience with NFPA, for example, an album I initially rejected as uninteresting, but which ended up getting under my skin so that I had to go back and re-evaluate. Sharp insight by Lee...and it also explains why some critics always shat on the Hip, having dismissed them on a listen or two (as well as for wearing the wrong clothes and having many frat-boy fans).
(I don't care a fig for Rush, though - can't stand Lee's vocals and 'prog rock' in general ain't my thing).