06-16-2017, 06:39 AM
arewhyehen Wrote:Did Sinclair not write a lot of the stuff early on? Not Downie... Meaning a lot of the iconic lyrics you are probably referring to would not be Downie's lyrics. Someone else also mentioned this in another thread the other day. Something about how it was Sinclair's job to write the lyrics and Downie's job to forget them...
Either way, I think the Hip's lyrics are beautiful but not on the same level as Dylan's. FYI, The Hip are one of my favourite bands and I have never really been a huge Dylan fan. Just know his impact on songwriting..
The quote was from a Rob Baker interview in 1988: "Gord Sinclair writes them, I arrange them, and Gord Downie forgets them." I believe most of UTH is probably written by Downie but RA and everything after is 100% Downie. There is another Rob Baker interview that was done for a master's thesis on Fully Completely in which he stated that Downie announced to the band during the RA sessions that he would no longer sing lyrics written by others in the band.