[direwolf74]

The first is that "Depression Suite" loses me after the first movement. It's typical of Bob Rock that his big push to "innovate" with the Hip was to get them to do that grandiose 1970s clichee of the rock "suite." It's still more proof that he stopped listening to music around 1983. But in any case, my beef is not with the suite structure as such, as with the tedium the suite generates; its movements are insufficiently varied and, indeed, the last two portions are bits that probably would not have made the cut as songs onto themselves.

When "Depression" hits my playlist, I usually wait for "Bring on the requisite strangeness". That's where the song truly begins.

That's exactly the spot where the song hooks me in as well. I saw back-to-back shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco on this tour, and they opened with Depression on the first night. It was magical.