04-04-2018, 08:02 PM
Beautiful analysis, ct!
At Transformation is the best song on NFPA, and the only time after 2000 that the Hip got the lead single right (even though some old school Hip fans might have thought it was a 'bait and switch tactic').
Barclay states in his book that Laura Usher's cancer diagnosis came in August 2011, which is two months AFTER the Hip debuted At Transformation in Peterborough that summer (and played it again 4 days later in the Bobcaygeon doc). I can't refute his dating of the diagnosis, but man, how could this song not be about him fumbling with his feelings around Laura's cancer?
The hockey metaphor of the line "In my head the game goes quiet" works well. It is also one of those phrases that hit a little harder after Gord's diagnosis, when the game went quiet for him.
At Transformation is the best song on NFPA, and the only time after 2000 that the Hip got the lead single right (even though some old school Hip fans might have thought it was a 'bait and switch tactic').
Barclay states in his book that Laura Usher's cancer diagnosis came in August 2011, which is two months AFTER the Hip debuted At Transformation in Peterborough that summer (and played it again 4 days later in the Bobcaygeon doc). I can't refute his dating of the diagnosis, but man, how could this song not be about him fumbling with his feelings around Laura's cancer?
The hockey metaphor of the line "In my head the game goes quiet" works well. It is also one of those phrases that hit a little harder after Gord's diagnosis, when the game went quiet for him.