03-29-2010, 12:21 PM
Only Hip song I don't have on my itunes. Sounds like me playing the guitar, those notes just don't go together.
'Are You Ready' Appreciation Thread
03-30-2010, 10:02 AM
golden_rim Wrote:Only Hip song I don't have on my itunes. Sounds like me playing the guitar, those notes just don't go together.
Nooooo its not that bad!
04-03-2010, 12:06 AM
sean.bonner Wrote:I searched youtube for a video of this song with no luck... anybody have one?
[youtube]NmWxXbWfIgA[/youtube]
04-05-2010, 06:20 PM
There you go mrsardo that is contributing I knew you could do it :thumb:
want to be a nobody without peer
want to be a thought that's never done
want to shake your faith in human nature
want to break the hearts of everyone
want to be your wheezing screen door
want to be your stars of Algonquin
want to be your roaring floorboard
want to break the hearts of everyone
04-05-2010, 07:20 PM
mrsardo Wrote:[youtube]1SNXqkKYNSg[/youtube]
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04-06-2010, 08:01 AM
Dark Canuck17 Wrote:There you go mrsardo that is contributing I knew you could do it :thumb:
DOOOOD!! Look what you just started..... :roll:
04-06-2010, 08:39 AM
Sorry but at least it is not that other crap...
want to be a nobody without peer
want to be a thought that's never done
want to shake your faith in human nature
want to break the hearts of everyone
want to be your wheezing screen door
want to be your stars of Algonquin
want to be your roaring floorboard
want to break the hearts of everyone
04-25-2010, 01:32 AM
Slightly off topic, but I have to laugh when I read people talking about IVL as the 'good old days' of great Hip records (in contrast to their 'inferior' recent efforts). Fans said EXACTLY the same sort of thing when IVL came out, with IVL playing the role of the 'disappointing' new effort. :lol: And they've said the same sort of thing ever since Henhouse, really.
It's not a great album - Gord's lyrics are too constipated, he's still finding his way out of the disasters of M@W and hasn't yet returned to the form he recovers on the splendid IBE - and the production is just awful, easily as bad as Bob Rock's, albeit in a different way.
As for the song in queston: 'Are You Ready' is OK; but fundamentally it remains a good example of the error of trying to do at 40 what you absolutely nailed at 20.
It's not a great album - Gord's lyrics are too constipated, he's still finding his way out of the disasters of M@W and hasn't yet returned to the form he recovers on the splendid IBE - and the production is just awful, easily as bad as Bob Rock's, albeit in a different way.
As for the song in queston: 'Are You Ready' is OK; but fundamentally it remains a good example of the error of trying to do at 40 what you absolutely nailed at 20.
04-25-2010, 02:14 PM
I'm sorry, but I disagree with completely with the previous post (other than the Are You Ready part, which seems pretty accurate). This kind of post seems to represent someone who was disappointed that the new Hip in 2002 didn't sound anything like the old Hip, and are still too jaded to appreciate IVL for what it is. I'm not saying everyone who doesn't like IVL is like this, just the way the last post was worded seemed like you haven't listened to it in years out of spite.
The lyrics argument doesn't make any sense, if "Leave", "Dire Wolf" and "Dark Canuck" aren't up there with some of the best lyrics Gord has ever written, then I don't know what is.
Now I know mrsardo will chime in and probably agree with me, and thus I will lose all credibility. Oh well.
The lyrics argument doesn't make any sense, if "Leave", "Dire Wolf" and "Dark Canuck" aren't up there with some of the best lyrics Gord has ever written, then I don't know what is.
Now I know mrsardo will chime in and probably agree with me, and thus I will lose all credibility. Oh well.
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04-25-2010, 02:25 PM
HandsInTheRiver41 Wrote:I'm sorry, but I disagree with completely with the previous post (other than the Are You Ready part, which seems pretty accurate). This kind of post seems to represent someone who was disappointed that the new Hip in 2002 didn't sound anything like the old Hip, and are still too jaded to appreciate IVL for what it is. I'm not saying everyone who doesn't like IVL is like this, just the way the last post was worded seemed like you haven't listened to it in years out of spite.
The lyrics argument doesn't make any sense, if "Leave", "Dire Wolf" and "Dark Canuck" aren't up there with some of the best lyrics Gord has ever written, then I don't know what is.
Now I know mrsardo will chime in and probably agree with me, and thus I will lose all credibility. Oh well.
'Leave' suffers a bit in the early going, but it is overall a good lyric, and 'The Dark Canuck' is just a tremendous all-around piece. 'The Dire Wolf' has a great chorus lyrically, but the verses are no hell.
The point of my post was not to say that the Hip have been letting us down since Henhouse. Rather it's too say that fans' response to new work has been suffering from the 'rearview mirror' syndrome ever since Henhouse: 'it's not as good as the old stuff...' Never has this driven me so crazy as it did with In Between Evolution, which I continue to maintain is one of their best records, but it's a chronic problem, and not just for the Hip; all performers that had a great early run have to put up with it. As for IVL, it was an improvement on the horrendous M@W - the band had moved out of intensive care at that point - but it's still a fairly minor record IMHO. A less tinny production sound would have helped.
04-26-2010, 10:45 AM
I find any reference to M@W being a disaster... actually to being anything less than a masterpiece, to be sacrilege.
04-26-2010, 12:27 PM
sherpa Wrote:I find any reference to M@W being a disaster... actually to being anything less than a masterpiece, to be sacrilege.:thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
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04-26-2010, 04:49 PM
sean.bonner Wrote:sherpa Wrote:I find any reference to M@W being a disaster... actually to being anything less than a masterpiece, to be sacrilege.:thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
:lol: That's what I'd expect from a message board of Hip fans. Stand by your band!! I'll concede that if you enjoy abstract, turgid progressive rock, M@W is the album for you. Other than that, it's a disaster on every level.
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