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Bye Bye BobC. I never understood why people love this song. Used this song plenty of times at shows for a washroom break
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Emperor for me - I love the song and it's very much in keeping with how much I love the last song on the albums but for me, the other three are stronger.
Looks like I'll get to vote for emperor again in the next round too; will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
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Looks like we are heading to the remarkably perverse outcome of Bobcageyon and Poets being defeated in favour of these more obscure cuts.
Again, I can only point to overplay as the primary variable, but "who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men," etc.. Some of you want to die on the hill of arguing that some American Idol warbler is just as good as Beethoven, and hey, that's your prerogative.
Poets is probably my personal favourite Hip track. It may not be their most *potent* song artistically or emotionally (stuff like ND or ABAC would take the palm there) but it's the one that gets my butt wigglin' more reliably than any other. And it's probably the single song that I would play someone who has never heard the Hip before. Awesome guitar groove, killer chorus, just a wonderful, slinky kind of rocker, suave where the earlier stuff was scream-y and sweat-drenched, but still somehow intense and irresistible. "WHEN YA FIND OUT HE GETS PAID" just kills. A great example of a band evolving beyond its original formula without losing a lick of the excitement.
Bobcageyon, meanwhile, is merely a perfect song. Visionary, rootsy, wringing total originality from such simplicity. A beautiful number that will endure long after the victors on this poll have been completely forgotten by all but the most fervent Hip devotees.
Glad to see the Penguin still in the mix, however; in terms of Gord D's peculiar lyrical genius, few examples can top this feat of writing about parenting and family via a bizarre and yet powerful metaphor.
I still don't see the big deal in 'Escape,' however. Yes, the conceit of a verse made up of imaginary song titles is cute, and the second verse conveys real sadness, but as a whole the song is merely all right. If I didn't realize that a suicide is the real theme (which is far from obvious based purely on the text), I'd be even less impressed - the subject of friend-ships passing in the night not being all that profound, to my ear at least.
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having lived and worked in far northern ontario for a lot of seasons all i had was my rickety cd player to listen to my music. in strict competition with the choirs of frogs, branches dancing on trees, blasts of wind and snow, and wolf howls. i was isolated and the nights were long. this was pre in between evolution. i had little to no southern radio access, and most certainly no internet. yes, i miss those times.
i had little preconceptions of what was getting radio play. i feel lucky in a way to have been able to hear the music this way. uninfluenced. just me and them. i definitely fell in love with a lot of songs this way. some, but not all of my choices have been the less radio friendly tunes. especially this album i'm finding. happy to see two of my favorites pulling their weight.
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I’ll be sad to see Poets eliminated. Definitely my favorite on the album.
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Curious to see where those 22 votes from Bobcaygeon will go next round
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