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Definitely "The Dark Canuck". The end of that song is the perfect way to end a song and an album. So much finality in it. My favourite Hip song and my favourite song overall. I just love how the Hip always open their albums to a rocking up-tempo beat, and always end with something that makes the end uncontestable. You can't argue with the fact that the album's over. But "The Dark Canuck" leads a double life. Even though it's so final, try restarting the album right after. The fade out fits perfectly with "Are You Ready"'s opening chords. I think it's a conspircay to get us into an eternal In Violet Light loop.
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Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man
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They need to put that back on the setlist. All the live versions I've heard were amazing.
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'Something On'
The first Hip song I heard when I became a fan in '02 travelling across Europe with a bunch of crazy canucks from Toronto; I became addicted!!
They played it live in '04 here in Seattle and it blew me away..
Honourable mentions are 'It's a good life if you don't weaken', 'Grace Too' and 'Are we Family' which is one of my all time favourite songs. I've only seen them live twice though so I still have lots of catching up to do! :mrgreen:
All I'm hearin' is youuuuuuuu
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is it just me, or does every album have a couple of songs that you feel was written just for you?
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Ahead by a Century is one which just seems to be constantly in my head.
Others I couldn't leave out:
Wheat Kings, Poets, The Darkest One, Nautical Disaster and Sweet Jane.
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I never get tired of Killer Whale Tank but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Tiger the Lion. I just think it's a really cool song and different from a lot of what they do.
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nautical disaster, 100th, new orleans, high dough, boots?, how can these by the favourite hip songs, escape is of course up their, am i just crazy but what about long time running? fiddlers green?, last of the unplucked gems, locked, scared? and of course leave off of ivl :thumb:
