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You know what, I could be mis-remembering this. I'm going solely on my memory of what Rob said in the radio premier interview. Definitely the Man-Machine as one song thing was said...so maybe Rob just said it was Gord's idea to have Man as the lead-off track on the album, instead of the penultimate track leading into Machine.
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potsie Wrote:Like many here I played the Hip non-stop for months after receiving that sad email the end of May. There was rarely a day that passed where I didn't listen to at least one of the albums. During this time I started to listen in a different way. I listened uncritically. I became more appreciative of the albums from the past 16 years that I could find faults in before. Every album in the catalogue rose in greatness for me (although it's hard to imagine how much higher the 90's output could go), except for one: Music at Work. This is the only album that my love didn't grow for this past summer.
Music at Work has fallen to the bottom of my list over the past few months and that's really the only thing that's changed in my personal rankings. It was middle of the pack before but I dare say I now like NFPA (my previous last place finisher) even more than M@W. It's not that I like M@W less than I did 6 months ago, it's that I like everything else more. It is the only album that wouldn't place a song on my top 50 Hip song list. It is not an easy listen from start to finish and, if I'm going to kick it while it's down, it has by far the worst cover art of any Hip album. Chopping about four songs off of it would improve the listening experience, but even then it would still be an uneven affair. Maybe some day I'll come around to it, but it didn't happen this summer.
100% same experience for me. Played all Hip this summer while doing yard work and my appreciation for all the music grew. My issue with M@W id chorus related. In particular, Lake fever and Putting Down. PD has that great piece(s) with the 'delayed' part - "I'm starting to fail..to be impressed" but then it is followed by the chorus of "putting down, putting down....doooowwwnnnn. Just not my fav. Same with Lake fever - the wheezing screen door section kind of throws the song off in my mind.
I am a fan of IVL mostly because I was helping a friend in a bad place at the time it came out and a lot of lyrics were inspirational so they still resonate. But how does Problem Bears get cut?
A Hip set list is like a box of chocolates..you never know which one you're going to get.
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ewallman Wrote:Just not my fav. Same with Lake fever - the wheezing screen door section kind of throws the song off in my mind.
See now, that's funny. That is my favorite part of the song. Music means something different to everyone.
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Road Apples
Fully Completely
Day For Night
Phantom Power
Up to Here
In Violet Light
Trouble at the Henhouse
World Container
Man Machine Poem
Music at Work
In Between Evolution
We Are the Same
Now for Plan A
EP
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1. Day For Night
1. Trouble At The Henhouse
1. Phantom Power
1. Music At Work
1. World Container
1. Now For Plan A
1. Man Machine Poem
2. Road Apples
2. Fully Completely
2. In Violet Light
2. In Between Evolution
3. Up To Here
3. We Are The Same
4. EP
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I'm a big fan of both and they both resonate with me more at this point in my life than Road Apples or Fully Completely. I find that RA and FC are albums that got me into the band but not the ones that have kept me there. I love many songs from them but I find them to be less interesting albums musically. They are more nostalgic than anything for me.
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Unacceptable. Everyone must like what I like.
j/k. I love M@W and NFPA and all Hip albums.
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1. Road Apples
2. Day For Night
3. Up to Here
4. Fully Completely
................then everything else tied for 5th !
