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I'm curious as to how everybody got interested in The Hip, what the first song was you ever heard, and what album you bought first. I'll start of course...
A friend of mine was into The Hip, i think it was about 1990. I heard "Blow at high dough" and immediately thought it was fantastic. Then i bought "Up to here", an album i still consider to be the best ever made. A year later i saw a show in "Vera" in Groningen and i found out they were and are a fabulous live band as well. Unfortunately they don't come to Europe very often, so i can't wait to see the show in Amsterdam.
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Mine was an odd experience. I disliked the Hip because everyone I know liked them and I was a foolish man at the time. This was in 1995, and I hadn't really heard any of their music much. I was in class one day and I saw Nautical Disaster written on the desk beside me. It intrigued me a great deal. That sumemr I was workingin Regina, SK and had the chance to go to ARA in Craven. The song that really sticks out for me from that show was Blow At High Dough. I asked my brother about them afterwards and he lent me a few of his tapes. They have been easily my favorite band ever since.
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I am a relative newbie to the Hip, only getting into them with "Phantom Power". That being said, the first song I heard was Poets.
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One of my best friends, Mike (you may know him better as Drez7), turned me onto them a couple of years ago. The first song I ever heard was New Orleans Is Sinking. I had heard the song many times at hockey games and always liked it. Then Mike played some more of their music for me and I was hooked. I went out and bought Up To Here and listened to it alot and then I bought the rest of the Hip albums.
On a side note:
I must be the most spoiled Hip fan there is...I have seen the Hip live 3 times and have met all of the members twice. Call it beginners luck...
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Well, it all started back in Red Deer, Alberta when my parents got Road Apples in the mail from Columbia House. I listened to it once and it stuck, still have the same CD.
I need 2 Kingston Tickets, please help.
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I think I'm one of the younger users here. I'm 19, and I've been listening to The Hip since 1995. I remember seeing "Nautical Disaster" on MuchMusic that spring and it was the #1 video for a couple of weeks in a row. I got Road Apples for my birthday that August, and they've been my favourite band ever since.
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About 2 years ago I read about the Hip on a local forum. I got interested, but never heard their music and I forgot about them :oops: .
Half a year ago I met Beat. He made me listen to Another Midnight and Fiddler's Green. Sent me a lot of lyrics. Made me buy Coke Machine Glow and IVL. The more I listen, the more I like the Hip and especially Gord.
And now I can't wait to see them... for the first time in my life..
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You are going to be in for a treat Storm. The Hip are amazing in concert, and you will get to see them in a small venue. Which makes the experience even better.
I need 2 Kingston Tickets, please help.
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I'll let you all know once I've been there..... I will share this experience with my friend Beat.
<still 55 days to go>
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mine came from my older brother
(the best present he ever gave me)
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My older brother used to crank NOIS everytime he got to that part of his UTH tape. It wasn't long before I loved the song. A couple of years later I signed up with Columbia House, and chose UTH and the Hip's new album (at the time) RA, on the strength of that one song which I knew so well. I wasn't disipointed at all, and have been snapping up Hip albums on the day of release ever since.
I gradually grew into a Hip fanatic over time, thanks largely to some great concert experiences. The two standouts for me were being front row at the Sudbury arena (the crowd was lame but the seats and the band were great), and being one of the last to get into a surprise gig at the Horeshoe.
Long live the Hip!
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Well, it's really not an exciting story. I basically came to know the music of the Hip from playing hockey. I played Jr. A. hockey a lot in Canada and the Hip were often blasted during our warmups. I knew who they were because of their popularity in Buffalo. I only knew songs like Ahead By A Century, Poets, Fireworks, New Orleans Is Sinking and Little Bones. When I got to college, one kid in my dorm, also from Buffalo was playing the Hip all the time out of his room and finally I walked down there and told him I needed to borrow his collection to copy. He mentioned he had all their albums and told me a few stories about Gord. I copied the collection and fell in love. He also gave me a couple live bootlegs (Fisherman's Paradise and the Roxy) and I started to see that this band was even better in concert. As soon as I had gathered up enough money, I went out and bought every release. Later that year I went to my first Hip show at Darien Lake (7/29/00) and the Hip have been my favorite band. That's my story.
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I first had exposure to the Hip when I was a college student in Buffalo back in the early nineties. The first album I heard was "Fully Completely". I grew up in Western New York, where there are a fair amount of fans, I think, but not more than any other current "alternative" band like R.E.M etc. That's how I pretty much viewed them: A decent "alternative band" alongside with all my other favorites.
When I graduated I moved to the NYC area (and have been living here for around five years), with "Fully Completely" and "Trouble in the Henhouse" collecting dust on the CD rack resting on my living room wall. Around a year and a half ago, for some reason I decided to start listening to my Tragically Hip CDs again, and began to wonder why I didn't listen to them more when I was back in Buffalo. I don't know where the stimulus came from, because I don't get a lot of exposure to the Hip down here. None of my close friends are fans, and you don't hear them on NYC radio. But regardless, my interest was now aroused, even more than when I had first heard them.
I decided to go to the web and check out what they had been up to the past couple of years, surprised to find two new albums to explore (Phantom Power and Music @ Work), along with the stuff I already had. Once I started listening I was hooked.
So now I own all the albums except for the first EP. I have seen them once this year in NYC and plan to catch them in Syracuse and Montreal. They are one of the best live acts I have seen. I tip my hat to all you fans who have stuck with them through the years. You are a force to be reckoned with!
