[Chris Tanz]

Chagrin, like A Beautiful Thing, is another one of those coat-tails riders, coming before Escape and Penguin. I'd rather ride around to the other side of the moon with:

Escape/Penguin/Poets. How fantastic is that!

On my way home last night, I tested out my triple play by popping in DFN and firing up Nautical; I've decided that DFN is a Tragically Hip Fourteen-ple Play.

ct

[j-monster]

Notice a lot of combos from DFN in this thread... especially from the first half of the disc. My opinion is, although the topic is for only three-song lists, the first seven songs on DFN (Grace, DD, Greasy, Yawning, Fire, So Hard Done By and Nautical) are the Hip at their absolute peak... while they've come close in later discs, they've never equaled the heights of those super seven.

Anyone care to debate this?

[tigerthelion]

Notice a lot of combos from DFN in this thread... especially from the first half of the disc. My opinion is, although the topic is for only three-song lists, the first seven songs on DFN (Grace, DD, Greasy, Yawning, Fire, So Hard Done By and Nautical) are the Hip at their absolute peak... while they've come close in later discs, they've never equaled the heights of those super seven.

Anyone care to debate this?

I love most of their stuff but I agree that DFN was their "Ok Computer" or their "Sgt Peppers". DFN is the Hip at their absolute best. To me anyway, that record is so distinctively Hip and I can't really compare it to any other music of the mid nineties. The first seven songs are all masterful pieces. Nautical, although basic and fairly easy music to play is just music for music lovers! I heard Neil Young say that the basic, easy songs to play are actually the most difficult to get to sound good. I think he was talking about the Stones and how some people didn't think they were the greatest musicians but the songs are great. To be able to write a simple song with simple chord structure and make it sound "right" is indeed a challenge and Nautical proves this point. DFN to me should be ranked up their with the best albums to come out of Canada. Dave Bidini was asked if he thought the Hip were just another bar rock band in the early nineties and Bidini said he agreed with that statement. BUT BUT BUT then Bidini said "then I heard DFN!" That's when Bidini knew the Hip weren't just another bar band, but they had depth and soul and passion and creativity and uniqueness. Long live DFN as one of Canada's best albums!

[lilbones]

Agreed, DFN is their classic album. However, I've always thought that the final 7 songs stand up with the first 7 very well. I've always been a fan of the way that album ends. (Not to take anything away from the start, which of course, is nothing short of brilliant).

[joshwayy]

Good point, I've always had a thing for the ends of their albums too...

I'd love to read how the order of songs are created. What is the thought process, if there is one, or is it as simply random or what sounds good. To me, the Hip are amazing because of their album continuity...there are not a lot of bands that have produced albums that I can honestly play front to back in completion.

[j-monster]

Agreed, DFN is their classic album. However, I've always thought that the final 7 songs stand up with the first 7 very well. I've always been a fan of the way that album ends. (Not to take anything away from the start, which of course, is nothing short of brilliant).

I certainly don't mean to imply that the second half of DFN is chopped liver... far from it. Some great songs there, and Titanic is one of my all-time faves. But I've always thought the first half was just a little better overall than the second half. Thugs always felt like a "breather" song to me... because I needed to recover from the sustained brilliance of the seven songs that came before it! I'm sure some of you will be shocked (SHOCKED!) that I think of Thugs that way, but that's OK, I can take the heat! :wink:

[Chris Tanz]

^ I am shocked re Thugs.

for another Hip-trifecta, I'm gonna try out Bones/Twist/Cordelia on my way home tonight. Also on that album is the fantastic combo of Pistols/Fight/Verge, which would only be better if it was Verge/Fight/Pistols, but oh well.

ct

[mrlayance]

Say you've only got time to play 3 songs on your way to wherever, and your CD player is busted and can't skip songs...which 3 consecutive songs would be your pick to listen to in that given time? Don't convolude this by saying "well am I going to a rock concert or to a funeral" just pick your favorite trifecta...it's not as easy as you may think!!!

Here is mine...
Chagrin Falls, Escape and Emperor Penguin

Goulet!!!

easy

7. Nautical Disaster
8. Thugs
9. Inevitability Of Death

[admo]

[quote="Chris Tanz"]^ I am shocked re Thugs.

for another Hip-trifecta, I'm gonna try out Bones/Twist/Cordelia on my way home tonight. Also on that album is the fantastic combo of Pistols/Fight/Verge, which would only be better if it was Verge/Fight/Pistols, but oh well.

ct[/quote

bones/twist/cordelia is my #1 for sure

[sonofdad]

here's my choice...

blow
i believe in you
NOIS

This is the first Hip I ever heard and I always go back to my roots...

sonofdad

[highway_girl]

Errr.... tough call.

PP- Bobcaygeon/Thompson Girl/Membership

DFN - Nautical Disaster/Thugs/Inevitability Of Death

-Jenna

good call for DFN, i could not agree more.

[Daredevil]

Too tough a choice to make but nontheless:

Gift/Spring/Century

Thompson/Membership/Fireworks

Whats everyone's fav live song? Mines Don't Wake Daddy with Grace Too a close 2nd

[Stephen Dame]

Daddy
Flamenco
700ft

[Nick22ca]

As said before; Let's Stay Engaged/Sherpa/Put it Off or The Completists/Freak Turbulence/Sharks. I would like to draw attention to the fact that when I listen to Let's Stay Engaged, it sounds like Flea is on bass sometimes. Just have a listen. Go on, I dare ya.

[Nick22ca]

Oh also Gus/Vaccination Scar/Nashville, as an afterthought.