[robbroncs]

"Gus">"Vaccination Scar">"It Can't Be Nashville">"If New Orleans Is Beat"

[SoylentGreg]

Leave/A Beautiful Thing/The Dire Wolf/The Dark Canuck

[mojo_mattv]

Leave/A Beautiful Thing/The Dire Wolf/The Dark Canuck

God damned, that's a good one.

[fingernailsonhull]

Leave/A Beautiful Thing/The Dire Wolf/The Dark Canuck

God damned, that's a good one.

Except for A Beautiful Thing. That's a weak tune. Dire Wolf and Dark Canuck are a solid one-two punch at the end of IVL.

[Tthip]

Except for A Beautiful Thing. That's a weak tune.

I enjoy A Beautiful Thing
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[mojo_mattv]

Leave/A Beautiful Thing/The Dire Wolf/The Dark Canuck

God damned, that's a good one.

Except for A Beautiful Thing. That's a weak tune. Dire Wolf and Dark Canuck are a solid one-two punch at the end of IVL.

Beautiful Thing is one of my favourite Hip songs, it's one of a handful that initially drew me to the band. I've said it before, I think there's a different draw to the bands sound depending on which era you became a fan. My first foray into Hip fandom was in between IVL and IBE. I prefer their work APP (after PP) to that BPP (use your imagination).

[fingernailsonhull]

Fair enough. To each his own. I got into The Hip around TATH but the first album I really got into was FC. I like the newer stuff, too. I really like IBE. A Beautiful Thing never really did it for me. But, again, to each his own.

[HandsInTheRiver41]

Use It Up
The Darkest One
It's a Good Life
Silver Jet

...gets me every time.
Alternatively:

Leave
A Beautiful Thing
Dire Wolf
Dark Canuck

EDIT: already mentioned I see!

[spottrax]

Except for A Beautiful Thing. That's a weak tune.

I enjoy A Beautiful Thing
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Beautiful Thing fan here too! Love the words and melody

[SoylentGreg]

I really like "A Beautiful Thing" too, just not so much at that spot on the album. It just doesn't sound right sandwiched between "Leave" and "The Dire Wolf." I've always thought if you could swap its place with "Throwing Off Glass" or maybe "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken" then you'd have the strongest ending run of any Hip album.

Ninja Edit: try swapping it out for Sherpa and getting whacked out of your mind first :thumb:

Double Ninja Edit: IBT has like the best first-line delivery ever. "perspective comes thewayitalwaysdoes...for it's RAAAAAANSOM!"

[Jack Straw]

Yea, that back end of IVL sure does go down nice.

Hey HandsInTheRiver41... Trey's all better now... Ha ha...

[joshwayy]

IVL is the defining grower album. back half better than front, but for me alot of their albums are TATH (with the exception of coconut cream), PP, WC) A beautiful thing is also one of my favorites because of the story it evokes....3 o'clock in the morning......you better be dying, you were, so we talk about....classic lyrics.

[Dire Wolf]

Butts Wigglin, Apartment Song, Coconut Cream, Let's Stay Engaged, Sherpa, Put it Off

I've always been a big fan of this album, but it wasn't until I discovered tube amps and vinyl, that this album side went to a whole new level :music

[The Darkest Canuck]

Poets/Somethnig On/Save the Planet/Bobcaygeon/Thomson Girl/Membership/Fireworks/Vapour Trails/The Rules/Chagrin Falls/Escape Is At Hand For The Travelling Man/Emperor Penguin



best album run

[MattPower]

Opiated/Blow at High Dough/I'll Believe in You/New Orleans

classic