[direwolf74]

Looks like the two Bob Rock albums are now tied for the lead, haha. I still love WC though.

[Dire Wolf]

I voted for WATS. While I'm not a big fan of Bob Rock's production, I put much more weight in the songs, than the production. I didn't really feel any different about the songs, hearing them live in their more raw form. With the primary exception of Honey, Please, LP #1 of this set sounds like a Gord solo album. You could take Coffee Girl in it's current form, put it on a Gord solo album have no idea it's a Hip song. I don't consider much of WATS as a great Hip album, in the same way that I don't consider The Grand Bounce as a great Hip album. The songs on NFPA have a much more collaborative Hip feel to them.

[sherpa]

I'm baffled by the M@W results as I think it is my favourite album - Sharks, The Completists, Lake Fever, The Bear, Wild Mountain Honey, Toronto#4, As I Wind Down The Pines, Stay, -That being said Freak Turbulence is a 100% skip form me every time. I dislike it almost as much as I dislike Silver Jet - no more airplane songs please.....

[direwolf74]

That being said Freak Turbulence is a 100% skip form me every time. I dislike it almost as much as I dislike Silver Jet - no more airplane songs please.....

I feel your pain regarding Freak Turbulence. Can't stand that tune. Although I do like Silver Jet.

[Dire Wolf]

Most surprising to me is that a number of people voted for Up To Here as their least favorite hock:

[robbroncs]

i like silver jet more now than i did when it was released....guess it's a slooooooow grower for me ;-)

[john cage]

WATS

Two words: Shite sandwich.

:mrgreen: :twisted:

[robbroncs]

WATS

Two words: Shite sandwich.

:mrgreen: :twisted:

hitting the "like" button on this one. love using that review!

[cortezthekiller]

by far, In Violet Light. followed closely by WATS

I chose World Container, but could have easily chosen WATS. Lyrically, they both represent a low point of Gord's lyrical career, IMO. Too many repetitive lines. He darn near repeated one or two lines for two full songs on WC, or at least it seemed like it while listening. Both albums have some high points, though.

[daylight]

Most surprising to me is that a number of people voted for Up To Here as their least favorite hock:

I can see how people might be sick of it or find the production a bit too raw, but yeah, not even close to my least favourite.

[carebread]

Road Apples, Fully and DFN at 0. You people done good.

[NegPhil]

I'm gonna go ahead and say World Container is the Tragically Hips second best album. It is brilliant from start to finish. In my opinion all of the Hips work will be judged as pre WC and after WC. PWC and AWC. Frankly the AWC work has been lacking. Too much studio work with no legs live. Yes some tracks kick ass but most of the new songs are not translating live. My hope is that boys take the lessons learned on WC and rediscover their roots. More punk less pop.

[direwolf74]

I'm gonna go ahead and say World Container is the Tragically Hips second best album. It is brilliant from start to finish. In my opinion all of the Hips work will be judged as pre WC and after WC. PWC and AWC. Frankly the AWC work has been lacking. Too much studio work with no legs live. Yes some tracks kick ass but most of the new songs are not translating live. My hope is that boys take the lessons learned on WC and rediscover their roots. More punk less pop.

It's hard to judge the new material live if they don't play it. Lately all we've heard from the latest album are At Trans, MMP, Streets, WWTBI, and once in a blue moon they'll bust out Attawapiskat. But everything else has completely disappeared from the set in favor of the radio hits. I'd love to hear them play Take Forever, Now for Plan A, The Lookahead, or Modern Spirit, as I think those songs are fantastic. But at this point I don't think we'll ever hear those songs played live again. And that's a shame.

I agree with your assessment of WC though. I wouldn't go so far as to call it their 2nd best album, but I really like it. Bob Rock's glossy production kinda ruins a couple of the tunes (particularly the title track), but the songs themselves are some of the best stuff they've ever written in my opinion.

[NWOntario]

Last week, for reasons best left unexplained, I listened to the Hip's entire catalogue, in chronological order, within a twenty-four hour period...and for me the answer's still Music @ Work. I detest that album; I think it's an affront to the rest of the band's output, and if I ever hear "Puttin' Down" or "Wild Mountain Honey" again it'll be too soon. That said...I think it's interesting how people here whose opinions I genuinely respect are defending it so vociferously. Maybe it's me?

My current pecking order: Day for Night, Phantom Power, Road Apples, Fully Completely, World Container, Now For Plan A, Trouble at the Henhouse, We Are The Same, In Between Evolution, In Violet Light, EP, Music @ Work.

[robbroncs]

i'm neutral with M@W . . . I am mostly surprised at the votes for IBE. I thought everyone loved that record...right up there with 90's Hip.