01-04-2007, 02:08 PM
this album has the most & best placed "woooh's, yeah's, & that's right's" than any album they've ever done- never mind the lyrics- woooh! yeah!
that's right!!!!!!!
that's right!!!!!!!
World Container Reviews - Official Thread
01-04-2007, 04:15 PM
laliber Wrote:Found this here:
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looks like yer not the ocean is the only song not tainted
[ Poll ] least popular song off world container....
yer not the ocean 0% [ 0 ]
fly 3% [ 4 ]
the drop-off 3% [ 4 ]
family band 3% [ 4 ]
luv (sic) 4% [ 5 ]
the lonely end of the rink 5% [ 6 ]
world container 8% [ 9 ]
the kids don't get it 8% [ 9 ]
in view 9% [ 10 ]
last night i dreamed you didn't love me 20% [ 23 ]
pretend 32% [ 36 ]
Total Votes : 110
ha thanks for that link, my vote goes to ocean. it was close between that and drop-off. kind of funny because LNIDYDLM is my 2nd fav... so I guess I'm not main-stream Hip fan, I hope I don't get flamed for that.
01-04-2007, 10:13 PM
the worst song on the album is 'pretend.' thats my review.
01-05-2007, 04:37 AM
'Family Band' has grown on me so much now! 
I can't get enough of it.
I can't get enough of it.
02-02-2007, 01:32 PM
Spycouple Wrote:Regarding my earlier review, I just have to revise something here...
7. Rink: Great idea for a theme of father-son support masked in the Hip/Hockey motif, but I listen to it pretty much for the same reason I watch the Canucks (i.e. 'cause it's there and I may as well, but not I'm really excited by it.).
Goddamn if those damn Canucks haven't gone and become an exciting event here on the Left Coast. I eat my words. Last night's game vs. the Coilers (a DJ used that on the radio this morning and it made me chuckle) was pretty entertaining. Bulis AND Chouinard getting goals? Ridiculous.
But back to the thread topic: I'm still ho-hum on "Rink". Not sold on it being the latest single.
02-02-2007, 07:06 PM
I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but The Drop Off intro totally reminds me of we'll go too. Not sure why. Love the whole album, though I have grown a bit tired of fly.
02-12-2007, 04:13 PM
I am so in love with this CD! The Drop-off is my latest obsession...great tune! 
02-15-2007, 01:58 AM
The album is amazing. I can't get it out of my head. When I leave work, I love putting on Yer Not the Ocean, as it just lets the day melt away.
I waited eight weeks for ti to get to Korea, and it was worth every second of the agony.
I waited eight weeks for ti to get to Korea, and it was worth every second of the agony.
02-24-2007, 03:25 PM
'Fly' still sounds great to me. 'Pretend' and 'In View" are still the bottom two songs for me.
Here's what would improve this album for me- NO ACOUSTIC GUITAR!
Here's what would improve this album for me- NO ACOUSTIC GUITAR!
02-24-2007, 03:33 PM
tigerthelion Wrote:'Fly' still sounds great to me. 'Pretend' and 'In View" are still the bottom two songs for me.argeed.
Here's what would improve this album for me- NO ACOUSTIC GUITAR!
03-07-2007, 10:23 PM
The Seattle PI review of WC.
Listen Up: The Tragically Hip's 'World Container'
"World Container" (Universal)
There is a difference between the "next" album and the "new" album from a band. Oft referred to as "the Rolling Stones of Canada," the "new" album from "the Hip" is a rock 'n' roll rodeo ride. Not since 1994's "Day for Night" has "the Hip" sounded so loose and inventive while at the same time ready to explode. Carrying the bulk of the thrill is frontman Gordon Downie who, for the first time, drives the wide gravitas of his voice to the breaking point, pushing himself to scream, while occasionally, punctuating high points with a triumphant "Whoo!" Rest assured, "the Hip" haven't changed, but their music has never sounded so new. DOWNLOAD: "In View"
-- Shawn Telford
Listen Up: The Tragically Hip's 'World Container'
"World Container" (Universal)
There is a difference between the "next" album and the "new" album from a band. Oft referred to as "the Rolling Stones of Canada," the "new" album from "the Hip" is a rock 'n' roll rodeo ride. Not since 1994's "Day for Night" has "the Hip" sounded so loose and inventive while at the same time ready to explode. Carrying the bulk of the thrill is frontman Gordon Downie who, for the first time, drives the wide gravitas of his voice to the breaking point, pushing himself to scream, while occasionally, punctuating high points with a triumphant "Whoo!" Rest assured, "the Hip" haven't changed, but their music has never sounded so new. DOWNLOAD: "In View"
-- Shawn Telford
03-07-2007, 10:25 PM
UPI review of WC
Canadian rockers welcome new producer
CHICAGO, March 6 (UPI) -- Canadian rockers Tragically Hip were initially wary of choosing producer Bob Rock for their new album, "World Container."
With credits that include headbangers such as Metallica and Motley Crue, the quintet feared Rock would not be a good fit for their more textured and nuanced style. But bassist Gordon Sinclair says those concerns were put to rest during the first recording session in Vancouver.
"It was supposed to be a feel each other out session," Sinclair says, "and by the end of the first day, we were making the record. We're fairly protective of our creativity and songs and stuffs, but he got right in there and made good suggestions and clearly dug what we were doing.
"It was a very good working situation."
The Hip and Rock finished the group's 13th album during subsequent sessions in Toronto and Hawaii.
The group is currently touring to support "World Container."
Canadian rockers welcome new producer
CHICAGO, March 6 (UPI) -- Canadian rockers Tragically Hip were initially wary of choosing producer Bob Rock for their new album, "World Container."
With credits that include headbangers such as Metallica and Motley Crue, the quintet feared Rock would not be a good fit for their more textured and nuanced style. But bassist Gordon Sinclair says those concerns were put to rest during the first recording session in Vancouver.
"It was supposed to be a feel each other out session," Sinclair says, "and by the end of the first day, we were making the record. We're fairly protective of our creativity and songs and stuffs, but he got right in there and made good suggestions and clearly dug what we were doing.
"It was a very good working situation."
The Hip and Rock finished the group's 13th album during subsequent sessions in Toronto and Hawaii.
The group is currently touring to support "World Container."
03-13-2007, 04:05 PM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Two decades in, and still Hip
Jeff Spevak
Staff music critic
(March 8, 2007) — The Tragically Hip may be as good as it has ever been. More, even, if you subscribe to the theory that experience trumps youth. As Canadians, the Hip have probably seen this scenario unfold time and again in the National Hockey League playoffs.
But this great rock band, which plays today (March 8) at the Harro East Ballroom, knows that time is also the enemy when you dare to walk onstage with a guitar in hand and a rock audience at your feet.
"The record when they were 18 can never be surpassed in their lives," guitarist Rob Baker says. "I'm the same way. The Rolling Stones will never make another Exile on Main Street. It's not that they can't make records anymore, that they can't play guitar anymore. But when I was 15 years old, and I bought that record, it rocked my world."
This is the inevitability faced by the Hip. U2, which has invented and re-invented itself at least three times, is a rare exception. The road to pop-culture success has paved over thousands of Three Doors Down. Very often sooner, or later, a rock band's time drifts away.
But the history of the Hip, like U2, is unlike most rock bands. It is vastly popular, particularly in Canada and pockets of the American Midwest. Yet it has maintained an underground coolness, perhaps because it has never really broken big in the United States. From its start in the late '80s, the Tragically Hip had everything that R.E.M. offered at the same time. Huge, dynamic, complex songs. An adoring fan base. And a frenetic, enigmatic front man, Gordon Downie, who you can't take your eyes off of.
So, why not the Tragically Hip?
"Mistakes were made; we had a manager who rubbed people the wrong way," Baker says. "There were press releases describing how we were huge in Canada, and how we had to check into hotels under assumed names. I know, as a music fan, if I read that kind of hype, I wouldn't want to be on that bandwagon. Everyone wants to get in on the ground floor of their own bands.
"Plus, every country nurtures its own. You look at the British charts sometimes, and you say, 'Who are these people?'"
Yet, by many standards, the Hip are a success here.
"When we tour the States, most nights we play to 1,000, 2,000 people," Baker says. "Any band that can play to 2,000 people a night, that's a good career. Ninety-nine percent of the bands out there would kill for that. What we have built in America, we came about honestly. Without a lot of national press, without a hit record."
And actually, without an Exile on Main Street. The Hip built its reputation on its stunning live shows. "I would agree with that," Baker says. "You do the best you can, but the studio isn't live. You're either a studio band or a live band. I can't think of many who did both. And the bands we emulated were live bands."
Bands that released plenty of records, but whose sound sprang from the raw side. "The early Stones, Yardbirds, that kind of a vibe," Baker says. "The Animals, the Pretty Things, the early English R&B things."
The Hip is so intent on remaining relevant that it resisted the call for a retrospective, a box set, of its work. "We were fighting that 12 or 15 years," Baker says. "It's taking time out from the journey, and the journey is a forward journey. You don't want to stand there, stopped, looking over your shoulder."
But when the band finally caved, in 2005, and looked back at its two decades of work, it learned one thing about itself: "It was time to make a really good record."
World Container, their latest, may be that. It is all that the best Hip has always been: loud, rocking, introspective, obtuse. But what standards should we use to judge a great record?
"I just bought the new Vince Gill record, the four-CD set," Baker says. "I love it. Vince Gill, he is the complete package. And the new Tom Waits record. It's so sprawling, all over the map. Eclectic and very real, in an age that doesn't put a lot of value on things that are real and timeless."
Has the Hip created its timeless piece yet?
"Certain songs, I think: 'It's clever,'" Baker says. "The ones that are timeless are the ones that get hit by lightning. You can spend two years writing one song, 20 minutes another. 'Long Time Running,' off the Road Apples album, aside from the lyrics, musically it didn't have to be written. It just had to be felt. You pull 'em in like a radio station. Others, you impose your will on. Those great songs, we pulled out of the ether."
Two decades in, and still Hip
Jeff Spevak
Staff music critic
(March 8, 2007) — The Tragically Hip may be as good as it has ever been. More, even, if you subscribe to the theory that experience trumps youth. As Canadians, the Hip have probably seen this scenario unfold time and again in the National Hockey League playoffs.
But this great rock band, which plays today (March 8) at the Harro East Ballroom, knows that time is also the enemy when you dare to walk onstage with a guitar in hand and a rock audience at your feet.
"The record when they were 18 can never be surpassed in their lives," guitarist Rob Baker says. "I'm the same way. The Rolling Stones will never make another Exile on Main Street. It's not that they can't make records anymore, that they can't play guitar anymore. But when I was 15 years old, and I bought that record, it rocked my world."
This is the inevitability faced by the Hip. U2, which has invented and re-invented itself at least three times, is a rare exception. The road to pop-culture success has paved over thousands of Three Doors Down. Very often sooner, or later, a rock band's time drifts away.
But the history of the Hip, like U2, is unlike most rock bands. It is vastly popular, particularly in Canada and pockets of the American Midwest. Yet it has maintained an underground coolness, perhaps because it has never really broken big in the United States. From its start in the late '80s, the Tragically Hip had everything that R.E.M. offered at the same time. Huge, dynamic, complex songs. An adoring fan base. And a frenetic, enigmatic front man, Gordon Downie, who you can't take your eyes off of.
So, why not the Tragically Hip?
"Mistakes were made; we had a manager who rubbed people the wrong way," Baker says. "There were press releases describing how we were huge in Canada, and how we had to check into hotels under assumed names. I know, as a music fan, if I read that kind of hype, I wouldn't want to be on that bandwagon. Everyone wants to get in on the ground floor of their own bands.
"Plus, every country nurtures its own. You look at the British charts sometimes, and you say, 'Who are these people?'"
Yet, by many standards, the Hip are a success here.
"When we tour the States, most nights we play to 1,000, 2,000 people," Baker says. "Any band that can play to 2,000 people a night, that's a good career. Ninety-nine percent of the bands out there would kill for that. What we have built in America, we came about honestly. Without a lot of national press, without a hit record."
And actually, without an Exile on Main Street. The Hip built its reputation on its stunning live shows. "I would agree with that," Baker says. "You do the best you can, but the studio isn't live. You're either a studio band or a live band. I can't think of many who did both. And the bands we emulated were live bands."
Bands that released plenty of records, but whose sound sprang from the raw side. "The early Stones, Yardbirds, that kind of a vibe," Baker says. "The Animals, the Pretty Things, the early English R&B things."
The Hip is so intent on remaining relevant that it resisted the call for a retrospective, a box set, of its work. "We were fighting that 12 or 15 years," Baker says. "It's taking time out from the journey, and the journey is a forward journey. You don't want to stand there, stopped, looking over your shoulder."
But when the band finally caved, in 2005, and looked back at its two decades of work, it learned one thing about itself: "It was time to make a really good record."
World Container, their latest, may be that. It is all that the best Hip has always been: loud, rocking, introspective, obtuse. But what standards should we use to judge a great record?
"I just bought the new Vince Gill record, the four-CD set," Baker says. "I love it. Vince Gill, he is the complete package. And the new Tom Waits record. It's so sprawling, all over the map. Eclectic and very real, in an age that doesn't put a lot of value on things that are real and timeless."
Has the Hip created its timeless piece yet?
"Certain songs, I think: 'It's clever,'" Baker says. "The ones that are timeless are the ones that get hit by lightning. You can spend two years writing one song, 20 minutes another. 'Long Time Running,' off the Road Apples album, aside from the lyrics, musically it didn't have to be written. It just had to be felt. You pull 'em in like a radio station. Others, you impose your will on. Those great songs, we pulled out of the ether."
03-13-2007, 04:22 PM
Zenith Wrote:'Family Band' has grown on me so much now!
Same here Zenith, this was my least favorite when I 1st got the album, now it's up there with Luv Sic, Last Night, and Ocean. Drop Off is amazing too, but it is way better live! I don't know why it didn't hit me sooner, but I'm lovin it now. I'm addicted to this album, ome back this summer pleeeeeeez!
03-15-2007, 02:13 AM
THE DALLAS OBSERVER
WARNING THIS DUDE IS A PUNK ASS CHUMP!
The Tragically Hip
World Container (Fontana)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: March 15, 2007
Inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2005, the Tragically Hip continue their brand of off-kilter power rock on the substantial World Container. Released almost exactly 20 years since their debut, the new effort finds the band sticking to a formula of straddling the line between collegiate and adult rock with a little roots thrown in for good measure. Although World Container features the cleanest production of the Hip's career (care of Bob Rock), it simply isn't a far jump from 1987's "Blow at High Dough" to "You're Not the Ocean" included here.
Details:
The Tragically Hip perform Friday, March 16, at the Palladium Ballroom.
Subject(s): The Tragically Hip
Singer Gordon Downie still sounds like a mutant cross between Bono and Fred Schneider while dual guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker provide much of the band's incessant drive and spunk. Song titles such as "The Lonely End of the Rink" and "Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Like Me" would suggest a mopey self-absorption a la the Smiths, but the Tragically Hip are nothing if not fun, and there is a definite raw edge to many of the new tunes. Perhaps they could be faulted for the negligible rate of growth, but World Container does an admirable job of offering folks nearing middle age a clear window into their undergrad memories.
WARNING THIS DUDE IS A PUNK ASS CHUMP!
The Tragically Hip
World Container (Fontana)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: March 15, 2007
Inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2005, the Tragically Hip continue their brand of off-kilter power rock on the substantial World Container. Released almost exactly 20 years since their debut, the new effort finds the band sticking to a formula of straddling the line between collegiate and adult rock with a little roots thrown in for good measure. Although World Container features the cleanest production of the Hip's career (care of Bob Rock), it simply isn't a far jump from 1987's "Blow at High Dough" to "You're Not the Ocean" included here.
Details:
The Tragically Hip perform Friday, March 16, at the Palladium Ballroom.
Subject(s): The Tragically Hip
Singer Gordon Downie still sounds like a mutant cross between Bono and Fred Schneider while dual guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker provide much of the band's incessant drive and spunk. Song titles such as "The Lonely End of the Rink" and "Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Like Me" would suggest a mopey self-absorption a la the Smiths, but the Tragically Hip are nothing if not fun, and there is a definite raw edge to many of the new tunes. Perhaps they could be faulted for the negligible rate of growth, but World Container does an admirable job of offering folks nearing middle age a clear window into their undergrad memories.
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