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Picking up on Moosehead's thread, below, about 'Leave,' 'Dire Wolf,' etc...
The Hip no longer play many tunes from IVL. Hence the question.
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Gotta Be The Dire Wolf.... although The Dark Canuck is also a solid tune.
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Has to be The Dire Wolf, although I would have nightmares forever about losing The Dark Canuck.
On a side note: Unless Are You Ready was being retained as a cautionary tale to prevent them from ever recording it again, I can't see how it received a vote. In my opinion, the only thing that this oddly atonal and repetitive little ditty has going for it, is that the Hip resisted the urge to title it "Are U Ready" or "R U Ready" or something equally re-donk-ulous.
But, a chacun son gout, as they say.
are you ready; ready, are you ready to love; and are you ready; ready are you ready to love; to love; to lo-ve; to love,
CT
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Darkest one
Wish they would pulled that out for the last tour
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me too, i don't see why all the hate for this album though, it's a great body of work. I love all th songs on it, and in just about every way i find it to be better than M@W (especially lyrically though). Are You Ready is a great song, and a perfect opener for the album, just as Dark Canuck is a perfect closer. This album is solid from start to finish, no weak spots, it's not too long and drawn out, they did an excellent job making the cuts (except for maybe Oh Honey, i think that it could've fit nicely in between A Beautiful Thing and The Dire Wolf), and all in all it's flawless.
it was cool that they played Silver Jet when i saw them this summer, but i really wish they would've snuck Darkest One in there too, it's such a fabulous song.
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This is one of those debates that keeps recycling itself, but what the hey...
My arguments are:
1. IVL suffers from awful production that saps the band of its intensity and menace;
Aaaand
2. Gord's lyrics remain too bogged down in the airy, pseudo-academic abstractions that characterized M@W. The verses to 'Dire Wolf' almost sink the song, for instance (but the great chorus redeems it).
But IVL does represent an improvement on M@W. It actually has songs with hooks. With better production, it would have been a perfectly decent Hip album---but still not their best effort, IMHO. Maybe akin to Henhouse.
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Too many songs to chose for this
I chose Dark Canuck because I love it, but I easily could have taken
leave,
Beautiful Thing
Dire Wolf
Silver Jet
The Darkest One
Pretty much every song except Use it up, Are you Ready and Throwing Off glass. i think those are the only Hip songs I ever hit the up button on when I'm listening to it in the car.
I would much rather have seen Problem Bears, Ultra Mundane and Forest Edge on the cd than those 3. Especially problem bears I think it was a huge mistake to cut that.
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Apple, zippo, and metronome...that's what I'm gonna name them....
2 songs in one...is that cheating?
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It's always neat to see that while we all share a love for the Hip, we all have very different thoughts on individual albums (well, other than a seemingly universal love for DFN and PP). I think I'm one of the few that loved M@W infinitely more than IVL. Hell, I probably like M@W more than IBE (well, it's close anyway).
I find that with the typical Hip album I love 80%, like 10%, and could live without 10%.
With IVL it was love 50%, like 30%, and I could live without 20%. And in my mind (and on all of my iTunes playlists), Are You Ready never, ever, ever, ever happened. Never.
