Does anyone know anything about Gordon Downie?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Someone suggested I might like listening to "Coke Machine Glow" by Gordon Downie but the links to the audio clips available on the wibbly wobbly web all appear to be faulty.

What sort of music is it? Does anyone like it?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Every Canadian EVER to thread!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

This this band called The Tragically Hip, start with Day For Night, end with Day For Night and about 20 of their singles.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

CJ he's the lead singer of The Tragically Hip - a beery Canadian rawk institution that is mostly hated in non-populist circles for being, well, a beery Canadian rawk institution.

Coke Machine Glow is his first solo album, and, in my opinion, distills everything that's good about the Tragically Hip (namely, him) onto one fairly listenable record. It's got a shuffled up, improvised folk/beat poetry angle which can get a little messy at times, but it's also got some v. pretty acoustic tunes. If that's your bag.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nb: I mostly dislike The Tragically Hip, and I don't own any of their albums, but I do own Coke Machine Glow. (Although I still might not if I hadn't gotten it for free.)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It has Julie Doiron on it for all you Eric's Trip completists.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep hearing what I've assumed is a new Tragically Hip song on the radio lately, and I like it too (which would make it about the fourth or fifth song ever I've liked by them)...am I wrong, and is it solo Downie?

― s woods, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Think its the new Hip, they were advertising it on Showcase or Bravo cause the video featured Bubbles and crew from The Trailer Park Boys.

Give it up for Muesqadobit or anyone who can spell it.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Jackson's chimpanzee is in a Tragically Hip video?!

― s woods, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What next, the foob on guitar does the moonwalk?

― s woods, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Canadian reporting to duty! I used to live in Bobcaygeon, but I don't like the Tragically Hip. I haven't heard any of his solo stuff, though, if that's what that is.

― Alexis, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://epguides.com/TrailerParkBoys/cast.jpg
Julian, Rickey and Mr Smith as Bubbles.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The solo disc is GRATE; it was on my top ten for 2001.

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the solo disc is mostly overblown dale morningstar-gunge, with the exception of 'Vancouver Divorce' (which still sports the worst lyrical couplet ever written - "sittin' here at the Horton / so you know this is important")

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 27 February 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a new Downie solo disc coming out Scott. Apparantly, Neil Osbourne of 54-40's working on some solo material too. And I just saw a poster that Glass Tiger's Alan Frew will be playing at a local bar. Is the era of the Cdn band over?

Re: Coke Machine Glow
Skip the book, but the CD's awright

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

there is a lot of hate for the Hip on this board. i think if you carefully and gracefully destroy what needs to be destroyed (there is quite a lot), you are left with that is very nice. what pops into mind is "flamenco" off of Trouble at the Henhouse, "bobcaygeon' (I forget which album), and "it's a good life unless you weaken" (also can't rememeber the album). but i guess i like some of their mellow stuff and i also like the gord downie album. it's too long, but it has some nice songs.

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Friday, 9 June 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

Never liked the Hip, although every nearly every record has at least one song I can get behind (ie. "Ahead by a Century", "Grace Too", "Nautical Disaster"). I actually hated the kids at my high school who liked this band more than the band itself, and have always thought pretty highly of Gord Downie. I always thought that he was a Leonard Cohen type who needed to drop the bar band he had backing him up. It's nice to hear that he finally has.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 9 June 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't hate 'em, just don't care much. There's some decent, enjoyable songs there. And from what I can tell, Downey is a fairly unique lyricist. Someone, somewhere trying to describe their music once said something like "they split the difference between the Rolling Stones and R.E.M.", and I think that's a pretty on-target evaluation, but only aura-wise, rather than music-wise.

― Myonga Von Bobcaygeon (Monty Von Byonga), Friday, 9 June 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

The first Downie solo record is marvelous.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 9 June 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

what were the kids like at high school that liked the tragically hip, julien? i'd have a hard time picturing "tragically hip fan" but i was aware of those kinds of things years after their primetime fm radio big records. even if "new orleans is sinking" on 104.9 the WOLF today's BEST ROCK between "raise a little hell" and "how you remind me" is how i heard them most of the time, i sorta lumped them in with aging can-rock groups like 54-40 and sloan? cbc would play gord downie solo joints with the sadies and call him a "rocker-poet" or whatever. on another thread mark p described them as "a beery Canadian rawk institution that is mostly hated in non-populist circles for being, well, a beery Canadian rawk institution." there are lots of beery canadian rawk institutions and the hip never really fit in that slot. they sell out arenas, though. not sure what i'm trying to say here.

fuckin sucks. not sure what to say.

― dylannn, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:49 (nine years ago)

wow. wrong thread. got close, though.

― dylannn, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:49 (nine years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.