POX: The Tragically Hip

honorable mentions:

38 Years Old
Small Town Bringdown
Poets
Something On
We’ll Go Too

huh.

impossibilium
grace too
as i wind down the pines
in view
goodnight josephine
train overnight
something on
nautical disaster
bobcaygeon
heaven is a better place today

i know the C/D thread has been revived. but i've been thinking and rethinking what my X would be...

tough. hm lemme see

escape is at hand for the travellin' man
the bastard
nautical disaster
man machine poem
in a world possessed by the human mind
something on
as makeshift as we are
leave
family band
morning moon

i'd kind of bored of them by Phantom Power and I feel like any POX i came up with would be too Fully Completely / Day for Night / TatH heavy. am listen to Road Apples right now for the first time in a very very long time and am surprised how much my old favs from that one are still holding up. the newest one hasn't resonated with me so far, but i'm going to gave it another chance.

if it weren't for day for night phantom power would be their best record imo

courage (for hugh maclennan)
wheat kings
bobcaygeon
fireworks
poets
fifty mission cap
new orleans is sinking
at the hundredth meridian
grace too
ahead by a century

now i feel less bad about how my POX is shaping up!

hahaha don't get me wrong the fully completely/day for night/trouble axis completely summarizes this band. but I've kept up with them throughout their career and my favorite stuff is the parts on the later albums where they darkly stretch out

"escape" is imo one of the best songs of all time. if they play it tonight I'll lose it

Based on Fully Completely, Day for Night, Music @ Work, and radio singles:

New Orleans Is Sinking
Fifty Mission Cap
My Music at Work
Nautical Disaster
Locked in the Trunk of a Car
Putting Down
Tiger the Lion
Bobcaygeon
Blow at High Dough
Lake Fever

40% of that is from Music @ Work, which probably means I should look into more of the later albums.

Sorry, I never listened to this band. Figured if they were any good the good folks at Other Music would have let me know. *ducks*

Although they do get a substantial mention on the Other Music subboard of a Pearl Jam message board.

Sorry wrong thread.

By which I mean I should have posted on the other Tragically Hip thread.

I can't do this yet because I think I really favour their post-Phantom albums a great deal, and I need to listen to them more to really figure it out. Gord's lyrics get better and better and I like them more as they become less blues and more something-else... "What Blue" is a song I'd take over anything off Fully Completely

"Escape Is At Hand For The Travelling Man" would prob be my #1 tho

"Escape..." reminds me of an indie band from the late 90s but I'm not sure which one. The Dismemberment Plan? Maybe just a general "mid- to late 90s indie rock" vibe?

You're not thinking of Interpol, are you? Their vocalist sounds a lot like Gord sometimes. Always thought so.

for some reason i recall 54-40 having a song similar to the intro of 'escape'

Hm, don't think it was the Plan.

Maybe one of those others.

Broken Social Scene maybe?

not 90's but it was the first thing to pop into my head.

anyways, my X:

Ahead by a Century
Grace, Too
Courage
Long Time Running
Fifty-Mission Cap
So Hard Done By
My Music At Work
Lionized
Lake Fever
Thugs

(really had a hard time choosing between Thugs, Locked In The Trunk ... , Greasy Jungle and Wheat Kings)

ya i was thinking cause = time by bss

it's got a similar vibe (drums and bass groove)

courage (for hugh maclennan)
wheat kings
fifty mission cap
locked in the trunk of a car
at the hundredth meridian
bobcaygeon
fireworks
nautical disaster
grace too
ahead by a century

this is really hard. fully completely was my intro to them so my list leans pretty hard to that album

I can see a BSS connection in the rhythm section, yeah. Phantom Power turned out to be the first one I bought since the concert. (Already had copies of FC, DfN, and M@W). I've been playing it a lot.

Heard on the radio they pulled a Beatles (or Drake, or whoever): all 17 albums are on Billboard's Canadian album chart. I don't know what that actually means these days, but it sounds impressive.