Rarely do I listen to an album later than Day For Night.
Road Apples is, IMO, their strongest offering
That's ironic because I think the band hates that album. The label wanted another album right away to follow up on the success of Up To Here and they mostly included b-side tracks that they weren't super keen on. Hence the name of the album...horse####.
I think their later stuff is far more interesting, especially musically. Those early albums are staples on classic rock stations, but they mostly haven't aged that well other than a few songs.
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That's ironic because I think the band hates that album. The label wanted another album right away to follow up on the success of Up To Here and they mostly included b-side tracks that they weren't super keen on. Hence the name of the album...horse####.
I think their later stuff is far more interesting, especially musically. Those early albums are staples on classic rock stations, but they mostly haven't aged that well other than a few songs.
Meh
I prefer their earlier work
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That's ironic because I think the band hates that album. The label wanted another album right away to follow up on the success of Up To Here and they mostly included b-side tracks that they weren't super keen on. Hence the name of the album...horse####.
I think their later stuff is far more interesting, especially musically. Those early albums are staples on classic rock stations, but they mostly haven't aged that well other than a few songs.
I disagree that it hasn't aged well. Road Apples is what I would call a perfect rock album. All killer, no filler. Also Gord's lyric writing took a giant leap forward on that record.
I too prefer the band's later, more interesting material, but there's no denying how awesome those early records are/were.
The real story behind the name Road Apples is that the band initially wanted to call it "Saskadelphia" as a nod to the massive amount of touring they were doing at the time where all the cities and towns would just blur into each other. Their record label at the time thought it sounded too Canadian and that the U.S. market wouldn't get it, so as a joke to f*** with the label, the band decided to call it something even more Canadian, Road Apples (street hockey slang for frozen horse turds.) And the rest is history.
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I respect the band, Gord and the gems in their catalogue, but i'll never understand the accolades Canadian media so willingly give the Hip.
Some think their music represents Canada but people I know of my parents age mostly know the group by reputation and they mean little or nothing to them.
Their artists were the Guess Who, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, etc, and its hard to argue those.
They're a good group, I'm just not sure who elected them to be canada's group and why we should agree with it.
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I respect the band, Gord and the gems in their catalogue, but i'll never understand the accolades Canadian media so willingly give the Hip.
Some think their music represents Canada but people I know of my parents age mostly know the group by reputation and they mean little or nothing to them.
Their artists were the Guess Who, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, etc, and its hard to argue those.
They're a good group, I'm just not sure who elected them to be canada's group and why we should agree with it.
I suspect the Hip evolved into Canada's group because they never really made it out of Canada, unlike Rush or The Band, it gives them cachet that no one has heard of them, it allows us to feel smug about them
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I respect the band, Gord and the gems in their catalogue, but i'll never understand the accolades Canadian media so willingly give the Hip.
Some think their music represents Canada but people I know of my parents age mostly know the group by reputation and they mean little or nothing to them.
Their artists were the Guess Who, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, etc, and its hard to argue those.
They're a good group, I'm just not sure who elected them to be canada's group and why we should agree with it.
Are you saying that different generations have different views on & tastes in bands.....
There will be another group that replaces The Hip are some point.
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I suspect the Hip evolved into Canada's group because they never really made it out of Canada, unlike Rush or The Band, it gives them cachet that no one has heard of them, it allows us to feel smug about them
I was always surprised Fully Completely never caught on in the US as I feel it was very accessible and catchy.
Heart evolved from a power crunching fusion of folk and straight ahead rock, to a commercially appealing light hair metal band, and back to their roots.
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I suspect the Hip evolved into Canada's group because they never really made it out of Canada, unlike Rush or The Band, it gives them cachet that no one has heard of them, it allows us to feel smug about them
Compare them with the Barenaked Ladies. Both bands emerged in Canada at the same time. But once BNL broke in the U.S. they stopped being identified as a Canadian band, while the Hip never hit big in the U.S. and became a Canadian icon.
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I was always surprised Fully Completely never caught on in the US as I feel it was very accessible and catchy.
Ahead by a Century should have been the single that broke them huge IMO. That song is catchy as hell and was tailor made for radio. Weird that it never happened. I remember reading somewhere that it ended up making it to something like #110 on the billboard top 200 in the U.S. but never climbed any higher. It's baffling.
Ahead by a Century should have been the single that broke them huge IMO. That song is catchy as hell and was tailor made for radio. Weird that it never happened. I remember reading somewhere that it ended up making it to something like #110 on the billboard top 200 in the U.S. but never climbed any higher. It's baffling.
No it's not really, the Tragically Hip were, ironically, never hip, they were too old and looked it by the 1990's, they were all in their late twenties and thirties trying to sell records to American kids in their late teens and early twenties, and they always looked like a cover band at the local bar playing Stones covers
Silverchair. Started as 13-14 year olds doing grunge albums labeled (unfairly) “Nirvana in pyjamas” but evolved into something special with their third album “Neon Ballroom” which introduced complex orchestral arrangements. Their forth album “Diorama” takes it a step further to “theatrical” territory. Fifth album “Young Modern” has a maturity to it and a far cry from the first two albums, eventhough the first two albums have a special place and are what they were known for, they really took their craft to the next level and probably don’t get the recognition they deserve.
