The Tragically Hip - It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken | FIRST REACTION
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If I could give money I would, but I would love for you to cover "Boots or Hearts" The Tragically Hip. You will NOT be disappointed.
One of my all time favourite Hip songs.
The whole Fully, Completely album is ridiculously good.
certainly one of the greatest canadian records of all time.
This album is a religion in Canada 🇨🇦. Terribly miss Gord Downie. May he forever rest in peace.
This doing is on the album In Violet Light, but I don't disagree with you 😊
Road Apples album with Songs Like; Long Time Runnin' for sad times And 3 Pistols just kicks ass!! As the lead singer for over 20 years I don't even have time to get into their previous albums with Songs like; Blow at High Dough, Boots or Hearts or their other albums,,,,too many amazing to list. Gord was a true poet.
The absolute BEST.
The Hip is pure poetry.
Canada will never get bored of the Tragically Hip. They are iconic up here, and we love them dearly.
American here, never will get bored of the Hip either. Saw them live in West Germany long long ago and no one knew them! < 20 people in the crowd at the small venue. we were buying them beers and putting them on the stage!
Aware of the American following. (I wish it had been larger-but it was probably better for us that they weren't😉).
62 yr old Canadian here. Many of my generation consider The Tragically Hip, to be the best 🇨🇦 Band of our time. I scratch my head wondering why they never seemed to explode in the U.S. Check out "Blow at High Dough" and "New Orleans is Sinking" from their 1989 Album "Up To Here".
52 yr old in Austin, Tx..Seen em 7 times..Greatest band nobody's heard of..Them and Morphine..Best thing to come outta Canada IMO...Unbelievable talent
60+yo from (& still in) SE USA & will never understand how they weren't bigger here...
They had an SNL appearance, did New Orleans Is Sinking from what I remember. I guess the studio and greater audience were so turned off by Gord's dancing! And then TH was considered too weird to become big in the US. As a Canadian I think it's hilarious they thought TH was too weird! Usually if Americans have construction criticism for Canadians it's that we're too vanilla. Little do they know we're all dancing like Gord in our homes 😂 Rip Gord, no one can dance like you ❤️
they were huge on USA college radio back in the day
I'm 60 in November, and I would have to totally agree with what you are saying ,
The hip is absolutely the greatest band of our time .
RIP Gord, we miss you ❤😢
As Canadians, we tend to get excited by our home artists making it big in their home country. All too often they have to go to the States to become known, so yeah, we get excited when they are known & honored as Canadian. Tragically Hip is a group near & dear to our hearts for so many reasons!
Perfectly said
Perfectly said
You right ✌️😎 merci
🍁IN GORD WE TRUST 🍁
Always
Love ❤
Right on! The Tragically Hip are a seriously underappreciated band. Been listening to them since '91.
Yup same here!
Ahhh Gordy we miss you Rip.
That man with brain cancer. Put on his last tour so sick. For us fans, the band wanted him to limit sonhs, he wouldn't have it. Would get on stage the words would just come to him! The passion dedication was impeccable ❤
Looked up to the Gord above and said man thanks
To correct your statement, Gord Downie used teleprompters on his last tour
@@Wishes890 i was going to mention that too. it was sad to see that he coud not remember some of his own lyrics.
@@Wishes890 I was at two of the shows, one in Vancouver and one in Toronto. Gord also had notes taped in several places on the floor. You can also see him referring to them often in the final televised show from Kingston.
One thing Americans have to understand, The Hip is literally the top selling band in Canada of all time, and Gord Downie was eulogized as "Canada's Poet" long before he even passed- hell, the province of Ontario created an official Poet Laureate position specifically to honour him after his passing. It's pretty much impossible to overstate how much this band has influenced Canadian music over the last ~40 years
Most of my favorite musicians are from Canada. Maybe because I'm so close to the border.
Not to split hairs, but Celine Dion, Shania Twain, and Michael Buble all have more physical and digital sales than The Hip, which sit at #4. Interesting list, with artists like Justin Beiber and Drake far down the list.
@@macfady2181 Not to split hairs, but Shania, Celine, and Michael are all SOLO ARTISTS, while The Hip was a BAND, which is why I called it the top-selling BAND during their active years 🤦
When Gord Downey performed on stage he used his entire body. He swayed, he gyrated, he oscillated like liquid. When I hear this track it takes me right back to the 3-4 times I saw him live. He broke your heart - not only with the melody and lyrics but also with his emoting and by breaking not only his voice - but also his body.. Spiritual.
Reminded me of Joe Cocker on stage when I saw Gordie's first preformances ?
Polo I guarantee you will find yourself going back and listening to this track over and over again. It grows on you each and every time. When it first came out 2 decades ago, I was neutral. Today I absolutely love it.
Totally agree on this. At first, I tought it was a decent song but not an album highlight. Today, I totally think it is.
@@slaydesaid8741 Yes for me, it is the highlight of the Album and the best song they had released since Phantom Power. I've got a feeling it will continue to grow on Hip fans for decades to come...
Beautiful song by the Hip ❤ 🇨🇦
Woo hoo another great Canadian band. Wonderful rabbit hole....
Grace, Too. Bob Caygeon. Locked in the trunk of a Car. Wheat Kings. 38 Years Old. Courage… etc etc so many great Hip tracks.
Bob Caygeon got me hooked. New Orleans is Sinking got me up dancing and singing; my daughters too when they came along. Wheat Kings took a few listens but I can't stop returning to it. And the story it tells
the loons at the beginning of Wheat Kings just sucks me right in... each and every single damn time
@@zerothreequarter Me too. ❤️
"Lets get freindship right" Truly a band that I miss and took for granted for so many years. Wish I took the time to see them live.
An early famous track is New Orleans is Sinking
This band was childhood friends & started playing together since high-school, the way the follow eachother, it was a life time dance.Gord was a poet,a story teller & he told the stories of our childhood,what it means to be Canadian. He lefft a hole in all of us RIP Gord
'In the forget your skates dream.'
(if you know you know just how deep that is) 😮
Man I miss Gord and the Hip.
I actually never understood that line. 🥺
What does that line mean?
The 'forget your skates dream' seems to be in reference to a hockey player or skater forgetting one the most important things about playing the game and giving your best effort...the skates.
Growing in Canada (the band is Canadian) and understanding just how much people love hockey it would actually be more of a nightmare to forget your skates.
So that much better that it happens in a dream.
Grew up in Northern Ontario by Red Lake. A small place called Ear Falls. Every single boy in my school was on a hockey team.
We moved there at 5 years old from California. I learned to be Canadian with a stick in my hands. I practiced in the road with the kids until the lights came on. We all did.
@@dfrot1033the Canadian version of the making a speech in your underwear dream
There's something about watching people try new music. It always makes me happy
This is a beautiful song. I have no words for how i feel about this band.
the entire Tragically Hip catalog is spectacular! One of the most underrated bands in history.
NEw ORleans is Sinking
Locked in the trunk of a car
Wheat Kings
Bobcagyoen
38 years old
Little Bones
Opiated
On the Verge
never heard this band before, but good pick by the supporter!
Dive down the hip well you'll enjoy it
❤
With our captain and commander Red Green as an avatar I find it hard you haven't heard Canada's history keepers. I would say start at the beginning and listen in order. I would put Saskaphiledelphia right after Road apples though.
Dude! Deep dive into The Tragically Hip! Our gift from Canada to you. Cheers 🍻
@@pepepepert after Rush i didnt care what Canada had.. besides, youve never formally apologized for Celine Dion.. 😜
I never really got the Hip in my younger years. I was a metal/punk/grunge type kid. But this song/album was when I truly fell in love with the band. I have such great memories of hitting the road with my future wife to go to our first hip concert. This song just hits my nostalgia so hard.
I've never seen any other band live more than once. But we have seen the hip 8 or 9 times since this album's tour, and would definitely still be going if we could. RIP Gord. Thank you for giving me the best live show performances of my 40 years. I'm sad for anybody who never got the chance.
Another version of this song, recorded in Toronto's main theatre - Massey Hall, with the singer Feist is also exceptional. They recorded it a few years after Gord Downie died. It's very powerful.
For sure. It gets you right in the feels. The sound is ethereal.
For anyone curious, it's here: ruclips.net/video/L4C98Cyn0Yk/видео.htmlsi=gNjsxozPjLUBQFSy
Introduced by Gordon Lightfoot, in the middle of the pandemic, Feist was the only artist the remaining Hip members would accept. Note that they are not on the stage, as Massey Hall was still under renovation.
Lightfoot was the last artist before the renovation and re-opened the hall.
Gords a folk singer. A true Canadian folk talent. He told stories about the country, the people, and the tradgedies.
Scared is another great slow song from the hip
As always, love your reaction. As a Canadian, especially with The Hip, we always appreciate the flowers. The Hip are also Another lyric heavy band. Gord is the every man who’s a hidden poet, bring up the lyrics with these guys, they won’t disappoint. Gords cadence when he sings is even better when you see how he breaks down the words, I think you’d love it Polo. As always, hope everything is good brethren 👊🙏❤️
The Hip catalogue is deep. Dig in!
The Hip ended Tragically . RIP Gord. And thank you ❤
Yes! 38 years old, Fiddler's Green, Bobcageon, Wheat Kings.....deep catalogue ❤
Best band ever. Downie was a genius performer, songwriter, poet and human being.
I haven't heard this song in years, thanks for bringing it back to my awareness. Absolute gold!
"In the forget your skates dream" -- Every hockey player knows
❤the hip....one of the best Canadian bands to come out of Canada
The problem with The Tragically Hip is there a music only has two levels, awesome and fantastic!
One of my favorite lyrics from the Hip (and there is a lot of them) “In your forget your skates dream” as a Canadian former hockey player this was a something that happened to me all of the time. Their songs strike a chord with people because it is just so damn honest. Their songs speak to Canadians because they have a tuning fork for what it means to be Canadian. They have captured the ethical, moral and values of growing up in Canada. Forever will be my most beloved band.
Am not saying others can't like the HIP in fact I love it when people outside Canada find the HIP. However and I think alot of Canadians love this HIP cause, they made music (not all the songs but alot) for Canada and never apologized for it not being famous outside our country. The song is named after a book from a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Seth.
I live close to Canadian border in Niagara Falls Ny……first exposed to them at work where only the radio station that’s came in clear was out of Canada….I kept hearing the songs and said who is this I really like it❤️…..a co worker knew and loved them and gave me 3 cds he burned for me….I have been obsessed ever since!!……about 15 years ago…..❤❤❤❤❤
“Maybe I’m half Canadian - I do say please and thank you” 😊
Please do Wheat Kings, by the Hip. It is one of their most powerful songs.
Abso-fucking-lutely!
The Hip were magic seeing them live. So happy I got to see them twice... and it was a blast! RIP Gord and thank you Hip.
Subscribed. And welcome to the lake brother.
The Hip is everything Canada ever was and was ever meant to be.
Beautiful. Difficult. Hard to survive in the cold.
I've seen them more than any other live act.
Last show in TO. Last show in Ottawa.
Cried my heart out both nights. Never cried for a girl.
Cried when I knee it was my last time seeing The Boys with my boys.
I was raised with this music in my bones. Gord was our favourite poet and a riveting performer. There are so many songs I could pass along, but a good introduction would be their double album, "Yer Favourites" and the doc series "No Dress Rehearsal." Cheers!
My moms old boyfriend saw them in concert in Quebec then followed them to Toronto and watched their next show😂
One of Canada's national musical treasure with Rush
The tragically hip will always be my favorite band seen them 4 times
The Hip got you a new subscriber. Welcome to Canada
Great band, I miss seeing them live. Like no other ❤ RIP Gord Downie
The Hip ❤ forever. It doesn't matter where artists are from, whether I like a song or not. Geography does have it's influence. England seems to produce the majority of TOP rock (?)
The Tragically Hip are worth exploring the entire catalog. Up To Here is amazing; Blow at high dough, New Orleans is Sinking!!!
Beautiful track, beautiful man thank u
If you like this track, you have found Canada's best ever band! Thank you and keep cranking out awesome reaction videos!
Absolutely my favourite Hip track. 💗💗💗
And the music video...a bit of a masterpiece in my mind.
My favorite Tragically Hip song is called, LOCKED IN THE TRUNK OF A CAR. 🎶
The Tragically Hip are a National treasure. Thank you for sharing them with us, Canada. Sincerely, New York.
Yes!! I love this song.
This song took time to grow on me, but man has it ever! It came out in 2002, and I think a lot of us Hip fans were waiting for another banger like New Orleans is Sinking, or Ahead By a Century. This album, In Violet Light, didn't have those so it's under appreciated, but musically it's actually incredible. Holds up beautifully 22 years later.
Haunting and beautiful....❤....
I was a college freshman when U2 came out with New Years Day. Changed my life. Music can be magic
Great song, legendary band.
You would be welcomed as a Canadian ❤
Polo, I have been a sub since very early early on. I have also been a Hip fan since the 80's. This makes me happy to see you watching and listening to TTH.
I would like to recommend my favourite Hip song, Fight.
Thanks for sharing Canada's pride and joy the Hip, as a Canadian myself I can't fully trust fellow Canadians that don't like the Hip. The Tragically Hip is in our blood. In Gord We Trust
Awesome! Probably my favorite one from The Hip. ❤ I think I mentioned it at some point in the comments.
This song is one of my personal favs. I get lost in reflection everytime. Thank you for this one. Gord Downey is a soul connecting kind of front man.
Look up the Hips last concert in their hometown, powerful as Gord (singer) was battling brain cancer but just gave it all. When we say Canadian band, to put in context a big chunk of the country shut down to watch that concert. Gord was a poet, RIP Gord
Tragically Hip was Canada's band. Limited success outside Canada but they were HUGE here. When the singer was diagnosed with brain cancer they did tour across the country (against Drs advice). They finished off in their home town of Kingston Ontario. The Prime Minister was there. It was broadcast across the country with local parties all over watching. Wasn't their best performance given his illness but it was amazing and heartbreaking at the same time. Gord died about a year or so later. He was one of the best front men of all time.
And this was filmed in Oshawa Ontario at Parkwood Estate. Location of Bill Madison (Adam Sandler), X-MEN, Nightmare Alley, Ready or Not and probably 50 plus other movies/TV shows.
Some context here... That final show that was broadcast across the country literally was watched by basically one of every three Canadians. Also, The Tragically Hip have sold more albums in Canada than U2 or Madonna
Canada will gladly take you 💙🇨🇦 Love all your content!! Stay well ✌🏻
Fun tidbit, there guys formed in a garage in high school and have been together ever since 🥰🇨🇦🫶
Polo, I've just discovered your channel tonight. Through many of your videos, I have been brought back to some of the best times in my youth; discovering and falling in love with music so deeply. Like many Canadians, I miss Gord. I was feeling nostalgic, a bit of melancholy, and then you hit pause and said: "Maybe I'm half Canadian"; I burst out laughing. Thank you for that moment, amongst many others tonight.
My hometown band. Kingston Ontario 🇨🇦
My fav Hip song. My next tattoo is “that’s where that way will” love his poetry and will die with the hip my fav band. For those who never seen the hip in concert I feel sorry for you.
I am going to have to listen to this a few more times too see if I like this song.
Feb 6th, two days ago, Gord Downie would have turned 60 😔 He was only 53 when he passed away October 17, 2017, he is so deeply missed. ❤️🇨🇦 The Tragically Hip actually played at my Prom in 1987 in Ottawa (Canada), they were basically unknowns then, we paid them with a case of beer and pizza maybe if my memory serves me right...they were different for sure for that time but as the 90's approached they just took off in Canada. I saw them many times over the years, thoroughly enjoying each time but boy how lucky I felt to get tickets to their final tour, July 2017 they kicked off their show in Victoria (BC) where I now live, it was an absolute emotional night knowing his fate, tears were flowing, we knew the end was near and 3 months later...an iconic Canadian who is missed by all. Thank you for adding The Tragically Hip to your channel.
I was there! Second last row behind the drums. One and only time I cried during a concert.
😔❤️🇨🇦
The Hip played this and Poets at the Queens Jubilee.
There are two types of people in Canada:
Canadians who love the Hip
And people who live in Canada.
Ahhhh ❤❤❤❤ Saw them a few times, what a band.
I saw your channel on a RUclips drive-by. I like it. Funny, how our head movements are identical in this video. Very cool. One of my favourite Hip tunes.
In Gord we trust, enjoy your trip with the hip at your leisure Polo.
So good 🇨🇦yeah polo you’re at the least an honourary Canadian. Ricky and Julian gave me the authority to pronounce it. Next up “the darkest one”
Smokes, let’s go !
Dig into the Tragically Hip! Also another Canadian artist is APRIL WINE first Canadian band to go platinum!!!
Love this! Have partied with the Hip many times back in the day. I have one tattoo on my body and it's the title of this song "It's a good life if you don't weaken". I'm so glad you found the HIP, check out Road Apples, probably my fav album. Cheers
This is what perfect tone sounds like.
Loved Billions! And so glad I found your channel, I've been watching these videos with my kid all afternoon.
Can’t beat the Tragically Hip! They burrow in your bones, excavate Canadian history and culture! You will never find another equivalent that represents their “country/nationality”!
Any hockey player alive can attest to the “forget your skates dream”.
This song is the very last of the Hip's great tunes. Yes they produced several albums after this one, but if I was to list their top couple dozen tunes, this one would be the most recent. Check out the version they did as a tribute after Gord Downie passed away, with Fiest singing. Pure Magic!
ruclips.net/video/L4C98Cyn0Yk/видео.htmlsi=JidQgQ_YPqmyFxEL
Love you Gord Downie❤ we miss you♥️🇨🇦
You have to check out their new documentary that just came out! It's called No Dress Rehearsal ❤
This one took me a while to start fully appreciating this track, when the In Violet Light album was first released. It finally clicked with me, as I was chilling in a hammock, at a relative’s cottage.
It's been a sleeper album for me too. Now Darkest One, Good life and Are You Ready have spent hours on repeat.
@@mic7504 I love Are You Ready, sooo much. The Darkest One video with the TPB, always makes me giggle. :)
Thank you for this reaction. This is my favourite Hip song. ✌🏼
Love The Hip! I really think you'd like Nautical Disaster, Ahead By A Century, Gus The Polar Bear, Courage, Thugs, Cordellia, Three Pistols... so many excellent tracks.
38 Years Old and Cordelia are must listens. Read along with the lyrics. Gord was an amazing poet.
The Hip was the soundtrack of my highschool experience
👍
Need to listen to long time running by the hip.
Check out what the New York Times said about Gord Downie. Quite a tip of the Hat to Our Canadian 🇨🇦 legend
The place of honor that Mr. Downie occupies in Canada’s national imagination has no parallel in the United States. Imagine Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Michael Stipe combined into one sensitive, oblique poet-philosopher, and you’re getting close. The Tragically Hip’s music “helped us understand each other, while capturing the complexity and vastness of the place we call home,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement on Wednesday. “Our identity and culture are richer because of his music, which was always raw and honest - like Gord himself.”
So much good music. Nautical Disaster has to be one of Canada’s top 3 songs ever.
Keep the Hip reactions up, love this!
Lead singer Gord Downey RIP, is a Canadian treasure.
You are so awesome Polo, you can be an honorary Canadian for sure. The please and thank you helps with your application.
The Hip have such a deep catalogue of great music, definitely needs a listen to even if it does not make you channel
you made a very true statement about millions of people liking something your not into. Many of the Baby Boomer generation that grew up on this classic rock are not Rap fans. You clearly love it and it does something for you. Nice you can appreciate all these different styles of music