Exactly that. I remember me and a buddy rocking out to this song full blast cruising down a gravel road on our way home from work, passing a joint back and forth lol.
Final concert was watched by 11.7 million people on the CBC(national tv station) They launched one last tour after the lead singer was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Amazing band that is always telling a story with their lyrics.
For some perspective to any non-Canadians, 11.7 million people would be ~33% of our entire population in 2016. Accounting for age demographic breakdowns somewhere around 41% of all adult Canadians tuned in for at least part of that concert. It would be like the farewell tour of any US band getting over ONE HUNDRED MILLION viewers on CBS accounting for relative population. There really isn't anyone or anything for other countries like The Hip were and still are for Canada.
I was departing Vancouver on a cruise to Alaska that night. Had just seen the Hamilton show three days earlier. I sat on the rear deck watching on my phone as we sailed under that beautiful bridge in Vancouver harbour. I’ve never felt more Canadian than in that moment and I cried like a baby for a few minutes. The bravest musical performance I’ll ever see. Watched until my service cut out.
Thanks for doing the Hip as we call them in Canada. I love the fact that you will react to music that is not as well known but gems. Other Hip songs Courage, Twist my Arm, Wheat Kings, New Orleans is Sinking. The Hip didn't make it all that big in the States but they were beloved in Canada. Unfortunately Gordon Downie the lead singer and lyrist passed away from the same brain cancer as Neil Peart from Rush. The Hip did a farewell tour before Gordon passed and it was televised commercial free across Canada.
This is my hometown band! Kingston Ontario Canada 🇨🇦. I grew up with there guys. A lot of mutual friends. They still live here. Really down to earth guys 🎸
Interesting observation Chod. I was at University in the bands hometown of Kingston, Ontario when they were starting out. Three of them were students at Queen's while I was there. I heard them play many times in their early days before they had written a lot of their own stuff. A typical set would have hard rocking, driving songs that got everyone up out of their chairs and onto the dance floor. Susie Q, For Your Love, Good Morning Little School Girl......early Stones.....Great musicians that practiced a lot, loved playing and even went to class on occasion 😆🤣!
Seeing The Hip live was a right of passage. I saw them at another road side attraction and at other venues. Wheat Kings and Three Pistols and Boscageon are just genius.
The title phrase is something that Gord Downie’s grandma used to explain taking a soufflé out of the oven and blowing gently on it to cool it down but not so hard as to cause the dough to collapse. It’s unusually not a metaphor but a real thing. The rest of the lyrics are a mystery to me.
I discovered these cats when Road Apples came out, it's still my favorite album by them though I know I am in the minority on that. It really is the album most people overlook.
when I first saw little bones, went to CD warehouse and tried to explain the song. the young lad got it right, but gave me the road apples album. blown away walked into the store the next day. got it wrong I said, bought up to here, want to return the wrong CD? no way dude..... best band ever
I always enjoyed the lyrics of Tragically Hip songs. The are almost always telling an unknown but important story. The only criticism I can make is they never, to my knowledge, really let those guitars rip. Like virtuosic blues or rock guitar where guys who can really play, like John Mayer or Keith Urban, would describe it as entering into that zone where you are "flying." I think if they had done that they would have hit it really big time, instead of relying almost completely on Gord Downie's vocals. So much of these things can simply boil down to the interplay of the personalities and egos in the band. And I don't know the band well enough to go any further with an analysis. But my oldest niece did go to one of their concerts here in Calgary when she was a teenager, ha, ha! 😉😏🎸😎
I’m sure it’s been said on here, but to get the full appreciation for the Hip you have too check out their early live performances… Gord Downiest was a beast live
Definitely!! A great concert of theirs on youtube is their Woodstock '99 concert that was televised at the time. Audience was massive. In the US, but so many Canadian flags in the audience. They were truly our national band.
Canadians great rock group !!!!!!!! WOW these guys were BADASS ! Check out ( New Orleans is Sinking ) ( Little Bones ) ( Poets ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEACE !
Oh yes please!! And find some footnotes before you dig in on the politics/ history that the song is about. Was a huge crisis in Canada, a federal cabinet minister (Canadian government official) was kidnapped and ultimately murdered by a terrorist group. This was when Justin Trudeau's dad Pierre Elliott Trudeau was Prime Minister. He engaged the War Measures Act and had to bring in the military to deal with the situation. It was before my time, but a wild time, apparently.
As you can see from the comments, we Hipsters appreciate you doing some Canadian Content..... Here's a couple no other reaction channel (US) has found. Max Webster ... Gravity Gowan .... Strange Animal Shuffle Demons ... Spadina Bus Joan Arden ... Insensitive Enjoy... "Eh" .
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This song is properly listened to driving down a highway 30 over the limit singing along as loud as you can and drumming on the steering wheel.
Exactly that. I remember me and a buddy rocking out to this song full blast cruising down a gravel road on our way home from work, passing a joint back and forth lol.
Love it,....lived on a lonely mountain top...always cracked a beer for that last 10 minutes uphill!...( so did my neighbors! )...@@rw2452
Final concert was watched by 11.7 million people on the CBC(national tv station) They launched one last tour after the lead singer was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Amazing band that is always telling a story with their lyrics.
For some perspective to any non-Canadians, 11.7 million people would be ~33% of our entire population in 2016. Accounting for age demographic breakdowns somewhere around 41% of all adult Canadians tuned in for at least part of that concert.
It would be like the farewell tour of any US band getting over ONE HUNDRED MILLION viewers on CBS accounting for relative population. There really isn't anyone or anything for other countries like The Hip were and still are for Canada.
I remember hearing about his diagnosis and I felt sad the rest of that day. RIP Gord.
@@TehFrenchy29 and that doesn't account for everyone who was "second-hand watching". Who was watching? The nation was watching.
Like me, in Los Angeles, balling my eyes out.
I won $2000 on a 50/50 draw they dud at The Brewhouse when it was aired.
Yeah stretch that thing!!!
New Orleans is Sinking” is a Must Chod
The Hip are/were a Canadian National Treasure. Their last concert was watched by more Canadians than any other TV show in Canadian history.
And had a good national cry when the last song was over......
I was departing Vancouver on a cruise to Alaska that night. Had just seen the Hamilton show three days earlier. I sat on the rear deck watching on my phone as we sailed under that beautiful bridge in Vancouver harbour. I’ve never felt more Canadian than in that moment and I cried like a baby for a few minutes. The bravest musical performance I’ll ever see. Watched until my service cut out.
Thanks for doing the Hip as we call them in Canada. I love the fact that you will react to music that is not as well known but gems. Other Hip songs
Courage, Twist my Arm, Wheat Kings, New Orleans is Sinking.
The Hip didn't make it all that big in the States but they were beloved in Canada. Unfortunately Gordon Downie the lead singer and lyrist passed away from the same brain cancer as Neil Peart from Rush. The Hip did a farewell tour before Gordon passed and it was televised commercial free across Canada.
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Joel Plaskett is also a great Canadian band ! Have a listen.
The bobbing head and big smile says it all for me. Blues base Rock and the Hip, can’t be beat.
This is one of those bands that the more you listen, the better you like ‘ em.
Gord coulda been Prime Minister if he ever wanted to. RIP Gordy, Ill never forget that night in Toronto.
This is my hometown band! Kingston Ontario Canada 🇨🇦. I grew up with there guys. A lot of mutual friends. They still live here. Really down to earth guys 🎸
Check Tragically Hip's "Ahead By A Century" and "Boots or Hearts".
Interesting observation Chod. I was at University in the bands hometown of Kingston, Ontario when they were starting out. Three of them were students at Queen's while I was there. I heard them play many times in their early days before they had written a lot of their own stuff. A typical set would have hard rocking, driving songs that got everyone up out of their chairs and onto the dance floor. Susie Q, For Your Love, Good Morning Little School Girl......early Stones.....Great musicians that practiced a lot, loved playing and even went to class on occasion 😆🤣!
Seeing The Hip live was a right of passage. I saw them at another road side attraction and at other venues. Wheat Kings and Three Pistols and Boscageon are just genius.
Try Courage by them.
"So Hard Done By"
The Tragically Hip
Banger.
My favorite band of all time. So many hits that are worth your time.
The title phrase is something that Gord Downie’s grandma used to explain taking a soufflé out of the oven and blowing gently on it to cool it down but not so hard as to cause the dough to collapse. It’s unusually not a metaphor but a real thing. The rest of the lyrics are a mystery to me.
DO MORE HIP MAN!!!!!!!! BEST BAND EVER.
Check out the Fully Completely album…
Little Bones is my favourite Tragically song...
I only know this group because they did the theme song to "Anne with an E". Great series.
The Hip are legendary in Canada! Got a love them!
I discovered these cats when Road Apples came out, it's still my favorite album by them though I know I am in the minority on that. It really is the album most people overlook.
Up to Here, Road Apples and Fully Completely are the holy trinity of Hip Albums.
when I first saw little bones, went to CD warehouse and tried to explain the song. the young lad got it right, but gave me the road apples album. blown away walked into the store the next day. got it wrong I said, bought up to here, want to return the wrong CD? no way dude..... best band ever
AWESOME tune! Yeah Canada! 🤘🏻🇨🇦
Thanks Chod, now you have done 2, glad your digging in to them. They were so Under played here in the US.
I always enjoyed the lyrics of Tragically Hip songs. The are almost always telling an unknown but important story. The only criticism I can make is they never, to my knowledge, really let those guitars rip. Like virtuosic blues or rock guitar where guys who can really play, like John Mayer or Keith Urban, would describe it as entering into that zone where you are "flying." I think if they had done that they would have hit it really big time, instead of relying almost completely on Gord Downie's vocals. So much of these things can simply boil down to the interplay of the personalities and egos in the band. And I don't know the band well enough to go any further with an analysis. But my oldest niece did go to one of their concerts here in Calgary when she was a teenager, ha, ha! 😉😏🎸😎
Stumbled onto this band a while back while reading the wikipedia article on Elephant Parts.
100th Meridian,✔✔✔✔✔
Great reaction. Many of their songs are “driving” songs. 😀 Deep rabbit hole here if you choose to dive in.
Great song, great reaction, some of my Hip faves are 'Little Bones', 'Poets', and 'Fifty Mission Cap'.
I give support for my fellow Canadians , WTGGGG Hip
Wow, doing the Hip! This Canadian thanks you! Do more of the Hip! 🇨🇦 Include Bobcaygeon, amongst others…
I’m sure it’s been said on here, but to get the full appreciation for the Hip you have too check out their early live performances… Gord Downiest was a beast live
Definitely!! A great concert of theirs on youtube is their Woodstock '99 concert that was televised at the time. Audience was massive. In the US, but so many Canadian flags in the audience. They were truly our national band.
“WHO ever fits her usually gets her”!…How many of these chicks do we all know!..lol
Canadians great rock group !!!!!!!! WOW these guys were BADASS ! Check out ( New Orleans is Sinking ) ( Little Bones ) ( Poets ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEACE !
"Up to Here" is my favorite album of theirs. The entire thing is great. Check out "Trickle Down", "When the Weight Comes Down", and "She Didn't Know".
😊👍
Now, from the same era, you should take a swing at a band called The Smithereens, and a song called A Girl Like You.
LIke your channel .You have to do Courage and my fave, "Locked in the Trunk of My Car". Seriously.
Oh yes please!! And find some footnotes before you dig in on the politics/ history that the song is about. Was a huge crisis in Canada, a federal cabinet minister (Canadian government official) was kidnapped and ultimately murdered by a terrorist group. This was when Justin Trudeau's dad Pierre Elliott Trudeau was Prime Minister. He engaged the War Measures Act and had to bring in the military to deal with the situation. It was before my time, but a wild time, apparently.
As you can see from the comments, we Hipsters appreciate you doing some Canadian Content.....
Here's a couple no other reaction channel (US) has found.
Max Webster ... Gravity
Gowan .... Strange Animal
Shuffle Demons ... Spadina Bus
Joan Arden ... Insensitive
Enjoy... "Eh" .
Another great Canadian group is The Tea Party, their song Save Me.
Totally underated band. Their first album in my opinion was gold.
The tea party is a great band for sure also our lady peace I find really good and you don’t hear many people reacting to them
Love the Hip! you need too try Tea Party also. Live on the river close to them.