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zapplez posted:Serious post, yall better be watching the hip concert tonight on cbc gently caress that, going to see some good CanCon at the SNFU show tonight
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JawKnee posted:gently caress that, going to see some good CanCon at the SNFU show tonight is chi pig still alive? saw him singing karaoke at funky winkerbeans a few years ago and he looked like he was on deaths door
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PT6A posted:What? I don't think anyone's arguing with the notion that they've contributed to Canadian culture, or that this concert is culturally significant, it's just that it's not a very good concert. I really wish it were. I was expecting better. I have no basis for comparison. What were their earlier shows like? Was the band more animated? Was he less ragged? Or are they one if those groups that makes good records but can't reproduce it on stage?
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I'm not sure, I've never seen them in concert, but I like a lot of their songs I've purchased much more than I've liked the parts of the concert I've seen. Even the songs I like sound pretty brutal. Granted, the guy has cancer, but still...
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large hands posted:is chi pig still alive? saw him singing karaoke at funky winkerbeans a few years ago and he looked like he was on deaths door still alive, and put out another album recently
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flakeloaf posted:I have no basis for comparison. What were their earlier shows like? Was the band more animated? Was he less ragged? Or are they one if those groups that makes good records but can't reproduce it on stage? He seemed pretty ragged at the beginning but definitely shaped up. I think those were the best ever versions of "Grace, Too" and "Ahead by a Century"; you could hear Gord literally singing for his life on both of those. Amazing show and anyone who didn't like it is a moron.
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Aug 21, 2016 04:55
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Arivia posted:He seemed pretty ragged at the beginning but definitely shaped up. I think those were the best ever versions of "Grace, Too" and "Ahead by a Century"; you could hear Gord literally singing for his life on both of those. Amazing show and anyone who didn't like it is a moron. What I caught of it he was singing like a guy who loved being on stage singing as much as he hated dying of loving brain cancer.
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PT6A posted:I'm not sure, I've never seen them in concert, but I like a lot of their songs I've purchased much more than I've liked the parts of the concert I've seen. Even the songs I like sound pretty brutal. Granted, the guy has cancer, but still... I worked one of their shows back in the mid-2000s, and they were great. That show started me listening to them.
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Aug 21, 2016 05:08
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You just watched live music in an arena on television of course it sounds like canned garbage, Jesus Christ. I saw them in Winnipeg (which is just fine as a city not to mention the leftiest of all Canadian cities, surprised the flak it gets here) and that was the most electric I have ever seen an audience.
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PT6A posted:Oh, I didn't listen to his speech. His speech was probably garbage, just like this concert. I have it on and I'm trying to watch it but it's just loving brutal. There's been so far one song that I like in theory, and it sounded bad in concert. How the hell do you not understand what an intermission is? Also, content: I enjoyed watching the concert, although I heard Downie sometimes has pretty long rambles during his live performances and I was hoping for one this time too. Ah well. gus rules ok fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 05:22
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The concert was on TV at the place where I was getting takeout. I glanced up and saw Gord in a hideous white outfit with feathers. Glanced back and saw a screen showing a huge Canadian flag in front of a cheering crowd. I like how much people have rallied behind a good artist dying of cancer, but don't like how the whole thing has been draped in a flag for some reason.
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Yeah, they've had intermissions between every 6-8 songs this tour, probably so Gord can go sit down for a minute/have a drink/chill out. You can tell he's just fighting hard not to just fall over some of the time.
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I've done my CanPol share by watching the concert in multiple parks/locations drinking craft beer with a bunch of sea people who call themselves haligonians. That's enough patriotism to last me a lifetime.
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Popular Human posted:Yeah, they've had intermissions between every 6-8 songs this tour, probably so Gord can go sit down for a minute/have a drink/chill out. You can tell he's just fighting hard not to just fall over some of the time. Nice avatar.
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Count Roland posted:The concert was on TV at the place where I was getting takeout. I glanced up and saw Gord in a hideous white outfit with feathers. Glanced back and saw a screen showing a huge Canadian flag in front of a cheering crowd. The Hip is pretty much the only big Canadian band that isn't also a major band in the US and therefore useless as a symbol of Canadiana.
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flakeloaf posted:I have no basis for comparison. What were their earlier shows like? Was the band more animated? Was he less ragged? Or are they one if those groups that makes good records but can't reproduce it on stage? I was there tonight. I thought they did a fine job and Gord is very amusing to watch.
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Gord was definitely more energetic in previous years/tours. He still moved around a lot this one, but he sure looked gaunt and run down this tour (It looked almost like he has some recently discovered, inoperable tumour in his brain, and then endured the usual bout of debilitating therapies and procedures...  ). Nevertheless, he still possessed that same old weird, frenetic energy that is somewhere between endearing and off-putting that is his trademark, and he put everything he had into it, like always. The band was fine, like always, but you listen to the Hip for Gord's surreal, uncanny, poetic lyrical interpretation of specific places and times, not the long-haired weirdos in the back strumming along.As others have mentioned, the weird, corporatised pastiche nationalism that gets stapled onto them can shrivel up and die, but at least there wasn't a flyover or some loving SPEC-OPS cosplayers rappelling from the rafters.
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zapplez posted:This concert has been fantastic and the kind of thing that would be written about in encyclopedias if they still made those things. I don't even understand the type of people that couldn't appreciate it at face value. Must be like that one kid in your high school class that would make a point of saying how he wasn't gonna watch the Olympic hockey finals because its a waste of time and instead would be watching reruns of his favourite anime for the tenth time. This post is great: -Written Encyclopaedias -"This was good you ingrates" -" We are actually witnessing an early Millenials get pissy about being an old out of touch gently caress. "No it is the children who are wrong  "Take your Xanax and go back to bed Grandpa.
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Arcsquad12 posted:gently caress nationalism. Stop making it about Canada we're embarrassing ourselves A good idea, generally.
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PT6A posted:What? I don't think anyone's arguing with the notion that they've contributed to Canadian culture, or that this concert is culturally significant, it's just that it's not a very good concert. I really wish it were. I was expecting better. It was a great concert, you're a philistine is all. You're like my friend who after seeing Chuck Berry play live, could only say 'wow his voice is shot'. You're like a guy who is given a spoonful of the most delicious food in the world, and complains about how the portion is too small. That guy had brain surgery and chemo that's clearly had a hugely debilitating impact on him, and yet came out and managed to do a 2.5+ hour concert. 'Eh, it sucked.'
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I probably couldn't name one Tragically Hip song if I tried, oh well, this is a politics thread.quote:Christy Clark just unveiled a climate change plan that's so bad her own experts are ripping it apart http://www.pressprogress.ca/christy_clark_just_unveiled_a_climate_change_plan_thats_so_bad_her_own_experts_are_ripping_it_apart
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Rust Martialis posted:It was a great concert, you're a philistine is all. You're like my friend who after seeing Chuck Berry play live, could only say 'wow his voice is shot'. You're like a guy who is given a spoonful of the most delicious food in the world, and complains about how the portion is too small. He wasn't the main problem with it, by any means. I'm not saying, "wow, he looked tired," or "his singing was off," since both of those things would be understandable. It was the entire band's problem, exacerbated by the fact that they played mainly songs I didn't like. I was talking to my Dad about it, who's a retired recording engineer, and he pointed out that, in his professional opinion, the mix for the broadcast was also completely hosed. So it wasn't just my imagination. But I guess I went against the Canadian orthodoxy of "the Hip is the BEST BAND EVAR" so gently caress me, right? Downie's situation is sad, as it is when anyone dies of cancer, but it's nothing compared to what the world lost when John Bonham, Frank Zappa, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, or any number of others died before their time -- some of whom knew it was coming, some of whom didn't. That's just life. I can't force myself to pretend otherwise in the name of patriotism. EDIT: I just checked the setlist and confirmed they didn't even play a single song from my favourite album, the only album of theirs I ever bought. And they missed out on my other favourite song as well. PT6A fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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I took you off ignore about a year after the children's hospital retardation, but welcome back. You're a real damaged piece of poo poo. This isn't your livejournal.
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Wasting posted:I took you off ignore about a year after the children's hospital retardation, but welcome back. You're a real damaged piece of poo poo. This isn't your livejournal. Yeah, I was the only person posting about the concert  People are really attached to the Hip, eh? What an absolutely irrelevant issue to be so touchy about.
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PT6A posted:EDIT: I just checked the setlist and confirmed they didn't even play a single song from my favourite album, the only album of theirs I ever bought. And they missed out on my other favourite song as well. Now I'm curious which is your favorite - they played songs off their first seven(!) albums, everything they've written from 1988-2000. Those are generally considered to be their "good" records, too, so I'm going to laugh if your favorite is something like World Container 'cause ptttth.
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Popular Human posted:Now I'm curious which is your favorite - they played songs off their first seven(!) albums, everything they've written from 1988-2000. Those are generally considered to be their "good" records, too, so I'm going to laugh if your favorite is something like World Container 'cause ptttth. In Between Evolution.
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 I also am laughing at how many people think the Hip arent distinctly Canadian. The have a giant catalogue of interesting, literary songs that are all about Canada. And if this is one of your first times hearing them and couldnt sign along, go buy the greatest hits double cd, its usually on sale for like 10 bucks. And then go to one of the obsessive fansites* and learn about the stories and themes behind the songs. They are a pretty fantastic band and will be missed. * http://www.hipmuseum.com/index.html
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The Hip are indeed distinctly Canadian. I don't think that's really here nor there when discussing whether that was a good concert in and of itself. I've also got the greatest hits double album, and, surprise, I don't care for a lot of the songs. Some of the ones I do like weren't on the setlist last night -- Looking For a Place to Happen struck me as a particularly glaring omission.
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I'm just saying if our big outpouring of national spirit these days is rallying around a dude in a funny hat and shiny pants singing about cottage country rather than rallying around blowing up things, we're doing pretty okay.
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Last night was obviously a Greatest Hits show minus an 8 song portion but that's okay. Caught a snippet on YouTube and CBC sanitized the gently caress out of the crowd noise. You could barely heard Gord sing in the arena. Sounds like he's playing to crickets in the video.
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Rand McNally posted:Last night was obviously a Greatest Hits show minus an 8 song portion but that's okay. Caught a snippet on YouTube and CBC sanitized the gently caress out of the crowd noise. You could barely heard Gord sing in the arena. Sounds like he's playing to crickets in the video. I saw them in Toronto last weekend and they were fantastic - the crowd was wild. I guess because Kingston is the last show it might have been a bit more emotional for the hardcore fans. Anyway I'm still loling that Cristy Clark appointed someone from the Fraser Institute to do anything more than pass her another roll of toilet paper.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I'm just saying if our big outpouring of national spirit these days is rallying around a dude in a funny hat and shiny pants singing about cottage country rather than rallying around blowing up things, we're doing pretty okay. The thing about 'cottage country' is some of us actually lived there year round. It was extremely abnormal to have to go to any of the major metropolitan areas to see the bulk of my family growing up and going back and forth between small farming and mining communities bombing down dirt roads and sometimes getting stuck there for a few days because of a snow storm was a big part of my formative years. Hell, my mother's parents had a wood stove/furnace combo as their only source of heating as a kid and I remember watching them cut their own cordwood every summer until they sold the farm.
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I identify with Blow at High Dough because they made a movie once, in my hometown. EDIT: Also, while I'm thinking about it: why the gently caress can't I buy the complete series of Made in Canada? That was a good show, damnit! PT6A fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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EvilJoven posted:The thing about 'cottage country' is some of us actually lived there year round. It was extremely abnormal to have to go to any of the major metropolitan areas to see the bulk of my family growing up and going back and forth between small farming and mining communities bombing down dirt roads and sometimes getting stuck there for a few days because of a snow storm was a big part of my formative years. Hell, my mother's parents had a wood stove/furnace combo as their only source of heating as a kid and I remember watching them cut their own cordwood every summer until they sold the farm. So now we know what's wrong with you
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PT6A posted:Say what? It's very much real. There are laws about how much French you must have on signs, and I believe customers must be addressed first in French, and there are people who go around to inspect businesses and enforce those laws. The OQLF isn't a police. They don't even have inspectors, all they do is respond to complaints from people. And they do so by giving small fines. If you've heard otherwise you've heard a bunch of bullshit.
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MonsieurChoc posted:The OQLF isn't a police. They don't even have inspectors, all they do is respond to complaints from people. And they do so by giving small fines. If they don't have inspectors, how do they judge if a complaint from someone gets upheld? Could I just harass businesses I don't like by reporting them for bullshit infractions over and over? If there is no process for verification and appeal, that actually makes them far worse than an actual "language police."
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PT6A posted:If they don't have inspectors, how do they judge if a complaint from someone gets upheld? Could I just harass businesses I don't like by reporting them for bullshit infractions over and over? They, of course, have a process for verification. They don't go out and inspect business. That's was pretty clear, and you're being a moron.
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