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Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:22 am
by casecandy
If not, let me initiate.

This is my Tragically Hip post, and I am sad.

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:37 am
by SPACERITUAL
Is this something the kids are into? im not sure i understand what is going on here....

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:57 am
by casecandy
Oh, wow, I just assumed everyone would know. Must be a Canadian thing.

Gordon Downie, frontman for The Tragically Hip, has terminal brain cancer.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/g ... -1.3596839

They're doing on one final tour and that is, as they say, all she wrote.

Do Americans not know this band? They are a part of the fabric of Canadian consciousness.

Canadians love them or hate them, but they have an opinion on them either way; you grow up with them.

"New Orleans Is Sinking," "Bobcaygeon," "Ahead By A Century," "38 Years Old," so many great songs...

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 5:13 pm
by D.o.S.
If their bandname is legit they'll finally breakthrough worldwide after he dies and they come back as New Order.

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 5:22 pm
by aedes
They're like a mellower Crash Test Dummies, right?

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 10:17 pm
by casecandy
aedes wrote:They're like a mellower Crash Test Dummies, right?
No. CTD are the Canadian Hootie and the Blowfish. TTH are the Canadian R.E.M.

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 2:57 pm
by aedes
Chronic Town / Reckoning / Murmur REM or Shiny Happy People REM?

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 11:39 pm
by Gone Fission
I know "Blowout at High Dough." But I know that from the credits to "Made in Canada" (or "The Industry" as it was syndicated to us hosers to the south).

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 3:06 am
by casecandy
aedes wrote:Chronic Town / Reckoning / Murmur REM or Shiny Happy People REM?
Hm... they went through the same sort of college-indie-to-radio-indie trajectory; I'm gonna go with Reckoning REM.

FYI, Murmur is my favourite.

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:26 pm
by imJonWain
They aren't too well known here. I heard them on the Kids in the Hall movie soundtrack years ago and Poets got some TV/Radio airplay when it came out is about it. I've seen them a few times here and it's mostly Canadian expats even at the shows. Gordon's mid show rants were the best.

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 9:57 am
by casecandy
Once my friend went to see them and after the encore he gave her his mic. She framed it in a shadow box from Michael's with some black velvet behind it. Pretty neat-o burrito.

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 10:53 am
by aedes
How Did Canada's Most Famous Band Never Make it in America?
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/mu ... nada-band/

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 12:36 pm
by tremolo3
TIL casecandy is Canadian.

Hey casecandy, are you into the new The Besnard Lake's? flawless album!

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:57 pm
by D.o.S.
So they're the Canadian bacon to REM's real bacon?

Re: Has someone already made a Tragically Hip sadpost?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:43 pm
by Chankgeez
D.o.S. wrote:So they're the Canadian bacon to REM's real bacon?
Don't you mean "back bacon" or simply just "bacon", eh?