RIP Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip

[Aphro]

Gord is gone.



I know only the Canucks will care, or possibly even know who he was.

 

[Aquagal]

Oh! I think I have him on my Dead pool.

 

[Aphro]

Well, that would have been a gimmie, seeing as he had brain cancer for the past year and a bit. I'm actually surprised he went this long.

 

[silver gurl]

The last interview that I saw, he looked amazing well for all things considered.

 

[Aquagal]

Well, that would have been a gimmie, seeing as he had brain cancer for the past year and a bit. I'm actually surprised he went this long.

Not all of them are gimme’s cuz they hang on. He was young though.

 

[Emerson40]

Gord is gone.



I know only the Canucks will care, or possibly even know who he was.

'Tis a Canadian thing.

A beautiful, 'hip', uniquely Canadian thing.


RIP Gord.

 

[AngusBridie]

yeah I had to google that one.. Wasn't sure who he was. Gave a couple passes at some songs on youtube, maybe I'll give it a listen to later. Always looking for new stuff.

You guys got anymore "Rush" type bands in hiding up there? Or at least the one up to around 1985?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Oh! I think I have him on my Dead pool.

Biggest dead pool bounty (47 points!) to date

 

[pink]

I've never heard of him.

 

[Que]

Biggest dead pool bounty (47 points!) to date

That is indeed an accomplishment!

Well done Aquagal!

I've never heard of him.

Me neither, too.

 

[Aphro]

https://youtu.be/QE2joQsWXJg

 

[Aphro]

https://youtu.be/DbIZ1IuqCzU

 

[Aphro]

https://youtu.be/LAZUsCONjIQ

 

[Aphro]

https://youtu.be/o6QDjDPRF5c

 

[AngusBridie]

I'm not any music expert or extreme connoisseur in all genre's of music, after listening to a couple of these video's it isn't bad, just doesn't jump out at me. Might be a acquired taste. Certainly wouldn't hurt to have a couple Bong Rips and give it another go.

I was kind of amazed by researching that these guys were around since 1984 when I was in HS and I never heard of them. Nor did they seem to get any playing time on any station that I listened too in the US. Which given that genre of Folk Rock, Progressive Rock I would have ran across it before.

Edit: Given how popular he seems to be amongst Canadians here

 

[silver gurl]

I'm not any music expert or extreme connoisseur in all genre's of music, after listening to a couple of these video's it isn't bad, just doesn't jump out at me. Might be a acquired taste. Certainly wouldn't hurt to have a couple Bong Rips and give it another go.

I was kind of amazed by researching that these guys were around since 1984 when I was in HS and I never heard of them. Nor did they seem to get any playing time on any station that I listened too in the US. Which given that genre of Folk Rock, Progressive Rock I would have ran across it before.

Edit: Given how popular he seems to be amongst Canadians here

Most of his songs were stories about Canada, which why they are so popular here. There is a cult following in the US but not like Canada.

 

[AngusBridie]

Most of his songs were stories about Canada, which why they are so popular here. There is a cult following in the US but not like Canada.

Yeah seems like, at first glance, most of the venues they played at I'm familiar with were of the smaller variety, I actually like those more nowadays.

 

[Richard_P_Feynman]

Gord is gone.



I know only the Canucks will care, or possibly even know who he was.

I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you over the sound of your magnificent cleavage.

 

[MGurkus]

Sad.

Two Of my favorite Hip songs.

Wheat Kings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB965aUPsmM

Fiddler's green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXM95WyJjM

Gord was Canadian through and through. One could even say fully and completely.

 

[Emerson40]

Don't you think babe you push a bit too fast
I said, Slowing down don't make it last

 

[Scout44]

A sad day indeed. Such a massive talent.

 

[snide22]

I'm from NJ and play guitar so its always sad to see a fellow musician pass away before his time.

I saw The Tragically Hip in college about 18 years ago...Great show!

 

[DMBFFF]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragically_Hip
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tragically_Hip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gord_Downie

“It hurts:” Trudeau makes emotional statement about death of Gord Downie
2:07

Well, that would have been a gimmie, seeing as he had brain cancer for the past year and a bit. I'm actually surprised he went this long.

Ditto me.

yeah I had to google that one.. Wasn't sure who he was. Gave a couple passes at some songs on youtube, maybe I'll give it a listen to later. Always looking for new stuff.

You guys got anymore "Rush" type bands in hiding up there? Or at least the one up to around 1985?

somewhat.


KiTTiE - BRaCKiSH original Version - HQ
3:02
Heavy metal.


SISTER AWAKE - The Tea Party
4:55
Sounds a bit like Led Zeppelin, singer looks a bit like Jim Morrison, and sings a bit like Jim and Bono.


Our Lady Peace - Starseed
4:12
I think the theme is sci-fi.

Our Lady Peace - Innocent
3:38
"While she wishes she
Was a dancer
And that she'd never
Heard of cancer
She wishes God would give her
Some answers
And make her feel beautiful"


Voivod - Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd Cover)
4:18


BACHMAN - THE EDGE - Music Video
4:25
Good rocking song. Randy plays guitar and his granddaughters play bass and drums.


Galaxie - Dragon
3:25
Mostly in French. I understand they're pretty big in Quebec.


Colin Stetson performs "Judges" on Q
6:28
I think one of the commentators compared his music to King Crimson.
He plays this frikin' big saxophone.

Colin Stetson ― Judges
5:13


Surrender Dorothy Serum—the whole CD I think.
3:42
Alone gets 672 views
Of all the songs here, possibly closest to Rush in my view—though a bit grungier. Intelligent lyrics. Came out around the same time as Alanis Morissette and sounds a bit like her.



Associated with the Tragically Hip:

Sarah Harmer & Jim Creeggan - Morning Moon (Tragically Hip Cover)
8:20
17,503 views


k-os - Ahead By a Century (Tragically Hip Cover)
8:28
44,762 views


Headstones - When Something Stands For Nothing
3:29
217,252 views


I heard years ago that some critic—I think American—compared them to R.E.M. and there are some comparisons.

Tragically Hip never did this kind of video.
R.E.M. - Pop Song 89 ( Pop Screen Video Version ).mp4
3:05
24,956 views (YouTube tries to keep bare female titties suppressed)


Corky and the Juice Pigs - REMember - (MAD TV)
4:00
97,950 views
(seems the YouTube and Google does have links to the original video)


Australian band Hoo Doo Gurus make me think of Tragically Hip.

He loks a bit like Gord Downie and sings like him too.
Hoodoo Gurus - What's My Scene
3:50
1,042,533 views

Hoodoo Gurus - Miss Freelove 69
4:09
332,478 views

I'm not any music expert or extreme connoisseur in all genre's of music, after listening to a couple of these video's it isn't bad, just doesn't jump out at me. Might be a acquired taste. Certainly wouldn't hurt to have a couple Bong Rips and give it another go.

I was kind of amazed by researching that these guys were around since 1984 when I was in HS and I never heard of them. Nor did they seem to get any playing time on any station that I listened too in the US. Which given that genre of Folk Rock, Progressive Rock I would have ran across it before.

Edit: Given how popular he seems to be amongst Canadians here

The story goes they tied for popularity in the US. I'd post a link to their 1990s Saturday Night Live performance, but I guess the TV exces won't allow it. While success elluded them, they got quite big in Canada. Maybe not as much as Bieber, Celine, Sarah, or Alanis, but big enough, and unlike most of the others, they stayed in Canada.

The Tragically Hip - At The Hundredth Meridian
3:18
1,920,524 views
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Hundredth_Meridian

If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me
If they bury me some place I don't want to be
You'll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously
Away from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees
Whispers of disease and the acts of enormity
And lower me slowly and sadly and properly
Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy

The Tragically Hip - Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)
4:18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage_(for_Hugh_MacLennan0)


The Tragically Hip - Springtime In Vienna
4:43
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtime_in_Vienna


The Tragically Hip - Butts Wigglin
3:47
[one YouTube comment: "when I first heard this I thought it was lou reed anyone else ?"]
It might be about cigarette advertisements.


The Tragically Hip - Greasy Jungle
4:42
209,201 views
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasy_Jungle


The Tragically Hip - My Music At Work
3:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Music_at_Work


The Tragically Hip - Poets
4:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poets_(song)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Path

Gord Downie's The Secret Path
2:08:35
266,504 views

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanie_Wenjack

Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack (January 19, 1954 - October 23, 1966) was an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) First Nations boy who ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School where he boarded for three years while attending public school in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He died of hunger and exposure at Farlane, Ontario while trying to walk 600 km (370 mi) back to his home, Ogoki Post on the Marten Falls Reserve. His ordeal and his death brought attention to the treatment of children in the Canadian Indian Residential School System and following Wenjack's death, an inquest into the matter was ordered by the Canadian Government.[1][2]

“The Stranger” Official Video - Gord Downie - Secret Path
5:46
175,667 views




R.I.P. Gord Downie.

 

[albertaboy]

I'm not any music expert or extreme connoisseur in all genre's of music, after listening to a couple of these video's it isn't bad, just doesn't jump out at me. Might be a acquired taste. Certainly wouldn't hurt to have a couple Bong Rips and give it another go.

I was kind of amazed by researching that these guys were around since 1984 when I was in HS and I never heard of them. Nor did they seem to get any playing time on any station that I listened too in the US. Which given that genre of Folk Rock, Progressive Rock I would have ran across it before.

Edit: Given how popular he seems to be amongst Canadians here

That's a big part of why we love the Hip, they never made it big in the US. Most Canadian Bands move to LA and become more mainstream, fail, lose their fan base here then break up. the Hip after a while just said fuck it and stayed Canadian.

They would tour in the US playing bars and colleges, then come back to Canada and sell out the ACC three nights in a row. Their songs tell Canadian stories and there wouldn't be many of us between 25 and 55 that haven't seen them live at least once, for me I think it's five times from the mid eighties to their last tour in Winnipeg. When we watched the final show live on CBC our whole country shut down, they only comparable event would the Mens Hockey Olympic gold medal game.

 

[AngusBridie]

Out of those selections Our Lady Peace and Surrender Dorthy were my favorites. I'll have to give them more of a listen.. Everyone knows who Randy Bachman was...

Yes, I'm starting to realize these guys were very big up there.

We'll never forgive you for Justin Beiber though.