Tragically Hip Quote Bomb
I figure I might as well get a typical PG-rated post up as well.
"Quote Bomb." My very first meme. Isn't it cute?
The Hip have a box set coming out Nov. 1, with the atrocious-but-growing-on-me name "Hipeponymous." It's two discs, two DVDs, and a 48-page book. I love the Hip, mostly because of Gord Downie's lyrics. So here are 10 of my favourites, in ascending order toward the best. Enjoy.
10)
9) Nighttime, when the shadows cough, and you're chilled to the tips of your fingers.
("Yawning or Snarling" Day for Night)
8) You're smile is fading a bit, so I ration it.
("If New Orleans is beat", In Between Evolution)
7) Your imagination's having puppies
("Phantom Power," Phantom Power)
6)
Went back to bed this morning
And as I'm pulling down the blinds
I saw the sky was dull and hypothetical
And falling one cloud at a time
("Bobcaygeon," Phantom Power)
5)
4) All of "Vancouver Divorce," which is actually a Gord Downie solo song, but I couldn't leave it out. It includes:
What the hell is this?
You said, "It's art, just fuckin' mirror it."
AND
Sitting here at the Horton's,
so you know this is important.
AND
Now that we've hammered the last spike
and we've punched the railroad through,
thought there'd be more to say
thought there'd be more to do.
I love your paintings-don't take your colors away.
I've grown more fearful of them every day.
Swimming up their dark rivers to discover your source,
a source of strange and unrequited remorse.
And I found the end of the world, of course,
but it's not the end of the world, of course.
It's just a Vancouver divorce.
3) The selection was quick, the crew was picked, and those left in the water got kicked off our pantleg, and we headed for home. Then the dream ends when the phone rings, "You doing alright“ he said. "It's out there most days and nights, but only a fool would complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our conversation is as faint a sound in my memory as those fingernails scratching on my hull."
("Nautical Disaster," Day for Night)
2)
I remember you there at the table
Surrounded by all the day‘s plans
Eyes flickering you're trying
To let a coffee cup warm your hands
Maybe we're born lost
Born to persevere
But honey I'd walk into your painting
Until I reappeared
As a speck of comet-tail dust
A blue-green northern light
Flickering just
In your eyes' deepest ravines
Goodnight goodnight Josephine.
("Goodnight Josephine," In Between Evolution)
1)
"Quote Bomb." My very first meme. Isn't it cute?
The Hip have a box set coming out Nov. 1, with the atrocious-but-growing-on-me name "Hipeponymous." It's two discs, two DVDs, and a 48-page book. I love the Hip, mostly because of Gord Downie's lyrics. So here are 10 of my favourites, in ascending order toward the best. Enjoy.
10)
'It's freak turbulence' -
Just then the captain assures us
'I'll have you on the ground
in 25 minutes or less."
'Or less,' did he say 'less'? Unless what?
9) Nighttime, when the shadows cough, and you're chilled to the tips of your fingers.
("Yawning or Snarling" Day for Night)
8) You're smile is fading a bit, so I ration it.
("If New Orleans is beat", In Between Evolution)
7) Your imagination's having puppies
("Phantom Power," Phantom Power)
6)
Went back to bed this morning
And as I'm pulling down the blinds
I saw the sky was dull and hypothetical
And falling one cloud at a time
("Bobcaygeon," Phantom Power)
5)
Want to be a nobody without you.
Want to be a thought that's never done
Want to shake your faith in human nature
Want to break the hearts of everyone
("Lake Fever," Music@Work)
4) All of "Vancouver Divorce," which is actually a Gord Downie solo song, but I couldn't leave it out. It includes:
What the hell is this?
You said, "It's art, just fuckin' mirror it."
AND
Sitting here at the Horton's,
so you know this is important.
AND
Now that we've hammered the last spike
and we've punched the railroad through,
thought there'd be more to say
thought there'd be more to do.
I love your paintings-don't take your colors away.
I've grown more fearful of them every day.
Swimming up their dark rivers to discover your source,
a source of strange and unrequited remorse.
And I found the end of the world, of course,
but it's not the end of the world, of course.
It's just a Vancouver divorce.
3) The selection was quick, the crew was picked, and those left in the water got kicked off our pantleg, and we headed for home. Then the dream ends when the phone rings, "You doing alright“ he said. "It's out there most days and nights, but only a fool would complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our conversation is as faint a sound in my memory as those fingernails scratching on my hull."
("Nautical Disaster," Day for Night)
2)
I remember you there at the table
Surrounded by all the day‘s plans
Eyes flickering you're trying
To let a coffee cup warm your hands
Maybe we're born lost
Born to persevere
But honey I'd walk into your painting
Until I reappeared
As a speck of comet-tail dust
A blue-green northern light
Flickering just
In your eyes' deepest ravines
Goodnight goodnight Josephine.
("Goodnight Josephine," In Between Evolution)
1)
I wrote unfriendly things, truly cruel, on the day that you were born
To prove that words can not touch beauty
("Put it off," Trouble at the Henhouse)
posted by The Beaver Examiner | 7:57 p.m.
1 Comments:
uh, scott, your geek is showing. :P
my blog name is from one of my fave hip lines:
"to boldly clap
in a room full of nothing
you never know,
it could have been one of those
poignant evenings"
from "we'll go too".
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