No Filler Music Podcast - Spewing Poetry: The Undeniable Greatness of The Tragically Hip

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

We say it often on this podcast: the 90s is a bottomless pit of incredible rock music as wide as it is deep. And if you grew up in the United States like we did, you may have slept on arguably the greatest Canadian rock band of all time: The Tragically Hip. From the cryptically beautiful lyricism of frontman Gord Downie to the catchy hooks and song structures of the band behind him, we deep dive into their 1994 record Day For Night and ask the question we find ourselves asking constantly on this podcast: where has this band been all our lives? Tracklist The Tragically Hip - Daredevil The Tragically Hip - Yawning Or Snarling The Tragically Hip - Inevitability Of Death The Tragically Hip - Emergency The Tragically Hip - Impossibilium This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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if you couldn't tell what band was being talked about in that intro clip the group is called the tragically hip and they are one of the better known Canadian rock bands probably of all time they might be the best known Canadian rock band of all time and they have a cult following and if you're cool like me in Q you you called him the hip that's what they go by you know so But no, I'm, dude, I'm brand new to this band.

I just recently started listening to them. And yeah, man, it's just one of those groups where it's like, shit, you know. Should have been listening to these guys. Yeah. Dude, so I actually, now I'm looking through the albums. I actually did bring. So I'm, yeah, me too, dude. So I'm, yeah, I'm new to this band too.

Very new. I only know a few songs from Phantom Power, which came out. Are you about to tell me that this band has been, has appeared? Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, dude. I think it's a, on a much I heard. But I'm curious how you stumbled upon them.

And then why you didn't say, you know what? Let me keep listening to these guys. I don't know, man. But it was, I have three saved songs, like, liked songs from Phantom Power. I don't remember which one I brought. Phantom Power. Okay. Yeah, dude.

Really great, man. Really, really, really, really great. Well, that's what's interesting about the group did. So they have a very wide range in their style, which you're going to hear for sure in the picks that I'm bringing today. So we're focused specifically on their 1994 record day for night, which is interesting because last month we covered Bush and we talked all about the year 1994, dude,

and how like, you know, with Cobain dying and kind of the shift that was happening with rock music, but how grunge was still there, you know, still present. I think the most compelling about this group, aside from just their amazing songwriting, is the lyrics, which I guess is the songwriting, right? I guess what I'm saying is like, the lead singer to me is what is unique about this group,

is the way that he carries himself on stage. You know, in that clip that I play in the beginning, Who is this crazy guy at the front, you know, screaming poetry at us? Because that's kind of how it comes off. Like he's a very, his word smithery is up there with the best of him, Q. And the storytelling in these songs are incredible. So these guys go back quite a bit. This is actually their fourth record that we're talking about today.

So, okay, so that's actually, that's something to keep in mind as well, too, because 94 Nirvana dies in Nirvana. Well, yeah. Cobain dies in 94, but they were already kicking it for a while before that anyway. So they already had an established sound. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, yeah. And I would put this group in.

Unlike Bush, right, who is coming around at the, around that time. Right. That was their first record that we covered. 16th. That was their first record. Yeah. So these guys have been pretty well established at that point. And this particular record day for night marks kind of a shift in their sound, which is interesting.

So anyway, they had formed in 84, so a decade prior. So they had been a group, like I said, for a while and had, you know, tours under their belt, three records under their belt. They had started to gain popularity and had some number one singles and stuff in Canada by the time this record came out. and blogs, articles and stuff that I've, it's actually harder than you think to find reviews online about these records. So a couple of reviewers that I read, they both described their early stuff as like blues rock, bar rock, whatever the fuck that means.

Which I can kind of see that is a little bit more blue. I've never heard that before. Like the music, you know, like a bar band or something like that. You know, a band that you would have. you know, playing at some bar, right? This album is kind of a shift towards something different. So I'm going to read a little quote here from the Wikipedia. So it says here, the band developed a unique sound and ethos,

leaving behind its earlier blues influence talking about for this record. Downey's vocals, and I'll read the roster in a second, Downey's vocal style changed while the band experimented with song structures and chord progressions. Songs explore the themes of Canadian geography and history, water and land, all motifs that became heavily associated with the hip. So their sound is shifting to something more darker kind of sound to it, which, of course, I gravitate toward that cue.

Sure, sure. But anyway, these songs are fucking awesome. I would put them most broadly, just like if we wanted to put an umbrella term on them, It's alt rock. It's kind of along the same lines of like an REM, like a college rock kind of sound. But his vocal delivery and lyrics, I think, kind of put them sort of in their own camp. I'm going to read the roster here. I've got five tracks, so we're just going to play a bunch of songs.

Awesome. This must be a common name in Canada Q. There's two members of the band named Gord, which is not a name that you hear very often. You hear Gordon, maybe, but Gord. So Gord Downey is the lead vocals. Sometimes he plays guitar. Rob Baker, lead guitar player, Gord Sinclair, bass and backing vocals.

Johnny Frey on drums and Paul Langlois. Langlois. I don't know, dude. On rhythm guitar. You know, it's Canadian, so maybe it's French, like Langlois, something like that. I don't know. Anyway.

So one more thing to mention If you're familiar with Saturday Night Live and like the history of Saturday Night Live and their music performances and stuff, tragically hip actually had one of the more iconic performances on SNL back in 95, so a year later. And basically the way they got on to the show was because of Dan Aykroyd, who was a Canadian comedian, right? He used to be on SNL. he basically, you know, convinced, you know, the SNL crew to book them. And he showed up just to introduce the band. He wasn't actually the host that night.

John Goodman was the host, which is funny. But they performed two singles from the record, Grace 2 and Notical Disaster. What made it, I guess, more memorable is that during the opening line of Grace 2, The lyric is supposed to be, I'm fabulously rich, but he was so high because apparently they were smoking and getting, you know, getting prepped in the green room. He said, I'm tragically hip. He said the name of the band instead of the actual lyric. But going forward, he would sing that lyric because that became like the lyric that everybody, you know, kind of loved and just he ran with it. You know what I mean.

It's funny because when you watch the clip, you can see him like processing. Like, what the hell did I just say? You know what I mean? But anyway. All right. Let's jump into tunes, Q. Let's do it, man. This music's going to speak for itself.

I got five tracks from Day for Night. Funny enough, Q, this album had six singles. Good Lord, dude. And there's still five other bangers for me to play. It's actually a 14-track record. So it's a huge record. Sounds like no filler to me, dude. That's, yeah, exactly.

This is a true no-filler record. All right, we're going to start with track two here. Here we go. This song is called Daredevil. Just a to the point, straightforward rock track game. Love it, dude. I'm getting some R-A-M vibes. Some Miracle Legion vibes.

Oh, did you? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I said that if you wanted to just put an umbrella genre on them, they fall under that, like, you know, jingle rock, college rock. The college rock. alternative rock umbrella yeah totally um but like I said but he's intense dude yeah those well yes that'll come up later that'll come up later for sure um but yeah very straightforward rock song the very the next track I want to play very different than this and that's what I like

about this record you know as most people kind of classified their music prior to this record as like kind of bluesy rock and what I like about this album is there's so much more to it than that. And now, of course, they had, they've had a very wide range of sound this whole time, but like for the most wide area, it was more like, you know, more, blues is the best way to put it, like, just classic more like rock forward kind of, what you think about when you think of like rock riffs and stuff? And they mix it up on this record.

So this song, it's called Daredevil. It's literally about somebody going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. That's what it's about it. Daredevil. His lyrics are always up for interpretation. I was watching a bunch of interview clubs to prep for this episode. And there's one of him saying that he likes to approach lyrics as if he's talking casually with a friend that he knows really well. So he might use terms and stuff that, you know, like when you're talking to a friend, you might have inside jokes and things that you say that that person would get, but somebody else wouldn't get. That's how he just writes.

And so that's what makes it a lot of the lyrics like up for interpretation and could have many different meanings because he's purposely using like weird terms and like imagery that's bizarre and like and all this kind of stuff. So but yeah, I'm sure this is a metaphor for something Q going over Niagara Falls inside of a barrel. But yeah, because like, you know, if you read some of these lyrics, do you like it inside a barrel and plunging over the falls? curious and grim we wrestle at the rim we wonder all about him and the point of it all i mean what's the point of going going over the falls dude in a barrel that's a good question cue that is the what is the point of it all you know we all have been asking ourselves that lately i think anyway um every track has an interesting story that's being told uh so this next track that we're going to jump to here.

And again, dude, you're going to be like, this is a different band entirely. So this song is called yawning or snarling. And it's about a clash between the audience and cops at one of their shows in El Paso, Texas, which is interesting. And the title refers to a photo that was taken of somebody in the crowd, where it looks like they're either yelling or yawning. and how those two things can look similar,

which is really interesting. So that's what it's called yawning or snarling. All right, here we go. So again, here's the track, Yawning or Snarling by Tragically Hip. The cops go into the crowd or a glaring bladder or light. Music is so loud.

The tourists take the t-shirts all. A busload of kids. It gives you the finger. Afternoon, when the sun. Walks home And the shadows too chilly to linger Walk past damaged goods and ugly trash To strong man making a perch

They're just waiting for you to resurface Look at this photograph We're there The story was never clear The cops go into the crowd Music is just so loud TV song with the sound of when the shadow. Great track, man.

Great storytelling. Awesome. Yeah. And like he's got this rawness to his vocals too. Like you hear a little bit of a like a vibrato sometimes, which I think Michael, Michael Stipe does that too. Like I don't want to keep comparing them to R.E.M. Yeah, but I feel like that's there, man.

It's like right there. Yeah, you can't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the funny thing is it, you know, it's funny. because all we did last month was talk about how Bush sounded like Nirvana. You know what I mean?

The difference is, you know, tragically hip, they formed around the same time that R.M. formed. So it's, you know what I mean? 84. I think R.M. was 83. Yeah, yeah. So it's unlikely that, um, that they were influenced. And their sound, their prior sound sounded very, very different from R.M.

So anyway, it's just the way, you know. well whatever's in the water dude that these people are drinking that they can come up with similar sounds and stuff across you know different in two different countries right it's just he knows how it happens but I got another uh interview clip here for me to play so this is gourd the lead singer talking about how they approach songwriting here we go who really writes the songs how does it work the songwriting process we're fortunate in that we have uh an abundance of writers. I've heard some bands say it doesn't work because you know maybe one guy's really smart and one guy's really stupid or something

like that. And you know this guy's writing songs that this guy thinks are inane and stupid. Therefore they can't, you know, the songs, they have some stupid songs. Anyway, we tend to get some continuity because we all seem to write for the band. We're all stupid. We seem to write it. It's good for rock and roll. Don't worry about it. It fits. It fits. We all write. We decided that Also that a song that we write is not really a song that we write until every guy's put a stamp on it. You know, it's not really a song until Johnny plays the drums or, you know, or Robbie plays his part. It's too ridiculous to try and split hairs all the time because, you know, we just won't last.

We'll break up or something. If we get too egotistical about it. I love that, man. Dude, a lesson. Love it. Yeah. A lesson for all bands, I think. Yeah, because for the lead singers and front men, front women of the bands,

listen up. That's how you do it. Yeah. The song is not complete until every person has their stamp on it. Love it. Yeah, that's right. Because, I mean, dude, we've talked about bands in the past. I think...

Casa Blankas, excuse me. Casa Blankas of the strokes. We've talked about how David Byrne is a massive dickhole. No, but didn't he, like, do a 180 on that? I don't know, maybe. Okay. All they do now, it's like you're watching a Broadway musical. Have you seen like his performance?

Now it's like this whole thing. Like if you, you know, a talking head show. I guess it's not really talking heads anymore. It's just David Byrne. But anyway, he's one of those classic egotistical, you know, lead singers that you think about, right? But yeah. And that's probably what makes all of these songs so different too is that like if they're all, he's calling, he's saying all of them are like we're all songwriters. All of us are.

right he might be the lyricist uh and maybe the primary songwriter but like all all the bandmates are contributing ideas and and like he said it's not a song until all of us have contributed our parts and then we've all put our stamp on it right so like that's huge man and that's probably why they lasted for so long they were a band all the way up until he passed away in 2017 the lead singer and it was the the all the same members the same crew yeah damn from 84 to 2017 Yeah. Now, they did have some guy that played the saxophone for the first few years. So that's interesting. You got to have some saxophone in the 80s, dude. Yeah. I haven't actually gone back that far and listened to their early EPs and stuff, but it would be funny to hear a saxophone come out of nowhere, you know.

Anyway, but yeah, these guys have known each other. Some of them have known each other since like high school, that kind of thing. So yeah, that's awesome, dude. And like it shows because their music is so like tight. And like everything is perfect. Yeah, yeah. All right. Let's jump ahead. Again, 14 tracks on this record, man.

And there were six singles. The first one, Grace 2. That was the song they performed on S&L. Greasy Jungle, which is a great song. Let me tell you what each of these songs are about Q. Because like I said, it's kind of funny. The topics, I think, he would write about.

I just thought greasy jungle was kind of funny. That is a term that he came up with to refer to the grease of the oil floating at the top of a cup of coffee that he was drinking at a friend's funeral. Greasy jungle, yeah, that's what I think, too. I mean, that's some bad coffee. But then we had nautical disaster. That was the other track they played on SNL. So hard done by

Scared and Thugs That's a lot of singles, man Yeah And that's not even half the record Like I said, 14 tracks Now we're going to jump ahead here to track 9 This song is a little bit A little more of a fun track

Q This track is called Inevitability of Death That's funny I just say it's a fun track And like this song is about Hey we're all going to die It's inevitable, dude.

It is inevitable. Here we go. The word smith, dude. Just flows off the tongue. I'm telling you, man. It's that greasy coffee he drinks again. That was great. So I don't know what the song is about besides...

The inevitability of death, dude. The inevitability of death. But what he's saying is interesting. We don't go to hell. The memories of us do. That's an interesting one, dude. Yeah. He's saying, I thought you beat the death of inevitability to death just a little bit.

And then the lyrics change, I thought you beat the inevitability of death to death just a little bit. What's he talking about me? It's up to interpretation. I mean, is he talking literally? Like, you know, he's saying you beat it to death. The inevitability of death, you beat it to death. What the fuck does that mean? I don't know, dude.

I mean, should we call up our old friend Ronnie? Remember Ronnie? Yeah, I remember Ronnie. She was Canadian. Okay. You think it's a Canadian thing? We just don't know about? Maybe.

That's possible. What's funny is one of these lyrics, he actually mentions Trudeau. Trudeau. Oh, Justin. Probably not Justin, probably his dad. But anyway. So, yeah. as those guys said in that intro clip doesn't get more Canadian than tragically hip.

Like are they actually singing about Canadian, like, you know, Canadian themes? Yeah. Yeah, well, they are. I mean, I don't know that we've necessarily played a song that touches on that kind of stuff specifically. But some of their lyrics talk about historical events and geographical landmarks and stuff like that that if we lived in Canada, we would know about. So yeah, that song, we're all going to die. It's basically what it's about or not. It could be about it because he's talking to somebody specifically.

Who's Terry? Terry's gifts. You know what? Let's do this real quick, dude. Can't believe we haven't done this earlier. Let's see if we can get any clues from genius. Okay. Because I guarantee this is one of those songs, dude, that has got to have people.

Layers, Ben. Terry's gifts. I was asking who Terry is. A reference to Terry Fox, this lyric pays homage to a young man who set out to fight cancer and ended up redefining courage. Hey, that's uplifting, isn't it? A young British Columbia athlete who in 77 was diagnosed with malignant osteosarcoma in his right knee. In March of that year, his right leg was amputated six inches above the knee in order to stop the disease from spreading. The night before the surgery, Terry was given a magazine, which featured an article about a one-legged runner.

Terry said that he dreamed of running that night, but had not yet realized how prescient that vision would become. I'm guessing he ran with one leg as is my guess. That's what it sounds like, man. The more you know. I still don't have any answers here. That's what the song's about. But I guess that's the whole point, Q, it's up to interpretation. Well, speaking of, I think this next track is, I'll say this is my favorite track on the record.

And then number two, I don't know that it's being quite literal when you read the lyrics. But this is where his vocals really, I think, shine toward the end of this track. And you'll see why. So there you go. We're just blowing through this episode, dude. Yeah, man. Blowing through it. Holy, yeah, dude.

We're only at like the 30, 30-some-odd mark. That's bananas. That's all right. That's fine. That's all right. Short and sweet. All right, well, here we go. I'm going to jump down here to the track 12.

This song is called Emergency. Killer track. Let me just, I gotta say it now, man, because we've mentioned it many times and it's only becoming more and more of an obvious statement at this point. but like the 90s absolutely the best that that is the best time for rock and roll there i said and maybe yeah maybe maybe you know older generations laugh at such a statement because obviously yeah the legends of rock and roll um you know expand go way past the 90s but i mean i mean you think about it's it's yeah of course you can't deny the 60s and 70s for rock you can't right but at the same

time but but the directions that rock went in in the 90s I mean just bananas dude well it was the 90s was the last decade that had a massive shift in the sound yeah right in like a mass like a culture and like yeah you know then yeah now You know, you listen to bands like R.m. or this group, and they borrow from the past a little bit. I feel like his voice was almost like almost kind of like Neil Young-ish in the beginning of this track. But, but yeah, we've talked about just how many different styles in general were happening in the 90s, not just rock. but yeah the 90s was

perhaps one of the best decades musically just holistically you know what I mean but yeah and rock for sure but I just loved how his vocals became

so like fragile toward the end of that track he's screaming that lyric you know what I mean like you can really feel like the vulnerability and stuff in his voice the lyrics

talking about how we're an endless emergency without end what's he's singing about, you know. One lyric at the top of the song I really liked, we're sitting in the baby barboreft at a shadowy table out past the sentence's end. That's such a cool. That's just such a cool line. Yeah, we're sitting way back there at the end of the sentence. What? That's awesome. Well, like, yeah, it's very poetic, right?

Yeah. Like I was saying. One thing that was interesting to me when I was reading, a couple of reviews. So this is fucking adorable, dude. But this guy that I was reading a review, the two reviews that pop up on Google are these two blogs. They've got WordPress.com URLs, meaning they're just using the free WordPress. Not that that matters, but I'm just saying like, these are old school classic web blogs that you think about, right?

And this guy starts, he's saying, welcome to the fifth installment. of my reviews for the discography of the tragically hip. These are tandem reviews with my amazing wife, Sarah, who is posting her own over at her blog, Caught Me Gaming. So be sure to check out her write-up for Day for Night right here. And he links to his wife's review of the record. That is adorable, too. And she does the same.

Yeah, anyway. But so I read both of the reviews, and it was interesting because both of them were fans of the band before this record came out, and they were talking about how this record was so different from what they were used to with tragically hip, but that it took them a while to come around to it. Okay. Which is interesting because me coming in as a fresh fan, I like this sound a little bit more than their other stuff, and their earlier stuff.

There's definitely some killer tracks on the early records, but like I'm drawn to this sound for sure. But I just think it's, you know, it's interesting how that works, right? Because like we always talk about it. We've talked about it so many times. I'm like, man, for example, Kings of Leon perhaps is an example. Interpol is an example. I think Interpol is a good example where it's like I love their early stuff and then they lost me later. How many fans did they gain, though, who loved their nearest stuff and maybe never even

listened to their older stuff? I mean, that just happens with the music, right? The fan base is either going to expand, you know, shrink and you might lose some of your original fans, but anyway. So this guy, this is the Buried on Mars blog, if you're curious to look him up. One thing he was talking about, which is really interesting, because I think you can hear it on this record. Apparently the band, so the record that came up before this was called Fully Complete, or Fully Completely, I think is what it was called.

And the band had sort of expressed, I guess, disappointment in like the sound of that record. They didn't like the recording process about how, basically, every band recorded their thing separately and then it all got layered together, that kind of thing. And so they wanted to make a point to do it differently for this record. So the engineer for this record, Mark Howard, made sure that they basically got them all into the same room with the soundboard and they're all recorded in the same room together. And for a band like this, it sounds like they're in it all together and like they got to put their stamp of approval on it before it moves forward. it makes total sense, then, that they should record and play together in the same room. For sure, dude.

And I think you can hear it on this song for sure. It sounds like you're hearing a band playing this together. It says here, the hip would play the entire album from start to finish. Never the same song twice in a row. Howard then spliced these performances, taking sections from each until he had what he felt was the perfect take. Wow. Some of what ended up on that album were not even recorded through the soundboard. But also the studio version of Nautical Disaster, for example, is made from outtakes recorded with a DAT machine.

So they would play basically, they would record it at like a concert. I mean, they're full. Yeah, basically. I don't know if they would do it with no break. Yeah, yeah. Which is awesome, dude. Yeah, that's awesome. I think you can hear it come through.

Yeah, because then that gives you sort of what you get out of a live performance where, you know, maybe halfway through the set, the band, you know, like the bands really tuned into what they're doing. They're in the groove and stuff. And the lead singer's voice might be a little bit, you know, I don't know, horse or, you know, whatever, just from singing for that long. That always, I always, you know, that adds to what you get out of a live, you know, performance. It's not like, let's take that again kind of thing. It's like, it's just raw. That's really cool, dude.

That's a cool way to do it. All right, going back to Terry Fox, the guy with the ampusated leg, there's actually a paragraph in this record. So these guys are Canadians, the two blog writers. It says here, there's a line about Terry Fox in inevitability of death. Fox was a Canadian hero. An amputee who attempted to jog across Canada in 1980 while missing most of his right leg. It says here, the Terry Fox Foundation and yearly Terry Fox runs have earned approximately 500,

million so far for cancer research. And so there's lyric, Terry's gift is forever green. He's talking about all the money that's raised for cancer research because of this guy. Anyway, so there you go. There's a Canadian rock band singing about a Canadian hero that an American audience would have no clue who that is. Both of us, you're like, who the hell is Terry Fox? Yeah, right.

Let's try to look up the lyric, the genius.com. This must be a deep meaning. Maybe Tree Fox is a metaphor for something. No, it's a Canadian hero. Anyway. All right, I got one more track for us. This is the very last track on the record. Here's some more word smith reocue.

The song is called Impossibilium. Yeah, I mean, that's a group of musicians that have been playing together for a long time. Dude, just solid. It reminds me of kind of stuff I was talking about during our last switcher heard. with spoon, you know? Oh, yeah. Like, you can't pull this kind of stuff off unless you're just a solid knit. In sync, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And again, the lyrics, man. Now, here's something. If you were paying attention, and this is, it's good that I play at emergency right before this track because, now, apparently this is something that they do frequently, or at least he does as a lyricist. The lyric here, but your finger starts.

to wiggle and landscapes emerge. That is how emergency ends, those exact lyrics. And so apparently he does that a lot. Like he'll take, here's a little comment from somebody on genius.com. That's really cool. He says the hip has this awesome tendency to repeat the same lyric in different songs on the same album. Besides emergency, this lyric is repeated in Impossibillion.

I interpret both instances of this lyric to mean the power of a woman's suggestion gesture to come closer to her. Words are unnecessary at that point. Both songs deal with their relationship issues, so I think my interpretation makes sense. I think so too, genius annotation contributor. Music lover, 1968. I think you're right.

1968, he would have been the perfect age for this shit, dude. He would have been 26. Yeah. Anyway, I love all the imagery of roses in this song. So they're saying roses are worth more dried than alive. That's fun. The rosy cliche, roses are difficult everywhere.

These long stems are freakish, but we can cut them down for the vase. I love that fucking lyric, dude. That's cool. That's a cool. Yeah. You know, have you ever seen a rose that with the long kind of,

he's saying they're kind of freakish looking, these long stems because they got like thorns and shit in them. But we cut them down and throw it in the vase and now it's this pretty thing. you know what I mean, but it won't, you know, it had this long, freakish-looking stem attached of it before. Yeah. But, you know, we clean it up and present it, you know, in a way that makes it this pretty thing, right?

So that's, that's awesome. Anyway, I was blown away by this, this record and this band. I had seen that clip from S&L and was always really intrigued by the group because they just, I don't know, his stage presence too is, is amazing. probably what I'm going to do. Actually, now I'm going to close with greasy jungle because I really like it. It's one of the singles that I really enjoyed. But check out their 1999 Woodstock appearance.

They showed up at the Woodstock 99. And if you look up their performance of nautical disaster, you'll kind of see what makes him such an interesting performer on stage. Like the guy was just all over the place moving around. around and just really kind of going off script and stuff with his lyrics. He would just say kind of weird stuff into the crowd. Like, you could tell he was really into it. I mean, when you're performing in front of that many people,

like that might have been the biggest crowd that they ever played in front of. Yeah. Because it was Woodstock, right? Right. Anyway, I like you. That was tragically hip. Awesome. One album of mini.

They've put out so many records in their career. 2017 the band obviously stopped performing as that group because Gord passed away but the band still puts out music through other groups I think I think they're all sort of involved in other musical groups and they they will release deluxe editions of these records live records and stuff like that there's a whole bunch of in fact I think there was a live record that came out last or at least a live track. So anyway, they're with Feist. I wonder if that was a brand new track.

Anyway. So yeah, these guys are iconic. If you're Canadian, you're probably saying, well, yeah, welcome to the club. Right. You know, we've, we've, these guys are heroes, you know. Yeah, it was just interesting at that clip at the beginning that I played where you had all these Canadians, somebody's being like, basically like, shocked, you know, what? These guys are from Canada and they're singing about our country, you know, they're singing about stuff

that we know about it's like yeah you don't hear that it's awesome yeah that's cool so that was great man awesome awesome awesome awesome yeah definitely like i said earlier that's a no filler record if there ever has been one dude so um go pull it up and hit play and i'm gonna close us out with greasy jungle like i said earlier and yeah that's it man so we will come at you in a couple of weeks with a another what you heard and then dude we're well what are we

this is our fourth deep dive yeah yeah yeah so we're dude we're only a third away through the year no clue what to do next man

I'll have to figure that out well we've done two back to back 90s rock records so we'll try to mix it up I think we said that last time too but here we are talking about tragically hit I mean sometimes sometimes the decision

is made like the night before. It literally was. We changed it up. Yeah, we changed it up. That's true. But yeah, I've just, I don't know, we're trying to be very particular about our deep depths because there's only 12. Right.

Yeah. And I've just been in the mood to support Canada lately like you. Just, you know, no reason. Anyway. All right. Thanks as always for listening. Check us out on the No Filler Pantheon. Wait, no filler Pantheon network.

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