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The Tragically Hip - Yer Favourites Audio CD

A fair review of the The Tragically Hip "Yer Favourites" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Tragically Hip reviews here, or go back to the The Tragically Hip tabs.

The Tragically Hip Band: The Tragically Hip
Title: Yer Favourites
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Release Date: 2005-11-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: No Threat 2: Grace, Too 3: My Music at Work 4: 38 Years Old 5: Gift Shop 6: Ahead by a Century 7: Vaccination Scar 8: Three Pistols 9: So Hard Done By 10: Fiddler's Green 11: Looking for a Place to Happen 12: Cordelia 13: 'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken' 14: Blow at High Dough 15: Wheat Kings 16: Fifty-Mission Cap 17: New Orleans Is Sinking 18: Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man 19: Fully Completely 20: Twist My Arm 21: Courage (Four Hugh MacLennan) 22: Lake Fever 23: Poets 24: Fireworks 25: Boots or Hearts 26: Bobcaygeon 27: Nautical Disaster 28: Highway Girl 29: Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park 30: Scared 31: Something On 32: At the Hundredth Meridian 33: Long Time Running 34: Darkest One 35: Locked in the Trunk of a Car 36: Little Bones 37: New Maybe

Good Collection, But Lacking
The problem I have is- where is the gems, the unreleased tracks that are growing mold in the Hip's vaults for years and years? There are untold numbers of completed tracks, demos, and radio performances dating back to their first record that have all been left to collect dust. This is a very good and comprehensive collection from the Tragically Hip spanning their 20 year history. Would this 20 year retrospective not have been a great vehicle to bring some of those tracks to light at long last? If you are a lifelong Hip fan and have all their records then this collection is kind of redundant. For longtime Hip fans, please, give us the goods! I want to hear "Get Back Again" and "Crack My Spine like A Whip" and some of the other lost gems that have never seen the light of day. Please, it's been long enough- open your vaults and stop depriving us fans of some great lost music.


Songs about Life on the Road
They are ultra-hip without sounding snobbish, and the tunes are memorable. I'd like to say this is my new favorite album, because it's quirky but not weird, fun, but not too campy, and Canadian, but not beer.

There are two disks in this set, and tons of music on each disk. This has broken the trend of me buying really short CD's and being disappointed.

If you like the Shins or other Indy Pop bands, you'll probably dig this album. It's a good catch-up album for those who haven't listened to any of their albums, and is probably good for nostalgia. They have been a band for a long time, and this album is a best-of, no doubt, but it stands in its own right as being a very good collection.

It's got a more true-to-rock flavor than a lot of indy rock, but it doesn't sound too out of date. Many of the songs are about road tripping, relationships, and a lot of personal but not too mushy stuff, with clever lyrics that don't make me cringe.

At first, I was slightly put off by the lead singer's accent, but it is actually quite interesting and deep, and easy to get used to.

Reminds me kind of like a plainer version of Sonic Youth, or a more clever and less poppy R. E. M.

Just a review from an average American listener. . . . Good Stuff. 5 Stars.


Tragicall Hip Yer Favorites
. Absolutely Fantastic! If you are new to 'The Hip' or a long time fan, this compilation is sure to please.


Fabulous
If you haven't heard them-well it's your loss-completely. The Hip are an absolutely FABULOUS band from Kingston, Ontario, Canada-eh. This is VALUE for the dollar. An absolute essential to your CD collection. I LOVE IT-it's my FAVOURITE!!!!!!!.


Where have I been?
Like any good band of the people, the Hip know that their fans are their lifeblood, so in compiling their first ever "greatest hits" collection, they left it up to the listeners. "Seemingly nonexistent in the eyes of American pop culture -- yet continually boasting some of the nation's highest grossing concerts -- Canadian rockers the Tragically Hip have managed to secure themselves legendary status both above and underground while remaining almost complete anonymous. Chosen online at their website, the 34 remastered tracks that make up Yer Favorites -- two of which, the ballsy "No Threat" and the wistful "New Maybe," are brand new -- may not go deep enough for longtime followers, but for anyone who has spent the better part of their musical life wondering what all of the fuss was about, this is their chance to get schooled. Poetic yet accessible, raw yet grandiose, the Tragically Hip have often been lumped unfairly into the jam band circuit, when in reality they have far more in common with an act like Pearl Jam than they do Phish. They're an arena bar band maintaining the rawness of a juke joint amid the thunderous applause of 150,000 pairs of hands, and while their brand of heartland rock may be steeped in the Great White North, it's appeal is universal".
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