Some Cordelia For Ya...

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After some fun with Cordelia Lyrics on the Facebook Page yesterday I thought I would dig up a couple of Gems from back in the day. Since the band is about to go on the road we fans are bursting with expectations and hopes... especially regarding what the setlists might hold. 

The past 2 summers of mini-tours have brought us unprecedented cookie-cutter setlists from The Hip which after the epic 2009 two-set, deep cut monster setlists has been a bit of a disappointment. What those awesome setlists from 2009 did not give us however, was a Cordelia. Here's hoping that there's a few versions of this beautiful song in our very near future... Enjoy!

This was my first show... Canada Day - Molson Park, Barrie, ON
This clip is 50MC > Cordelia > Last of the Unplucked Gems




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National Post Hip Week: Kings Of This Town

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Kings Of This Town
Source: Jesse Kinos-Goodin, National Post

Is there any other band today that screams Canadiana so much as The Tragically Hip? The Kingston-brewed rockers kick off their summer touring season June 28, and to mark the occasion we’re spending this week in Arts & Life looking at all things Hip. Today: Jesse Kinos-Goodin on how Kingston, Ont., embraces its hometown heroes.

When Gord Downie sings “12 men broke loose in ‘73, from Millhaven maximum security,” during a Kingston, Ont., performance, the hometown crowd loses its collective mind. After the initial yells, glowing cellphones and lighters normally fill the air as The Tragically 
Hip frontman continues to tell the fictional story of a jailbreak from a prison in Bath, the small town just outside Kingston where The Hip also have a recording studio.

Despite lyrics saying that “one of the dozen was a hometown shame,” 38 Years Old, from the 1989 album Up to Here, is still a local favourite, says Doug Elliot, who worked with the band countless times over the years when he was music director at Kingston’s K-Rock radio station. Elliot, who is now program director of Oshawa’s The Rock 94.9, calls the five-piece band, consisting of Downie, guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay, “part of the fabric” of Kingston, and while he means that figuratively, it could also be taken quite literally.

Continue to full article HERE.

38 Years Old - Digital Lyric Art

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As Makeshift As We Are - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/04/27 Kitchener, ON
Debut: 2003/10/27 Whistler, BC
Notes: Since the 2004 'In Between Evolution Tour', it has only been played 4 times. 3 times in 2006 & once in 2009.


You do the combat math, I'm the war artist
You can't take your shots back, I have to watch them miss
The basketball rim shook like a tambourine
not an unlikely event in a game that means nothing
in a game that means nothing
Makeshift we are
lead never leaves your system no matter who you are
Makeshift we are
as makeshift as we are

You're a complex dune, I'm a cloud of octopus ink
You're an elusive tune, I'm more ice sculpture than I think
You're the neutral tribe and I got the wrong openness
Here's where I slowly close my eyes and say, "I'm too drunk for this."
Yea I'm too drunk for this
Makeshift we are
"Weakling Make Trouble" you played on your guitar
Makeshift we are
as makeshift as we are

we are. we are. we are.

the loneliest buoys on dolphin property
you're as quiet as a fish, I only sing for the whole sea
From memory metal tension springs we were gunsmoke and the truth
let's shake some snow off of his shoulders let's shake some snow off of the roof
Let's shake some snow off of the roof
Makeshift we are
occurring to each other under the setup of the stars
Makeshift we are
we imagine us here and here we are
Makeshift we are
through half-squinted eyes becoming a mirage
Makeshift we are


Next song: Mean Streak
Previous song: You're Everywhere

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Music@Work Digital Lyric Art

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The Digital Lyric Art for The Tragically Hip's Music@Work album is now completed and posted. You can have a look at the art via the album page for Music@Work. Just click on a song title to see the art.

I have been working on adding Last played, Debut and some Notes for each individual song in the Hip catalog.

You can see the list of albums I have completed to date on this page.

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Road Apples Digital Lyric Art

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 The Road Apples Digital Lyric Art has now been posted.

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Links to all the artwork can be found on the Road Apples Lyrics Page.


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Fully Completely Digital Lyric Art

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The digital lyric art I've been messing around with is now up on the individual Fully Completely Lyric's Page.  I have completed artwork for both Up to Here and Road Apples and will be posting ASAP.  Let me know what you think...


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