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Hidden Tracks: The Tragically Hip are Just That

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When Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town” came out, I was standing in the record store, waiting for UPS to deliver the shipment. I had to buy 3 copies — my buddies had to work, so it was my duty to get the first ones.

So when I heard that this week’s band is coming out with a new disc in April, I felt compelled to write about their previous one. The Tragically Hip should be better known then they are. And if you doubt me go out and grab “World Container.”

From “Yer Not the Ocean”, the opening track to “Last Night I Dreamed You Didn’t Love Me” this Canadian quintet hits all the right notes. They find unique ways of expressing eternal ideas.

They bring a northern sense to their music. And it’s perfectly expressed in “The Lonely End of the Rink”: a song about that’s about misfit love. Or hockey…I haven’t really decided which yet.

“The Kids Don’t Get It” is what rock is supposed to be; heavy guitars, and lyrics that you have to think about more than once to get the message. “In View,” “Fly” and the title track are unlike most music you have heard.
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“Working-Class Poets” (Rolling Stone) The Tragically Hip Craft an Ode to Everyman On New Album

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PRESS RELEASE: “Working-Class Poets” (Rolling Stone) The Tragically Hip Craft an Ode to Everyman On New Album

The Tragically Hip have crafted a guitar-drenched ode to everyman on ‘We are the Same’, their new album out April 7 on Rounder Records.

Featuring relaxed tempos and a mix of electric and acoustic arrangements, ‘We are the Same’ reconciles melancholy, anger, and optimism amid driving guitars and unforgettable melodies, epitomizing what Rolling Stone called The Hip’s “boundless ambition in making honest rock & roll.”

The easygoing, country-inflected opening track, “Morning Moon,” follows a man’s search for “one little thing to make you feel better” in the course of the day. The infectious “Coffee Girl” reminisces over a “beautiful and disaffected” diner waitress, while the driving, mandolin-tinged “Queen of the Furrows” professes love for a quiet but industrious farmhand.

Listen to “Morning Moon” here: http://www.myspace.com/thetragicallyhip

As with their critically-acclaimed 2007 album ‘World Container,’ ‘We Are The Same’ was produced by Bob Rock (Metallica, Aerosmith, Motley Crüe), who orchestrated the dense sonic textures that surround these tales of love, aspiration, and struggle. Hip frontman Gordon Downie told the Calgary Herald that “I’ve met a lot of mystics and oracles of the production world, but I’ve never met anyone like Bob Rock.”

‘We Are The Same’ is the twelfth studio album from the Kingston, Ontario quintet, and plans are in the works for a spring/ summer U.S. tour.

LYRICS: Morning Moon

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the reactor’s down
i guess for labour day, today
it’s the first day i ain’t seen great plume of steam from across the lake
from across the lake

hey that’s a morning moon, yeah

i’m not making strange
you said “someone’s paying”
when somethings too cheap
somebody’s paying something
you said, “someone’s paying something”

under a morning moon, yeah
say those little things that don’t make anyone feel better, yeah

it didn’t take too much to upset her
nothing that could clear a room
just say one little thing that could make me feel better
under this morning moon, yeah

the sun’s a lightbulb
and the moon is a mirror
there are times when you can see both the bulb and the mirror
see the bulb in a mirror
and that’s a morning moon, yeah
say those little things that don’t make anyone feel better, yeah

it doesn’t take too much to upset her
nothing that could clear a room
just saying one little thing, trying to make you feel better

under this morning moon, yeah
under this morning moon, yeah

trying to make you feel better
nothing too far from the truth
(morning moon, yeah)
trying to make you feel better
nothing too far from the truth
(morning moon, yeah)
trying to make you feel better
nothing too far from the truth
(morning moon, yeah)
nothing too far from the truth