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In commemoration of the MMP tour's anniversary. The day before release, CBC will also rebroadcast the Hip's final show, A National Celebration, on their Youtube channel as well as on TV. Here's a link to the Hip's Linktree to preorder/presave, and here's the tracklist of the CD version:

Disc 1   

1. At Transformation
2. In View 
3. In A World Possessed By The Human Mind 
4. Family Band
5. Lonely End Of The Rink      
6. Something On 
7. Locked In The Trunk Of A Car 
8. Opiated 
9. Nautical Disaster
10. New Orleans Is Sinking   
11. Yer Not The Ocean 
12. Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
13. At The Hundredth Meridian 
14. Daredevil 
15. Bobcaygeon

Disc 2      

1. Lake Fever 
2. Escape Is At Hand For The Travelin' Man  
3. Flamenco
4. Putting Down 
5. We Want To Be It     
6. Fifty-Mission Cap  
7. Little Bones
8. Greasy Jungle 
9. The Last Of The Unplucked Gems     
10. Fiddler's Green 
11. Machine
12. What Blue 
13. It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken' 
14. Ahead By A Century

Wonder if anything on the new live album is from this show?

Also, the tape at the top is blocking it but they opened with Boots

The Tragically Hip "Live July 22 – August 20, 2016" comes out August 21st. Featuring recordings from the band’s final cross-Canada tour

Trouble At The Henhouse released 30 years ago today. What is your favorite song off this album? For me it is 700 Ft Ceiling. I have volunteered to operate an outdoor rink for many years and often when I am in the park after dark flooding I get this song stuck in my head.

Avaliable June 22

What are The Great Plains

The contestants didn't know the answer, but the Hip prepared me for this one.

With all of the discourse on the Dallas Green abac cover that most of us hate, wanted to see about this version of FC. Personally I like it, it’s not the original obviously it’s pretty different but it’s definitely creative and stylistically fits aof well.

UPDATE - Since I posted this I was corrected in the comments. Leaving up the post but my original assumption was incorrect. Original post ….

Gather round children, I’m old.
I was driving out west with my brother, a last minute, “wanna leave tomorrow, or now?” moment. I was aware that there was a band out of Kingston that people were excited about. I was intrigued but not enough to buy the album. I will admit that I was suspicious about a band that everyone seemed to like. I’m from northern Ontario, so when I say everyone, I mean the hockey boys and the drama kids, the French, the English, everyone was into them. I kept my distance. For sure I had heard them played in bars and I remember some guy in a bar going crazy when the bar band played a cover of a new hip song - which I believe was another midnight. The album up to here had been out for only a few weeks if that. Somewhere in north western Ontario, between towns, when the radio sounded a little fuzzy, we heard NOIS. And I caught this line, “colonel Tom, what’s wrong? What’s going on? Can’t tie yourself up for a deal, he said “Hey North, you south, shut your big mouth you gotta do what you feel is real.” And that was it, we lost the signal to the static. I asked my brother “did you catch that?” I couldn’t repeat the lyrics, I had never heard them before. I told him what i thought I heard. Soon enough we were in range of the next station and not too long after that, NOIS was on the radio. Das Hips were exploding and that song was in heavy rotation. My brother and I turned the radio up and waited. And there it was … “wow” my brother said, “these boys have something to say.” Colonel Tom Poindexter, Oliver North and the Iran contra scandal. In a pop song, from a band from Kingston. I have been a fan since. As I’ve said hundreds of times since, you don’t listen to the hip, you read them. So hip it hurts.

Sure it’ll take a few days to reach me in Calgary, but seeing this made me smile.