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The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, was a Canadian rock band fronted by Gord Downie, and still is a national icon. Their music, deeply intertwined with Canadian identity, explores themes of history, geography, and culture. The Hip’s dedicated fanbase and Downie’s poignant lyrics cemented their place in Canada’s cultural landscape. 🇨🇦 #TragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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Canada's Band: The Tragically Hip
No band is more intertwined with Canadian identity than The Tragically Hip. For over 30 years, Gord Downie's lyrics served as a national poetry, referencing everything from hockey history ('Fifty Mission Cap') to small-town Ontario ('Bobcaygeon'). With 17 Juno Awards, their music is a permanent fixture on the Canadian cultural landscape. #Canada #TheHip #TragicallyHip #GordDownie 🇨🇦
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Canada's Band: The Tragically Hip
No band is more intertwined with Canadian identity than The Tragically Hip. For over 30 years, Gord Downie's lyrics served as a national poetry, referencing everything from hockey history ('Fifty Mission Cap') to small-town Ontario ('Bobcaygeon'). With 17 Juno Awards, their music is a permanent fixture on the Canadian cultural landscape. #Canada #TheHip #TragicallyHip #GordDownie 🇨🇦
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The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, was a Canadian rock band fronted by Gord Downie, and still is a national icon. Their music, deeply intertwined with Canadian identity, explores themes of history, geography, and culture. The Hip’s dedicated fanbase and Downie’s poignant lyrics cemented their place in Canada’s cultural landscape. 🇨🇦 #TragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, was a Canadian rock band fronted by Gord Downie, and still is a national icon. Their music, deeply intertwined with Canadian identity, explores themes of history, geography, and culture. The Hip’s dedicated fanbase and Downie’s poignant lyrics cemented their place in Canada’s cultural landscape. 🇨🇦 #TragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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Canada's Band: The Tragically Hip
No band is more intertwined with Canadian identity than The Tragically Hip. For over 30 years, Gord Downie's lyrics served as a national poetry, referencing everything from hockey history ('Fifty Mission Cap') to small-town Ontario ('Bobcaygeon'). With 17 Juno Awards, their music is a permanent fixture on the Canadian cultural landscape. #Canada #TheHip #TragicallyHip #GordDownie 🇨🇦
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The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, was a Canadian rock band fronted by Gord Downie, and still is a national icon. Their music, deeply intertwined with Canadian identity, explores themes of history, geography, and culture. The Hip’s dedicated fanbase and Downie’s poignant lyrics cemented their place in Canada’s cultural landscape. 🇨🇦 #TragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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Canada's Band: The Tragically Hip
No band is more intertwined with Canadian identity than The Tragically Hip. For over 30 years, Gord Downie's lyrics served as a national poetry, referencing everything from hockey history ('Fifty Mission Cap') to small-town Ontario ('Bobcaygeon'). With 17 Juno Awards, their music is a permanent fixture on the Canadian cultural landscape. #Canada #TheHip #TragicallyHip #GordDownie 🇨🇦
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Canada's Band: The Tragically Hip
No band is more intertwined with Canadian identity than The Tragically Hip. For over 30 years, Gord Downie's lyrics served as a national poetry, referencing everything from hockey history ('Fifty Mission Cap') to small-town Ontario ('Bobcaygeon'). With 17 Juno Awards, their music is a permanent fixture on the Canadian cultural landscape. #Canada #TheHip #TragicallyHip #GordDownie 🇨🇦
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The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, was a Canadian rock band fronted by Gord Downie, and still is a national icon. Their music, deeply intertwined with Canadian identity, explores themes of history, geography, and culture. The Hip’s dedicated fanbase and Downie’s poignant lyrics cemented their place in Canada’s cultural landscape. 🇨🇦 #TragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, was a Canadian rock band fronted by Gord Downie, and still is a national icon. Their music, deeply intertwined with Canadian identity, explores themes of history, geography, and culture. The Hip’s dedicated fanbase and Downie’s poignant lyrics cemented their place in Canada’s cultural landscape. 🇨🇦 #TragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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Lived in Canada for a number of years...
beautiful drippy BC rainforests - people complained about the rain - but if they had grown up in a permanently parched land...
not a particularly BC band but boy were they loved.. #GordDownie
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish?
When you don't let the nation get in your way
And not one ambition whispering over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing, you can do anything? -
The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, was a Canadian rock band fronted by Gord Downie, and still is a national icon. Their music, deeply intertwined with Canadian identity, explores themes of history, geography, and culture. The Hip’s dedicated fanbase and Downie’s poignant lyrics cemented their place in Canada’s cultural landscape. 🇨🇦 #TragicallyHip #GordDownie #Canada
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Gordon
In the realm of music, Gordie Tapp was the first Canadian Gordon who made it big. He was in the country field. Indeed, he was a regular on the country show, Hee Haw. He only had a couple hits because he was more of an entertainer, emcee, broadcaster and writer.
Gordon Lightfoot is the most famous Canadian Gordon musician. With mega hits like Sundown and If You Could Read My Mind, Lightfoot was known world wide and had a huge fan base. Was he folk, country, or rock? No one could really tell but he didn’t need to say, he was just a singer/songwriter that wheedled his way into the hearts and minds of many people.
Gord Deppe is the main songwriter and singer/guitarist for the Canadian rock band The Spoons. They had the hits Nova Heart, Romantic Traffic and Those Old Emotions. He’s also been known to play guitar for Flock of Seagulls.
Gord Downie was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. He led the band through most of their existence and even put out some of his own solo work. He died tragically in 2017 of terminal brain cancer.
Probably all you non Canadians figure that there must be a lot of Canadian Gordons since so many are successful musicians. But that’s just not true. I’ve lived my whole 57 years in Canada and have just personally known 1 Gordon. He was a teacher of mine.
So this famous Canadian musician thing that the Gordons have is a statistical anomaly.
In the very early nineties, the Canadian rock band the Bare Naked Ladies seemed to be doing everything right. Their shock name got the attention of nearly everyone, they had two lead singers and had an album’s worth of songs including 4 or 5 that were ear worms. All they needed was a good album title and perhaps they could guarantee success.
They decided to play it conservatively and went with the name Gordon, simply based on how popular Canadians named Gordon seemed to be in pop. They contrived themselves into a successful release and the rest is history for the band.
#country #earWorms #famousCanadianMusicians #FlockOfSeagulls #folkRock #GordDeppe #GordDownie #GordieTapp #GordonLightfoot #HeeHaw #IfYouCouldReadMyMind #NovaHeart #RomanticTraffic #statisticalAnomaly #Sundown #theBareNakedLadies #theSpoons #theTragicallyHip #ThoseOldEmotions
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Episode two hundred and two is up now! Today's song is Bobcaygeon by The Tragically Hip.
I discuss the complex story and imagery in the lyrics, and the small town that gave its name to this big song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2VUI5BdzQQ
#podcast #dailypodcast #pigeon #pigeonsongspod #music #songs #bobcaygeon #phantompower #tragicallyhip #thetragicallyhip #thehip #gorddownie #johnnyfay #robbaker #gordsinclair #paullanglois #canada #kingston #ontario #ingordwetrust #desertbus #desertbusforhope #DB2024
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A post on Facebook reminded me that it's been 7 years and two days since Gord Downie, the lead singer for The Tragically Hip, died. So it is appropriate that today's blog post is about one of their best albums.
https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2024/10/saturday-sounds-tragically-hip-fully.html
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Canadians are more likely to know The Tragically Hip than someone from the U.S. If you don't know them, check out this article and find the songs the article mentions. "Courage" & "Bobcaygeon" are my favorites.
https://torontolife.com/culture/inside-the-rise-of-the-tragically-hip-canadas-rock-band/
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This is JD Vance-level tone-deaf. 2/2 #Canada #cdnpoli #Gord #GordDownie #TragicallyHip
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Today's song is one of the best I have heard about the emotions one feels after becoming a parent. "Trick Rider" is a hauntingly beautiful song by Gord Downie as a solo artist. He is accompanied on this by the incomparable Julie Dorion. In times like these, let this song remind us all of the importance of love.
The Tragically Hip/Gord Downie: Song #9- Trick Rider https://tommacinneswriter.com/2019/10/15/9-trick-rider/ #CokeMachineGlow, #CountryofMiracles, #GordDownie, #TheTragicallyHip, #TrickRider #JulieDorion
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The story of Chanie Wenjack is a sad one. He survived #residentialschool for 3 years before he ran away. He was found dead from exposure beside railway tracks as he tried to find his way home 600 kms away.
On Oct. 19, a work of #art was unveiled at Union Station in #Toronto that commemorates Chanie and his story, as well as the work of the #GordDownie & Chanie Wenjack Fund to keep the memory of the residential schools legacy alive.
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Ted Tocks Covers
New Orleans is Sinking
Originally posted on August 20, 2022
On this day in 2016 The Tragically Hip performed their farewell concert.
“I had my hands in the river, my feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the Lord above and said, "Hey, man thanks"
Sometimes I feel so good, I gotta scream
She said, "Gordie baby, I know exactly what you mean" -
For all the #TragicallyHip and #GordDownie fans out there, Lustre Parfait was just released and it's GREAT!
Done in collaboration with Vancouver's own Bob Rock.