Tragically Hip - We Are the Same
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Artist: Tragically HipEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Morning Moon
- Honey, Please
- The Last Recluse
- Coffee Girl
- Now the Struggle Has a Name
- The Depression Suite
- The Exact Feeling
- Queen of the Furrows
- Speed River
- Frozen In My Tracks
- Love Is a First
- Country Day
Free Music Notes for We Are the Same
Free Music Review: Not your parent's Tragically Hip - but that's not a bad thing!
Hit: 5 Stars
First - my bias - I love the Hip. That said, I wouldn't rate every album a "5" (Music @ Work, Tragically Hip, In Between Evolution).
But this is a "5" no doubt. Just like the last reviewer, it grows on you, and it does so quickly. The critics who probably listened to it once and then rushed their review to press erred. Here's why: This isn't "familiar Hip" - my advice - listen to it once just to familiarize yourself with the music and then, once it's familiar, listen to it again.
This isn't a $7.99 bottle of table wine; this is a $79.99 complex cabernet. This isn't the CD I'd give to the uninitiated Hip listener. This is for fans, and those who WANT TO BE fans.
It's mellow, complex, and (as opposed to World Container which hits you like a freight train right out of the gate) it's more like a warm blanket on a cool Bobcaygeon night. Some of the songs are just stand-outs: Morning Moon, Coffee Girl (best single since Bobcaygeon some have suggested), Now The Struggle Has A Name (this CD's "World Container"), The Depression Suite - especially the Damien Rice-esque third movement, and the absolutely lovely Country Day (which impressed me the way I was impressed by "A Beautiful Thing", from In Violet Light, the first time I heard it).
Love Is A First isn't at all representative of this collection, but fits nicely with Queen of the Furrows and Speed River. In fact, if you took "World Container" off of World Container and placed it on We Are The Same, and took Love Is A First, and put that on World Container - well, you'd see the contrast more clearly.
Gord's lyrics become increasingly mature with each release. "Bring on the requisite strangeness" - as good as it gets. And to hear the horn introduce itself on Coffee Girl - perfect. The drumming is unbelievable - this is the first Hip album I can remember where I actually found myself just listening to the drum line (thanks for that insight, Matt!).
Think of all the great Hip ballads and imagine building upon that - that's what We Are The Same is all about.
To dismiss this CD would be like saying "Rubber Soul" didn't sound like the Beatles after their first series of albums. The Hip continues to push the limits and evolve, and we are the lucky beneficiaries of their courage.
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The Tragically Hip are back with their most accessible release ever. We Are the Same, their first album since 2007, was produced by Bob Rock (Metallica, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi) and features some of the most memorable songs the band has ever written.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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