The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, are a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of lead singer Gordon Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay. Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, 1 EP, and 54 singles. Nine of their albums have reached No. 1 in Canada. They have received numerous Canadian Music awards, including 14 Juno Awards.
History
Early history (1983–1991)
The Tragically Hip formed in 1983 at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Guitarist Paul Langlois joined in 1986; saxophonist Davis Manning left that same year. They took their name from a skit in the Michael Nesmith movie Elephant Parts. At one of their first venues, Mark Mattson, a lawyer, and friend of The Hip, got asked to get a graphic designer to make their tickets. Mark asked Owen Corrigan, a graphic designer, and one of Gord's and The Hip's best friends. Owen accepted the offer, but disliked the name of the band. So he made the tickets but changed the name to "Tropical Ship". Mark was angry at Owen but didn't have enough time to ask Owen to make new tickets, so he scratched out "Tropical Ship" and wrote "Tragically Hip" by hand.
Podcasts:
Johnny Fay
ALBUMS
- Rockin' Dance, Volume 16: Cat Music released:
Rockin' Dance, Volume 16: Cat Music
- Doing All Right
- Little Girl Kiss Me Sweet
- Our Love Kept a Rollin'
- Careful Baby
- Cat Music
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry
- Sugar Doll
- Fool I Am
- Come On
- Caveman
- Just Lookin'
- Geronimo Stomp
- Savin' My Love
- Swing It Up
- Tag Along
- Honey Baby
- Heart of a Fool
- Dragster
- Rockin' in the Congo
- Move Around
- Believe What You Say
- Blue Days Black Nights
- Sweet Baby Doll
- Uh Uh Huh MMM
- Sweet Linda Brown
- Rollin' Pin Mim
- Sweet Love
- I Love My Baby
- Baby Take Me Back
- Mabel's Gone
- My Baby's Done Gone Away
- You're the One That Done It
- The Joint's Really Jumpin'
- Eenie Meenie
- It's Rock 'n' Roll
- Rockin' in Baghdad
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by Three Plus
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by Taylor Swift
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by Damien Jurado
Honey Baby
by: Three PlusChorus:
She is Cool Operator
Oo yeah mysterious woman
Just like, just like a mobstah
The detective undercover (2x)
The first time I saw her it was the summer time, the
summer time now
And on the surface she looked so fine fine fine, fine
She was askin to see who I was, said a nah nah nah
I wondered what her motives were
She asked me if I was a reggae star, a reggae star now
If I could show her around the world, around the world
But we play music just to share our love girl, said a
nah nah nah nah nah
I can not resist this shut eyed girl because
Chorus:
I saw walking on the beach down in Waimea
She robbed my braddahs from thier speach speach speach
hey
She's wearin diamonds and shes flashing pearls all
around
She's puttin me right out of reach
Some guy pulls up in a fancy car, a fancy car now
She partys with him through the night, hey
But deep inside I know she checks for me cuz she feels
it deeply
But I know it can not be, because
Chorus:
Bridge:
The world is changing yes this means you (you) since
you were a kid
It fills your head with many dreams (dreams)
that's the life you live in now
Uptown girl steppin high (high) in your high fashion
I know you try can't be no queen (queen) Never girl
Chorus:
The girl was cool operator me say the girl was a cool
operator
She left a Miami and a gone a Jamaica
Me keep away them dread locks away from them not ah
She like laugh at that and a gone a Canada