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Hands down, the best band that I have heard in the last 20 years, period. In Violet Light is right up there with some of their great earlier stuff. I would recommend any of their catalog but if you haven't heard it, give road apples and fully completely a good couple of spins. Happy Listening!!!!!!!!

I was traveling this week and just got home, I'm going to pick up "In Violet Light" today. Hopefully it's as good as their best release (to date) "Day for Night". Oh, if any of you are interested, you can go to www.thehip.com and order "Day for Night" on vinyl for a very reasonable price. The Hip kick off their tour June 22nd, Bourbon Street North (Montreal). Can't wait, it's gonna be an awesome show.

As a native of Buffalo, I heard the Hip out of Toronto radio stations all the time growing up. I have all their CDs, except for Road Apples, which I found sharply subpar compared to the rest of the group's efforts.

Mes,

Gord's solo release, "Coke Machine Glow" was quite a disappointment to say the least. Basically, Gord has someone jot down his random ramblings when the Hip are playing live. If you've seen the Hip live or own "Live Between Us" you know the rather unusual banter I'm referring to (e.g. "Jesus Christ big f**king bear! Whoa!!!!"). He set the extremely odd ad libs to some acoustic music for "Coke". Gord's ramblings work very well in the context of adding filler during "New Orleans" or "Nautical" but as standalone lyrics to some background acoustic guitar it sucks hard. I chatted with the Hip's manager outside a small venue in Boston a few years ago, he told me the Hip struggle to sell their music in the U.S. but "if Gord released a record with nothing but him belching he'd sell a million copies in Canada". "Coke" isn't far from belching.