The Tragically Hip Trivia Questions & Answers : Page 5

"Baby eat that chicken slow, it's full up of them little bones."

The video for this song features the band performing under the name "The Filters" and was directed by Bruce McCulloch, a Canadian actor and comedian who starred in "Kids in the Hall" and was a writer on "Saturday Night Live." McCulloch won Best Director at the 2000 MuchMusic Video Awards for this video.

Gord Downie has often used a dark sense of humour with his lyrics and while performing live. "We'll Go Too" is an example of this humour. The song relates to the feeling of being confined or trapped. It gives the listener a perspective of hopelessness, almost as though there is no where for the song narrator to go.

"To boldly clap in a room full of nothing
you never know, it could be one of those
poignant evenings

Museum's locked and it's long since past
closing you cannot know, you cannot not know (you cannot know, you cannot not know)
what you're knowing (what you're knowing)

What can you do, they've all gone
and we'll go too."

The Horseshoe Tavern on Queen Street opened in 1947 and has been a staple of great music ever since. Many legends have played here, from Stompin' Tom Connors, Willie Nelson, The Police to The Ramones and way too many to list.
Record producer Bruce Dickinson of MCA Records heard the Hip in November, 1986 and he was so impressed he offered them a record deal.

Lupus: Wolf
Indicative of trouble: Dire

This song was inspired by Wallace Stevens' "Sea Surface Full of Clouds". The structure of the song is set the same as the original poem, and even some of the words are mirrored:

Stevens: "In that November off Tehuantepec..."
Downie: "In that September off Isle Aux Morts"
(Isle Aux Morts is French and translates to "Island of the Dead," a Newfoundland island known for its treacherous waters.)*

Dire wolves are actually ancient precursors to today's wolves*.

Mike Clattenberg who developed the series "Trailer Park Boys" also directed two of the Hip's videos, "Your Not The Ocean" and "The Darkest One".

Bill Barilko scored the Stanley Cup winning goal in overtime in 1951 for the Leafs. Later that summer, he perished in a plane crash on a fishing trip to Northern Ontario. His remains were not found until early 1962, ironically the next year the Leafs won the Cup.

This is one of my favourite all time songs. "The Hip" as they are familiarly known to fans, write songs that not only tell a story but originate from experiences that are sometimes relatable, sometimes sad but always interesting. This song is about the experiences bands have as they tour and end up meeting up with other bands as they travel around. There is one singer that really made an impression on the band, and that's a guy named Jim Ellison, from the band Material Issue who really hit it off with the band. Ellison was found dead in his garage in 1996, having died from carbon dioxide poisoning and after that, The Hip lead singer Gord Downie would dedicate this song to him when they performed it live.

All of these are iconic Canadian shows. "Men with Brooms" was a movie about curling, "Corner Gas" is about a small town called Dog River and "Trailer Park Boys" is exactly what it sounds like.

On Saturday April 2, 2005, The Hip was honored at the 2005 JUNO Gala Dinner and Awards ceremony, by being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. They earned over 30 Juno nominations of which they won at least 11. They were added to Canada's Walk of Fame in 2002. Also in 2013, they were honored by the Canadian government in a series of postage stamps.