Episode Details

Picture it, the turn of the millennium, and the dawn of the online music revolution. jD just shelled out his last few dollars on The Tragically Hip’s seventh studio record, Music at Work, unaware that it would mark the end of an era for him - his final first-day purchase. From there we take a deep dive into the album's reception, its relevance today, and the debate if it was a step out of The Hip's comfort zone.

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Transcript

Track 1:

[0:00] Welcome to getting hip to the hip. I'm JD. I'm here as always with Pete and. 

[0:06] Tim How are you fellas doing this fine day? 

Track 3:

[0:10] Doing great doing great Just getting it going and excited to be here and see a couple of my favorite dudes over the interwebs. 

Track 2:

[0:19] I Am doing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to fucking discuss this fucking record Oh, wow. 

Track 3:

[0:27] Oh, boy. 

Track 2:

[0:28] Oh, boy. 

Track 3:

[0:29] So... Fasten your seatbelts, folks. 

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[0:31] Fasten your seatbelts, folks. 

Track 2:

[0:32] What does that mean? Spoons, plural. Spoons full of sugar. Not just fucking... Not just one. 

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[0:39] The Disney references are just rolling out. 

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[0:41] Jeez. 

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[0:44] Well, we're here today to talk about the 2000 release, June 2000, the seventh studio record by seminal Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. 

Music at work. Before we go into our vaunted segment of song by song, let's just get a general sense of what you guys thought of this record. 

Where you listened to it, what you were exposed to, how it formed over time. 

What do you think there, Pete? 

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[1:21] I'll be brief, because I want to really dive into the songs, too, but I will say, I listened to this record at work. 

Well, I was at my computer. 

Come on, Tim, did you want that one? Were you waiting to use that one? 

Track 3:

[1:42] No, it was your turn. It was your turn. 

A lot of listeners right now are like, oh my god, we're out of here. 

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[1:52] Listen to it in the car. The sound system in the car made it really pop. 

But I will say, probably the best place to listen to it was on runs. It was just... 

I love the record. I really, really enjoyed this record profusely. 

So I'll say that. I'll leave it there. All right. 

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[2:21] Mr. Leiden. 

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[2:22] Yeah, so I listened to this. I had a bunch of headphone-based physical therapy the past week, and I pretty much had it on for all of that, which was very much focused movement and definitely could consider audio. 

And it was it was pretty good. 

It took me back to, I think, mostly to Live Between Us, like if we're gonna go apples to apples or apples and oranges throughout their discography thus far, for many reasons. 

And there's some songs on here I really like a lot. There's a couple that I thought were pretty different, like definitely a step out than past albums. 

And yeah, at one point I thought this might be my favorite so far in our work to get to this point. 

I thought this might be one of my favorite albums so far, but I'm still questioning it. I'm still thinking that there might be another one out there in the future that I just I Give you know nine point five two or whatever. 

Album Rating and Discussion on Critics' Opinions

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[3:35] It might be Gotcha Yeah, this was rated relatively low by all music and what?