![]() This song can be heard in the Atom Egoyan film The Sweet Hereafter. Downie can be seen wearing a homemade Boston Bruins sweater, which shows that he is a big supporter of the team. ![]() This is one of the most ’90s songs that I know. ![]() It pays tribute to the book The Watch that Ends the Night, written by Hugh MacLennan, whom the song is dedicated to. Also, each member of the band is showcased.ĭownie dances a lot when he performs, and this is showcased in the music video of this song, which is ahead of its time because he looks like the lead singer of Sum 41. At one point, it looks as if they are performing in a volcano. The song begins with the famous line that Downie says, “They filmed a movie once in my hometown.” The music video of the song involves the band performing in front of a background showing archival footage of the golden age of Hollywood, which part of the song talks about. I remembered this song as the theme song of Made in Canada (a show on CBC that Rick Mercer was in). Here are some of the greatest music videos of the band’s early years. The band’s heyday was in the 1990s where they had a lot of hit singles and interesting music videos that made them hip. Downie’s band, The Tragically Hip, made a lot of songs about Canada and had a distinctive Canadian sound. The following day was one of the saddest days in Canada and a lot of people were affected about this, including Justin Trudeau and Heather Hiscox. On October 17, 2017, Gord Downie passed away from brain cancer. It’s a change from some of the more somber work Downie released following the last Hip tour in 2016, including Secret Path, his tribute to Chanie Wenjack and the thousands of children stolen from their families and lost in residential schools, and Introduce Yerself, an album released just days after Downie’s death.Photo of Tragically Hip via CBC Remembering Gord Downie Until then, give “Lustre Parfait” a listen. For a project that was a decade in the making, what’s a few more months? There’s no word on when the rest of the 13 songs will be released, just that the joint album is due sometime next year. “I am grateful that I got to witness his genius in such close proximity.” “First and foremost, Gord was my friend, and having the opportunity to work with him on these songs was one of the biggest highlights of my professional life,” says Rock, famously the producer responsible for Metallica’s Black album among a host of other high-profile, and highly successful, recordings. After the second album, Downie asked Rock if he had any music Downie could write lyrics to “Lustre Parfait” we get the result of that personal and immediate collaboration. Of course, it’s not the first time Downie, or the Hip, worked with Rock: He worked with the band on both World Container and We Are The Same. It’s peppy and jangly, bright and toe-tapping, with just enough horn to make it surprisingly jazzy in a Gord-kinda way. bwPtTLPz0M- George FKN StroumbouloPHÒulos □ September 15, 2021 There is new music being released from Gord Downie.īefore he passed, he had been working with Bob Rock on 14 songs. Clearly there’s been some delay, but the new song is now here to enjoy. The news came three days after the fifth anniversary of Downie’s death and was a surprise to many.īut this project had been teased a year ago: In an interview with George Strombolopolous, Rock said he’d been working on 14 songs with Downie and promised that a new single would be released on FebruDownie’s birthday. On Thursday, the Tragically Hip and Bob Rock announced the release of a song, “Lustre Parfait,” before a full album comes out next year. Guess what: There was something else in the works too. ![]() In 2020, when the estate of Gord Downie released Away is Mine near the three-year anniversary of his passing, it was promised that there was more to come from the late singer.Īt the time, the discussion was an album recorded with Dale Morningstar and his band, The Dinner is Ruined, which was completed before the Away is Mine sessions in 2017, but there was no indication of when we might see or hear that project.
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