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<\/a>\nI say I don’t give a fuck about hockey, and you’ve never saw someone say THAT before.<\/p>\n
But that’s a different Trag song.\u00a0 I can call these guys “The Hip” and “Trag” because they\u00a0 are so familiar.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that’s because they’ve been way WAY WAY<\/strong><\/em> overplayed up here in Canada.\u00a0 See, Canadian radio stations (and TV stations) have to follow laws that state they must play a certain percentage of “Canadian content” per day, or per hour, or per basket.<\/p>\n And as a consequence, as good as this band is, and as much as I like their songs, I usually skip them when they come on the iPod.\u00a0 Except for this song<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s got a bit of an unconventional structure, and one hell of a dark theme.<\/p>\n Speaking of dark themes, I like dark desktop themes for my Windows and Linux installations.\u00a0 It’s kind of lame that Ubuntu is trying to be like Mac and all their OSXiness, but at least I can change all that around to my liking.<\/p>\n Now let’s imagine what Gord Bob Doug is singing in this song.\u00a0 Sorry, but the name of the singer escapes me at the moment, even though I’m 80% certain he’s one of the Gords in the band.\u00a0 Is Wikipedia too far away for me to verify this?\u00a0 Sadly, tonight it is.<\/p>\n So Jimmy, the singer, is vocalizing and speechifying about some kind of weird vessel which carries menfolk out to sea.\u00a0 Said vessel also floats upon the cold, dark sea.\u00a0 The Briney Deep.\u00a0 How can a contrivance of Man float upon the waters???<\/p>\n DEMONRY!!!!<\/p>\n And while we’re at it, we will quench our torches and our bonfires with water!\u00a0 It is not natural to hold fire within our hands!\u00a0 We am play gods!\u00a0 We go too far!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI don’t know the exactiness of it all.\u00a0 Anyhoo, since Canada has one tenth the population of the US, and hence one tenth the good music, what good music Canada produces gets played right the fuck out.\u00a0 That’s the main reason I no longer listen to the radio.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI say we band together and burn these boats and ships!\u00a0 It is not natural for Man to float upon the seas!<\/p>\n