The Tragically Hip Podcast Series

podList 7: The Classics - Shownotes
podList 7: The Classics - 18 Hip Covers from 1987 Through "Day for Night"
podList 7 is here. 18 tribute artists tackle The Tragically Hip's earliest era - from the 1987 EP through "Day for Night."
Summary:
The seventh installment of podList drops with a focus on the foundational years of The Tragically Hip's catalogue - the 1987 self-titled EP through 1994's "Day for Night." 18 tribute acts and solo artists from across the Hip cover community contributed tracks, spanning deep cuts and signature songs alike.
The lineup includes Jay Hubbard on 'Little Bones,' Duxoop Douglas on 'Courage,' The Gracefully Hip on 'Grace, Too,' Forever Hip on '38 Years Old,' and Tragically Al closing things out with 'Opiated.' Two tracks each appear for 'Nautical Disaster' and 'Fiddler's Green' - a happy accident of the open submission format that lets listeners hear how different artists approach the same source material.
podList exists because tribute bands and solo Hip interpreters keep the catalogue alive in rooms across Canada and beyond. This volume zeroes in on the classics - the era that built the foundation everything else stands on.
Track Listing:
Jay Hubbard - 'Little Bones'
Duxoop Douglas - 'Courage'
The Gracefully Hip - 'Grace, Too'
Forever Hip - '38 Years Old'
Urban Hip - 'Fiddler's Green'
Little Bones - 'Scared'
Shaun Robertson - 'Nautical Disaster'
Trickle Down - 'Twist My Arm'
Thomas De Bock - 'Cordelia'
Gift Shop - 'Pigeon Camera'
50 Mission - 'Fully, Completely'
Evil Tom Bosely - 'Long Time Running'
Nautical Disaster - 'Blow At High Dough'
Hip Check - 'On The Verge'
The Fabulously Rich - 'Looking For A Place To Happen'
Tim Clark & Ben Wallace - 'Nautical Disaster'
Christian White - 'Fiddler's Green'
Tragically Al - 'Opiated'

Guest Info:
18 contributing artists: Jay Hubbard, Duxoop Douglas, The Gracefully Hip, Forever Hip, Urban Hip, Little Bones, Shaun Robertson, Trickle Down, Thomas De Bock, Gift Shop, 50 Mission, Evil Tom Bosely, Nautical Disaster, Hip Check, The Fabulously Rich, Tim Clark & Ben Wallace, Christian White, and Tragically Al.
Resources:
The Hip Compendium: compendium.tthpods.com
podList submissions: podlist.tthpods.com
The Tragically Hip Podcast Series: tthpods.com
Links - Tribute Bands:
Forever Hip (Toronto, ON): foreverhip.ca
The Gracefully Hip (Quebec City, QC): sites.google.com/view/thegracefullyhip | facebook.com/thegracefullyhip
Urban Hip (Thunder Bay, ON): urbanhip.ca | facebook.com/p/Urban-Hip-100063907241104
Little Bones (Ottawa, ON): sites.google.com/view/littlebones-ca/home | facebook.com/littlebonesottawa
Trickle Down (Calgary, AB): trickledownband.com
Gift Shop (Vancouver, BC): giftshophipband.ca | facebook.com/giftshophipband
50 Mission (Southern Ontario): 50missionband.com | facebook.com/50mission | instagram.com/50missionhip
Nautical Disaster (Victoria, BC): nauticaldisaster.com | facebook.com/NauticalDisasterband
Hip Check (Ontario): hipcheck.band
The Fabulously Rich (Charlottetown, PE): thefabulouslyrich.com | instagram.com/thefabrich
Close:
podList 7 is a celebration of the artists who keep "The Tragically Hip," "Up to Here," "Road Apples," "Fully Completely," and "Day for Night" alive through their own interpretations. Eighteen takes on the classics. One catalogue. The fans always show up.
Crosslinks:
Fully & Completely: track-by-track album walkthroughs of the same era covered here
The Tragically Hip On Shuffle: weekly live stream covering the full catalogue
A Forest Of Whispering Speakers: now airing weekly through June 8

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A Forest Of Whispering Speakers - The Book
Two writers. Ten years of trust. One Tragically Hip catalogue. Episode two is the story of how the book got written without flattening the band.
Episode Summary
A Forest Of Whispering Speakers is the oral history of the Theatre Aquarius world premiere of It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken, the new musical built on the music of The Tragically Hip. Act II: The Book is the writers' room episode — how an exile's journey gets shaped into a story, and how Hip songs become the emotional grammar of that story without ever turning it into a band biography or a jukebox musical.
Host jD sits down with co-writers Ahmed Moneka and Jesse LaVercombe, with producer Michael Rubinoff and Tragically Hip manager Jake Gold stepping in to frame the bigger picture. The episode opens at a campfire in Prince Edward County in 2015, traces the ten-year partnership that built King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild at Soulpepper, and lands on the two different doors each writer walked through to find The Hip — one across a bridge in Bobcaygeon, the other watching Gord say goodbye from south of the border.
Inside the episode: the load-bearing wall of a decade-long friendship, the yin-yang of Ahmed's exile and Jesse's grief, a Thornton Wilder quote about platitudes, and a working theory that 700 people in a theatre cannot lie to you at once.
Guest Info
Ahmed Moneka (Toronto, via Baghdad) — Co-writer of It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken. Iraqi-Canadian actor, singer, and writer. Co-creator of King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild.
Jesse LaVercombe (Toronto, via the United States) — Co-writer of It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken. Writer and performer. Co-creator of King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild.
Michael Rubinoff — Producer, It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken. Originating producer of Come From Away.
Jake Gold — Manager, The Tragically Hip.
Resources & Links
Theatre Aquarius — It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken
King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild — Soulpepper Theatre
Driftwood Theatre — Shakespeare in the Park, Southern Ontario
The Hip Compendium - compendium.tthpods.com
Hipbase
HipMuseum
This Is Our Life
The Tragically Hip Archive
Calls to Action
See the show. It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken runs at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton through May 16, 2026. Tickets at tickets.tthpods.com.
Explore The Hip Compendium — 1,358 mapped live shows, full discography, On This Day, and more at compendium.tthpods.com.
Closing Paragraph
Thanks to Ahmed Moneka and Jesse LaVercombe for the time, the candour, and the campfire story. Thanks to Michael Rubinoff and Jake Gold for the framing. Act II is the writers' room. Act III: The Craft drops Monday, May 18 — the design team, the orchestrator, the choreographer, and the people who turn the page into a stage. So there's that.
Promos & Crosslinks
podList 7 - "the classics" drops Friday, May 15. Eighteen tracks of 1987–1995 era covers, including intentional duplicate covers of 'Nautical Disaster' and 'Fiddler's Green'.
Previous episode: A Forest Of Whispering Speakers - Act I: The Idea
Companion listening: The Tragically Hip On Shuffle - Live Stream, Wednesdays 8 PM ET
Socials & Community
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podList SIX – A Fan-Made Hip Mixtape From the Deep Cuts Up
Welcome to podList SIX, the sixth annual fan-powered Tragically Hip mixtape — lovingly curated, courageously sequenced, and now spun into podcast gold. Each year, listeners submit tracks based on a theme. This year’s twist? No Top 40 allowed. That’s right: every single pick comes from songs ranked #169 to #41 in The Tragically Hip Top Forty Countdown.
This isn’t just a playlist — it’s a podList. One part mixtape, one part podcast. A celebration of the underdog tracks, the deep cuts, the personal anthems that never quite cracked the upper charts but still crack your heart wide open.
TRACK LISTING:

‘Gift Shop’ (feat. Justin St. Louis) – In View
Thomas de Bock – Save the Planet
“Tragically” Al Lunt – The Luxury
‘Fight in the Dog’ – Don’t Wake Daddy
‘Evil Tom Hanks’ – Are We Family
Jeff Tucker – The Rules
Kirk Lane – A Beautiful Thing
Shaun Robertson – Pretend
‘Little Bones’ – Twist My Arm
‘Blue Jean Skier’ – Putting Down
‘Gift Shop’ (Solo track redux) – On the Verge

From Save the Planet’s apocalyptic swing to the tender ache of A Beautiful Thing, from the riff-heavy Twist My Arm to the existential daydream of On the Verge, this year’s podList proves that the bottom 129 has never sounded so good.
Plug in. Press play. And remember — it’s not where it landed on the countdown. It’s where it lives in your gut.

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The Tragically Hip On Shuffle - Live Stream: Looking For A Place To Happen

A Halifax 2015 live cut, a 40-person Off Ramp show in 1991, and a panel that pulls the deep American Hipstory out of "Fully Completely."
Episode Overview
This week on The Tragically Hip On Shuffle, host jD spins 'Looking For A Place To Happen' - track two from the 1992 Chris Tsangarides-produced "Fully Completely." It is the sequencer's burden to live between 'Courage' and 'At The Hundredth Meridian,' and the panel is here to figure out what it's hauling.
The roundtable is a North American one this time. Dave from Montreal joins jD alongside two lifelong friends and bandmates, Greg from Tacoma and Chris from Seattle, who have been playing music together since 1981 and watching The Tragically Hip every chance they got. Greg's first Hip show was a 40-person night at The Off Ramp in 1991, opening for The Sundays, where Gord opened 'Looking For A Place To Happen' with a frogman-for-the-cops story instead of a killer-whale-tank one. Chris saw The Hip up close at the Under The Rail and watched Gord catch a flying beer mid-line without missing a beat.
The conversation runs deep. The panel reads the song as a great Canadian travelogue working on multiple levels at once - the Jacques Cartier exterior, the interior landscape of a songwriter and a touring band looking for places to happen, and the foreshadowing of what would later become Gord's most public work around indigenous rights. There is talk of bootleg pre-shows, the legendary monologues that never made the record, the 'plaintive plaintive whale' outro that lives only in old recordings, and the beautiful curse of being the eleventh-best song on a record this good.
The opener question this week was favourite last song on a Hip album. Dave goes with 'Emperor Penguin' from "Phantom Power" - heard on Saint Laurent at midnight after grabbing a tape from Sam The Record Man, and only ever heard live once, in Quebec City on the We Are The Same tour. Chris picks 'The Wherewithal' from "Live Between Us," recorded at Cobo Arena in Detroit, where he could throw a rock and hit Windsor as a kid. Greg represents the Northwest with 'Goodnight Josephine' from "In Between Evolution," recorded in his rainy hometown.
Songs come up for a reason.
Quick Facts: Looking For A Place To Happen
Album: "Fully Completely" (1992)
Track: 2 of 12
Producer: Chris Tsangarides
First live performance: February 4, 1991
Last live performance: October 15, 2015
TTHTop40 Countdown ranking: #35 (of 169 tracks)
Live version featured on the stream: Halifax, 2015 (Fully And Completely tour)

Panelists
Dave from Montreal A Tragically Hip fan since the band came calling on much music. Quebec City regular, lifelong Stones fan, and the writer of a viral 2016 National Post piece on The Hip's final tour. Find him on Instagram and Bluesky as dave.kaufman (spelled like Andy), and read his work at therover.ca, including a feature on Buffalo's Strictly Hip and Quebec City's francophone tribute band, Gracefully Hip.
Greg from Tacoma Lifelong Pacific Northwest musician and one half of Hades Market alongside his wife Liz. The band is named after his grandparents' grocery store in Mud Bay, Olympia. Find Hades Market on all the streaming services.
Chris from Seattle Singer, songwriter, and guitarist with Seattle band Loud Flowers, who released two new EPs in April plus a 2024 full-length. Previously fronted Shadow Band The Civilians, which featured Steve Nieve from Elvis Costello's band. Visit loudflowers.band.
Resources & References
Hipbase: hipbase.com
The Hip Museum: thehipmuseum.com
This Is Our Life: thisisourlife.ca
Setlist.fm: setlist.fm
The Tragically Hip Archive: archive.thehip.com
The Hip Compendium: compendium.tthpods.com
Timestamps
00:00 - Welcome to The Tragically Hip On Shuffle live stream
02:24 - Meet the panel: Dave from Montreal, Greg from Tacoma, Chris from Seattle
06:18 - Tale of the tape: 'Looking For A Place To Happen,' "Fully Completely," Chris Tsangarides
07:47 - Listening session: Halifax 2015 live version
13:39 - The plaintive whale outro and the dual lead vocal with Gord Sinclair
14:41 - Greg's compliment for jD and the eight-show podcast network
16:14 - Favourite last song on an album: Dave picks 'Emperor Penguin'
18:50 - Chris picks 'The Wherewithal' from "Live Between Us" at Cobo Arena
24:35 - Greg picks 'Goodnight Josephine' from "World Container"
25:39 - First impressions of 'Looking For A Place To Happen'
29:46 - Dave on the burden of living between 'Courage' and 'Hundredth Meridian'
33:43 - Greg's 1991 Off Ramp show and the frogman-for-the-cops monologue
36:32 - Bootleg memories and the porter-on-a-steamship monologue
37:50 - The double suicide cassette and Gord as improviser
40:40 - The eye contact, the ebb and flow, and being in the show
45:43 - The exploration reading: a band becoming a great touring band
47:38 - Putting Down, indigenous Canada, and reading Gord in retrospect
49:38 - The notebook, the four coloured pens, and the Rosetta Stone
51:08 - Dave's Quebec City night with Gord at the bar
55:00 - Songs that grow with you, eight years of podcasts, and the headroom in The Hip's catalogue
1:02:38 - Next week's shuffle: 'Game Day' from "Trouble At The Henhouse"
1:03:33 - Plugs: Dave Kaufman, Hades Market, Loud Flowers

Coming Up
Next week, the shuffle machine spins 'Let's Stay Engaged' from "Trouble At The Henhouse." Cast a vote in the community group, and come hang in the chat live next Wednesday.
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The Tragically Hip On Shuffle is part of The Tragically Hip Podcast Series - Est. 2018. New episodes every Wednesday at 8 PM ET, live on YouTube.

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Get ready for a blast from the fucking past! We’re revisiting the first five years of podList episodes and bringing them back to the feed—your chance to re-live the magic of TTH fan covers, back-to-back. We’re talking incredible fucking renditions of classic tracks by The Tragically Hip tracks brought to life by listeners just like you. So there’s that.
Each year, devoted Hip fans from all walks of life have picked up their guitars, banjos, pianos, and yes, even synthasysers to reimagine The Hip’s legendary catalog. It’s a celebration of artistry, community, and the music that unites us. So there’s that.
And don’t forget, podList SIX is just around the corner on May 26th. But first, let’s take a trip down memory lane. Listen, enjoy, and maybe even start practicing—your song could be featured next!
Track Listing:
The Stranger - Maria King
Lofty Pines - Tragically Al
Trick Rider - Darrin Cappe
Vancouver Divorce - Craig/ jD
Yer Ashore - Kirk Lane
Crater - Craig/Justin
Canada Geese - Lifte
Gone - Gerald McGrath
SF Song - Aye Karou
The Stranger - The Strictly Hip

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