The Tragically Hip Top Forty Countdown: Song Twenty-Four - Colin from Winnipeg

The Tragically Hip Top Forty Countdown: Song 24 — Colin from Winnipeg

Hey, it’s jD — and this week we head to the heart of the prairies with Colin from Winnipeg, a longtime Hiphead who once went to a show alone at 13 years old and came out the other side a lifer. (And no, this isn’t the plot of a 1990s coming-of-age movie — although it should be.)

Colin’s story is peak Gen X Hiphead: cassette tapes rolling during FM year-end countdowns, MuchMusic playing Courage next to 54•40, and a growing obsession that culminated in using his flyer-route money to buy Day for Night on release week. We talk about the impact of hearing Fully Completely straight through on New Year’s Eve radio, how Day for Night became his personal Rosetta Stone, and how those early albums carved out a space for solitude, self-discovery, and big goddamn feelings.

There’s live gig lore too — like being part of a possibly 80,000-strong crowd at a free War Child show in downtown Winnipeg (no, really) and getting body-surfed by the pulse of 60,000 fans at Another Roadside Attraction.

This one’s for the kids who snuck into the Winnipeg Arena, burned their own bootlegs, and never stopped playing Day for Night front to back.

🎙️ Next week: We cross the ocean to meet Janet from the Isle of Man, whose Hip fandom was sparked by a trip to North Bay in the ’90s and has since gone global. Spoiler: she’s got a tattoo. And a Hip fan forum trophy.

💬 Pull Quote

“You could drop the vocals, the guitars, the bass — any part of the song of the week — and it would still be one of the best things you’ve ever heard.”

👤 About Our Guest

Colin from Winnipeg is a podcast host (Off The Podium, Double Oz Seven) and a lifelong fan of The Hip. He saw them live twice before turning 15, owns a beat-up VHS with a Lake Fever performance on it, and still defends In Violet Lightlike it’s family.

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Transcript follows below.

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Transcript

[0:00] Hey, it's JD here and welcome back to the Tragically Hip Top 40 Countdown. It is an absolute

pleasure to be here with you week over week where we're counting down 40 essential tracks by the

hip that you selected with your very own top 20 ballots. I then tabulated the results using an abacus

and a ginger-haired toddler with telekinesis who can fetch me beer from the fridge using only her

mind. How will your favorite songs fare in the rankings? You'll need to tune in every week to find

out. So there's that. This week I'm joined by the Tragicall