The Tragically Hip- Wheat Kings REACTION & REVIEW

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@fropen3401 11 ай бұрын

Song is about David Milgaard- a famous Canadian case of a man wrongfully accused of the murder of a nurse in Saskatoon in 1969. Spent 20 years in jail

@skarlottt 6 ай бұрын

That was a dark Canadian secret

@abshadowrider 2 ай бұрын

@@fropen3401 I lived in Winnipeg in those years. We were so glad when he was released. Such a terrible injustice.

@debbieplato5107 11 ай бұрын

This song is about David Milgaard who is from my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada He was falsely convicted of killing a nurse in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and he was exonerated 20 years later and set free. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are the prairie provinces and wheat is one of the main crops. There is a hockey team from Brandon, Manitoba called the Wheat Kings. You are correct in that this is one of their quieter songs. The one line that really stands out for me is Nobody is interested in what you didn't do. For their other side New Orleans is Sinking Twist my Arm Cordelia Locked in the trunk of a car Courage Grace Too Blow at High Dough If Rush was Canada's world band The Hip as we called them was Canada's house band. They had pockets of fans in the States but they never really became popular. Unfortunately Gord Downie passed from the same brain cancer as Neil Peart of Rush. The Hip did one last tour before Gord passed and it was televised right across Canada. A third of the country watched. Cheers

@loveyourwork 2 ай бұрын

We were neighbours with David for about 6 months in Vancouver. He was a gentle, shy fella, who was obviously destroyed by the time he spent in prison.

@garya7893 11 ай бұрын

I never knew about them until i saw their song New Orleans is Sinking and being from there i checked it out And i love this band Do some research on them and i think you will become a fan also The thing i get from reaction vids on music is seeing there are nice people from all over the world You are one of them .Peace to you and yours

@JustJP 11 ай бұрын

Thats very kind of you Garya, thank you

@skarlottt 6 ай бұрын

You can't love the music

@lewisbernstein4272 11 ай бұрын

Wheat Kings is a good song - but I would have started with Courage, or At The Hundred Meridian or Fifty Mission Cap from this album. However Wheat Kings is typically Hip - it is a song of pure Canadiana. Here is the background of the song... "Late-breaking story on the CBC, a nation whispers, we always knew that he'd go free." The first time David Milgaard's mother, Joyce, heard those words, she cried. It was 1992, and Joyce's son had recently been released from prison after serving 23 years - 8,355 days - for a heinous crime he didn't commit. He was just 17 when he was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of nursing assistant Gail Miller. The Tragically Hip, inspired by the case, wrote "Wheat Kings." According to Gord Downie in the book Top 100 Canadian Singles, the song is "about David Milgaard and his faith in himself. And about his mother, Joyce, and her absolute faith in her son's innocence. And about our big country and its faith in man's fallibility. And about Gail Miller, all those mornings ago, just lying there, all her faith bleeding out into that Saskatoon snowbank." It became known as one of the most infamous wrongdoings in the Canadian criminal justice system, to be studied in law classes across the country. "Wheat Kings," for its part, is one of the Hip's most popular, most inspired songs of their 30-year career. They released it on their album Fully Completely in October 1992, six months after David's release, which followed what must have felt like a lifetime of behind-the-scenes work from his family to have David's conviction overturned.

@maruad7577 11 ай бұрын

Those recs are all excellent.

@greggsimmons3392 11 ай бұрын

Glad to hear some more cancon (Canadian Content as it's called up here north of the border) on your channel. The rest of Fully Completely is much much harder. Personal favourites (yes, it has a 'u' in it up here) on that album are 50 Mission Cap and At The Hundredth Meridian. Favourites from other albums are New Orleans Is Sinking, Ahead By A Century, Poets, and Bobcaygeon.

@paulschirf9259 11 ай бұрын

I said this on another reaction to them. I saw them live for the first time in Virginia on July 4, 1990. While I'm not Canadian, many years later while watching their farewell show and knowing what was happening, I had a Canadian friend say that my tears made me a Canuck for a day.

@jonsmith9518 11 ай бұрын

Has there ever been a band go out like that? What a show that was

@ghostlight1 11 ай бұрын

I’m a newcomer to this band (2 years) and absolutely adore them. I’m in the UK but a Canadian friend recommended them to me. Wheat Kings is one of my favourite songs. A similar track in many ways is 38 Years Old, and don’t forget Fiddler’s Green which is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. For something ‘less acoustic’ try Grace Too, Daredevil, or Locked in the Trunk of a Car. Love your Pink Floyd and Mike Oldfield reviews JP, and I look forward to you reviewing more of The Hip!

@steveobrien9937 11 ай бұрын

My brother!!..... I knew one day you would get to them I've been providing recommendations for this Canadian Gem of a band for a few years now....... the thing about The Tragically Hip is you may encounter a beautiful gorgeous folk song like this.... but then the next minute they're charging into some kick butt Rock...... I highly recommend you continue on their journey..... too many Tunes to recommend one so just follow the flow LOL

@JustJP 11 ай бұрын

Haha follow I shall! Ty Steve

@kimheffernan5511 2 ай бұрын

Wheat Kings is my favourite Hip song but the best thing about them is no matter what kind of mood your in, there’s a Hip song for it ❤

@arielcaceres5154 11 ай бұрын

Had their final concert playing off every TV in each room.. yet at the living room the whole family was watching in unison. Listening this track, it's like I'm back in the 90s.

@ryancraig2795 11 ай бұрын

I think their song "Bobcaygeon" might be an even better wake up song. On the not so acoustic side I'd suggest "It's a good life if you don't weaken".

@DavidB-2268 11 ай бұрын

A quintessential Canadian band, that never really tried to break into the US market.

@RobertBreedon-c3b 9 ай бұрын

We shared RUSH with the world we kept the Hip as just ours,,,,,,, RIP Gordie miss you and the guys

@jamespaivapaiva4460 11 ай бұрын

When singer/songwriter Gord. Downey passed Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau came on the C.B.C. to mark the day and eulogize Canada's son. His writing is seriously good. Their live performances stand out. I would suggest "Blow at High Dough"., or their first and only song to chart here- "New Orleans Is Sinking". On the easier side "Fiddlers Green" & "Bobcajeon" are favorites, but all of Gord's songs, poems, and stories are my kind of writing. R.I.P. Gordon- Peace & Love😂 ( By the way the documentary of their last tour is a must-see Gordon in the last stages of brain cancer, with The Last Show being televised nationally, Make sure you have tissues though it's very emotional!).

@Eduardo-Ferreira1982 11 ай бұрын

Canadian government treats arts with respect. For many years I've been seeing the Canadian arts Council (don't know if I'm being correct) in many cds. The last one in which I saw it was on the just recent album by Cowboy Junkies (I got to dig it, cause I heard a marvelous song from it! 😊) (didn't expected that sound from the Junkies)

@frankpentangeli7945 11 ай бұрын

I doubt Pierre Trudeau eulogized Gord Downey, since Downey died in 2017 and Trudeau in 2000. I imagine you mean that it was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Pierre's son) who did the eulogizing.

@jamespaivapaiva4460 11 ай бұрын

@@frankpentangeli7945 Thanks you're right. .

@maruad7577 11 ай бұрын

A deceptively beautiful song about David Milgaard who was wrongly convicted of murdering a nurse. He spent 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. From the beginning, with the loon call to all the lyrics contain so many Canadian prairie references. At the time the song was written, the main crop of the prairie was wheat. This song was a bit atypical. New Orleans Sinking or Locked In The Trunk Of A Car are more typical. The Hip tended to be much more rock.

@ritchmoore1442 11 ай бұрын

Just a great band. Nothing fancy but so easy to listen too. Live, they are another animal with Gord improvising. He's one of the best front men of any band I've known. 😎

@garylogan3640 10 ай бұрын

I saw them live in the spring of '90, in a smaller venue (about 600 people). They put on the best show I have ever seen live, still to this day.

@barthglennh 11 ай бұрын

Gift Shop - one of their best songs!

@jopay142 11 ай бұрын

TTH is one hell of a band... I've been enjoying their work since it began airing on the radio, in the late 80s. Besides all the good suggestions people put in the commentaries, "Grace Too" could also be a great option for your next Hip reaction. Personnally, it smacked me in the face when they did it as their second encore for their last tour, while Gord was fighting cancer.

@peteylavoy2288 11 ай бұрын

It's funny you say that because I've had this song as my alarm in the morning to wake up to for the longest time .

@OronOfMontreal 10 ай бұрын

I moved to L.A. just as these lads were becoming known, so I missed out on their growth into "Canada's Band". Last year or two, for some reason, the singer-writer's earlier death from brain cancer became a big thing among YT reactors. "Ahead By a Century" was the final song of the final concert, of the final tour of this beloved group. It was filmed in their hometown of Kingston, Ont. You can see the audience members bawling through their joy and satisfaction. Do try the live in Kingston "Ahead By a Century"!

@YukonWilleh 10 ай бұрын

1 third of canada watched their farewell concert when the singer gord was dieing of brain cancer, when he had trouble singing we filled in. We all almost have a story about it. I worked in a kitchen and we stopped seating people so all the staff could huddle around a tiny radio and listen to the last few songs But the whole country stopped to let Gord say goodbye. If i had to only reccomend a few. 38 years old New Orleans is sinking Bobcageon But i reccomend it all.

@colins7771 10 ай бұрын

Best band ever. Listen to their entire discog 🤘🏻

@jfergs.3302 11 ай бұрын

Another of those songs that's more about the story than it is the music. Finger pickin', jingly guitar, heard it umpteen times before. Not unpleasant, but easily & quickly forgotten.

@digibirder 11 ай бұрын

The Hip live is a different animal. Gord is magnetic on stage. The band would get into a good solid groove and Gord would just go for it. "Little Bones" is a good rocker.

@primitivepixx 7 ай бұрын

Id recommend Courage or New Orleans is Sinking for other listens. Courage is my fav Hip song.

@Veggamattic 10 ай бұрын

I've seen this Band 14 times and hung out with them once and then met Johnny in New Orleans and we went to see Aerosmith play a special Blues only performance with Dan Ackroyd at his New House of Blues. At that time Aerosmith owned the only other one in Boston. I advise you try some stuff from the first side of the first album and skip the earlier EP material.

@RocketDaveA 11 ай бұрын

To hear another side of them, try "Love Is A First"

@robertpearson8798 11 ай бұрын

Also “New Orleans is Sinking”. There are many different sides to them.

@jonsmith9518 11 ай бұрын

You have to do a full album reaction to Arcade Fire’s album the Suburbs. It’s a masterpiece and I think you’d love it. Another Canadian band.

@skarlottt 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful

@RobertBreedon-c3b 9 ай бұрын

Nothing is more Canadian than the cry of the loon. Most of us Canadians know what the song is about we have to remember he would have no idea of what happened to Milgaard.