Live Between Us

On the Hip’s 1997 live album, Gord Downie is already off in his own orbit before the opening “Grace, Too” has hit the one-minute mark, ad-libbing over the song’s predatory bass groove en route to a jammed-out finale that drops in quotes of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” It’s but one example of the band’s ever-changing approach; elsewhere, the power-pop anthem “Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)” works in a bit of the Hip rarity “Montreal.” And in a set otherwise stacked with Canadian-radio staples, The Hip bid adieu with a punked-up rip through deep cut “The Wherewithal” that ends with Downie singing in tongues.