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.

• ‘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.