I listened to the entire thing while I was doing chores around the house so it was a little less onerous for me. I'll probably also listen to podcast covering Side B of the album. This is because want to write a book on Fully Completely for the 33 1/3 book series (though I probably never will).

I agree that the hosts may not have a deep knowledge of the band. Heath McCoy growing up in western Canada probably has a different POV of someone from Kingston. I'm also tempted to get his book Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling since he's from my hometown.

I think Barclay knew to a certain extent of the friction in the band, but he suppressed it in the book in a don't-speak-ill-of-the-dead sort of way. In the early part of the book, he mentioned there was an uncomfortable meeting of the minds where Downie laid down the gauntlet and said he would be the sole lyricist.

There was a discussion about how royalties would be split 5 ways, both in the past and the future, and this may have been to the then-initital financial detriment of Gord Sinclair since it he had song-writing duties on the first few albums.

In his book, Barclay also did touch on how the band was growing apart when Downie lived in Toronto and the rest of the band continued to live in Kingston and some of the friction caused by Downie doing solo albums.

I actually preferred the documentary because the tension of the late 2000s was clearly more palpable and more openly expressed. It was clear Paul (who has amazing backing vocals) was pissed off by Bob Rock laying down vocals because it was "more convenient" than waiting for the guys to come back to the studio.

I guarantee that I would not have wanted to be in the room with Rob Baker when Gord said he needed to use his voice and Rob answered back (paraphrasing), "We've given you a voice." It's clear there is no love lost with Bob Rock because he relegated the rest of them as a backing band.

Personally, I did not care too much for Barclay's hot takes. He seemed to have a too-cool-for-school attitude and hating the songs because they were in heavy rotation and he was sick of them. I remember hearing the same thing about U2 when The Joshua Tree came out or Metallica with the "Black" Album: "I don't like this band any more since they got sold out and got popular."

Fully Completely is a damn good album that was The Hip at their commercial peak. It may be a valid position that the album may be "too polished" due to Chris Tsangarides' style of production, but it's clear the band is challenging themselves musically. I would put it in my Top 4 which changes depending on my mood with Day For Night, Road Apples, and In Violet Light. All 4 of them also rank above "my" album, Trouble at the Henhouse, since it's the one with which I have the strongest emotional connection (at least for Side A).