It’s impossible to overstate the sheer emotional impact of The Tragically Hip’s final cross-Canada tour in the summer of 2016. Staged mere months after vocalist Gord Downie went public with his terminal brain cancer diagnosis, the rock legends treated fans to a triumphant last stand that sold out arenas coast to coast, inspired tailgate parties for those who couldn’t get tickets, and prompted a national television broadcast of the band’s final show in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario, where then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turned up to pay his respects. So that makes Live July 22 – August 20, 2016 more than just a commemorative 10th-anniversary keepsake—it’s a historical document of an event whose unifying power is rivaled only by the 1972 Summit Series and Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope in the collective Canadian consciousness. For their farewell tour, the Hip would perform a series of four-song mini-sets that spotlighted a particular album in their catalog, giving fans the opportunity to immerse themselves in a specific moment of the band’s career. However, Live takes a shuffle-mode approach to the set lists—it’s less interested in recreating the concerts as they happened than in presenting the most vivid snapshots of a veteran band that remained a force of nature right up until its final tour, with the ailing Downie summoning every last ounce of strength to deliver performances that felt superhuman in their intensity. Tellingly, nearly half of Live‘s 29-song tracklist is culled from the band’s less-celebrated post-2000 catalog, reminding us that latter-day selections like “At Transformation” and “Family Band” are no less vital than iconic ’90s-era corkers like “Locked in the Trunk of a Car” and “Little Bones.” (And in the same shrewd curatorial spirit, certified Hip classics like “Courage” and “Wheat Kings” are excluded here in favor of beloved deep cuts like “Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin’ Man” and “The Last of the Unplucked Gems.”) But for all its randomized sequencing, Live does devote the closing slot to the last song played at the Hip’s last show: a rousing, rocked-out rendition of their campfire classic “Ahead By a Century” that, more than a decade later, still gets the tears flowing harder and faster than Niagara Falls.