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The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely Audio CD

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The Tragically Hip Band: The Tragically Hip
Title: Fully Completely
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Release Date: 1999-07-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Courage (For Hugh Mackerman) 2: Looking for a Place to Happen 3: At the Hundredth Meridian 4: Pigeon Camera 5: Lionized 6: Locked in the Trunk of a Car 7: We'll Go To 8: Fully Completely 9: Fifty Mission Cup 10: Wheat Kings 11: Wherewithal 12: Eldorado

Their best album, imho
Good thing for me was that there are even BETTER songs than that one on this album! This is good music. I heard "Courage" in the '90s on the radio and was hooked. I have since bought other TH cds but this one beats them all. And the others are pretty good.
There are great lush, thick guitar tones on "Fully Completely". And really good songs. Especially "At The Hundredth Meridian" "Lionized", "Locked In The Trunk Of A Car", and the title track.
This is one of my favorite cds in my collection of over 600.


one of the top four hip CDs
I'm a hip junkie, and I think this is Canada's best music since the Band. First, a confession. I own all their studio releases, and there are only two that I'm NOT particularly fond of (Music @ Work and In-Between Evolution).

For my money, this is one of four 5-star hip CD's (the others being the preceding Up to Here & Road Apples, and the subsequent Day for Night).

Locked in the Trunk of a Car is simply brilliant, possibly the best tune created by this band. Courage, Fifty-Mission Cap & Wheat Kings are merely outstanding.

But here's the thing -- you put this album on, and you listen to it until it's done.

S'wonderful. S'marvelous.

"Better for me if you don't understand . . . ".


This is the one to get
This is the epitome of The Hip. If you're going to buy just one Tragically Hip cd, aside from "Yer Favorites" or some other compilation, Fully Completely is the one to get. It's all good, if you ask me, but this one is probably the best place to start.


The Hip at their peak


It was the last straight rock album before venturing into the obscure with Day for Night. Their best album is Road Apples, but this comes in at a close second. At this time the band would sell out colosseums 3 nights in a row, and be the main attraction at outdoor festivals, building the crowd into a frenzied sea of bobbing heads, jumping up and down in unison as Gordon Downie balanced on top of the speakers on stage, held the microphone stand over his head and passionately screamed out lyrics while the band rocked their way to the climax.

Check out "Locked in the Trunk of a Car".


Classic Canadiana, But That's OK With Me
His songs, from the "inside jokes" that no one outside a small group of people is supposed to get to the lyrics that make me go "What the F^#$ is he talking about?", I always appreciate his genius. Gordon Downie's prowess as a lyricist has always astounded me. This album is chock full of all of that.

There is a bit of a dark side to this album, but there is enough levity and pace to counterbalance it. From the opener to the closer, this album contains enough of the quntessential Hip quirkiness to satisfy the long-time fans, but also has enough mainstream substance to attract the casual fan. The acoustic "Wheat Kings" gently reflects on life on the Canadian prairies, but the songs that stand out on this recording are the rockers - "Looking For A Place To Happen" and "At The Hundredth Meridian" open the album, but it is "Locked In The Trunk Of A Car" that emerges as one of the top rock songs ever to come out of the frozen North with its sizzling guitar solos and great driving beat.


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