Tragically Hip - Up to Here

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Blow at High Dough	04:37
	2	I'll Believe in You (Or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight)	04:03
	3	New Orleans is Sinking	04:17
	4	Thirty-Eight Years Old	04:20
	5	She Didn't Know	03:33

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Boots or Hearts	03:44
	2	Everytime You Go	03:21
	3	When the Weight Comes Down	04:44
	4	Trickle Down	03:11
	5	Another Midnight	03:56
	6	Opiated	03:42

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The Tragically Hip's debut album is kind of a wonderful thing to revisit. The band hits the ground running, a rush of mostly unwavering confidence and unfathomable greatness from the first track, "Blow at High Dough," through the fourth, "38 Years Old." But keep listening and hear the future unfold in the record's final seven tracks. The Hip was laying out a map, hinting at what was to come, even if the band didn't know it. The expanse of its ambition can be heard when the Hip deviates from its default blues-rock safe space: the slight countrified amp of "She Didn't Know," the twangy sass of "Boots and Hearts" and the chords on "Trickle Down," which will be heard again on Fully Completely, the band's 1992 breakthrough album.
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Canada's favorite boys the Tragically Hip push the sounds of heartland and down-home country-rock on their second album, Up to Here. This album also marks the band's first stateside release, and basically it's a record of burgeoning talent, suggesting what is yet to come from the Tragically Hip. Frontman Gordon Downie is raw and rugged, twisting American trad rock into gritty rock & roll. There's a lot of heartfelt emotion woven into pure musical swagger on songs like "New Orleans Is Sinking" and "When the Weight Comes Down." "Blow at High Dough" follows the lead of its foot-stompin', hand-clappin' rock tracks.

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