Phantom Power (The Tragically Hip album)
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| Phantom Power | |||||
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| Studio album by The Tragically Hip | |||||
| Released | July 14, 1998 | ||||
| Recorded | The Bathouse Recording Studio | ||||
| Genre | Rock and Roll | ||||
| Length | 50:26 | ||||
| Label | Universal | ||||
| Producer | Steve Berlin, The Tragically Hip, Mark Vreeken | ||||
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Phantom Power is the sixth full-length album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. The album was released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). The album was also released in the United States, but they continued to have little success there, despite their appearance on Saturday Night Live, unlike fellow Canadians Barenaked Ladies whose album Stunt made them enormously popular in the US that same year.
The song "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" is a tribute to Jim Ellison of Material Issue. [1]
All songs were written by The Tragically Hip.
- "Poets" – 3:59
- "Something On" – 3:21
- "Save the Planet" – 3:38
- "Bobcaygeon" – 4:55
- "Thompson Girl" – 3:32
- "Membership" – 4:40
- "Fireworks" – 3:56
- "Vapour Trails" – 4:29
- "The Rules" – 3:46
- "Chagrin Falls" – 4:10
- "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" – 5:52
- "Emperor Penguin" – 4:08
- "Poets"
- "Something On"
- "Bobcaygeon"
- "Fireworks"
- "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man"
- The band recorded the song, "Something On", while being stuck in the studio during the infamous ice storm of 1998 that brought havoc to much of eastern Ontario, north-east US, but mostly Quebec. This had an effect on the lyrical content within the song. Such as:
- "Outside there's hectic action,
- The ice is covering the trees,
- And one of em's interconnecting,
- With my Chevrolet Caprice."
| The Tragically Hip | |
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| Gordon Downie • Paul Langlois • Rob Baker • Gord Sinclair • Johnny Fay | |
| Davis Manning | |
| Discography | |
| Studio albums: Up to Here • Road Apples • Fully Completely • Day for Night • Trouble at the Henhouse • Phantom Power • Music at Work • In Violet Light • In Between Evolution • World Container | |
| EPs: The Tragically Hip EP | |
| Live albums: Live Between Us | |
| Compilation albums: Hipeponymous • Yer Favourites | |
| DVDs: Heksenketel • That Night in Toronto | |
| Collaborators | |
| Managers: (past) Jake Gold • Allan Gregg | |
| Album producers: (partial list) Ken Greer • Chris Tsangarides • Steve Berlin • Hugh Padgham • Adam Kasper • Bob Rock | |
| Members' side projects | |
| Coke Machine Glow • Battle of the Nudes • Stripper's Union • Stripper's Union Local 518 | |
| Related subjects | |
| Another Roadside Attraction • Kingston, Ontario • Canadian rock • Trailer Park Boys • Made in Canada • The Sweet Hereafter | |