Released 1987 The Tragically Hip EP
(1987) Up to Here
(1989) Release date 1987 Genre Rock music | Length 27:08 Artist The Tragically Hip Producer Ken Greer | |
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Recorded Sounds Interchange, Phase One Studios (Toronto) Label Insomniac/Interscope Records | ||
The tragically hip small town bringdown
The Tragically Hip is the first release from Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.
Contents
The EP was produced by Ken Greer of Red Rider fame.
Release and reception
A live version of "Highway Girl" was released in 1991 as a B-side to "Twist My Arm", in which Gord Downie tells the story of a suicide pact between a man and his girlfriend. It was a hit on Canadian radio, allowing the song to chart considerably higher than in its original form, and contains some lines which would later recur as lyrics in the band's 1992 single "Locked in the Trunk of a Car"; it also ends with Downie exclaiming "Get Mr. Ry Cooder to deliver my eulogy", which would also recur in "At the Hundredth Meridian". The album version was also the only song from this EP to be included in the Yer Favourites fan-picked compilation of 2005.
Songs
1Small Town Bringdown3:01
2Last American Exit3:51
3Killing Time4:53