Live Between Us

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Live Between Us
Live Between Us cover
Live album by The Tragically Hip
Released 1997
Recorded November 23, 1996
Genre Rock and Roll
Length 70:31
Label Universal
Producer(s) The Tragically Hip, Mark Vreeken
Professional reviews
The Tragically Hip chronology
Trouble at the Henhouse
(1996)
Live Between Us
(1997)
Phantom Power
(1998)


Live Between Us is the sixth full-length album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It is their only live album as of October, 2006

It was recorded at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan, on November 23, 1996, during the tour supporting Trouble at the Henhouse, and released in 1997. It is considered a good representation of a typical live show, with much improvisation among both the singer Gordon Downie and the rest of the band.

Downie often begins to sing other songs in the middle of his own, including David Bowie's "China Girl" and The Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby" during crowd favourite "New Orleans is Sinking", and both Jane Siberry's "The Temple" and Rheostatics' "Bad Time to Be Poor" in "Nautical Disaster". (Rheostatics were the Hip's opening act on the tour documented by this album.)

In the week of the album's release, Canadian radio stations played it so extensively that eight songs from the album appeared in the week's Top 20 singles chart.

The title actually comes from graffiti in Kingston, Ontario, which read "The Hip live between us." (with 'live' written as a verb). This graffiti was penned by early band member Davis Manning,[1] describing the impact that the band was having on his relationship with his girlfriend. Manning eventually chose the girl over the band, leaving in 1986.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Grace, Too" – 6:18
  2. "Fully Completely" – 4:11
  3. "Springtime in Vienna" – 4:37
  4. "Twist My Arm" – 4:05
  5. "Gift Shop" – 5:09
  6. "Ahead by a Century" – 5:25
  7. "The Luxury" – 4:08
  8. "Courage" – 5:08
  9. "New Orleans Is Sinking" – 6:22
  10. "Don't Wake Daddy" – 5:30
  11. "Scared" – 5:00
  12. "Blow at High Dough" – 4:54
  13. "Nautical Disaster" – 5:31
  14. "The Wherewithal" – 4:14
The Tragically Hip
Gordon Downie | Paul Langlois | Rob Baker | Gord Sinclair | Johnny Fay
Discography
Albums, EPs and compilations: The Tragically Hip EP | Up to Here | Road Apples | Fully Completely | Day for Night | Trouble at the Henhouse | Live Between Us | Phantom Power | Music at Work | In Violet Light | In Between Evolution | Hipeponymous | Yer Favourites | World Container
DVDs: Heksenketel | That Night in Toronto
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