The Blue Hysteria

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The Blue Hysteria is a 1996 album by Rheostatics.

"Bad Time to Be Poor", a song about life in Ontario during the government of Mike Harris, was the album's first single.

To support the album, the band were invited on tour as the opening act for The Tragically Hip. At the beginning of the Hip's 1997 live album Live Between Us, singer Gordon Downie acknowledges the Rheostatics, and towards the end of the album, Downie works a verse from "Bad Time to Be Poor" into "Nautical Disaster".

The 1997 Rheostatics album Double Live also partially documents the band's tour with the Hip.

[edit] Track listing

All songs are credited to the full band.

  1. "All the Same Eyes" – 3:53
  2. "Motorino" – 4:01
  3. "Something the Committee Thought You Should Hear" – 0:34
  4. "Fat" – 6:56
  5. "To Catch a Thief" – 0:11
  6. "Bad Time to Be Poor" – 4:56
  7. "Sweet, Rich, Beautiful, Mine" – 4:03
  8. "Four Little Songs" – 5:52
  9. "An Offer" – 4:33
  10. "Never Forget" – 4:54
  11. "The Idiot" – 3:38
  12. "Connecting Flights" – 2:46
  13. "Feed Yourself" – 6:18
  14. "The 'You Are Very Star' Journey" – 1:12
  15. "A Midwinter Night's Dream" – 8:22
  16. "My First Rock Concert" ( – 4:09, hidden track)
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