Phantom Power (The Tragically Hip album)

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Phantom Power
Phantom Power cover
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(s) Steve Berlin, The Tragically Hip, Mark Vreeken
Professional reviews
The Tragically Hip chronology
Live Between Us
(1997)		 Phantom Power
(1998)		 Music at Work
(2000)


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).

Though well-received, like all their albums, it is not generally considered their best work, despite the popularity of songs such as "Poets" and "Bobcaygeon". It 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.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Poets" – 3:59
  2. "Something On" – 3:21
  3. "Save the Planet" – 3:38
  4. "Bobcaygeon" – 4:55
  5. "Thompson Girl" – 3:32
  6. "Membership" – 4:40
  7. "Fireworks" – 3:56
  8. "Vapour Trails" – 4:29
  9. "The Rules" – 3:46
  10. "Chagrin Falls" – 4:10
  11. "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" – 5:52
  12. "Emperor Penguin" – 4:08

[edit] Singles

  • "Poets"
  • "Something On"
  • "Bobcaygeon"
  • "Fireworks"
  • "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man"

[edit] Trivia

  • 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.
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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