Hemi-Vision

Hemi-Vision
Studio album by Big Sugar
Released September 1, 1996
Genre Blues, rock
Label A&M
Producer Gordie Johnson
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Big Sugar chronology
Ride Like Hell
(1995)
Hemi-Vision
(1996)
Heated
(1998)

Hemi-Vision is an album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar, released in 1996. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 1997 Juno Awards.

The primary singles from the album were "Diggin' a Hole", "If I Had My Way" and "Opem Up Baby". The band also recorded a French language version of "Opem Up Baby", entitled "Ouvres-toi Bébé", for radio airplay in Quebec (see also Chauffe à bloc).

Track listing

  1. "Diggin' a Hole" – 4:37
  2. "Gone for Good" – 4:43
  3. "If I Had My Way" – 5:13
  4. "Skull Ring" – 4:25
  5. "Joe Louis / Judgement Day" – 8:58
  6. "Tommy Johnson" – 4:12
  7. "La Stralla" – 4:17
  8. "Tired All the Time" – 4:27
  9. "Empty Head" – 5:13
  10. "Opem Up Baby"1 – 5:13
  11. "Rolling Pin" – 6:46
  12. "Tobacco Hand" – 8:55

Notes

1 This track was labelled as "Opem Up Baby" on the CD cover, although both the lyrics and the French version, titled "Ouvres-toi bébé", indicate that the intended meaning was "open". It is not known if this was a spelling error on the cover art or an intentional use of artistic license, but both "Opem" and "Open" have been cited as the song's title by different reference works. The band's own website, however, uses the "opem" spelling, as does the 2003 greatest hits compilation Hit & Run, lending credence to the idea that it was intentional.