Road Apples (album)

Road Apples
Studio album by The Tragically Hip
Released February 19, 1991
Recorded Barris Studios (New Orleans)
September 1990
Genre Rock, folk rock
Length 49:08
Label MCA, Sire (US)
Producer Don Smith
The Tragically Hip chronology
Up to Here
(1989)		 Road Apples
(1991)		 Fully Completely
(1992)
Singles from Road Apples
  1. "Little Bones"
  2. "Three Pistols"
  3. "Twist My Arm"
  4. "Long Time Running"
  5. "On the Verge"
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
PopMatters [2]

Road Apples is the second full-length album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, and it was their first to reach #1 in their homeland of Canada.[3] The group wanted to title the album "Saskadelphia," but the record label found it "too Canadian." The group then suggested Road Apples, local slang for frozen horse-droppings, and the record label, unaware of its meaning, liked it. The album has been certified 8x platinum in Canada.[4]

The album was recorded in New Orleans.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by The Tragically Hip. 

No. Title Length
1. "Little Bones"   4:44
2. "Twist My Arm"   3:54
3. "Cordelia"   4:10
4. "The Luxury"   3:38
5. "Born in the Water"   3:24
6. "Long Time Running"   4:23
7. "Bring It All Back"   4:39
8. "Three Pistols"   3:48
9. "Fight"   5:58
10. "On the Verge"   3:54
11. "Fiddler's Green"   4:25
12. "The Last of the Unplucked Gems"   2:03

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ PopMatters review
  3. ^ "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 53, No. 18, April 06 1991". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.1485&type=2&interval=20&PHPSESSID=03b6mibf9lth9paps2bk582p41. Retrieved 2010-09-15. 
  4. ^ "Canadian Recording Industry Association" (Requires running a searches for Artist). 2010. http://www.cria.ca/goldplat.php. Retrieved 2010-05-03. 
The Tragically Hip
Gordon Downie • Rob Baker • Johnny Fay • Paul Langlois • Gord Sinclair
Davis Manning
Studio albums
Live albums
EPs
Compilations
DVDs
Singles
"Small Town Bring-Down" · "Highway Girl" · "Blow at High Dough" · "New Orleans Is Sinking" · "Boots or Hearts" · "38 Years Old" · "Trickle Down" · "Little Bones" · "Three Pistols" · "Twist My Arm" · "Long Time Running" · "On the Verge" · "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" · "Fifty Mission Cap" · "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" · "At the Hundredth Meridian" · "Looking for a Place to Happen" · "Fully Completely" · "Grace, Too" · "Greasy Jungle" · "Nautical Disaster" · "So Hard Done By" · "Scared" · "Thugs" · "Ahead by a Century" "Gift Shop" · "700 Ft. Ceiling" · "Flamenco" · "Springtime in Vienna" · "Poets" · "Something On" · "Fireworks" · "Thompson Girl" · "Bobcaygeon" · "My Music at Work" · "Lake Fever" "The Completists" · "Freak Turbulence" · "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken" · "Silver Jet" · "The Darkest One" · "Vaccination Scar" · "Summer's Killing Us" · "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" · "In View" · "The Lonely End of the Rink" · "Yer Not the Ocean" · "Family Band" · "Love Is a First" · "Morning Moon" · "Speed River" · "Land"
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