The Tragically Hip (EP)

The Tragically Hip

EP by The Tragically Hip

Released

1987

Recorded

Sounds Interchange, Phase One Studios (Toronto)

Genre

Rock

Length

27:08

Label

MCA

Producer

Ken Greer

The Tragically Hip chronology

The Tragically Hip EP
(1987)

Up to Here
(1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
PopMatters	(8/10)^[2]

The Tragically Hip is the first release from Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.

The EP was produced by Ken Greer of Red Rider fame.

Track listing

"Small Town Bringdown" (Gord Sinclair) – 3:05
"Last American Exit" (Sinclair) – 3:50
"Killing Time" (Gord Downie, Rob Baker) – 4:50
"Evelyn" (Sinclair) – 2:25
"Cemetery Sideroad" (Downie, Sinclair) – 3:15
"I'm a Werewolf, Baby" (Downie, Baker) – 3:20
"Highway Girl" (Downie, Baker) – 3:28
"All-Canadian Surf Club" (Sinclair, Baker) – 2:50 (appears on the CD release only)

Singles

"Small Town Bringdown"
"Last American Exit"
A live version of "Highway Girl" was released in which Gord Downie tells the story of a suicide. It was a hit on Canadian radio, allowing the song to chart considerably higher than in its original form. The album version was also the only song from this EP to be included in the Yer Favourites fan-picked compilation of 2005.

References

The Tragically Hip

Gordon Downie Rob Baker Johnny Fay Paul Langlois Gord Sinclair Davis Manning

Studio albums	Up to Here Road Apples Fully Completely Day for Night Trouble at the Henhouse Phantom Power Music @ Work In Violet Light In Between Evolution World Container We Are the Same Now for Plan A

Live albums	Live Between Us

EPs	The Tragically Hip

Compilations	Hipeponymous Yer Favourites

DVDs	Heksenketel That Night in Toronto

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" "Land" "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" "At Transformation" "Streets Ahead"

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