Trouble at the Henhouse

Studio album by The Tragically Hip

Released

May 7, 1996

Recorded

Kingsway Studio (New Orleans), The Bathouse Recording Studio (Bath, Ontario)

Genre

Rock, alternative rock, folk rock

Length

52:34

Label

MCA

Producer

The Tragically Hip, Mark Vreeken

The Tragically Hip chronology

Day for Night
(1994)

Trouble at the Henhouse
(1996)

Live Between Us
(1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Trouble at the Henhouse is the fifth full-length album from Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released on May 7, 1996. Produced by the band and Mark Vreeken, the album was mixed by Steven Drake, guitarist for Canadian band Odds, which had toured with the Hip the previous year.

The cover art, a photograph by Avery Crounse, is also called "Trouble at the Henhouse".

Commercial and critical performance

The album debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, and stayed at #1 for 4 straight weeks.^[2]^[3]

The album won the 1997 Juno Award for Album of the Year and North Star Rock Album of the Year, and The Tragically Hip won the 1997 award for Group of the Year.^[4]

The album has been certified 5x Platinum in Canada.^[5] By March 1997, the album had sold 650,000 units in Canada.^[6]

Track listing

All songs written by The Tragically Hip.

"Gift Shop" – 4:57
"Springtime in Vienna" – 4:38
"Ahead by a Century" – 3:43
"Don't Wake Daddy" – 5:08
"Flamenco" – 4:06
"700 Ft. Ceiling" – 3:40
"Butts Wigglin'" – 3:47
"Apartment Song" – 3:57
"Coconut Cream" – 3:21
"Let's Stay Engaged" – 4:53
"Sherpa" – 5:13
"Put It Off" – 5:11

Singles

"Ahead by a Century"
"Gift Shop"
"700 Ft. Ceiling"
"Flamenco"
"Springtime in Vienna"
"Butts Wigglin'"

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 63, No. 14, May 20, 1996". RPM. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
↑ "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 63, No. 17, June 10, 1996". RPM. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
↑ "1997 Juno Awards". MetroLeap Media. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
↑ "Gold Platinum Database: The Tragically Hip - Trouble At The Henhouse". Canadian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
↑ Tragically Hip, Celine Dion Top Juno Award Scorers. Billboard. Retrieved May 31, 2014.

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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