Phantom Power (The Tragically Hip album)

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Phantom Power
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	Steve Berlin, The Tragically Hip, Mark Vreeken
Professional reviews
All Music Guide
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). The album 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]

"Bobcaygeon" won the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 2000.

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by The Tragically Hip.

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. Such as:

"Outside there's hectic action,

The ice is covering the trees,

And one of em's interconnecting,

With my Chevrolet Caprice."

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