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The Tragically Hip - EP

Album

The Tragically Hip - EP

The Tragically Hip

1987Rock · Music · American Trad Rock · Roots Rock · Arena Rock

The future arena rockers debut as a post-punky, jangle-pop act.
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Release date
Record label
Universal Music Canada
Tracks
8

℗ 2015 Universal Music Canada Inc., Universal Music, a division of Universal Studios Canada Ltd.

Tracks

  1. 1
    Small Town Bringdown
    The Tragically Hip
    3:01
  2. 2
    Last American Exit
    The Tragically Hip
    3:51
  3. 3
    Killing Time
    The Tragically Hip
    4:53
  4. 4
    Evelyn
    The Tragically Hip
    2:24
  5. 5
    Cemetery Sideroad
    The Tragically Hip
    3:17
  6. 6
    I'm a Werewolf, Baby
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    3:23
  7. 7
    Highway Girl
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    3:31
  8. 8
    All-Canadian Surf Club (Bonus Track)
    The Tragically Hip
    2:49

About this album

The Hip’s 1987 debut EP introduces us to a band that’s clearly in thrall to the post-punk pop of R.E.M.: the opening double shot of “Small Town Bringdown” and “Last American Exit” radiates with jagged ‘n’ jangly guitars, paisley-hued harmonies, and early flashes of Gord Downie’s gift for cunning, cutting lyrics. But the raunchy blues-rock rave-up “Highway Girl” shows they could hold their own against a Saturday-night crowd of bottle-smashing drunks, while “I’m a Werewolf, Baby” highlights these future arena rockers’ unrealized potential as a campy, B-52’s-style surf-punk band.