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Track Listings
| 1. Grace,Too |
| 2. Daredevil |
| 3. Greasy Jungle |
| 4. Yawning Or Snarling |
| 5. Fire In The Hole |
| 6. So Hard Done By |
| 7. Nautical Disaster |
| 8. Thugs |
| 9. Inevitability Of Death |
| 10. Scared |
| 11. An Inch An Hour |
| 12. Emergency |
| 13. Titanic Terrarium |
| 14. Impossibilium |
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One of the Hip's darker records, Day for Night, which shares a title with the 1973 François Truffaut film, is low on the hits but strong on mood and atmospherics. Songs like "Inevitability of Death," "Fire in the Hole," "Emergency" and "Thugs" are gritty and raw even by this quintet's uncompromising standards, while the tugging bass line in "Grace, Too" serves to emphasize the mercenary sexual goings-on in the lyrics. As usual, it's singer Gord Downie's barbed words and poetic images that most help the Tragically Hip rise from the level of an above-average bar band to something more mysterious and universal. In "Yawning or Snarling" he sings of a "throbbing bladder of light" (well, it works in context), while the nightmare that informs the haunting "Nautical Disaster" builds to a neat lyrical twist. (The song also qualifies as one of the group's best.) With so much foreboding infecting its tracks, Day for Night may not qualify as the Hip's feel-good record, but it has its share of remarkable moments. --Shawn Conner
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Day for Night (Audio CD)
First of all I don't give out 5 stars easily. Second of all, this is a 4 and 1/2 star album but we aren't allowed to chose halves. Third, this is the Hip's most epic music, with nearly every song stretched to it's maximum capacity. Finally, few albums by any band in the nineties were this "big", and I'll be damned if I can think of a better "big" rock album. Every song runs seemlessly into the next, and every song at one time or another can be your favorite on the album. The sound the Hip have gone with here is more "alternative" (whatever that means)than the first four albums, and it comes closer to capturing their live sound. There are four unmitigated Hip classics here, and a whole albums worth of great songs. "Grace Too" and "Nautical Disaster" have remained constants in the live sets to this day and are the cornerstones of this album. "Grace Too" is one of the great album openers of the decade, opening gently and building to anthemic proportions, with cascades of intense layers of guitar ringing out of the speakers. "Nautical Disaster" is one of Gordon Downie's great story songs, but at the end we don't know if it is story or reality, as the character awakes from his vivid nightmare of tragedy at sea to feel the "fingernails scratching on my hull". "Scared" is stark and beautiful, eerily congering up dark images of fear before bowing out by saying "it's been a pleasure doing business with you". The sometimes underappreciated "Thugs" is the other gem, with it's driving percussion smothered in more layers of guitar magic. Downie's lyrics creatively convey the way all living things in the world use each other for their own benefit, and Ruby, honey, you should not be mad at your man, he's only human, and it's natural he should also use you sometimes for his own benefit. There are many other highpoints here, such as the drowning "Daredevil", and the ferocious "An Inch An Hour". The only song that doesn't live up to the album's high standard is the senseless "Fire In the Hole", it's just not as smart as the rest of the album. This is the album that should have broken them in America, but I guess the same argument could be made for all of their albums. With "Day For Night" the Tragically Hip have given the world a dark and wonderful masterpiece, it's too bad that so few people outside of Canada have found it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still Great,
By A Customer
This review is from: Day for Night (Audio CD)
The Hip have done it again, one more great set of songs.
4.0 out of 5 stars
gotta love those Canadians!,
By pdxbeautiful "pdxbeautiful" (Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Day for Night (Audio CD)
This is a great cd from the Hip. I think it's a good collection of songs that are all different in style and really shows off what this band can really do.
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