The Tragically Hip Albums Ranked: 1. Fully Completely (1992) 2. Up to Here (1989) 3. In Violet Light (2002) 4. Road Apples (1991) 5. Trouble at the Henhouse (1996) 6. Music @ Work (2000) 7. Phantom Power (1998) 8. In Between Evolution (2004) 9. World Container (2006) 10. Day for Night (1994) 11. Man Machine Poem (2016) 12. The Tragically Hip (1987) 13. We Are the Same (2009) 14. Now for Plan A (2012)
Phantom Power, Day for Night, Fully Completely, World Container (wildly underrated), Man Machine Poem, Up to Here, Road Apples, Trouble at the Henhouse, Now for Plan A, In Violet Light, In Between Evolution, Saskadelphia, We Are the Same, The Tragically Hip. To each their own!
Day for Night, Trouble at The Hen House, Fully , Road apples, Phantom Power, Up to Here, Man Machine poem, Between Evolution, We are the Same, Now for plan A, In Violet Light, World Container, Sask, Tragically Hip
New subscriber from the States. Thanks to Canadian radio, I heard these guys as far back as '88. Here's my top 5 ranking. 1< Fully 2< Up To Here 3> Road Apples 4> Phantom Power 5> Day For Night. Think "We Are The Same" is my favorite of the post-2000 batch. There's great stuff on ALL the albums. Great discography review. Would love to see an album-by-album breakdown from you. Any plans for a Sloan discography breakdown?
Cheers, man - great ranking for your top five. They sure have been a rewarding band all these years. I have totally been playing with idea of a Sloan video! They’re a great band for sure, one of my favs to see live. Much like a lot of massive discographies, some LPs require a re-listen from me. I might do some album overviews for The Hip, there’s so much depth to cover especially for a lot of our favourite ones.
I enjoyed your ranking. You’re confirming how I plan to approach this catalogue. I had Up to Here when it first came out and liked Blow at High Dough and New Orleans Is Sinking. But the rest of the songs never really grabbed me. I also found when hearing the popular songs, I couldn’t get into Gord’s vocals. But I feel the time has come to revisit this band and pick up three to five albums. Your top three are my first picks and in the order you ranked them. Then your 4 and 5 will be next. So those five are my picks. Thanks for your video!
Thanks I appreciate hearing from you and I used to be in the same boat; i listened to them on the radio but was never enamoured with a lot of their album tracks. Now I love almost everything they put out especially the first half dozen. Much love!
Edited 2022 : 1. Fully Completely 2. Phantom Power 3. Road Apples 4. Up To Here 5. World Container 6. We Are The Same 7. In Violet Light 8. Trouble At The Henhouse 9. EP 10. Now For Plan A 11. Day For Night 12. In Between Evolution 13. Man Machine Poem 14. Music @ Work 15. Saskadelphia For me number 3,4,5, 6, 7,8 are tied for me, hard to put them in order
my rankings : 1 - phantom power 2 - trouble at the henhouse 3 - fully completely 4 - In Violet Light 5 - we are the same 6 - Road Apples 7 - Up To Here 8 - World Container 9 - day for night 10 - in between evolution 11 - now for plan a 12 - tragically hip 13 - music at work 14 - Man Machine Poem 15 - Saskadelphia
Awesome list, very unique compared to a lot I've seen out there (I should talk haha). Phantom Power is great. Yeah, you'll love Saskadelphia. It makes me hope they release more archival stuff in the future, I think they will.
@@Redundant_underscore nice man! I’ll check some out when I get home and can truly take it all in. That’s great - the only time I saw them they played nothing but hits because it was a festival so I wouldn’t expect anything else but, man, would have loved to see another tour date with some deep cuts such as that one.
Thanks for the ranking! Fun to watch. I lovingly refer to 'We Are The Same' as 'We Are Insane', despite some real affection for The Depression Suite, The Last Recluse and Coffee Girl. :) Every album from the 'Up to Here' through 'In Violet Light' is in a peretual battle for #1 in my head - so, so, so much gold everywhere. My #15 would be 'In Between Evolution', which I just find generally cacaphonous and grating. So interesting to see the different takes in the comments. Thanks all, for sharing your favourites.
‘We Are Insane’ is hilarious. Going to have to start using that. And, yes, I love the diversity of the answers in the comments. That’s what I like most about RUclips. Since making this video, In Violet Light has been getting the most spins! So much gold in that first decade and a bit as you say! Cheers
Great video. While everyone says they are Canada’s Beatles but I think they are more like Pearl Jam. they could sell out arenas without making an album. After their first 3 albums both bands kind off went in different directions. But I also think most Hip fans don’t appreciate those albums as much. Where as PJ fans dig their new stuff a lot more.
Yeah almost every fan I talk to irl hasn't heard anything after the year 2000 or so. Which is a shame, because they made good music until the end. I like the parallels you say between the two, people always say R.E.M. but your comparison makes way more sense.
Nice stuff, Andy. I wouldn't argue too much with those rankings, and I agree with the top 3. I'd put Evolution and Up To Here a little higher. We Are The Same is the poorest by a long way, way to dull to be prime Hip.
Yeah it’s tough to rank the hip because they are always so solid (except most of We are the Same for my money), but I’d probably up those two LPs in the ranking these days to be fair. With all the greatest bands, the ranking is always shifting if just minimally. Thanks for the comment!
Fair enough, I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. I like 'em all in some way or another.. except We Are the Same but I know people that love that one.
The Tragically Hip Albums Ranked:
1. Fully Completely (1992)
2. Up to Here (1989)
3. In Violet Light (2002)
4. Road Apples (1991)
5. Trouble at the Henhouse (1996)
6. Music @ Work (2000)
7. Phantom Power (1998)
8. In Between Evolution (2004)
9. World Container (2006)
10. Day for Night (1994)
11. Man Machine Poem (2016)
12. The Tragically Hip (1987)
13. We Are the Same (2009)
14. Now for Plan A (2012)
Phantom Power, Day for Night, Fully Completely, World Container (wildly underrated), Man Machine Poem, Up to Here, Road Apples, Trouble at the Henhouse, Now for Plan A, In Violet Light, In Between Evolution, Saskadelphia, We Are the Same, The Tragically Hip. To each their own!
Day for Night, Trouble at The Hen House, Fully , Road apples, Phantom Power, Up to Here, Man Machine poem, Between Evolution, We are the Same, Now for plan A, In Violet Light, World Container, Sask, Tragically Hip
UP TO HERE!!! By far the BEST album!!
New subscriber from the States. Thanks to Canadian radio, I heard these guys as far back as '88. Here's my top 5 ranking. 1< Fully 2< Up To Here 3> Road Apples 4> Phantom Power 5> Day For Night. Think "We Are The Same" is my favorite of the post-2000 batch. There's great stuff on ALL the albums. Great discography review. Would love to see an album-by-album breakdown from you. Any plans for a Sloan discography breakdown?
Cheers, man - great ranking for your top five. They sure have been a rewarding band all these years.
I have totally been playing with idea of a Sloan video! They’re a great band for sure, one of my favs to see live. Much like a lot of massive discographies, some LPs require a re-listen from me.
I might do some album overviews for The Hip, there’s so much depth to cover especially for a lot of our favourite ones.
I enjoyed your ranking. You’re confirming how I plan to approach this catalogue.
I had Up to Here when it first came out and liked Blow at High Dough and New Orleans Is Sinking. But the rest of the songs never really grabbed me. I also found when hearing the popular songs, I couldn’t get into Gord’s vocals.
But I feel the time has come to revisit this band and pick up three to five albums. Your top three are my first picks and in the order you ranked them. Then your 4 and 5 will be next. So those five are my picks.
Thanks for your video!
Thanks I appreciate hearing from you and I used to be in the same boat; i listened to them on the radio but was never enamoured with a lot of their album tracks. Now I love almost everything they put out especially the first half dozen.
Much love!
I've ordered Day for Night. Let's see where this first step takes me.@@AndysRambles
Edited 2022 :
1. Fully Completely
2. Phantom Power
3. Road Apples
4. Up To Here
5. World Container
6. We Are The Same
7. In Violet Light
8. Trouble At The Henhouse
9. EP
10. Now For Plan A
11. Day For Night
12. In Between Evolution
13. Man Machine Poem
14. Music @ Work
15. Saskadelphia
For me number 3,4,5, 6, 7,8 are tied for me, hard to put them in order
Happy Canada Day !! 🇨🇦✌️😎
Thanks. Same to you!!
my rankings :
1 - phantom power
2 - trouble at the henhouse
3 - fully completely
4 - In Violet Light
5 - we are the same
6 - Road Apples
7 - Up To Here
8 - World Container
9 - day for night
10 - in between evolution
11 - now for plan a
12 - tragically hip
13 - music at work
14 - Man Machine Poem
15 - Saskadelphia
Awesome list, very unique compared to a lot I've seen out there (I should talk haha). Phantom Power is great. Yeah, you'll love Saskadelphia. It makes me hope they release more archival stuff in the future, I think they will.
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@@AndysRambles edited lol
Nice list! I'd have In Violet Light at 3 or 4, but other than that I love the choices. Great job!
It’s a very solid, consistent one record! I never press skip on it, that’s for sure.
@@AndysRambles - A Beautiful Thing gets my vote for most underrated Hip song.
@@Redundant_underscore love that choice. Wonder if they ever did that one live? At the very least on the IVL tour I hope!
@@AndysRambles - there are live performances of it on YT, so I'm pretty sure they did it on that tour.
@@Redundant_underscore nice man! I’ll check some out when I get home and can truly take it all in. That’s great - the only time I saw them they played nothing but hits because it was a festival so I wouldn’t expect anything else but, man, would have loved to see another tour date with some deep cuts such as that one.
We are the Same and World Container are great. They are both in my top 10 from the Hip!
@@GaryBruyere-f9b nothing wrong with that!
Thanks for the ranking! Fun to watch. I lovingly refer to 'We Are The Same' as 'We Are Insane', despite some real affection for The Depression Suite, The Last Recluse and Coffee Girl. :) Every album from the 'Up to Here' through 'In Violet Light' is in a peretual battle for #1 in my head - so, so, so much gold everywhere. My #15 would be 'In Between Evolution', which I just find generally cacaphonous and grating. So interesting to see the different takes in the comments. Thanks all, for sharing your favourites.
‘We Are Insane’ is hilarious. Going to have to start using that. And, yes, I love the diversity of the answers in the comments. That’s what I like most about RUclips. Since making this video, In Violet Light has been getting the most spins! So much gold in that first decade and a bit as you say! Cheers
Cool day for night is also my personal favourite probably for some of the same reasons but fully and completely is not far behind either👍😎
Great video. While everyone says they are Canada’s Beatles but I think they are more like Pearl Jam. they could sell out arenas without making an album. After their first 3 albums both bands kind off went in different directions. But I also think most Hip fans don’t appreciate those albums as much. Where as PJ fans dig their new stuff a lot more.
Yeah almost every fan I talk to irl hasn't heard anything after the year 2000 or so. Which is a shame, because they made good music until the end. I like the parallels you say between the two, people always say R.E.M. but your comparison makes way more sense.
Nice stuff, Andy. I wouldn't argue too much with those rankings, and I agree with the top 3. I'd put Evolution and Up To Here a little higher. We Are The Same is the poorest by a long way, way to dull to be prime Hip.
Yeah it’s tough to rank the hip because they are always so solid (except most of We are the Same for my money), but I’d probably up those two LPs in the ranking these days to be fair. With all the greatest bands, the ranking is always shifting if just minimally. Thanks for the comment!
Bob rock worked for Metallica, but I didn’t get this Hip album either .
Yeah he’s done some good ones but I don’t know - I feel like he wasn’t such good fit or he took the edge off slightly.
The first album was so so, the next 5 outstanding and after that meh.
Fair enough, I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. I like 'em all in some way or another.. except We Are the Same but I know people that love that one.