- 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, Alternative rock Length 50:26 Label Universal Producer Steve Berlin, The Tragically Hip, Mark Vreeken The Tragically Hip chronology Live Between Us
(1997)Phantom Power
(1998)Music @ Work
(2000)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]NME (4/10)[2] Pitchfork Media (7.3)[3] Phantom Power is the sixth full-length album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. The album was released in 1998. It won the 1999 Juno Awards for Best Rock Album and Best Album Design.[4] The song "Bobcaygeon" won the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 2000.[5] The album has been certified 3x Platinum in Canada.[6]
The song "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" is a tribute to Jim Ellison of Material Issue.[7] The band recorded the song "Something On" while stuck in the studio during the ice storm of 1998.
Track listing
All songs were written by The Tragically Hip.
- "Poets" – 3:59
- "Something On" – 3:21
- "Save the Planet" – 3:38
- "Bobcaygeon" – 4:55
- "Thompson Girl" – 3:32
- "Membership" – 4:40
- "Fireworks" – 3:56
- "Vapour Trails" – 4:29
- "The Rules" – 3:46
- "Chagrin Falls" – 4:10
- "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" – 5:52
- "Emperor Penguin" – 4:08
Singles
- "Poets"
- "Something On"
- "Bobcaygeon"
- "Fireworks"
- "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man"
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ NME review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review
- ^ "1999 Juno Awards". MetroLeap Media. http://www.metrolyrics.com/1999-juno-awards.html. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
- ^ "2000 Juno Awards". MetroLeap Media. http://www.metrolyrics.com/2000-juno-awards.html. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
- ^ PLATINUM ALBUM(S)&ssb=Artist "Gold Platinum Database: Phantom Power". Canadian Recording Industry Association. http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Phantom%20Power&ica=False&sa=&sl=&smt=0&sat=TRIPLE PLATINUM ALBUM(S)&ssb=Artist. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
- ^ http://thehip.com/TheHipStoryProject-Stories.html?IDNUM=5185&storyAction=Detail
The Tragically Hip 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 SameLive albums EPs The Tragically HipCompilations DVDs 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" · "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" · "Land"Related articles Discography · Another Roadside Attraction · Canadian rock · Trailer Park Boys · Made in Canada · The Sweet Hereafter
Side projects: Coke Machine Glow · Battle of the Nudes · The Grand Bounce · Stripper's Union · Stripper's Union Local 518Categories:- 1998 albums
- The Tragically Hip albums
- Universal Records albums
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