Road Apples [Enhanced]

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Track Listings

1. Little Bones

2. Twist My Arm

3. Cordelia

4. Luxury

5. Born in the Water

6. Long Time Running

7. Bring It All Back

8. Three Pistols

9. Fight

10. On the Verge

11. Fiddler's Green

12. Last of the Unplucked Gems

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Road Apples [Enhanced]

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My new favorite
Top Of The Hip
Too Bad It Was Not Digitally Remastered
so good so cool
One of the few complete and perfect albums

Road Apples
The Tragically Hip
Manufacturer: Fontana Universal
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ASIN: B000002OFN
Release Date: 2006-08-08

Tracks:

Little Bones
Twist My Arm
Cordelia
The Luxury
Born In The Water
Long Time Running
Bring It All Back
Three Pistols
Fight
On The Verge
Fiddler's Green
The Last Of The Unplucked Gems

Customer Reviews:

My new favorite.......2007-01-04

By far my favorite Hip of all. Top to bottom very very good!

Top Of The Hip.......2006-05-04

The Hip had enjoyed limited commercial success in their native country, but this is the album that made the USA sit up and take notice. Gordon Downie's quirky yet captivating vocal presence and lyrical whimsy is nicely balanced by the musicianship, although I'd expect nothing less from producer Don Smith. Strong commercial content in the form of "Cordelia", "Little Bones", "Twist My Arm", and "Three Pistols", yet enough Canadiana to keep the hardcore Hip fan from slinging accusations of "sell-out". Even after a slough of releases that has seen the Hip mature over two decades, this is still recognized by most Hip fans as their strongest work.

One other reviewer had mentioned that the weak point on the album was "Fiddler's Green". I wholeheartedly disagree. It is a touching, soul-wrenching lament that will rip the heart out of anyone who has lost a child.

Too Bad It Was Not Digitally Remastered.......2004-05-24

Great cd, by a Great band..Just was a major disappointment, the cd was transferred from Analog Tape to Cd format...Makes for muffled Vocals, and thats a shame, Downie is one of the most original ive heard in a long time...But for die hard "TH" fans, its a must have...!!

so good so cool.......2003-10-30

This band makes some of the best rock music ever. Road Apples has to be the best of a long list of best CDs You can play this CD to death....never get tired of it. Hope they keep churning out music

I only heard of them last year, but I have a lot catching up to do.

One of the few complete and perfect albums.......2002-11-19

My girlfriend is Canadian and a fan of the Hip. She took me to a live show here in Denver and now I'm hooked. This was the third album I've purchased of theirs and it's by far the best. Growing up on rock and roll this is one of the few complete albums without one bad song, well maybe Fiddler's Green, but the rest is fantastic. "On The Verge" is still my favorite. This IS rock and roll at it's best. I don't think you can play this one too loud.

Drive Records Presents: 14 True Blue Country Hits FEATURING Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Patsy Cline, Leroy Van Dyke, Dave Dudley, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Bill Anderson, Conway Twitty, Jerry Wallace, Glen Campbell

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Drive Records Presents: 14 True Blue Country Hits FEATURING Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Patsy Cline, Leroy Van Dyke, Dave Dudley, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Bill Anderson, Conway Twitty, Jerry Wallace, Glen Campbell
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash / Dang Me - Roger Miller , Walking After Midnight - Patsy Cline , The Auctioneer - Leroy Van Dyke , Six Days On The Road - Dave Dudley , Tender Years - George Jones , Love's Gonna Live Here Again - Waylon Jennings , Down On The Corner Of Love - Buck Owens , Big River - Johnny Cash / Your Eyes Don't Lie To Me - Bill Anderson / Little Green Apples - Roger Miller , You Made Me What I Am Today - Conway Twitty , and There She Goes - Jerry Wallace / Try A Little Kindness - Glen Campbell
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000QRUQF6

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Road Apples
The Tragically Hip
Manufacturer: Zoe Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002Y4SPW
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

Little Bones
Twist My Arm
Cordelia
The Luxury
Born In The Water
Long Time Running
Bring It All Back
Three Pistols
Fight
On The Verge
Fiddler's Green
The Last Of The Unplucked Gems

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Road Apples

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ASIN: B000065OLY
Release Date: 2006-07-18

Tracks:

Little Bones
Twist My Arm
Cordelia
The Luxury
Born In The Water
Long Time Burning
Bring It All Back
Three Pistols
Fight
On The Verge
Fiddler's Green
The Last Of The Unplucked Gems

Bootlegging Apples on the Road to Redemption

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Bootlegging Apples on the Road to Redemption
Mary Elizabeth Grace
Manufacturer: M S Distributing Co.
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Release Date: 1997-08-26

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If I'd Have Known
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Someday
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Primo Hip.
a holy grail
One of rock's great masterpeices
read this review
It started the ball rolling

Road Apples
The Tragically Hip
Manufacturer: Sire / London/Rhino
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ASIN: B000046S14
Release Date: 2000-02-01

Tracks:

Little Bones
Twist My Arm
Cordelia
The Luxury
Born In The Water
Long Time Running
Bring It All Back
Three Pistols
Fight
On The Verge
Fiddler's Green
The Last Of The Unplucked Gems

Customer Reviews:

Primo Hip........2002-12-30

A perfected, smoother evolution from their previous album "Up to Here". Extremely catchy. Great scope. A recommended car tape. Downie's voice is very on the edge on this one. Nice nice.

Like meaningful lyrics? Well, good luck finding any in these songs. This is not a bad thing, but I'll have to admit it makes me a little sad that these great lyrics are basically just bs, but I love them anyways.

This is amazing rock from one of the best live bands out there. Worthy of any classic rock fan's collection.

a holy grail.......2001-08-04

- Perhaps one of the best and most intelligent albums in the last decade. Its musical influences are probably Kerouac, Ginsberg put to musical narrative. So stop the musical comparisons - Strangely it takes a Canadian Band to show us what American music can truly be.

One of rock's great masterpeices.......2001-07-18

Let's be up front; if you like rock and "Road Apples" isn't in your collection, your collection is woefully incomplete.

This is the Hip's second studio album, following a self-titled EP and "Up to Here," and it's probably one of the ten best rock albums ever produced, anywhere.

Despite the frequent comparisons to REM (mostly due to lead singer Gord Downie's weird antics on stage) the Hip, musically, don't really resemble REM; ther sound is far harder and more rigidly arranged. That being said, the Hip is, first and foremost, a band. Few rock bands play as well as a unit; their songs are masterfully crafted with not a note out of place, every sound made being part of a whole. Rob Baker and Paul Langlois weave their guitars together like silk; on songs like "Cordelia" and "Bring it all Back" it becomes hard to tell who's playing what. Gord Sinclair weaves his bass line in with expert precision, and Johnny Fay's drumming supports without being intrusive. While listening to "Road Apples," you never really notice any one of the instruments - you hear them all, all contributing to tell each little story along the way.

Gord Downie's lyrics have been exhaustively discussed elsewhere, so I won't discuss them (they're amazing - there, I said it) but "Road Apples" is definitely his finest VOCAL work. Downie sings with incredible power on "Road Apples," power he lost a few albums later, and sings with a range he doesn't display on "Up to Here." His singing is unique, wonderful, and at the time was without peer.

There isn't a bad song on the album, and there aren't many songs here that aren't flat-out genius. If you like rock and roll, RUN and buy this album. Don't wait another day; you'll be glad you got this one.

read this review.......2001-03-18

"Road Apples" is a great leap forward from "Up To Here" for the Hip. The biggest difference is not the songwriting, which has is better this time out, but the production. The album has a cleaner sound, but is looser and more groove oriented than the riff heavy "Up To Here". The production is impressive, but wouldn't mean much without the tremendous batch of songs Gordon Downie and the boys have cooked up. Nearly every song is a Hip classic. "Little Bones" is the perfect song to kick off a rock album, nearly begging to be played at full volume. The instrumental build-up eventually gives in to some of Gord's finest lyrics. "It gets so sticky down here, better butter your cue finger up; it's the start of another new year, better call the newspaper up". Small town boredom looking for a little fun, but the only fun is during happy hour. "Nothing's dead down here, it's just a little tired" is Gord's version of optimism. The energy doesn't let up until half way through, as each of the first five songs are loud, furious rock and roll. It is clear in these songs who Downie's biggest influence was when writing his lyrics, Shakespeare. Several songs have direct references to Shakespearian characters, or to the man himself. This may sound like a strange reference point for noisy rock music, but it gives the songs an certain eloquence. "Cordelia" uses the tragedy of "King Lear" as a metaphor to his own failures through a series of visceral scenes. "The Luxury" has what I believe to be Downie's funniest and most sarcastic lyric in "She says 'why are you partial to that Playboy con, when you can see me naked anytime you want?'" Well honey, let me tell ya why.... "Three Pistols" and "On the Verge" are two more tragically overlooked (in America) classics. The three ballads on this album give it the stylistic diversity it needs. "Long Time Running" is plaintive and desperate. "Fiddler's Green" is a beautiful song about a son who's left his loving mother behind, and "Last of the Unplucked Gems" is an unfinished gem to close the album, working it's hazy groove and giving us one of Downie's most hauntingly beautiful melodies. When he sings "I'm kinda dumb, and so are you" he may only be half right. Do yourself a favor rock fans and buy this album. It is a masterpiece of hard rock, and the first great album from the most criminally overlooked band (in America) of the past 10-15 years.

It started the ball rolling.......2000-07-26

someone said to me about 9 years ago 'have a listen to this' and played me the guitar solo from "Bring it all back" - and I was hooked. It took me a long, long time to get the rest of their stuff (not easily available in UK) but now I am bang up to date and have just bought Music at Work, the Hip's ninth album. It all started from listening to Road Apples - what a phenomenal album. I won't pretend to understand all the lyrics but the music, as it ebbs and flows and changes in style, is something that I listen to over and over again. Check out 'Born in the Water' and 'Three pistols' for good old Rock and Roll, then it ends with 2 ballards, 'Fiddlers Green' and 'Gems' - and everything in between is superb as well.

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