Up to Here
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| Studio album by The Tragically Hip | ||||
| Released | September 5, 1989 | |||
| Recorded | Ardent Studios (Memphis) | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 43:29 | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Don Smith | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| PopMatters | (8/10) |
Up to Here is the first full-length album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, released in September 1989. It is one of the band's most successful albums: it has achieved diamond status in Canada for sales of over a million copies, earned the band Juno Award for Most Promising Artist, and introduced fan-favourite songs such as "Blow at High Dough", "New Orleans Is Sinking", and "38 Years Old".
The Tragically Hip toured intensively behind their first release, the EP The Tragically Hip, which had earned considerable airplay on Canadian FM radio and the MuchMusic video station. The band found an audience on US college radio as well and drew the attention of MCA representative Bruce Dickinson while performing at the CMJ New Music Festival in New York City in late 1988. That December Dickinson travelled to Toronto to see the band perform at the Toronto Music Awards, and MCA signed the band later that month.
Dickinson recommended the band record in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Don Smith. The band entered Ardent Studios with a set of songs they had extensive experience playing live.
The album appeared September 5, 1989. Its lead single, the hard-rocking "Blow at High Dough", had a strong showing on Canadian radio. The following single performed even better: "New Orleans Is Sinking", a loose jam piece which had taken a key place at the band's live shows; in the midst of "New Orleans" the band often débuted new songs or gave Downie the spotlight to improvise. Downie's memories of a jailbreak in 1972 at the maximum-security Millhaven Institution inspired the lyrics to "38 Years Old", whose ringing acoustic guitar backing is overlaid with distorted electric guitar leads. The band introduced new material while touring Up to Here that was to appear on their next album Road Apples in 1991.
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