Trouble At The Henhouse (Remastered) The Tragically Hip

• 1 Gift Shop 04:57
• 2 Springtime In Vienna 04:38
• 3 Ahead By A Century 03:43
• 4 Don't Wake Daddy 05:08
• 5 Flamenco 04:06
• 6 700 Foot Ceiling 03:40
• 7 Butts Wigglin 03:47
• 8 Apartment Song 03:57
• 9 Coconut Cream 03:21
• 10 Let's Stay Engaged 04:53
• 11 Sherpa 05:13
• 12 Put It Off 05:11
• Total Runtime 52:34

Info for Trouble At The Henhouse (Remastered)

Released in 1996, The Tragically Hip once again had a huge hit on their hands with "Ahead By a Century". The album also features the single "Gift Shop". Trouble at the Henhouse is the fifth studio album from Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released on May 7, 1996. Produced by the band and Mark Vreeken, the album was mixed by Steven Drake, guitarist for Canadian band Odds, which had toured with the Hip the previous year.

"Self-production has been in the works forever, though I don't think we were ready for it until this latest session. We learned a great deal working with Don Smith, Chris Tsangarides and Mark Howard, as did our sound engineer, Mark Vreeken. He's been with us at every session since Road Apples and is ultimately responsible for the way the new record sounds.

The first month and a half was spent collecting our various ideas that we had come up with at home and on the road, stitching them together into songs... the same collective song writing approach we've used for years. We usually start from riffs, bouncing different ideas off each other and building on them from there. Once Gord starts fitting in the words, that's when they really get rolling. From there it's just a matter of refinement, paring the ideas down to manageable arrangements and getting things down on tape.

After we finished touring at the end of October we took some time off to set up the studio. By mid November we had it together enough to start. We would come in every day and play, working mostly afternoons and evenings, just jamming really, with no schedules or constraints, slowly stitching songs together. At the same time Mark would be experimenting; moving mikes and amps and people around, getting a sound we were all satisfied with. We need to all play together in the same room, so we spent a lot of time trying to minimise bleed. It was just before Christmas when we started laying stuff down for real." (Gord Sinclair)

"With Trouble at the Henhouse, the Tragically Hip turned in an album that is in the same vein as their previous record, Day for Night. Trouble at the Henhouse is a set of professional, but rarely exciting, anthemic hard rock that occasionally dips into pedestrian bar-band boogie. The Hip are at their best when they have a bit of grit in their sound, and for too much of the album they polish all of their rough edges away." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

The Tragically Hip
Additional musicians:
Peter Tuepah, Hammond organ
Greg Runions, vibes

Produced by The Tragically Hip and Mark Vreeken

Digitally remastered

The Tragically Hip
Critically acclaimed for more than three decades, The Tragically Hip has been at the heart of the Canadian musical zeitgeist, evoking a strong emotional connection between their music and their fans that remains unrivalled in this country. A five-piece group of friends including Rob Baker (guitar), Gord Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay (drums), Paul Langlois (guitar) and Gord Sinclair (bass), who grew up in Kingston, Ontario, The Hip has achieved the enviable status of a band that enjoys both mass popularity with more than 8 million albums sold worldwide, as well as peer recognition through 16 Juno Awards - and the fourth-most ever for an artist – picking up their last two in for Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year for Man Machine Poem. Their studio catalogue includes their self-titled debut album The Tragically Hip (1987), Up To Here (1989), Road Apples (1991), Fully Completely (1992), Day For Night (1994), Trouble At The Henhouse (1996), Phantom Power (1998), Music @ Work (2000), In Violet Light (2002), In Between Evolution (2004), World Container (2006), We Are The Same (2009), Now For Plan A (2012) and Man Machine Poem (2016). Through their career the band became a cultural touchstone in Canada; receiving the distinguished Order of Canada and even being featured on a set of postage stamps. The band’s final concert in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario took place on August 20th, 2016 and was broadcast nationally on CBC to a record breaking audience of 11.7 million, the second highest audience ever in Canada.

This album contains no booklet.