Hipeponymous

{{Short description|Live album by The Tragically Hip}} {{Infobox album | name = Hipeponymous | type = box | artist = The Tragically Hip | cover =Hipeponymous.jpg | alt = | released = November 1, 2005 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock | length = | label = Universal | producer = | prev_title = In Between Evolution | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = Yer Favourites | next_year = 2005 }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r804284/review|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> |rev2 = ''Exclaim!'' |rev2score = (favourable)<ref>[http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid2=850&fid1=19593&csid1=76 Exclaim! review]</ref> }}

'''''Hipeponymous''''' is a limited-edition boxed set by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released on November 1, 2005. The album has been certified Platinum in Canada.<ref name="Certifcations">{{cite web|url=http://www.cria.ca/gold/0107_g.php |title=Canadian Recording Industry Association |year=2010 |accessdate=2010-05-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526084701/http://www.cria.ca/gold/0107_g.php |archivedate=2010-05-26 }}</ref>

''Hipeponymous'' contains a two-CD compilation of remastered songs voted for by fans titled ''Yer Favourites'', a full-length concert DVD recorded on November 26, 2004, at the Air Canada Centre titled ''That Night in Toronto'', and a DVD of bonus features that includes all of the band's music videos, a backstage documentary titled ''Macroscopic'', and a short film titled ''The Right Whale'', which features eleven visual vignettes set to new original scores written by the band, packaged in a forty-eight page hardbound book depicting various Hip memorabilia.

A very limited number of copies dispatched from Maple Music in Canada included a special postcard signed by all five members of the band.

==Contents== ===''Yer Favourites''===

'''Disc 1''' # "No Threat" (new song) # "Grace, Too" # "My Music at Work" # "38 Years Old" # "Gift Shop" # "Ahead by a Century" # "Vaccination Scar" # "Three Pistols" # "So Hard Done By" # "Fiddler's Green" # "Looking for a Place to Happen" # "Cordelia" # "'It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken'" # "Blow at High Dough" # "Wheat Kings" # "Fifty Mission Cap" # "New Orleans Is Sinking" # "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man"

'''Disc 2''' # "Fully Completely" # "Twist My Arm" # "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" # "Lake Fever" # "Poets" # "Fireworks" # "Boots or Hearts" # "Bobcaygeon" # "Nautical Disaster" # "Highway Girl" # "Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park" # "Scared" # "Something On" # "At the Hundredth Meridian" # "Long Time Running" # "Darkest One" # "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" # "Little Bones" # "The New Maybe" (new song)

===''That Night in Toronto''=== Recorded on November 26, 2004, at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

# "Vaccination Scar" # "Fully Completely" # "Grace, Too" # "Summer's Killing Us" # "Ahead by a Century" # "Silver Jet" # "As Makeshift as We Are" # "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" # "Bobcaygeon" # "Nautical Disaster" # "Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park" # "Poets" # "At the Hundredth Meridian" # "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" # "My Music at Work" # "New Orleans Is Sinking"

'''First encore:''' : "Heaven Is a Better Place Today" : "'It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken'" : "Little Bones"

'''Second encore:''' : "Gift Shop" : "Springtime in Vienna" : "Three Pistols"

'''Third encore:''' : "Boots or Hearts" : "Blow at High Dough"

===Bonus features===

'''''Video Kills''''' # "Last American Exit" # "Small Town Bringdown" # "New Orleans Is Sinking" # "Blow at High Dough" # "Little Bones" # "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" # "Courage" (For Hugh MacLennan) # "At the Hundredth Meridian" # "Nautical Disaster" # "Thugs" # "Greasy Jungle" # "Grace, Too" # "Ahead by a Century" # "Gift Shop" # "Bobcaygeon" # "Something On" # "Poets" # "My Music at Work" # "'It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken'" # "Silver Jet" # "The Darkest One" # "Vaccination Scar" # "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night"

'''''Macroscopic''''' A short film by Christopher Mills

'''''The Right Whale''''' # "Cooking in Wartime" # "Piano Spider" # "speakersong" # "Air Plane" # "Sub Way" # "Edible Paper" # "What's Ummm Mean?" # "Leaving the Island" # "Land Scape Clouds" # "Mind Fame" # "The Right Whale"

{{Infobox album | name = Yer Favourites | type = greatest | artist = the Tragically Hip | cover = | alt = | released = November 8, 2005 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock | length = 154:52 | label = Universal | producer = | prev_title = Hipeponymous | prev_year = 2005 | next_title = World Container | next_year = 2006 | misc = {{Singles | name = Yer Favourites | type = compilation | single1 = No Threat | single1date = 2005 }} }}

{{Album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/yer-favourites-mw0000702905|title=Yer Favourites - The Tragically Hip - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref> }}

==Yer Favourites== '''''Yer Favourites''''' is a two-disc compilation album by the Tragically Hip. The tracks for ''Yer Favourites'' were selected by the band's fans on its website and were remastered. The compilation includes a total of seven songs from ''Fully Completely'' (the most songs of any album on the compilation), six songs from ''Road Apples'', five songs from ''Phantom Power'', four songs from ''Up to Here'', four songs from ''Day for Night'', two songs from ''Trouble at the Henhouse'', two songs from ''Music @ Work'', two songs from ''In Violet Light'', two songs from ''In Between Evolution'' and one song from the band's ''self-titled EP''. It also included two new songs, "No Threat" and "The New Maybe". It was released both as a stand-alone two-disc set and as part of the ''Hipeponymous'' box set. The compilation debuted at number 8 on the Canadian Albums Chart in 2005.<ref>{{cite magazine| url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the tragically hip|chart=all}} | title=Yer Favourites - The Tragically Hip | magazine=Billboard| access-date=April 3, 2011}}</ref> In 2016, the compilation re-entered the Canadian Albums Chart, contemporaneous with the release of ''Man Machine Poem'' and the announcement of lead singer Gord Downie's cancer diagnosis.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/canadian-albums/2016-06-18|title=Billboard Canadian Albums: Top Albums Chart|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref>

Following the Tragically Hip's final concert of their Man Machine Poem Tour, which was broadcast live on CBC and watched by 11.7 million people,<ref>{{cite web|title=Millions watch Tragically Hip live on CBC|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tragically-hip-cbc-broadcast-ratings-1.3730276|website=CBC.ca|access-date=August 30, 2016}}</ref> the compilation reached number 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/canadian-albums/2016-09-10| title=CANADIAN ALBUMS| magazine=Billboard| access-date=August 30, 2016}}</ref> It returned to the Canadian charts again in October 2017 following Downie's death, immediately rising from #182 to #2.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171023212810/http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/tragically-hip-album-sales-audio-streams-soar-after-gord-downie-s-death-1.3644907 "Tragically Hip album sales, audio streams soar after Gord Downie's death"]. CTV News, October 23, 2017.</ref>

==Track listing== ===Disc one=== # "No Threat" (new song) # "Grace, Too" (''Day for Night'') # "My Music at Work" (''Music @ Work'') # "38 Years Old" (''Up to Here'') # "Gift Shop" (''Trouble at the Henhouse'') # "Ahead by a Century" (''Trouble at the Henhouse'') # "Vaccination Scar" (''In Between Evolution'') # "Three Pistols" (''Road Apples'') # "So Hard Done By" (''Day for Night'') # "Fiddler's Green" (''Road Apples'') # "Looking for a Place to Happen (Remix)" (''Fully Completely'') # "Cordelia" (''Road Apples'') # "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken" (''In Violet Light'') # "Blow at High Dough" (''Up to Here'') # "Wheat Kings" (''Fully Completely'') # "Fifty Mission Cap" (''Fully Completely'') # "New Orleans Is Sinking" (''Up to Here'') # "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" (''Phantom Power'')

===Disc two=== # "Fully Completely (Remix)" (''Fully Completely'') # "Twist My Arm" (''Road Apples'') # "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan) (Remix)" (''Fully Completely'') # "Lake Fever" (''Music @ Work'') # "Poets" (''Phantom Power'') # "Fireworks" (''Phantom Power'') # "Boots or Hearts" (''Up to Here'') # "Bobcaygeon" (''Phantom Power'') # "Nautical Disaster" (''Day for Night'') # "Highway Girl" (''The Tragically Hip'') # "Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park" (''In Between Evolution'') # "Scared" (''Day for Night'') # "Something On" (''Phantom Power'') # "At the Hundredth Meridian (Remix)" (''Fully Completely'') # "Long Time Running" (''Road Apples'') # "The Darkest One" (''In Violet Light'') # "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" (''Fully Completely'') # "Little Bones" (''Road Apples'') # "The New Maybe" (new song)

==Charts== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}

===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2016) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|BillboardCanada|1|artist=The Tragically Hip|rowheader=true|access-date=August 30, 2016}} |} {{col-2}}

===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2016) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2016/top-canadian-albums|title=Top Canadian Albums – Year-End 2016|work=Billboard|access-date=December 25, 2020}}</ref> | 13 |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2017) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/top-canadian-albums|title=Top Canadian Albums – Year-End 2017|work=Billboard|access-date=December 15, 2017}}</ref> | 32 |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2018) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2018/top-canadian-albums|title=Canadian Albums – Year-End 2018|work=Billboard|access-date=December 5, 2018}}</ref> | 30 |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2019) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/top-canadian-albums|title=Top Canadian Albums – Year-End 2019|work=Billboard|access-date=December 3, 2020}}</ref> | 44 |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2020) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2020/top-canadian-albums|title=Top Canadian Albums – Year-End 2020|work=Billboard|access-date=December 9, 2020}}</ref> | 39 |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2021) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2021/top-canadian-albums/|title=Top Canadian Albums – Year-End 2021|work=Billboard|access-date=December 3, 2021}}</ref> | 26 |} {{col-end}}

==Certifications== {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|artist=The Tragically Hip|title=Yer Favourites|award=Diamond|type=album|relyear=2005|certyear=2023|accessdate=April 6, 2023}} {{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|nosales=yes|noshipments=yes}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.hipeponymous.com Hipeponymous official website] *[http://www.thehip.com TheHip.com - The Tragically Hip official website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070310063419/http://www.canada.com/entertainment/music/story.html?id=9ad83ee0-610a-4aa2-8b1a-e61cbe956e92 Canada.com review]

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