Fully Completely [Enhanced, Original recording reissued]

The Tragically Hip | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
• Label: Sire / London/Rhino
• ASIN: B00000IJRC
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #289,191 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Courage (For Hugh Mackerman)

2. Looking for a Place to Happen

3. At the Hundredth Meridian

4. Pigeon Camera

5. Lionized

6. Locked in the Trunk of a Car

7. We'll Go To

8. Fully Completely

9. Fifty Mission Cup

10. Wheat Kings

11. The Wherewithal

12. Eldorado

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best album by a great band, June 29, 2000

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"kevinbourke" (Needham Heights, Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fully Completely (Audio CD)

In answer to the question about whether or not this album has been re-released--the answer is a resounding yes. A CD-ROM element has been added and the disc now includes a few videos that you can access via the 'net.

Now, on to the review. The best band to ever come out of Canada hits its absolute peak (sorry Rush) with this 1992 release. In the three albums leading up to "Fully Completely" the band put out some great music, but was still finding its sound. In the albums since, the band's gotten a little soft--still great, but softer. This release catches the band at it's rockin' best.

Highlights include Courage, At The Hundredth Meridian, and the title track--all of which rock. But perhaps the best tune, in typical Hip form, handles a topic that is truly Canadian--hockey. Fifty-Mission Cap tells the true story of Bill Barilko, a star player for the 'leafs who disappeared after scoring the winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Next time the team won a Cup was the year he was discovered. Lyrics don't get much beyond that, but again--the tune rocks!

If you've heard some latter day Hip and are partial to the more mellow tunes, there's a few here too. Wheat Kings, for example, has a Bobcaygeon (from "Phantom Power") feel to it. And Pigeon Camera has a sound so sweet it'll break your heart, even though I have no idea what they're yapping about in the lyrics.

There are other great songs on this CD--hell there isn't a clunker in the bunch--but it'd take too long to go through each one. Bottom line: if you've heard of the Hip and need a place to begin exploring, this is the CD you want.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Favourite album of all time, February 21, 2002

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Hip Fan (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fully Completely (Audio CD)

This is the best album of all time, in my books. Of course I'm Canadian, so that might bias me a bit. Downie is lyrically brilliant. The more times you listen to this album, the better it gets -- I've been listening to it since it was released, and each time hear something different or the meaning of a particularly twisted lyric becomes clear.

Buy it. Listen to it. Understand it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Canadian record, May 19, 2005

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selffate "invigorating genius" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fully Completely (Audio CD)

Let me first say I have never been a Tragically Hip fan. THAT being said I can't ignore this albums perfection.

Albums that have a dark lined undercurrent to them, really speak to me, and Dowie's lyrical prowess here seems to reach into some real angst.

Needless to say as well, and I can't explain why, this is an absolutely quintessential "Canadian" album. The reasons though are not very easy to explain, but if you really want to understand the landscape and the feeling of a country, listen to this album.

That being said, this was without question the "Hip's" most successful album in terms of classic songs. Numerous videos were made from this album, and were staples of the then Muchmusic video program (Courage, At The Hundreth Meredian, Locked In The Trunk of a Car) up in Canada. It made the band household names, and has pretty much solidified them as the domineering band in Canada for years to come (yes more than Rush).

It's strange, many of the songs on here I enjoy immensly, Courage's catchy chorus, The weepy pigeon camera, the tragic Wheat Kings, the madness of Locked in a trunk in the car, to the almost Judas Priest riffing of Fifty Mission Cap.

I constantly have run into many Tragically Hip fans up North and 90% of them tell me this is their favourite album and their best.

I kind of got sick of the band's over-exposure, and the majority of their albums really do nothing for me minus one or two songs. However, this was the album where the band struck gold.