Fully Completely

Fully Completely
Studio album by The Tragically Hip
Released	1992
Recorded	Battery Studios (London)
Genre	Rock 'n' Roll
Length	46:45
Label	MCA
Producer	Chris Tsangarides, Piye
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The Tragically Hip chronology
Road Apples (1991) Fully Completely (1992) Day for Night (1994)

Fully Completely is the third full-length album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was their first album to reach #1 on the RPM Top 100 albums chart.^[1] It was certified diamond in Canada in January 2007.^[2] The album is listed at #5 on The Top 100 Canadian Albums by Bob Mersereau and #9 on The Top 102 Modern Rock Albums of All Time by 102.1 The Edge.

The album was released in October 1992 and produced by Chris Tsangarides. The cover art was designed by Dutch artist Lieve Prins. Prins, an "electrographer" who makes art with photocopiers, had the band photocopy various parts of their bodies and then made a collage with the results. The original wall-sized piece is on display at The Bathouse Recording Studio.

Like their 1989 album Up to Here, Fully Completely is considered by the Hip's fans as one of The Tragically Hip's best albums, and a classic Canadian album.^{[citation needed]} Also like Up to Here, many of the songs are still played in regular rotation on Canadian radio. Fully Completely represented a large step away from the band's originally blues-inspired sound. Lyrically the album alternates between pessimism and despair. "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" is written from the perspective of a serial killer, and "Courage", perhaps the album's most popular cut, is inspired by a chapter in Hugh MacLennan's book The Watch That Ends the Night. It seems to detail the thoughts of a person who cannot decide whether or not to commit suicide.

Some of the songs are inspired by real, predominantly Canadian, events. "Fifty Mission Cap" is about Bill Barilko, who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs before he disappeared in 1951, and also cites imagery related to Canadian bomber crews in the Second World War. "Wheat Kings" is about David Milgaard, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in the 1960s. The title of "Pigeon Camera" refers to pigeons with cameras attached to their legs that were used (mostly unsuccessfully) in the First World War as tools for aerial observation.

Some of the songs (such as "At the Hundredth Meridian" and "Locked In the Trunk of a Car") were written or in some way started during one of Gordon Downie's onstage improvised rants. The major lyrics for "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" first originated in the live version of "Highway Girl" known as "Double Suicide". "At the Hundredth Meridian" was also partly established during a small concert they performed in Ontario on Canada Day.

Track listing

All songs were written by The Tragically Hip.

1. "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" – 4:27
2. "Looking for a Place to Happen" – 4:18
3. "At the Hundredth Meridian" – 3:20
4. "Pigeon Camera" – 4:34
5. "Lionized" – 3:20
6. "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" – 4:42
7. "We'll Go, Too" – 3:24
8. "Fully Completely" – 3:30
9. "Fifty Mission Cap" – 4:10
10. "Wheat Kings" – 4:19
11. "The Wherewithal" – 2:55
12. "Eldorado" – 3:46

Singles

• "Courage"
• "Looking for a Place to Happen"
• "At the Hundredth Meridian"
• "Fully Completely"
• "Wheat Kings"
• "Fifty-Mission Cap"
• "Locked in the Trunk of a Car"

Certifications

Footnotes

1. ^ RPM Volume 56 No. 19, November%2007%201992 - RPM
2. ^ ^{a b} CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for January 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2007.