Twist My Arm

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"Twist My Arm"
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Single by The Tragically Hip
from the album Road Apples
ReleasedJune 1991
RecordedBarris Studios (New Orleans)
September 1990
Genre Funk rock
Length3:54
Label MCA
Sire (U.S.)
Songwriter(s) The Tragically Hip
Producer(s) Don Smith
The Tragically Hip singles chronology
"Three Pistols"
(1991)
"Twist My Arm"
(1991)
"Long Time Running"
(1991)

"Twist My Arm" is the third single from The Tragically Hip's second full-length studio album, Road Apples .

The single's B-side is a live version of the song "Highway Girl" from the band's debut EP, in which Gord Downie tells the story of a suicide pact between a man and his girlfriend. It was a hit on Canadian radio, allowing the song to chart considerably higher than in its original form, and contains some lines which would later recur as lyrics in the band's 1992 single "Locked in the Trunk of a Car".

Charts

YearPeak Chart Position
CAN CAN Content (Cancon)
199122 [1] 3 [2]

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References

  1. "Top Singles - Volume 54, No. 10, August 10, 1991". RPM . Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  2. "Canadian Content (Cancon) - Volume 54, No. 3, June 22, 1991". RPM . Retrieved 2010-09-15.