Yer Favourites

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Yer Favourites
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Greatest hits album by
the Tragically Hip
ReleasedNovember 8, 2005
Genre Rock
Length154:52
Label Universal
The Tragically Hip chronology
Hipeponymous
(2005)		Yer Favourites
(2005)		 World Container
(2006)
Singles from Yer Favourites
  1. "No Threat"
    Released: 2005
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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. [2] 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. [3]

Contents

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, [4] the compilation reached number 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart. [5] It returned to the Canadian charts again in October 2017 following Downie's death, immediately rising from #182 to #2. [6]

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "No Threat" (new song)
  2. "Grace, Too" ( Day for Night )
  3. "My Music at Work" ( Music @ Work )
  4. "38 Years Old" ( Up to Here )
  5. "Gift Shop" ( Trouble at the Henhouse )
  6. "Ahead by a Century" ( Trouble at the Henhouse )
  7. "Vaccination Scar" ( In Between Evolution )
  8. "Three Pistols" ( Road Apples )
  9. "So Hard Done By" ( Day for Night )
  10. "Fiddler's Green" ( Road Apples )
  11. "Looking for a Place to Happen (Remix)" ( Fully Completely )
  12. "Cordelia" ( Road Apples )
  13. "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken" ( In Violet Light )
  14. "Blow at High Dough" ( Up to Here )
  15. "Wheat Kings" ( Fully Completely )
  16. "Fifty Mission Cap" ( Fully Completely )
  17. "New Orleans Is Sinking" ( Up to Here )
  18. "Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" ( Phantom Power )

Disc two

  1. "Fully Completely (Remix)" ( Fully Completely )
  2. "Twist My Arm" ( Road Apples )
  3. "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan) (Remix)" ( Fully Completely )
  4. "Lake Fever" ( Music @ Work )
  5. "Poets" ( Phantom Power )
  6. "Fireworks" ( Phantom Power )
  7. "Boots or Hearts" ( Up to Here )
  8. "Bobcaygeon" ( Phantom Power )
  9. "Nautical Disaster" ( Day for Night )
  10. "Highway Girl" ( The Tragically Hip )
  11. "Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park" ( In Between Evolution )
  12. "Scared" ( Day for Night )
  13. "Something On" ( Phantom Power )
  14. "At the Hundredth Meridian (Remix)" ( Fully Completely )
  15. "Long Time Running" ( Road Apples )
  16. "The Darkest One" ( In Violet Light )
  17. "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" ( Fully Completely )
  18. "Little Bones" ( Road Apples )
  19. "The New Maybe" (new song)

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [14] Diamond1,000,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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