2014 box set comes to vinyl for first time
In 2014, The Tragically Hip released their 1992 album, Fully Completely, as a CD box set. For its 30th anniversary in 2022, the group is reimagining that box as a vinyl set on October 7th. The 3 LP set includes all the elements from the 2014 box including, the Fully Completely 12 track original album and the Live at the Horseshoe September 13, 1992 recording with bonus studio session tracks, “Radio Show” and “So Hard Done By.”
The deluxe set also includes a Blu-ray of new Dolby ATMOS and surround sound mixes of the record along with their 1993 tour documentary, Heksenketel, featuring concert footage and other clips of the band and crew as they travel across Canada from coast to coast during their 1993 Another Roadside Attraction Tour. Rounding out the set are a 56-page book with updated quotes from the band and five exclusive lithographs by cover artist Lieve Prins.
The ATMOS mixes will also be available digitally on Apple Music and Amazon Music.
Fully Completely is where The Tragically Hip reach the apex of their talent. Originally released on October 6, 1992, the album went on to sell more than a million copies in Canada and is quickly approaching double Diamond status. Spawning multiple hit singles “Locked in the Trunk of a Car,” “Courage” (For Hugh McLennan), “At the Hundredth Meridian,” “Fifty Mission Cap” and “Wheat Kings.”
At the 2017 Polaris Music Prize the album won the public vote for the Heritage Prize in the 1986-1995 category. The album was produced by Chris Tsangarides (Depeche Mode, Killing Joke, Concrete Blonde) and recorded at Battery Studios in London the summer of 1992.
The Fully Completely deluxe vinyl edition is the first in a series of vinyl album rereleases for The Tragically Hip, the band heeding the call to experience the music in this analogue quality format. Fans can watch out for reissues of Yer Favourites, which had previously been available only on CD, and a new box set for Phantom Power on CD, vinyl and ATMOS, leading into the bands’ 40th anniversary celebration in 2024.
Earlier this week, The Tragically Hip were announced as the Inductee to Canada’s Walk Of Fame for Humanitarianism in pursuit of social and environmental justice. They had previously received a star on the Walk Of Fame in 2002. For more than three decades, The Tragically Hip’s tireless activism and philanthropic pursuits have raised millions of dollars for multiple social and environmental causes, such as Camp Trillium, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Sunnybrook Foundation, WAR Child, the Special Olympics and the Unison Benevolent Fund. A quintessential band whose music captures the essence of being Canadian, they used their enormous megaphone in 2016 to shine a spotlight on the country’s systemic mistreatment of indigenous peoples. The legacy of the band’s frontman, the late Gord Downie, continues with The Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, which aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
