The Hip Road Trip II
AKA: I Cant Resist A Part Two. Road trip is now slightly inaccurate and I should probably re-title this, but regardless we’re back and going global! Welcome back to the Hip Road Trip where today I’ll be providing a (somewhat less detailed) list of the non-Canadian locations mentioned in the music of Canada’s House Band.
Antarctica
Song: Emperor Penguin
Album: Phantom Power
Lyric: In a spartan Antarctican walk for many days
Berlin, Germany
Song: Eldorado
Album: Fully Completely
Lyric: Just the mention of Berlin makes me sexy
Central Park Zoo, New York
Song: Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Title only
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Song: Chagrin Falls
Album: Phantom Power
Lyric: Or Chagrin Falls Ohio/ Where the unknown won’t ever go
Chicago, Illinois
Song: The Depression Suite
Album: We Are the Same
Lyric: Under the pillow/ I bury my head and try to shut Chicago out
Copenhagen, Denmark
Song: One Night in Copenhagen
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Quits you at a payphone in the snow/One night in Copenhagen
El Paso, Texas
Song: Yawning or Snarling
Album: Day for Night
Lyric: One night in El Paso/The cops go into the crowd
Florida
Song: Don’t You Wanna See How It Ends
Album: We Are the Same
Lyric: Go to be a man of the boom/To Florida without the ocean
France
Song: Fighter Fighter
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Four AM the French countryside
Frisco, Texas
Song: Tiger the Lion
Album: Music@Work
Lyric: This is Tiger the Lion gimme the Knuckles of Frisco
India
Song: Great Soul
Album: Man Machine Poem
Lyric: O great soul/From the India of my dreams
London, England - Big Ben is a really big clock in London
Song: Silver Jet
Album: In Violet Light
Lyric: It’s quiet again/When a car like Big Ben
Los Angeles, California
Song: Now for Plan A
Album: Now for Plan A
Lyric: I’ll stay till the wisteria fades/And falls on LA
Marianas Trench, the Pacific Ocean
Song: Sharks
Album: Music@Work
Lyric: From the moon down to the surface of the Marianas Trench
Mars
Song: Sherpa
Album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Lyric: Staring into the fire before TV/ The remote control’s on Mars
Song: Vaccination Scar
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Or a little silver boulder/ Or silence from Mars
Mississippi and Minnesota
Song: If New Orleans is Beat
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Here where the Mississippi quits/Where it’s still got a bit of Minnesota in it
Moscow, Russia – A little more specific than the reference in “Scared”, Moscow is the location of the Kremlin.
Song: Fireworks
Album: Phantom Power
Lyric: Crisis of faith and crisis in the Kremlin
Moroto River, Uganda
Song: Fighter Fighter
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Oh the Lord’s Resistance Army sent/ forty five children to test/ Moroto River swellin’
Mount Vesuvius, Italy
Song: Toronto #4
Album: Music@Work
Lyric: Did you know the conduit of Vesuvius
Nashville, Tennessee
Song: It Can’t Be Nashville Every Night
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Stares into the blur of the tuner lights/It can’t be Nashville every night
New Orleans, Louisiana
Song: New Orleans is Sinking
Album: Up To Here
Lyric: New Orleans is sinking man and I don’t wanna swim
Song: If New Orleans is Beat
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: If New Orleans is beat/Where’s that leave you and me
Song: New Orleans World
Album: We Are the Same
Lyric: Working in the New Orleans World/ Emptying slots working like a ghost
New York, New York
Song: Flamenco
Album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Lyric: Maybe I’ll go to New York/Ill drag you there
Song: Escape Is At Hand for the Travellin’ Man
Album: Phantom Power
Lyric: It was our third time in New York/It was your fourth time in New York
Northumberland, England
Song: Silver Jet
Album: In Violet Light
Lyric: As if the Wolves of Northumberland themselves/Were rumored to be en route
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Song: The Bastard
Album: Music@Work
Lyric: Philadelphia for Christ and Christ for Philadelphia
Reno, Nevada – Mentioned in the very first lyric on The Hip’s first album.
Song: Small Town Bringdown
Album: The Tragically Hip
Lyric: Been to Reno/Drives an El Camino
Russia
Song: Scared
Album: Day for Night
Lyric: You’re in Russia/And more than a million works of art/Are whisked out to the woods
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania and Kenya
Song: Don’t Wake Daddy
Album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Lyric: Then they drift past strips of Serengeti and the gates of Sleepy Hollow too
Tacoma, Washington
Song: Vaccination Scar
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: It went down like a bad card table/Like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Tarrytown, New York – The real-life location of the Sleepy Hollow legend.
Song: Don’t Wake Daddy
Album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Lyric: Then they drift past strips of Serengeti and the gates of Sleepy Hollow too
The Appian Way, Rome
Song: Putting Down
Album: Music@Work
Lyric: From the boardwalk to the Appian Way
The Gulf of Mexico
Song: New Orleans World
Album: We Are the Same
Lyric: I move through huge rooms with no windows/ And no Gulf of Mexico
The Himalayas, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, China, and Bhutan
Song: Poets
Album: Phantom Power
Lyric: Those Himalayas of the mind
The Moon
Song: Sharks
Album: Music@Work
Lyric: From the moon down to the surface of the Marianas Trench
Song: Freak Turbulence
Album: Music@Work
Lyric: As the moon groomed the airplane/In a benevolent way
Song: You’re Everywhere
Album: In Between Evolution
Lyric: Where the future lies/Under no moon at night
Song: Morning Moon
Album: We Are the Same
Lyric: The sun’s a light bulb and the moons is a mirror
Vienna, Austria
Song: Springtime in Vienna
Album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Lyric: Title only