Up to Here is The Tragically Hip's first full-length album. and, arguably, the first rock album to reach top 10 on the Canadian charts that wasn't afraid of singing about Canada, not in a jingoist way, but just as a matter of experience. As Tom Wilson of Junkhouse and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings put it, "People like Blue Rodeo and Gord Downie have been embraced in such a huge way that suddenly you don't have to be singing about the Mississippi River or have a poncey British accent to get your point across."
Up to Here helped The Tragically Hip win the 1990 Juno award for Most Promising Group and was awarded with 4.5 of 5 stars on AllMusic. Five tracks from the album were released as singles, including "Blow at High Dough" (#48), "New Orleans Is Sinking" (#70 in Canada; #30 in the US), "Boots or Heats" (#41) and "38 Years Old" (#41). It ranked 15th in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book, The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
B.C. (Before Children), Tracy and I used to go see every Bob Dylan or Neil Young tour that came within driving distance – my favourite being the July 4th Dylan-Petty-Dead show at Buffalo's Rich Stadium. Over the last fifteen or twenty years, while we've still caught the occasional Dylan (Toronto's Molson Amphitheatre, Kitchener's Memorial Auditorium with my niece Vanessa, Hamilton's Copps Coliseum with Dave Henrich) or Young (London's John Labatt Centre with the Horsts, LeDrews and Franks), the Tragically Hip has become our go-to concert experience.
| Hometown: | Kingston, Ontario |
| Label: | MCA |
| Release Date: | 5 September 1989 |
| Producer: | Don Smith |
| Style: | rock |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not rank |
| Mar*Star 150: | 95 |
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