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"Ahead by a Century" was the first single from the first Tragically Hip album that disappointed me, Trouble at the Henhouse. The song itself is a good one, with its refrain about the hornet and smoking them out, and this not being a dress rehearsal, but being our life. It topped the RPM charts in Canada and earned the Hip a platinum record, and was ranked 35th in the 2000 Chart list and 64th in Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Singles.
We (the LeDrews, the Horsts, and Tracy and I) watched the final Hip concert of their 2016 Man Machine tour on a big screen on the beach at Grand Bend; however, the weather closed down the projection and we were forced to take refuge in a bar further up the strip, but the noise in the bar was too loud to hear the music, so we sat in the LeDrews' van outside the bar, watched the TVs through the bar windows, and listened to the final songs on the radio, the last of which was this one, "Ahead by a Century."
| Hometown: | Kingston |
| Release Date: | 22 April 1996 |
| Composer: | The Tragically Hip (Rob Baker, Gordon Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair) |
| Album: | Trouble at the Henhouse |
| Style: | Rock |
| Charts: | #1 Canadian Singles Chart |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not exist |
| Mar*Star 150: | 83 |
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