Editing Live Between Us

{{Infobox album
| name       = Live Between Us
| type       = live
| artist     = [[The Tragically Hip]]
| cover      = LiveBetweenUs.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = May 24, 1997
| recorded   = November 23, 1996
| venue      = [[Cobo Arena]], [[Detroit]], Michigan
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length     = 70:31
| label      = [[MCA Records|MCA]]
| producer   = 
* [[The Tragically Hip]]
* Mark Vreeken
| prev_title = [[Trouble at the Henhouse]]
| prev_year  = 1996
| next_title = [[Phantom Power (The Tragically Hip Album)|Phantom Power]]
| next_year  = 1998
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r313375/review|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
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'''''Live Between Us''''' is the first full-length live [[album]] by [[Canadian rock]] band [[The Tragically Hip]].

The album was recorded on November 23, 1996, at [[Cobo Arena]] in  [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], during the band's North American tour in support of ''[[Trouble at the Henhouse]]''.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fg8EAAAAMBAJ&q=Tragically+Hip+Billboard&pg=PA63 | title=Tragically Hip's Live Universal Set Welcomed In Canada| date=7 June 1997| publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| accessdate=May 29, 2014}}</ref>

Lead singer Gordon Downie was known for his intensity and spontaneity during the band's live concerts such as telling rants/stories, observations, and random comments before, during, and after songs, among other things. As such, this live recording documents him incorporating snippets of other songs in the middle of the band's own songs. This includes [[John Lennon]]'s "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]" during "Grace, Too", [[Crowded House]]'s "Into Temptation" during "Twist My Arm", [[David Bowie]]/[[Iggy Pop]]'s "China Girl" and [[The Beach Boys]]' "[[Don't Worry Baby]]" during "New Orleans Is Sinking", and both [[Jane Siberry]]'s "The Temple" and [[Rheostatics]]' "Bad Time to Be Poor" during "Nautical Disaster"; in addition, a lyrical snippet from Downie's own solo song "Every Irrelevance" is spoken as the introduction to "Ahead by a Century", and part of the band's own unreleased but widely bootlegged song "Montreal" appears in "Courage".

[[Rheostatics]] were the opening act on the tour as documented by this album's liner notes, and announced by Downie during the fade-in at the beginning of the album's first track.

In the week of the album's release, eight songs from the album appeared in the week's Top 20 singles chart.

The title comes from [[graffiti]] in [[Kingston, Ontario]], which read "The Hip live between us." This graffiti was penned by early band member Davis Manning,<ref>[http://rainbowcountry.bc.ca/TheHip Copper Penny<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070906181816/http://www.rainbowcountry.bc.ca/TheHip/ |date=2007-09-06 }}</ref> describing the impact that the band was having on his relationship with his girlfriend. The mural remained on the wall until the mid-2000s when it was painted over by the property owner. However, it is immortalized on the CD graphic.

==Commercial performance==
''Live Between Us'' sold 35,000 units in its first two days and debuted at #1 on the [[Canadian Albums Chart]] on the strength of the first two days' sales.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicTragicallyHip/may30_hip.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040920231312/http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicTragicallyHip/may30_hip.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 20, 2004|title=Hip shake up charts on short notice|accessdate=April 13, 2020}}</ref> The album was certified double platinum on August 19, 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Live%20Between%20Us&ica=False&sa=The%20Tragically%20Hip&sl=&smt=0&sat=DOUBLE%20PLATINUM%20ALBUM(S)&ssb=Artist|title=Gold Platinum Database: The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us|publisher=[[Music Canada]]|accessdate=May 26, 2014}}</ref> The album sold 400,000 units by the end of 1997.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ug0EAAAAMBAJ&q=Wide+Mouth+Mason+Billboard&pg=PA42 | title=Billboard SPOTLIGHTS CANADA The Shape Of '98 | date=10 January 1998 | publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| accessdate=May 26, 2014}}</ref> Between 1996 and 2016, ''Live Between Us'' was the best-selling live album by a Canadian band in Canada and the third best-selling live album by a Canadian artist overall in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bdsradio.com/pd/docs/Nielsen_Canadian150_2017_vs2.pdf|title=NIELSEN MUSIC & BILLBOARD PRESENT CANADA 150 CHARTS|website=bdsradio.com|accessdate=January 2, 2020}}</ref> In Flanders, ''Live Between Us'' debuted at #47.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us |url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/album/127d6/The-Tragically-Hip-Live-Between-Us |website=Ultratop |access-date=24 March 2021 |language=Dutch}}</ref>

==Track listing==
#"[[Grace, Too]]" – 6:18
#"Fully Completely" – 4:11
#"Springtime in Vienna" – 4:37
#"[[Twist My Arm]]" – 4:05
#"[[Gift Shop (song)|Gift Shop]]" – 5:09
#"[[Ahead by a Century]]" – 5:25
#"The Luxury" – 4:08
#"[[Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)|Courage]]" – 5:08
#"[[New Orleans Is Sinking]]" – 6:22
#"Don't Wake Daddy" – 5:30
#"[[Scared (The Tragically Hip song)|Scared]]" – 5:00
#"[[Blow at High Dough]]" – 4:54
#"[[Nautical Disaster]]" – 5:31
#"The Wherewithal" – 4:14

==The Tragically Hip==
*[[Gord Downie]] – [[lead vocals]]
*[[Rob Baker (guitarist)|Rob Baker]] – [[lead guitar]]
*Paul Langlois – [[rhythm guitar]], [[backing vocals]]
*Gord Sinclair – [[bass guitar]], backing vocals
*Johnny Fay – [[drums]]

== Year-end charts ==
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
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!scope="col"|Chart (1997)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
!scope="row"|Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010320221621/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/ALBUMS_1997.html|title=ALBUMS : Top 100 of 1997}}</ref> 
| align=center|31
|}
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (2002)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
!scope="row"|Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040902000408/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_alt2.html|archivedate=September 2, 2004|url=http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_alt2.html|title=Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002|website=[[Jam!]]|accessdate=March 28, 2022}}</ref>
|align=center|107
|}

==References==
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[[Category:1997 live albums]]
[[Category:The Tragically Hip albums]]
[[Category:MCA Records live albums]]
[[Category:Live albums by Canadian artists]]
[[Category:Live rock albums]]