Day For Night
by The Tragically Hip
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The Tragically Hip bestography
Day For Night is ranked 2nd best out of 18 albums by The Tragically Hip on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Tragically Hip is Fully Completely which is ranked number 1738 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 982.
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Day For Night track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Day For Night rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Best 100 of Canada | 23/100 | - |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1994 | 9/20 | 3 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 32 Music Albums of 1994 | 31/32 | 0 |
| 2026 |  jhuik | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 18/100 | 78 |
| 2026 | junodog4 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 39/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | jhuik | Best/ Favourite Songs of All Time | 4/100 | - |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Jaymantheman | Top 40 Music Albums of 1994 | 4/40 | 5 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top albums of 1994 (101 - 200) | 5/19 | - |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 92 Music Albums of 1994 | 23/92 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 77 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 513 | |||
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Day For Night ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/16/2026 04:35 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,648 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/01/2026 04:06 | wdye326 | 53 | 97/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2026 04:43 | imacgill | 2,840 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.8/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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BestEverAlbums 07/22/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5381): By jhuik dihansse 05/07/2022 16:58 in My discoveries per yearDay For Night comments
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Not quite as excellent as the three albums that came before it, Day For Night displays a band that is less concerned about hit singles. I've been reading a book on the band and the biographer chose to label this as a bit of a stoner rock record. I feel like I would agree with that.
Key tracks: Grace Too, Nautical Disaster, Fire in the Hole, Scared, An Inch an Hour and Titanic Terrarium
jhuik 02/18/2017 00:29 | #185862 | TOP COMMENT
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Often tempted to think that this really is their best album, chock full of great songs punctuated with slower, denser music that is equally great, and maybe richer: songs like Yawning or Snarling, So Hard Done By and Impossibilium. ND is their best song and Grace Too is not far behind. Altogether very rich.
Slightly darker in tone than Fully Completely, this is a mature album that, while not matching the quality of its predecessor, is a worthy follow up. My only complaint is with "Scared" which always seemed a half-baked rehash of "Wheat Kings", stumbling around for far too long without a payoff.
jhuik 04/11/2015 01:47 | #139298
Greasy, yes. A jungle, yes, also. To paraphrase j-dog, other albums are the Hip at their most this or that... but this is the Hip at their most brilliant. Truly, a stab at greatness. If you listen to this and don't get this, well, it's just you.
ghosttomost 05/21/2014 07:57 | #112448 | TOP COMMENT
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Day for Night was the album the Tragically Hip had long attempted produce. Hints from previous albums including the pacing and cohesiveness of Road Apples with the exceptional songwriting of Fully Completely come together here as the band's masterpiece. In addition to the retrospective approach, this is a band looking into the future and moving forward by focusing their sound with a greater emphasis on Gord Downie's painstakingly clever lyrics infused with the now classic Hip style. While "Grace, Too" may be the standout track on this record, the exceptional run from "Fire in the Hole" to "Scared" is unparalleled in the Hip's catalogue.
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