Road Apples (studio album)
by The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip bestography
Road Apples is ranked 4th 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 1726 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 981.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/02/2025 23:30 | mattmaster | 424 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2025 22:31 | rfowler | 443 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2025 03:22 |  AAL2014 | 3,477 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/14/2025 15:44 | cicadelic | 11,150 | 73/100 |
| ! | 10/21/2024 15:05 |  paladisiac | 7,255 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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No offense to Up To Here (which has some great songs) but Road Apples is everything UtH was trying to be and more. It's more complete and (some might even say fully complete 😐) better paced. I think this is where Gord starts to shine as a writer, while the band maintains their energy that made songs like Blow At High Dough and New Orleans Is Sinking so much fun.
Best songs: Little bones, Born in Water, Three Pistols, Fiddler's Green
Road Apples is one of the Hip's best records. There are 4-5 signature songs. Its an album that rocks hard, but even the lighter songs like Fiddler's Green and Long Time Running make an impact.
There is definitely more of a funk influence on this record, most notably in Twist My Arm. I guess that comes from what was popular at time. It also seems like Gord Downie's delivery is a lot more aggressive than it was on the releases that followed this. Downie's lyrics hit another level with their next release Fully Completely.
Favorite tracks: Little Bones, Three Pistols, Long Time Running, Fiddler's Green, and Cordelia.
ghosttomost 05/21/2014 07:43 | #112446
This is a band finding their sound, and finding it with swagger. Everything seems to be working for the band here (except for their desired album name), and their confidence and passion shines through. Unlike with Up to Here, the band manages to build a coherent album that is strong straight through on Road Apples. "The Luxury", "Cordelia", and "Long Time Running" are favourites here.
junodog4 06/23/2012 18:50 | #45192
Hardest rocking Hip album, oozing the most attitude. Not as many classics as other early Hip work, but the album as a whole shows them really flexing their muscle. A vital Hip album.
Gotta lotta playtime in 92 when I only had 5 or 6 CD's. Little Bones was one time fav Hip song. Good album.
jhuik 01/03/2012 03:05 | #34285
This never quite coheres as well as their other big five or six. This was the band saying goodbye to their blues tinge before they discovered a sound all their own on Fully Completely. But certainly, there are a lot of great individual songs here, and hey, it's the freakin Hip, right?
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