Album · Finger Eleven
Tip by Finger Eleven
Tip is an album by Finger Eleven, released in 1997. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Above”, on 3 lists with a best position of #49.
Tip is the second album from the Canadian band Finger Eleven and the first under that name, released in 1997 and then given a second life when Wind-up re-released it in September 1998. The group had previously been the Rainbow Butt Monkeys, whose 1995 album Letters from Chutney ran on funk, and here they shed that skin completely for something darker and heavier, with a heavy debt to Tool. Arnold Lanni produced.
The first go-round barely registered, and the band got dropped by their label for their trouble, but the Wind-up reissue drew critical praise and found a modest audience, setting up their breakthrough with The Greyest of Blue Skies in 2000. "Quicksand" and "Above" are the churning, moody heart of it. It's the only Finger Eleven album with drummer Rob Gommerman, who left soon after it came out, and it finally went gold in Canada in 2014.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Tip on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.