“Grace, Too” by The Tragically Hip

"Grace, Too" opened the account for Day for Night, the Tragically Hip's fourth album, as its lead single in September 1994, and it's a slow-burning, menacing thing: Rob Baker and Paul Langlois's guitars circle and snarl, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay lock into a heavy crawl, and Gord Downie sings like a man half-confessing, half-threatening. All five members share the writing credit, and they produced, recorded and mixed it together with Mark Howard, keeping the sound dark and roomy.

When Dan Aykroyd, a fan who had pushed Lorne Michaels to have them on, introduced the band on Saturday Night Live in March 1995, Downie fumbled the first line by working the band's own name into it. The slip stuck: he often sang it that way in concert afterwards, usually to cheers. The band also chose it to open their set at Woodstock 1999.

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