Trouble at the Henhouse has the most experimental lyrics of all the Hip albums. Songs like "Coconut Cream" (about a cannon shooting coconut cream, 40 gallons at a steady stream) and "Sherpa" (including lyrics about a bee drinking dewdrop tea from a cannonball tree) highlight the depths of Gord's insanity. I would call this the dream-inspired album...
"Ahead by a Century" was the biggest commercial success off the album, and the video played incessantly on MuchMusic (aka MTV but for Canada, eh). It has a pretty pop beat, the lyrics are palatable, and I guess that makes it very sing-along-able.
Give it a whirl, eh?! This is "Ahead by a Century"!
As an aside, let's all be very clear - Canadian bands typically don't produce very good music videos. Lots of farmland / middle-of-Canada imagery seems to work it's way into everything. The videos get better over time, but this was the mid-90s and looking back at it, it's pretty hilarious.
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