Coke Machine Glow was the first solo album released by Gordon Downie

Gordon Downie

Gordon Edgar Downie is a Canadian rock musician, writer and occasional actor. He is the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. He has released three solo albums, Coke Machine Glow in 2001, Battle of the Nudes in 2003; and The Grand Bounce in 2010...

, the singer for The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...

. It was released in 2001.

Early copies of the album were released as a joint package with a book by Downie, also titled Coke Machine Glow. The book included the song lyrics from the album and other poetry. As a result of the album's sales, the book is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry ever published by a Canadian writer.

Downie's backing band on Coke Machine Glow was credited as "the Goddamned Band". Participating musicians included Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

, Josh Finlayson, Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

 and members of The Dinner Is Ruined

The dinner is ruined

The Dinner Is Ruined is a Canadian indie rock band. Formed in 1991 by Dale Morningstar, the band plays an experimental and improvisational brand of blues rock.The band members are Dale Morningstar, Dave Clark and Dr. Johnny Pee...

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Track listing

All tracks written by Gordon Downie

Gordon Downie

Gordon Edgar Downie is a Canadian rock musician, writer and occasional actor. He is the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. He has released three solo albums, Coke Machine Glow in 2001, Battle of the Nudes in 2003; and The Grand Bounce in 2010...

unless otherwise noted.

1. "Starpainters" (Downie/Morningstar)
2. "Vancouver Divorce"
3. "SF Song"
4. "Trick Rider"
5. "Canada Geese"
6. "Chancellor"
7. "The Never-Ending Present"
8. "Nothing but Heartache in Your Social Life" (Downie/Egoyan)
9. "Blackflies"
10. "Lofty Pines"
11. "Boy Bruised by Butterfly Chase" (Perez/Downie)
12. "Mystery" (Downie/Egoyan)
13. "Elaborate"
14. "Yer Possessed"
15. "Every Irrelevance"
16. "Insomniacs of the World, Goodnight" (Downie/Morningstar)