The Blue Hysteria
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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = The Blue Hysteria
| Type = studio
| Artist = [[Rheostatics]]
| Cover = The_blue_hysteria_album_cover.jpg
| Released = [[1996]]
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| Genre = [[Indie rock]]
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| Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{Rating-5|4.5}} [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:snb1z81aoyv5~T1 link]
| Last album = ''[[Music Inspired by the Group of Seven]]''<br\>(1995)
| This album = ''The Blue Hysteria''<br\>(1996)
| Next album = ''[[Double Live (Rheostatics album)|Double Live]]''<br\>(1997)
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'''''The Blue Hysteria''''' is a 1996 album by [[Rheostatics]].
"Bad Time to Be Poor", a protest song about life in [[Ontario]] during the government of [[Mike Harris]], was the album's first single. The band also contributed this song to the compilation album ''[[GASCD]]'' in [[2001]] to support [[citizen media]] and [[social justice]] groups in protesting the [[Quebec City Summit of the Americas]].
To support the album, the band were invited on tour as the opening act for [[The Tragically Hip]]. At the beginning of the Hip's 1997 live album ''[[Live Between Us]]'', singer [[Gordon Downie]] acknowledges the Rheostatics, and towards the end of the album, Downie works a verse from "Bad Time to Be Poor" into "Nautical Disaster".
The 1997 Rheostatics album ''[[Double Live (Rheostatics album)|Double Live]]'' also partially documents the band's tour with the Hip.
"Bad Time to Be Poor" was covered by [[The Weakerthans]] on the 2007 Rheostatics tribute album ''[[The Secret Sessions]]''. Their version reached #1 on [[CBC Radio 3]]'s ''[[The R3-30|R3-30]]'' chart.
==Track listing==
All songs are credited to the full band.
#"All the Same Eyes" – 3:53
#"Motorino" – 4:01
#"Something the Committee Thought You Should Hear" – 0:34
#"Fat" – 6:56
#"To Catch a Thief" – 0:11
#"Bad Time to Be Poor" – 4:56
#"Sweet, Rich, Beautiful, Mine" – 4:03
#"Four Little Songs" – 5:52
#"An Offer" – 4:33
#"Never Forget" – 4:54
#"The Idiot" – 3:38
#"Connecting Flights" – 2:46
#"Feed Yourself" – 6:18
#"The 'You Are Very Star' Journey" – 1:12
#"A Midwinter Night's Dream" – 8:22
#"My First Rock Concert" (hidden track) – 4:09
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