Coke Machine Glow

This article is about the Gordon Downie album. For the defunct Canadian music website, see Cokemachineglow.

Coke Machine Glow is the first solo album released by Gord Downie, the singer for The Tragically Hip. It was released in 2001.

Coke Machine Glow
Studio album by Gordon Downie
Released	3 July 2001
Recorded	May 2–12, 2000
Genre	Alternative rock, Spoken Word
Length	63:40
Label	Zoë Records
Producer	Gordon Downie, Josh Finlayson, Steven Drake
Gordon Downie chronology
Coke Machine Glow (2001) Battle of the Nudes (2003)

Professional ratings

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Allmusic	[1]

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. The book included photographs by Toronto-based artist Michael Adamson. 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.^[2]

Downie's backing band on Coke Machine Glow was credited as "the Goddamned Band". Participating musicians included Julie Doiron, Josh Finlayson, Atom Egoyan and members of The Dinner Is Ruined.

An online music publication formed in 2002 was named after the album.^[3]

In 2021, Arts & Crafts Productions announced the release of Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters' Cabal, an expanded 20th anniversary reissue of the album.^[4] The reissue will feature a bonus disc of unreleased demos, alternate versions and outtakes, as well as an audiobook version of the poetry book read by figures such as singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer and actors Dan Aykroyd and Bruce McCulloch.^[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by Gord Downie 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)