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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Dec 4, 2021 18:11:09 GMT
Bruce Cockburn - Greatest Hits 1970 - 2020release date 12/3/2021 - uh, that would be tomorrow: 1. Going to the Country 2. Musical Friends 3. One Day I Walk 4. Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long 5. All the Diamonds in the World 6. Silver Wheels 7. Wondering Where the Lions Are 8. Tokyo 9. Rumours of Glory 10. The Coldest Night of the Year 11. Wanna Go Walking 12. The Trouble with Normal 13. Lovers in a Dangerous Time 14. If I Had a Rocket Launcher 15. Call It Democracy 16. People See Through You 17. Waiting for a Miracle 18. Stolen Land 19. If a Tree Falls 20. A Dream Like Mine 21. Listen for a Laugh 22. Night Train 23. Pacing the Cage 24. Last Night of the World 25. Anything Anytime Anywhere 26. Open 27. Put It in Your Heart 28. Different When It Comes to You 29. Call Me Rose 30. States I'm In This is just the majority of his 1987 compilation "Waiting For a Miracle" with later 11 tracks from 1988 - 2017 and seeing as he's only had one major "Hit" in his entire career a "Greatest Hits" title is far from truthful. All bar 2-3 tracks were actually singles so this is really just a "best of" and he could have easily have added a third disc with some of his amazing guitar instrumentals and some deeper album cuts and maybe a rarity or two to make it an unique comp. As said above... a wasted opportunity. My own self made comp has 70 fave tracks which includes 99% of this album.
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Post by antiram on Dec 5, 2021 14:36:39 GMT
Bruce Cockburn - Greatest Hits 1970 - 2020release date 12/3/2021 - uh, that would be tomorrow: 1. Going to the Country 2. Musical Friends 3. One Day I Walk 4. Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long 5. All the Diamonds in the World 6. Silver Wheels 7. Wondering Where the Lions Are 8. Tokyo 9. Rumours of Glory 10. The Coldest Night of the Year 11. Wanna Go Walking 12. The Trouble with Normal 13. Lovers in a Dangerous Time 14. If I Had a Rocket Launcher 15. Call It Democracy 16. People See Through You 17. Waiting for a Miracle 18. Stolen Land 19. If a Tree Falls 20. A Dream Like Mine 21. Listen for a Laugh 22. Night Train 23. Pacing the Cage 24. Last Night of the World 25. Anything Anytime Anywhere 26. Open 27. Put It in Your Heart 28. Different When It Comes to You 29. Call Me Rose 30. States I'm In This is just the majority of his 1987 compilation "Waiting For a Miracle" with later 11 tracks from 1988 - 2017 and seeing as he's only had one major "Hit" in his entire career a "Greatest Hits" title is far from truthful. All bar 2-3 tracks were actually singles so this is really just a "best of" and he could have easily have added a third disc with some of his amazing guitar instrumentals and some deeper album cuts and maybe a rarity or two to make it an unique comp. As said above... a wasted opportunity. My own self made comp has 70 fave tracks which includes 99% of this album. Ahh. Here is a fine illustration of why most SHites are ignorami. Cockburn bores me to tears, so I have no dog in this race. But did it ever occur to klaatuhf that Cockburn is a Canadian musician? Probably not, even though klaatuhf takes his name from a Canadian band. A quick check of Wikipedia reveals that Cockburn had no fewer than ten charting singles on the Canadian charts between 1988-2020, five of which went top-40. In other words, they were "hits" (or all but one were). He also had ten top-40 Canadian AC hits during that time. So, I would say that the title is a lot more apt (or "truthful") than say Mott the Hoople's Greatest Hits. Bet his homemade comp is a snoozefest too.
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Post by daved on Dec 6, 2021 0:53:48 GMT
Cockburn’s Stealing Fire was one of those demo albums everyone used in stereo shops back in the 80s. He didn’t really do much after that. Those dipshits Barenaked Ladies covered Lovers In A Dangerous Time, rather shittley, and got a lot of airplay with it.
I can’t say much about Lightfoot other than he’s considered a national treasure up here. I cant stand folkie crap so can’t help you on him.
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Post by Brick Wall on Dec 6, 2021 1:31:54 GMT
Seriously, though. I know very little about either of them. Cockburn seemed to have espoused sound leftist politics but isn't he also some sort of Christian? Lightfoot just seemed like a hack who would ape whatever folky thing was trendy at the time in order to sell records. These may be incorrect assumptions. Outside of a couple minor hits, these two really did not get much attention outside of Canada, so little is known about them — their personalities, etc. — in the rest of the world. I am inclined to despise Gordon Lightfoot because the only song anyone outside of Canada knows is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," and that song is absolutely putrid. Imagine my fucking surprise. You admittedly don't know shit about Cockburn or Lightfoot. Yet you can't resist the impulse to pontificate on Cockburn's "leftist Christian" leanings. And Lightfoot would be just some "hack" following the trend of the times after you heard Edmund Fitzgerald. Give me a fucking break already.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Dec 6, 2021 2:04:11 GMT
Cockburn’s Stealing Fire was one of those demo albums everyone used in stereo shops back in the 80s. He didn’t really do much after that. Those dipshits Barenaked Ladies covered Lovers In A Dangerous Time, rather shittley, and got a lot of airplay with it. I can’t say much about Lightfoot other than he’s considered a national treasure up here. I can stand folkie crap so can’t help you on him. Lovers... is the only one I know and I kinda like that one. Hard pass on the BNL version and anything Lightfoot.
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Post by essayceedee on Dec 6, 2021 2:28:25 GMT
Cockburns are painful. The only song I've ever heard by that guy is the theme to some goddamn cartoon called "Franklin" about an annoying turtle. One of the many shows I had to watch when my kid was a toddler.
I unfortunately do know more than one Gordon Lightfoot song because my parents played that shit to death in the 70's. "Sundown" really brings back painful memories.
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Post by Chungus on Dec 6, 2021 4:29:04 GMT
I always found Lightfoot's lyrics rather juvenile and Zappa-like. "Sundown, you better take care, if I find you've been pooping in your underwear." Did he think that shit was funny
sorry guys im getting very little sleep these days
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Dec 6, 2021 5:18:58 GMT
Forgot about "Sundown." Two out of two equals hack, then. Since I seemed to have struck a nerve with Brick Wall, whose reading comprehension seems to be lacking, I will clarify that I did not and am not "pontificating" over Cockburn's "leftist Christian leanings." I commended him for his leftist politics and I asked the question if he was some sort of Christian, which in popular music is usually inimical (at least outside of Canada) to leftist activism. So was he a lefty who became born again and fascist, a la Roger McGuinn? That was the clear implication of the fucking question. As for Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is mid-1970s shagpile folkie crap. That is pretty fucking undeniable. "I'm Not Saying," the hack pop tune Lightfoot wrote that was Nico's first single, is a hack 60s pop tune. Nico and Andrew Loog Oldham certainly thought so. "Sundown," which I had forgotten was a Gordo or Gord or whatever Lightfoot-o-philes call their man, is another 70s folkie snoozer. Now, if I feel that way about 1) folkie crap in general and 2) Lightfoot's most famous (outside of Canada) tunes, why the hell would that possibly inspire me to want to investigate more of the Gord/Gordo ouevre? I can and will, however, say one good thing in Gordon Lightfoot's favor. At least he wasn't quite as terrible as Jim Croce was. And, no, I haven't heard the complete works of fucking Jim Croce either. Nor will I. COLA, you ignorant slut.
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Post by Chungus on Dec 6, 2021 7:06:32 GMT
They should have teamed up as the folk powerhouse, Cockfoot
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 6, 2021 7:18:57 GMT
Gordon Lightfoot was referenced in Seinfeld. That’s the only reason I know the name.
I had to check out Wikipedia to learn who the hell Bruce Cockburn is.
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Post by daved on Dec 6, 2021 10:08:36 GMT
They should have teamed up as the folk powerhouse, Cockfoot I have no excuse for laughing at this. I’m still 11 inside.
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Post by essayceedee on Dec 6, 2021 14:15:56 GMT
I just laughed out loud too, so you've got company.
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Post by powerpoppackage on Dec 6, 2021 14:37:20 GMT
Ahem, it's pronounced CO-foot.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 6, 2021 15:41:20 GMT
Cockfoot Adams & Adams Canadian supergroup. Brian and Ryan added (just for Stratmangler)
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Post by Chungus on Dec 6, 2021 16:09:43 GMT
Ahem, it's pronounced CO-foot. Turns out you're right. I asked one of my cockworkers.I'm retracting that joke.
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