Bruce Cockburn's Greatest Hits? I CALL BULLSHIT

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.

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.