catapult magazine

i just ordered a few cd’s (through the django’s link on the main page). anybody familiar with these? i haven’t heard much of these albums yet but i’m excited to.

Bruce Cockburn—You’ve Never Seen Everything
The Weakerthans—Left & Leaving

in case anyone’s interested, I really like the Cockburn album. (The first listen didn’t reel me in—but I wasn’t really in a Cockburn mood at the time.) The album is a blend of Cockburn’s musical styles and of the themes of amazement at the horrors and evils of the world and hope.

some lyrical excerpts:
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from (Postcards from Cambodia)
This is too big for anger,
it?s too big for blame.
We stumble through history so
humanly lame
So I bow down my head
Say a prayer for us all
That we don?t fear the spirit
when it comes to call

from (Don’t Forget About Delight)
Amid the post-ironic postulating
and the poets’ pilfered rhymes
Meaning feels like it’s evaporating
Out of sight and out of mind

Don’t forget
about delight
Y know what I’m saying to you
Don’t forget
about delight
Y know

(Trickle Down)
Picture on magazine boardroom pop star
Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed
You say ‘Trust me with the money — the keys to the universe’
Trickle down will give us everything we need

Brand new century private penitentiary
bank vault utopia padded for the few
And it’s tumours for the masses coughing for the masses
Earphones for the masses and they all serve you

Trickle down give /em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

What used to pass for education now looks more like ignoration
Take the people?s money and slip it to the corporation
Yellow rain golden shower pesticide firepower
Summon feudal demons of sweatshop subjugation

Workfare foul air homeless beggars everywhere
Picturephone aristocrats lounge around the pool
Captains of industry smiling beneficently
Leaking hole supertanker ship of fools

Trickle down give me the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

Take over takedown big bucks shakedown
Schoolyard pusher offer anything-for-profit
First got to privatize then you get to piratize
Hooked on avarice- how do we get off it?

Trickle down give me the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

Trickle down give me the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

Trickle down

Wait No More
Wild things are prowling ? storm winds are howling tonight
Everything?s transforming into pure crystals of light
The heart is a mirror; it throws back the blaze of love
Bathed in that glow it?s no secret what I?m thinking of
I want to wait no more
Wait no more
Wait no more

Sipping wine with angels in this torch-lit tavern by the sea
What does it take for what?s locked up inside to be free?
Fold me into you, you know where I?m longing to be
When my ship sets sail on that ocean of deep mystery
I want to wait no more
Wait no more
Wait no more

What does it take for the heart to explode into stars?
One day we?ll wake to remember how lovely we are
Lightning?s a kiss that lands hot on the loins of the sky
Something uncoils at the base of my spine and I cry
I want to wait no more
Wait no more
Wait no more

the weakerthans album is alright, too. he’s got some neat wordplay. i think the guy who does lead vocals was the bassist for the punk band, propagandhi—but this disk is very different. much more mellow and a lot of songs about love lost (and losing).

Left & Leaving
My city’s still breathing (but barely it’s true) through buildings gone missing like teeth. The sidewalks are watching me think about you, all sparkled with broken glass. I’m back with scars to show. Back with the streets I know. They never take me anywhere but here. Those stains in the carpet, this drink in my hand, these strangers whose faces I know. We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say " I wanted it this way" and wait for the year to drown. Spring forward, fall back down. I’m trying not to wonder where you are. All this time lingers, undefined. Someone choose who’s left and who’s leaving. Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me: some matches, a blanket, this pain in my chest, the best parts of Lonely, duct-tape and soldered wires, new words for old desires, and every birthday card I threw away. I wait in 4/4 time. Count yellow highway lines that you’re relying on to lead you home.

the weakerthans are from winnipeg, by the way. you got to cheer for the home team.

Cockburn is one of my favorite artists. I have albums of his dating back to the early 70’s. I think that my favorite is In The Falling Dark with The Charity Of Night as a close runner up. The T-Bone Burnette albums are pretty cool as independent pieces but are awkward in the big picture of Bruce’s musical time line. I haven’t heard the new one, however so I will be sure to pick it up.

In addition, I have recently picked up Neal Morse’s new album (of Spocks Beard fame) “Testimony”. A must have for any Prog Rock fan and a very passionate testimony of his transformation as a Christian.

If you get the chance, Check out the band OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). Their album is awesome!

http://www.osiband.com