Humans | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 114007
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 011661321021
EAN: 0011661321021
ASIN: B0000CERLI
Release Date: October 7, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Grim Travellers | | • | Rumours of Glory | | • | More Not More | | • | You Get Bigger as You Go | | • | What About the Bond | | • | How I Spent My Fall Vacation | | • | Guerilla Betrayed | | • | Tokyo | | • | Fascist Architecture | | • | The Rose Above the Sky | | • | Grim Travellers |
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One the best from one of the best December 7, 2007
Raymond E. Sikes
Cockburn is one of the tuly great songwriters, and this album is one of his best works. The music is first rate, lots of jazz and rock influences to accompany lyrics that are truly poetic and at times profound. He sizes up the fallenness and mystery of life and love, yet comes away with a measure of faith and hope.
Poetry set to a reggae beat October 3, 2007
K. L. Miedema (NZ)
Having worn out both my turntable and LP version of this album I decided it was about time to invest in the cd version. I'm very glad I did because these songs have a lyrical and musical synergy which make them an essential purchase for the collector of classic albums.
Rob Miedema
Faith, Poetry, Dark Skies August 16, 2006
Scott Davis (Stoneham, MA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just revisited the vinyl last night. Needed to hear the context of this couplet: "You get bigger as you go...bales of memory like boats in tow." For, of all things, a sermon I'm giving. It was good to revisit this early-middle album of his. I saw him around this time at the Paradise in Boston. The late Hugh Marsh, in a canadian military jumpsuit, wailing away at an electric violin. He did "The Strong One" in total darkness at first. Very stark chorded melodies. His skills as a wordsmith would overwhelm a lesser guitarist and he would be called a rock poet, a Canadian Leonard Cohen. If he weren't such a good writer he'd be lumped with guitar virtuousos like Al Dimeola, fellow Berkeley School of Music student.
But here, in Humans, you have the insufficient hope of reconcilliation in marriage "Gonna tell my old lady gonna tell my little girl there isn't anything in the world that can lock up my love again." It fell apart anyway, even though it was "sealed in the presence of the father". Here he has to take his estrangement along with his faith and struggle, much as Amy Grant, another Christian songwriter did later in Behind the Eyes. There are the great challenges to faith expressed in Festival of Friends earlier confronting murder, suicide, the guerillas, pulling cars out of rivers, despair..."at at certain point, you can only die." If art is born of agony, here it is. A quarter century later, I can still count on one hand the songwriters who have risen to his equal in moral vision, in insight and in skill. "I wonder if I'll end up like Bernie in his dream
A displaced person in some foreign border town Waiting for a train part hope part myth While the station changes hands
Or just sitting at home growing tenser with the times Or like that guy in "The Seventh Seal" Watching the newly dead dance across the hills Or wearing this leather jacket shivering with a friend While the eye of God blazes at us like the sun
Musically, he's growing with an ensemble here, further experimentations with Reggae, "something shining like gold, but better." The music is ecelectic, world music before there was a name for it. There's intensity even in the ballads, or should they be called slow laments. I could go on, but you can't learn more about this CD without listening.
Through 2006, this remains for me Bruce's best art November 2, 2004
Samuel S. Lewis (Sugartown, LA United States)
"Humans" is so aptly titled. After listening to earlier and subsequent albums, I can say the artistry of the lyrics on this album, imbued by the music, is not only one my most coveted Cockburn records but one of my most coveted albums ever -- alongside Michael Hedges "Aerial Boundaries" and Bob Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home." There are other great albums, but let me not digress into a long list of comparisons.
"Humans" is such a biblical record -- ripe with tragedy, hope, human longing, and exploring each shade of a 64-gray scale. What about the bond? Bruce, tell us more about our problematic marriages.
Not Afraid June 14, 2004
J. McAndrew (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bruce has never been afraid to mix politics and love together. He shows it in this album..his humanistic style and compassion toward the human race show through with multi-colored success!
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