1994 on KBCO for Wed 10/26

[mshray]

Cowboy Junkies, "Anniversary Song", another VHM.

Hey Mike, the stream page Now Playing thing is ahead of the game a bit, am I right in remembering that you'll happy to hear some Freedy Johnston?

[RGMike]

I don't get the rape reference.

it's the chorus:

"hey, now we won't be raped
hey, now we won't be scarred like that "

[RGMike]

Cowboy Junkies, "Anniversary Song", another VHM.

Hey Mike, the stream page Now Playing thing is ahead of the game a bit, am I right in remembering that you'll happy to hear some Freedy Johnston?

ditto on the VHM for CJ.  And yes, I do like Freedy, tho' I think maybe Gaz is a bigger fan.  He also did "Evie's Tears", no? Same album?

[mshray]

"now we won't be raped" Well, THAT'S a relief.
 

Okay now I get the reference, but on closer examination I think this song is an indictment against religion:

and to love: a god
and to fear: a flame
and to burn a crowd that a name
and to right or wrong
and to meek or strong
it is known just scream it from the wall
i've willed I've walked I've read
I've talked I know I know
I've been here before
hey now we won't be raped
hey now we won't be scarred like that
it's the sun that burns
it's the wheel that turns
it's the way we sing that makes 'em dream
and to christ: a cross
and to me: a chair
I will sit and earn the ransom
from up here

[Gazoo]

Cowboy Junkies, "Anniversary Song", another VHM.

Hey Mike, the stream page Now Playing thing is ahead of the game a bit, am I right in remembering that you'll happy to hear some Freedy Johnston?

ditto on the VHM for CJ.  And yes, I do like Freedy, tho' I think maybe Gaz is a bigger fan.  He also did "Evie's Tears", no? Same album?

No, not a Freedy fan at all -- but a big BOS to the Junks' "Anniversary Song," which I absolutely adore (and whose refrain I kinda stole for a song I was trying to write years ago).

As for Live -- I thought they were more influenced by R.E.M. and the other jangle-poppers than the grunge scene.  They were from York, PA; I knew people in college who knew them before they were famous (and were surprised they hit as big as they did).  Their later records didn't do as well b/c Ed Kowalczyk got in over his head with Big Religious Themes that no one could parse or care about.