Tokyo goes pop!

Tokyo

Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Available on: Human
Time Out says: The acclaimed Canadian folky has described this song, written on the plane home from his second Japan tour, as a kind of snap-shot of his time there. If that's the case, we'd like to know where he saw, 'space torpedo beams', 'businessmen pissing against the wall' and 'drivers getting high on exhaust'. You remember what we were saying earlier about Tokyo as an apocalyptic playground for the imaginations of overly sincere songwriters? Well, bear this example in mind: there are plenty more to come.