Album · Bruce Cockburn
Stealing Fire by Bruce Cockburn
Stealing Fire is an album by Bruce Cockburn, released in 1984. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “If I Had A Rocket Launcher”, on 2 lists with a best position of #689.
Stealing Fire, Bruce Cockburn's 1984 album on True North Records, is the Canadian songwriter with his fists clenched. The record that gave him "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" finds the old folkie plugged in and fuming, and that song is the white-hot core of it: a furious piece of political commentary about refugees caught under fire, sung by a man at the end of his patience.
Against it sits "Lovers in a Dangerous Time", gentler and more hopeful-sounding, and the sound around both is sleek, moody and spacious, built on Cockburn's nimble guitar rather than any folk-club strum. The studio work earned its own applause: engineer John Naslen took home the Juno for Recording Engineer of the Year, and producers Goldsmith and Crawford were nominated for Producer of the Year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Stealing Fire on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If I Had A Rocket Launcher | 2 | #689 | – | 2009–2020 | |
| 2 | Lovers In A Dangerous Time | 3 | #404 | – | 2020–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.