The Trouble with Normal (album)

The Trouble with Normal
Studio album by Bruce Cockburn
Released	1983
Recorded	September 1982 – January 1983
Genre	Pop rock
Length	42:22
Label	True North
Producer	Gene Martynec
Bruce Cockburn chronology
Inner City Front (1981) The Trouble with Normal (1983) Stealing Fire (1984)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The Trouble with Normal is a 1983 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. The album contains nine songs (eleven in the 2002 remastered release). It marks a continuing shift from Cockburn's early folk-influenced and "mystic" acoustic works, featuring electric guitar and synthesizers, but the lyrical themes build on earlier albums. As Allmusic.com writes, the album "contains some of Cockburn's most beautifully imagistic writing to date".^[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Bruce Cockburn.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Trouble with Normal"	3:35
2.	"Candy Man's Gone"	4:00
3.	"Hoop Dancer"	7:48
4.	"Waiting for the Moon"	4:22
5.	"Tropic Moon"	4:38
6.	"Going up Against Chaos"	5:31
7.	"Put Our Hearts Together"	4:25
8.	"Civilization and Its Discontents"	4:16
9.	"Planet of the Clowns"	3:47

Remastered additional tracks
No.	Title	Length
10.	"Cala Luna"
11.	"I Wanna Dance with You"

True North released a remastered deluxe version on November 19, 2002 which includes two extra tracks recorded during the same sessions.^[3][4]

References

1. Allmusic review
2. The Trouble with Normal review, Allmusic.com.
3. "The Trouble With Normal - Deluxe Edition". truenorthrecords.com. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
4. "The Trouble With Normal Albums (1983) and (2002)". coburnproject.net. Retrieved May 16, 2013.