Cloud Cult
Cloud Cult is an experimental indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota l… Read Full Bio ↴Cloud Cult is an experimental indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota led by singer/songwriter Craig Minowa. Formed in 1995, the name originated from the ancient prophecies of indigenous North Americans
The band's founder and singer Craig Minowa has a degree in Environmental Science, and his environmental, political, and social awareness is reflected in much of Cloud Cult's music. (Note: Craig Minowa actually has stated he intentionally doesn't sing about environmental awareness because he lives it...he doesn't need to preach it) The band's self-created non-profit record label, Earthology Records, uses the most environmentally friendly methods available to ensure minimum damage to the environment.
After two solo LP's, The Shade Project (1995), and Who Killed Puck? (2000), Minowa's sudden loss of his two-year-old son and subsequent separation from his wife, Cloud Cult emerged with They Live On The Sun in 2003, combining concepts of Minowa with performances by cellist Sarah Young and drummer Dan Greenwood, who shortly became members of the band. This album was deeply personal and painful album for Cloud Cult and you don't often hear songs from it in concert.
Minowa continued to use music to cope with the loss of his son on the following album Aurora Borealis. This album did begin to branch out more into exploration of pain and loss instead of just feeling it.
Minowa reunited with his wife, and the next album is widely considered their crowning achievement. Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus involved collaboration from a variety of musicians and has garnered praise from critics, even being acclaimed as "a work of insane genius". This album is capped off with the "happy-go-lucky" song, Lucky Today. This album was selected by esurance to be animated into a commercial. This was a contest for the most environmentally sound band because esurance labels themselves as the paperless insurance provider.
On April 10th 2007 Cloud Cult officially released their sixth LP, The Meaning of 8 (although it was available for sale online in late January): the first single was titled "Take Your Medicine." In April 2008, the band followed it with Feel Good Ghosts.
In 2009 band announced a break till 2010, though they released limited re-releases of their albums Lost Songs from the Lost Years, They Live on the Sun and Aurora Borealis (the last two as a double-disc).
Their concerts are certainly a sight to be seen. Along with Minowa on Guitars (and other fun things), they have got bass, drums, violin and cello. There are two official band members who actually do very little music during the shows; Minowa's wife Connie and Scott are painters. They create original works of art during the show (breaking only occasionally to sing or sometimes Scott plays Trumpet). Then, at the end of the show, they silent auction these paintings off to the highest bidder.
Their official website is www.cloudcult.com.
The band's founder and singer Craig Minowa has a degree in Environmental Science, and his environmental, political, and social awareness is reflected in much of Cloud Cult's music. (Note: Craig Minowa actually has stated he intentionally doesn't sing about environmental awareness because he lives it...he doesn't need to preach it) The band's self-created non-profit record label, Earthology Records, uses the most environmentally friendly methods available to ensure minimum damage to the environment.
After two solo LP's, The Shade Project (1995), and Who Killed Puck? (2000), Minowa's sudden loss of his two-year-old son and subsequent separation from his wife, Cloud Cult emerged with They Live On The Sun in 2003, combining concepts of Minowa with performances by cellist Sarah Young and drummer Dan Greenwood, who shortly became members of the band. This album was deeply personal and painful album for Cloud Cult and you don't often hear songs from it in concert.
Minowa continued to use music to cope with the loss of his son on the following album Aurora Borealis. This album did begin to branch out more into exploration of pain and loss instead of just feeling it.
Minowa reunited with his wife, and the next album is widely considered their crowning achievement. Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus involved collaboration from a variety of musicians and has garnered praise from critics, even being acclaimed as "a work of insane genius". This album is capped off with the "happy-go-lucky" song, Lucky Today. This album was selected by esurance to be animated into a commercial. This was a contest for the most environmentally sound band because esurance labels themselves as the paperless insurance provider.
On April 10th 2007 Cloud Cult officially released their sixth LP, The Meaning of 8 (although it was available for sale online in late January): the first single was titled "Take Your Medicine." In April 2008, the band followed it with Feel Good Ghosts.
In 2009 band announced a break till 2010, though they released limited re-releases of their albums Lost Songs from the Lost Years, They Live on the Sun and Aurora Borealis (the last two as a double-disc).
Their concerts are certainly a sight to be seen. Along with Minowa on Guitars (and other fun things), they have got bass, drums, violin and cello. There are two official band members who actually do very little music during the shows; Minowa's wife Connie and Scott are painters. They create original works of art during the show (breaking only occasionally to sing or sometimes Scott plays Trumpet). Then, at the end of the show, they silent auction these paintings off to the highest bidder.
Their official website is www.cloudcult.com.
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Cloud Cult Lyrics
-Washed Your Car I washed your car last week You gave me a…
01. Chain Reaction You have eyes like mine Are we strangers or am I…
02. Living on the Outside of Your Skin Come and speak to me, my friend. Forget the words…
17 Three Times A Lady Once, twice, three times a lady I'm sorry I can't love…
1x1x1 You don’t hear your intuition, cause it says You ain’t no…
2x2x2 You and I make a lovely shape Two circles cubed draw…
3 Once, twice, three times a lady I'm sorry I can't love…
6 Days to Madness "I want a Corvette! I thought you would. I want a Pontiac…
A Good God And for a moment I saw God And it was so…
A Place In a car crash In a car crash In a car crash I…
A Strange World Know that I love you more than I can show Most…
After the Car Crash In the middle of the car crash, You turned to me…
Alien Christ You're invited to the party Down by the rocket crash No on…
All Together Alone The monsters underneath your bed They're all just praying fo…
Alone at a Party in a Ghost Town I'm alone, I'm alone at a party In a ghost town,…
Alone in a Closet I'm alone, I'm alone at a party In a ghost town,…
As Long as You're Happy I wanted to take you to prom in my ice…
Ascension For a moment you could feel, like you never felt…
Back Into My Arms The first time that I held you I couldn't catch…
Beautiful Boy I'm climbing to the Sun on a cobweb made of…
Becoming One Of You When you were born, you were the earth Uprooted and screamin…
Best Friend I can't hold on but I can't let go So…
Bigger Than Me Knowing I know nothing is the only thing I know Hold…
Bobby's Spacesuit Bobby's got a spacesuit made out of squirrel skin He's push…
Bones To Make A Beat You got your bones to make a beat You better make…
Brain Gateway I'll turn my stupid brain into a gateway Meet me in…
Breakfast With My Shadow I woke up in a Lego bedroom Sleeping in my burlap…
Buried Poetry Paper and pencils made a birth: Poetry that I once wrote…
Can't Stop The Journey Now Can′t stop, you can't stop the diddy diddy Can′t stop, can't…
Car Crash In the middle of the car crash, You turned to me…
car crash. In the middle of the car crash, You turned to…
Chain Reaction You have eyes like mine Are we strangers or am I…
Chandeliers Last night I was looking for some romance I went to…
Chemicals Collide I was out paying close attention, or was I lost…
Chromatica (Humming) Grace…
Clip-Clop Clip-clop, happy horse, giddy-up away from No-No-No into Yea…
Close It's the feel of the water as you're breathing it…
Complicated Creation I called up the moon for a little consultation Yes, you…
Conception I've been sleeping for a million years I will never know…
Dance for the Dead This is the dance That brings the dead to the…
Estupido Techno Automaton, Latino Screamo. To live inside Puck, el r…
Everybody Here is a Cloud And everybody here is a cloud And everybody here will evapo…
Everything You Thought You Had Everything you thought you had It was only passing through E…
Fairy Tale Little Jack Horner fell in love with the witch up…
Forces of the Unseen We said, "There′s nothing wrong." We put a strong face on. A…
Ghost Inside Our House we saw a ghost inside our house or was it wishful…
Good Friend All I need is a good, good friend All I need…
Grappling Hook I've got a broken wing and a grappling hook and…
Happy Hippo I like my happy hippo-pot-a-mus, she's sleeping under my, m…
hey now now The physicist and the mystic say there's no such thing…
Hope In just a little while In just a little while In just…
Hurricane and Fire Survival Guide I've had enough of hiding underneath my covers. I'm done wi…
I Guess This Dream Is for Me These moments are brief When you can truly say you know…
I'm Feeling So Friggin' Fine I was born in the belly of a frog and…
I'm Not Gone I live my life with my back against the wall I…
It Check in, check in on your emotion Are you an angry…
It Takes a Lot It takes a lot of going nowhere, until you find…
It's Gay It's gay (x4) It's happy (x4) It's gay (x4) It's ha…
It's What You Need It's what you need It's what you need It's what you need …
It's Your Decision Check in, check in on your emotion Are you an angry…
It’s What You Need I was in the closet Sucking on my medicine Waiting for an…
Jaded Fable The fields are overturned The skies all been burnt I a…
Journey of the Featherless Got myself a mission I'm going to find heaven I made cray-…
Lady of the Hill Do you know about the lady of the hill? You all…
Light at the End of the Tunnel In the middle of the car crash, You turned to…
Lightning Girl I was wishing my whole life For a lightning wife She h…
Lights Inside My Head I've been seeing lights inside my head I'm not broken, I…
Living In Awe If life is a story we're meant to live through,…
living on the outside Come and speak to me, my friend. Forget the words…
Living on the Outside of Your Come and speak to me, my friend. Forget the words…
Love You All I love my mother I love my father And when it's my…
Lucky Today I got two hands on the sunshine I got one foot…
Man on the Moon I was born on the back of the Man on…
May Your Hearts Stay Strong He met her at a nightclub. She couldn't keep the…
Meet Me Where You're Going Meet me where you're going, cause I wanna be going…
Million Things There are a million things I'd like to do today,…
Moon's Thoughts I saw my insides fall out, and so I sucked…
Moving to Canada And as the ending came, the people watch complacently and…
Must Explore An extraordinary television picture here. Okay, Houston, …
My Fictitious Life With Amily Amily, you are the first thing that I think of…
No Hell Mama said the stars are the universe's eyes I can…
No One Said It Would Be you came up from the ground from a million little pieces y…
No One Said It Would Be Easy you came up from the ground from a million little pieces you…
No One Said It Would Be.. you came up from the ground from a million little pieces y…
Norman Rockwell Crashed down in your old quilt and the third-grade chalk…
Northern Lights I've got a broken wing and a grappling hook and…
On the Sun We're all made of galaxies and weeds And some day we…
One Way Out of a Hole I had a dream that we were happily lost We left…
outside of your skin Come and speak to me, my friend. Forget the words…
Please Remain Calm His Sunday best includes the helmet of an astronaut Tablecl…
Pretty You're so pretty, would you stand beside me You're so prett…
Pretty Voice A scene begins With our next melody Sung by a bashful bird H…
Princess Bride Vizzini: "No more rhymes now, I mean it!" Fezzik: "Anybody …
Puck's 6th Birthday Who could hang a dead man's swing set from the…
Purpose There must be purpose here cause most of us keep…
Radio Fodder This song is written for you You love that, and I…
Ready to Fight I always thought that I was weaker than you And I've…
Responsible If for just a moment, you had to be responsible…
Robot Lights Inside My Head I've been seeing lights inside my head I'm not broken, I…
Running with the Wolves Running with the wolves It's time for us to go Left all…
Sane as Can Be I guess you've been worrying about my mental stability I …
Shortenin' Bread Mama's got shortenin', shortenin' shortenin' Mama's got sho…
Sleepwalker We are your conscience We thought we'd tell you you've bee…
Song from Oblivion For a moment you could feel, like you never felt…
Song of the Deaf Girl *The most beautiful music in the world*…
Start New In the middle of the car crash, You turned to…
Step Forward When your life is finished burning down, You'll be all that…
Story of the Grandson of Jesus Today is a good day to flex the muscles of…
Take Your Medicine Got myself a new look, Something gave me another chance to…
Thanks It's 4-o'clock in the morning And I am staring at the…
That Man Jumped Out the Window It's the thoughts that you feed It's the habits you need It'…
The Acceptance: Responsible If for just a moment, you had to be responsible For…
The Arrival: There's So Much Energy In Us A million years it's been, since the search began. Still ca…
The Awakening: Dawn The airport's clear for a landing. The snow is melting on…
The Baby You were born into a strange world. Like a candle, you…
The Baby%3A You Were Born You were born into a strange world Like a candle, you…
The Baby: You Were Born You were born into a strange world Like a candle, you…
The Battles: Room Full Of People In Your Head There's a room full of people in your head, in…
The Best Time It's a perfect day to remind myself to feel I'm always…
The Calling The bullets you take don't go unnoticed. But that fire in…
The Deaf Girl's Song Did you hear about the deaf girl The one who sang…
The Departure: Today We Give Ourselves To The Fire Put out your hands, I know it's scary. Light up your…
The Escape: Running With The Wolves Running with the wolves. It's time for us to go. Left all…
The Firefly and the Snake In the middle of the night, I woke up outside…
The Ghost Inside Our House We saw a ghost inside our house Or was it wishful…
The Girl Underground Freddy fell in love with a girl underground He was only…
The Invocation: You'll Be Bright (Invocation, Part 1) All the things you love. All the things that may hurt…
The Lessons: The Exploding People Building up a belly full of bumble bees. Pushing down the…
The Mission: Unexplainable Stories (Journey to the Light, Part 1) We've been searching for our whole lives. And we have travel…
The Pilgrimage I don't need to live like that no more I have…
The Show Starts Now The physicist and the mystic say there's no such thing…
The Tornado Lessons You fake it till you make it That's the story of…
The Will of a Volcano You have a precious little mind. You paint a perfect little…
Three Storms Until You Learn to Float Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream Merrily, merr…
Three Times a Lady Once, twice, three times a lady I'm sorry I can't love…
Through the Agest If life is a story we′re meant to live through,…
Time It's a perfect day to remind myself to feel I'm always…
To the Great Unknown Called your name and you formed out of the emptiness Called…
Today We Give Ourselves to the Fire Put out your hands, I know it's scary. Light up your…
Took You For Granted I could see all the universe inside you; You had eyes…
Training Wheels Today is the day we take off your training wheels.…
Transistor Radio I heard grandpa on my transistor radio, Though he turned in…
Turtle Shell I've got my mind made up I've got my mind made…
Unexplainable Stories We've been searching for our whole lives. And we have travel…
untitled hidden track I washed your car last week You gave me a…
Victor Come on Dad, let's go down to the river Can't you…
Waitress Entranced by the waitress's skin, I imagine we'd have a sma…
Washed Your Car I washed your car last week You gave me a…
We Made up Your Mind for You Today is the day we take off your training wheels.…
What Comes at the End Album(s): -Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus Will we wake …
What it Feels Like to Be Alive I heard grandpa on my transistor radio, Though he turned in…
What Would You Do What would you do if you had to trade shoes…
When Water Comes to Life And when the angels come They'll cut you down the middle T…
When You Reach the End When you reach the end you cannot complain to the…
Where it Starts I found god at the stroke of midnight with your…
Who Killed Puck? It's the feel of the water as you're breathing it…
You Got Your Bones to Make a Beat You got your bones to make a beat You better make…
You Never Really Were Alone I think you found your reasoning everything has it's home…
You Never Were Alone I've spoke all of my speakings I've dreamed all of my…
You Were Born You were born into a strange world Like a candle, you…
You'll Be Bright - Invocation Part 1 All the things you'll love, all the things that may…
You're the Only Thing in Your Way Drive baby drive, until your trouble's gone Run, baby, run, …
Your 8th Birthday Who could hang a dead man's swing-set from the moon…
Your Love Will Live Forever Mist in the grass and sleep with the spirits Release the…
Youre the Only Thing in Your Way Drive baby drive, until your trouble's gone Run, baby, run, …
þMoving To Canada And as the ending came, The people watch complacently And sw…