in a brief powerpoint presentation
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
HEH. HEH HEH. THE MONKEY.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 April 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
he has a song where he talks about rosicrucianism and it was the only place or time or association i have with that word and then last weekend i was reading something and it mentioned rosicrucians ('money', maybe? now i cant remember where) and i was caught off-guard, i think i half-thought leonard cohen had made them up
― dude (Lamp), Saturday, 26 April 2014 07:16 (ten years ago) link
they can give you back your hope
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 April 2014 07:47 (ten years ago) link
recent songs is a masterpiece, I am a little in love tbh, what an amazing album that I have overlooked for all these years
― marcos, Friday, 27 March 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
this is has been one of several nights recently when I have gotten a little drunk and put on some leonard cohen and marvel at the man
― marcos, Friday, 27 March 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
"The Window," "Ballad of the Absent Mare," and the rest. It's really the bridge between his early style and his mature style.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Friday, 27 March 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
In the sleevenotes of this album Cohen thanks his mother, "for reminding me of the kind of music she loved before she died"
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Friday, 27 March 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
tonite is i'm your man and various positions, these are so amazing despite their imperfections, the title track on im your man and everybody knows and then dance me to th end of love are just so perfect
― marcos, Saturday, 28 March 2015 01:19 (nine years ago) link
oh shit and then coming back to you
― marcos, Saturday, 28 March 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
everything is all so good, wow leonard you've been there all along and I've finally noticed
― marcos, Saturday, 4 April 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
:-)
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
when I saw him the 2nd time in london he had a few various positions songs in his set inc. night comes on!
marcos if you haven't already you need to hear the field commander cohen album
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
it is my desert island album probably
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:19 (nine years ago) link
me + a couple of friends discovered i'm your man in high school and our callow instinct was to mock it (keyboards, 80s production, intensely serious vocals, this waltz this waltz this waltz this waltz) and put it on 4 lulz etc., but as time passed we realized we were listening to it all the time. it's the best. you know you can. i like its disreputable moments too (you can imagine how much i liked them then). turtle meat.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
(was also obsessed at the time w "don't go home with your hard-on" -- this is a pretty sour song, in retrospect, isn't it, like contemporary dylan. what happened to arty singer-songwriters in the late 70s? just divorce? at least this has the grace iirc to also sound as sour as possible.)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link
Progress with Cohen was:
- Reading Suzanne in the Norton Anthology of Poetry in high school- "Everybody Knows" in Pump Up The Volume- "Ain't No Cure for Love" in Love at Large- Buying a ticket last-minute to see him in 1993, knowing only those two songs. Still probably my epiphany concert of any.- Ending up living in Montreal on a study grant, finding he has novels in addition to the rest. Devouring everything except Death of a Ladies Man, which I still haven't heard.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG9zED01DuA
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 5 April 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
"Paper Thin Hotel" is one of my fave lyrics ever
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 April 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
lately new skin has been the favorite
― marcos, Monday, 20 April 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
"New Skin" remains the ultimate! Was at a Newbury Comics on Sunday & an employee was playing it straight through, which was so unexpected & awesome.
Has been one of my favorite albums ever for 20 or so years. They're all great but "Field Commander Cohen" has always struck a nerve.
― Wally P. Doyle, Thursday, 5 September 2019 06:33 (four years ago) link
NYers, last weekend for this
https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/exhibitions/leonard-cohen-a-crack-in-everything
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
Loved this show ^^.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 5 September 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
FWIW I really disliked the show. I think I just can't with art shows about musicians. It felt overly worshipful or something -- I didn't find anything all that engaging on its own merits in an artistic sense, the whole thing was just "WOW LEONARD COHEN GENIUS WOW." Although the thing with the mens choir was sort of fun.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
was it the Conspiracy of Beards? (there can't be more than one all-Leonard Cohen men's choir...)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
i thought it was mediocre too
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 September 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
xp no it was a video installation that included the mens choir from his synagogue on one screen and then a bunch of rando fans who I think responded to an ad on other screens in a different room
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 September 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
The best part of this show was the room with the slideshow of his self-portraits.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 14 September 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
If you ever visit L.A. you can easily track down his old apartment here, the one where he was photographed on the front lawn for the cover of Old Ideas. I believe that apartment is where he passed away.
― omar little, Saturday, 14 September 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
1033 S Tremaine Ave is the address.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 14 September 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
my w1fe, who adored him, is bummed that she never knew he lived only three blocks away from her during her time living on Mansfield Ave at 8th St.
― omar little, Saturday, 14 September 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/new-leonard-cohen-album-thanks-for-the-dance-announced-listen-to-the-goal/
― dow, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
already get the feeling from that short tune that it feels weird/wrong to consider it a "Leonard Cohen album"
― Simon H., Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
dud
― lumen (esby), Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
you're a dud
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
with due respect
He's good!.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 October 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
Best mismatched inner sleeve EVER? pic.twitter.com/h0aS9K6g3B— Laurie’s Planet of Sound (@lauriespos) November 9, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
Lol
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
I can picture Roger Sterling picking up both those records for his pad in 1972.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Saturday, 9 November 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
fuck New Skin For Old Ceremony is just devastating
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 10 November 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
so many good lines on "Happens to the Heart", album out todayhttps://open.spotify.com/track/2DkpoHJ1h88e9dyc6SFIm2?si=MHmybq37SN-uG5U0iWNIQw
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 22 November 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
new album is wonderful
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 22 November 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
Ranking his openers!
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 October 2020 05:11 (three years ago) link
You Want it Darker is such a perfect opener.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 October 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
I knew this thread had to exist. To me, he is THE classic, but he is definitely not for everyone--which makes him even more of a classic.
― jimbeaux, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
He might not be for everyone, en toto, but everyone likes at least something he's done. Like, who really besides him and Mariah Carey have had a song become a standard in the last few decades?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
They do, but most often when it's done by someone else. Everyone loves the Jeff Buckley cover of Hallelujah, even though it's missing an entire stanza.
― jimbeaux, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Dylan's Make You Feel My Love probably goes in there too, some big ass versions of that
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 23:47 (two years ago) link
I wasn't a big Leonard Cohen fan (of his own recordings that is) until I got the DVD Live in London. IIRC the audio is exactly the same as what was used for the CD of the same name, but I usually prefer live DVD's over CD's. Charmed the hell out of me, it sent me back to his earlier albums, but except for his debut and I'm Your Man, I had mixed feelings about how most of those albums were recorded, so the live DVD is still my favorite Cohen release. I also loved how his music was used in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, probably my favorite Altman film.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link