POLL on, my brother: The Leonard Cohen Memorial POLL Voting Thread - Ballots due Midnight ET, Dec. 1st

Marcus reliably boring

I am a xgau-sceptic and xgau is a cohen-sceptic but his long essay on cohen is good (haven't read the recent obit btw); it does contain the kewl anecdata that all the hardcore cohen fans he knows cheated on their wives tho

Simon I am trying to throw something together now btw, it's difficult

simon I won't be able to get in today but possibly tomorrow morning? If that's too late that's fine

tomorrow morning could be workable - I'm only rolling out the albums on Monday so there's some wiggle room. all I'm doing today is collecting links, quotes, etc

for anyone struggling, I highly recommend just doing an unranked or partially ranked ballot.

Submitted

Don't sweat this, people: throw a buncha songs on a list, make sure "Hallelujah" ain't on it, hit send.

we are now up to 19 ballots!

I entered an antique shop today and the only two CDs they had - as in, at *their entire CD stock* - were pristine used copies of Ten New Songs and Recent Songs, which I'd been looking for. That made my whole week.

Don't sweat this, people: throw a buncha songs on a list, make sure "Hallelujah" ain't on it, hit send.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 December 2016 17:52 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty much what I did yah; clearly hallelujah is a lovely and excellent song but I could do the out four 20s without touching it, also I voted for two albums that contain it

*three or four

I *may* have to delay the rollout by a day as tomorrow night I will apparently be making dinner for a human woman, a thing that quite literally never happens. The Cohen effect?

Also, my second Cohen biography ebook came in today - very fortuitous timing.

Follow Leonard's implied advice and wear a suit & tie.

Or don't. I don't know anything about your life.

y'know I don't even wear a tie to work but I might but one on for kicks when I get home

Scratch what I said, the rollout WILL start tomorrow night, albeit in slightly unorthodox (read: not work-intensive for me) fashion.

Unless any more come in before I go to work tomorrow, we got in a v respectable 20 ballots.

here we go

Laughing Len strikes again: ILM Artist Poll #81 - Leonard Cohen

Voted!

Yer in!

Ranking those late albums.

I really like your take on "I'm Your Man."

thanks

FWIW this sentence seems to be missing a clause:
"It’s hard to remember which songs appear on the comeback albums, but to my ears Popular Problems is where the performing chops gained by a tour necessitated by money problems."

and you forgot the record "old ideas"

and i think you mean "if it be your will"

sorry to nitpick :(

the webb sisters version of the latter song was a staple of the late tours, and it's quite something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDemnguRYj4

that sentence works actually, although I would have subbed it – the performing chops on PP gained (i.e. improved) as a result of the tour.

Thanks for the correction!

I rank 1971-1979