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  1. 05-30-2008, 03:04 PM #1
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    Leonard Cohen

    never really been that up on LC, though i've heard his name bandied about by many an artist and know of his deified status amongst the artistically inclined musical set.

    last night i was watching a mediocre Gary Oldman flick entitled The Backwoods (a Spanish production that basically built upon the Deliverance themeology) and there was a really cool song in the film.

    naturally i waded through the end credits and learned that said cool song was "There Is A War" off of New Skin For The Old Ceremony.

    needless to say, this is next on the purchase list.
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  2. 05-30-2008, 03:09 PM #2
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    Never heard "Everybody Knows"? I think it is a great song. Concrete Blond did a cover of it too. I think BOTH versions were in "Pump Up the Volume" if I'm not mistaken.

    LC has some good songs and some not so good. They usually sway towards good IMHO.
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    Buy "I'm Your Man" or "The Future" first.
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    Didn't he write hallelujah?
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    So long, Maria-a-a-a-nne - It´s time we beg-a-a-an (etc). I often sing this song while silly drunk on my way home from the bar.

    Excellent artist. My opinion is that he´s as solid a songwriter as Bob Dylan or even more. Unique artists in their own respects.
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    Ten New Songs is excellent.

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    Is it worth pointing out that he's about to embark on a massive tour? I plan to see him when he comes here, been a fan since I was in diapers
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    Quote Originally Posted by AsheanMT View Post
    Didn't he write hallelujah?
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  9. 06-25-2008, 08:20 AM #9
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    Just saw him in Montreal last night.

    "I haven't been on a stage here in 14 or 15 years. I was 60 years old - a kid with a crazy dream."

    This man has presence. At age 75, with a voice so low it vibrates the chairs and words so clear they cut throw the noise, this man had the whole hall eating out of his hand. He could do no wrong.

    I'll remember this show for a long time.

    "Maybe there's a god above, but all I ever learned from love, is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you." Hallelujah was all powerful.

    "Like a baby stillborn, like a beast with his horn, I have torn everyone who reached out for me." For some reason I'd never really heard these lines in Bird on a Wire. They came out loud and clear last night.

    "If you want a lover
    I'll do anything you ask me to
    And if you want another kind of love
    I'll wear a mask for you
    If you want a partner
    Take my hand
    Or if you want to strike me down in anger
    Here I stand
    I'm your man"

    Pure Cohen. The audience lapped this up.

    Closing Time, Democracy, Anthem...the list goes on. This guy knows how to turn a phrase and how to deliver with power and poetry, with strength and humility.

    Awesome stuff.
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  10. 06-25-2008, 08:28 AM #10
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    LC and Sonny Rollins.




    Not with Sonny
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    Quote Originally Posted by grapedrink View Post
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    Thanks, grapedrink. That's an excellent clip.

    Here's one from his recent Toronto show:



    Sound quality is a bit off and it comes in after my favourite line (something like "you treated me like a piece of meat, you'd have to be a man to know how good that feels"), but it was stunning to hear this live.
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  13. 06-26-2008, 02:42 PM #13
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    Slightly different version (there's a ton of them):



    Wish that I could either write like him or sound like him (trying not to be greedy by wishing for both).
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  14. 06-27-2008, 09:04 AM #14
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    Somewhat ski related....

    "What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."

    Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen
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    i finally dug up a copy of New Skin For Old Ceremony.

    started listening to it on the way into work today.

    pretty damn bueno.
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  16. 06-30-2008, 12:36 PM #16
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    i was about a heartbeat away from taking Telephil down to 23rd street on the subway after hearing Josh Ritter cover his Chelsea Hotel.
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