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Title: Leonard Cohen
Post by: Mairi on November 08, 2005, 01:41:51 AM

I always need therapy after listening to his music. :( But I like it anyway. Anyone here like him?

Title: Re: Leonard Cohen
Post by: adamzero on November 08, 2005, 03:48:35 AM

He's one of the greats.  "Suzanne" "Bird on a Wire" "Hallelujah"--first rate poetry and first rate songs.  

Title: Re: Leonard Cohen
Post by: apple sauce on November 08, 2005, 11:52:06 PM

A man who has actually bucked comformaty to a level that he has become excepted by the artsy crowd!

Title: Re: Leonard Cohen
Post by: Moogmodule on November 12, 2016, 12:10:05 AM

Sad to lose another classic artist in 2016.  Although at 82 I suppose we're getting beyond the "he died too young" cliche.

Undoubtedly a great lyricist I've never actually owned a record of his. As a performer he never appealed. When I saw film of his later tours I never got the adoration he was receiving except as a public show of coolness by the audience. 

I do like lots of his songs done by other people. Hallelujah has become a cliche and overdone in a similar way to Yesterday. But hearing other artists do Bird on a Wire, Famous Blue Raincoat or Anthem plus a heap of others shows his unique songwriting skills.

RIP LC

Title: Re: Leonard Cohen
Post by: Moogmodule on November 12, 2016, 12:14:45 AM

This was always a fave.

https://youtu.be/5o9Z3NMd-a4 (https://youtu.be/5o9Z3NMd-a4)

Title: Re: Leonard Cohen
Post by: nimrod on November 12, 2016, 02:31:00 AM

Quote from: Mairi on November 08, 2005, 01:41:51 AM

I always need therapy after listening to his music. :( But I like it anyway. Anyone here like him?

Yes me

I've been a fan all my life

In 1970 his album Songs from a room was a requirement for every student flat (apartment)

More of a poet than Bob in my eyes