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
I was lucky enough to see him before he died, back in 2013. It was, and remains, the single best show I've ever been to. When he played "Famous Blue Raincoat," which is my favorite song, to start his second encore I felt that my concert going career was complete. Everything after is gravy.
And yes, seeing him live was another level from listening to his albums.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
Agreed: Live In London is my favourite Cohen release, his Manchester Opera Show performance in the first week of his comeback tour is my favourite gig of all time, and the DVD is a wonderful record of the same tour.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 20 January 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Everyone loves the Jeff Buckley cover of Hallelujah, even though it's missing an entire stanza.
Never heard it. I've heard about a dozen other versions of it though.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 January 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
I love cohen to the point that I have two Leonard-related prints in my flat, but speaking of that London gig (which I attended!) the fact that he was packing stadia at the end of his career shows that he was pretty well rated for a not-for-everyone fellow
― Nerd Ragequit (wins), Thursday, 20 January 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
Everyone has a Phil Spector story.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 January 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
xp totally! Also Cohen returning to live performance due to his shitbag manager spending all of his money may be the greatest case of turning lemons into lemonade in rock history.
― birdistheword, Friday, 21 January 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
Those comeback shows were too smooth and Vegas-y for my liking. There were too many band introductions and too much scripted patter. I was lucky enough to see him in the 1980s and 1990s, which were much rawer and off-the-cuff affairs.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 21 January 2022 07:59 (two years ago) link
Love Cohen, but would gladly never hear Hallelujah again
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 21 January 2022 08:09 (two years ago) link
Anyone see "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song," 2021 movie doc . I have not yet. Just curious about
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 June 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
I have not but they're screening it at Film Forum in NYC and I believe Alan Light and Larry "Ratso" Sloman are doing separate discussion/Q&A's for it.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
Had not heard of that, thanks!"Hallelujah" has been used in too many already-weepy scenes on TV, and is frequently over-sung, seems like. My favorite version is Willie Nelson's, where he seems to be thinking out loud:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58UjoiSP2wM
― dow, Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
Think he also does "Tower of Song" on his new alb, which I haven't heard yet---here's my fave cover of that, by Marianne Faithfull:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_zzwLgTbE
― dow, Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
Stone cold "Famous Blue Raincoat"---this live rendition, from Living (1971), has been stuck in my head for most of my life, and will see me out, no doubt
― dow, Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Damn, sorry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE6e9n1HuuM
― dow, Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
classic voice, classic dictionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVp8JlT1oo0
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
this Blue Note tribute looks promising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaKR_4S5O7U
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 29 July 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugh8Xe6hX7U2009 interview so good
― calstars, Monday, 1 May 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link