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26 May 08 - 02:21 PM (#2349473) Subject: Leonard Cohen From: John MacKenzie He is on BBC Radio 4 now, giving a rare interview. G |
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26 May 08 - 02:26 PM (#2349476) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: scouse I know I'm listening. As Aye, Phil |
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26 May 08 - 02:34 PM (#2349482) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Mrs.Duck Thanks for that. Missed the start but listening now. |
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26 May 08 - 02:48 PM (#2349498) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: fat B****rd Yes. Thankyou, Giok. |
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26 May 08 - 03:05 PM (#2349510) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: TRUBRIT Wish I had known -- would have loved to have heard it. I think Leonard Cohen is amazing.... |
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26 May 08 - 03:07 PM (#2349512) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: John MacKenzie It will be available here Deborah. G |
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26 May 08 - 03:09 PM (#2349516) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: gnu Another thanks, G. |
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26 May 08 - 03:23 PM (#2349525) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: M.Ted Probably worth mentioning the 2005 concert/tribute/documentary "I'm Your Man", for those that missed it-- |
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26 May 08 - 05:31 PM (#2349608) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Suffet THE PARENTS OF LEONARD Words: Stephen L. Suffet © 2001 Music: The Sisters of Mercy by Leonard Cohen Oh, the parents of Leonard are wondering where they went wrong, Their Yiddishe boychik writes such meshuggenah songs, And clearing out engrams was something that they never did, For they raised little Leonard to be a Montreal Yid. Oh, at his bar mitzvah he sang his haftorah like a mensch, And Leonard's been singing that very same way ever since, If you're wondering where he first learned that style of his, He heard it from the moyl all the way back at his bris. Oh, the parents of Leonard, they sent him off to McGill, A big macher to be, and all of their dreams to fulfill, Instead of singing of harlots and L. Ronnie Hubbard's strange ways. Oh, what have we done that our Leonard should treat us this way? Oh, the parents of Leonard are wondering where they went wrong, Their Yiddishe boychik writes such meshuggenah songs, And clearing out engrams was something that they never did, For they raised little Leonard to be a Montreal Yid. |
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26 May 08 - 05:49 PM (#2349619) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: TRUBRIT The I'm your Man DVD documentary tribute is fabulous.......highly recommended Thanks Giok - I will listen later........much appreciated.. |
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26 May 08 - 05:56 PM (#2349622) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: JHW Great interview. Had me playing Suzanne and the Stranger Song. 1966, when you went to a Contemporary folk club and did Leonard Cohen or Al Stewart or a Traditional one and did Bruton Town or Cruel Mother and woe betide singing the wrong stuff in the wrong place. But I didn't like the rock band style on 'Death of a Ladies Man' and never bought another LC album. Any recommendations on what I've missed!? |
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26 May 08 - 06:12 PM (#2349631) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Leadfingers I havent sung any Laughing Len for a while ! Time to revive a few ?? |
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26 May 08 - 06:14 PM (#2349632) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Georgiansilver Sung 'Suzanne' at Folk Clubs many times in the 70's...loved it! |
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26 May 08 - 06:19 PM (#2349636) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: John MacKenzie Yup I was guilty of singing Suzanne in those days too G |
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26 May 08 - 06:39 PM (#2349645) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST,cStu JHW I thought and still think that Various Positions is a great album. Dance Me To The End Of Love, The Law, Hallelujah, Coming Back To You, If It Be Your Will Great songs. |
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26 May 08 - 06:48 PM (#2349651) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: DannyC I loved listening in. I laffed, I cried, I'm ready to buy the tee-shurt. Thanks for posting the notice, Giok. |
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26 May 08 - 07:55 PM (#2349688) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST,robomatic ARTIST: Austin Lounge Lizards TITLE: Leonard Cohen's Day Job Lyrics and Chords You drive your car in, pull it up on the rack You promise me faithlessly that you'll be back I wait in the pit, it's the fate I have earned For believing some day you'll return / C - G - / D - G - / A - D - / A G D - / To the streets of New York from my tower of song I come down to work where the common folk throng In my famous blue shirt with its patch that says Len Then I go back to write songs again Leonard Cohen is working a day job they say For bizarre inspiration and hourly pay And I swear by the grease in the crease of my hand If you need speedy lubin', I'll prove I'm your man / C - Am - / Em - - - / A - C - / D C D - / Em - - - / I'll beg if I must, 'cause I'm aching to hear Your story, as I check your brakes front and rear Can you play a sad waltz on your cheap violin Did you have a good time in Berlin If Saint Joan should pull in, in her Charger of white And ask if it all could be finished tonight I'd say, "Let me take a look under your hood All that smoke doesn't look very good" I'm on fire Leonard Cohen is working a day job they say It's part of the price every artist must pay And I swear by the crud and the blood on my hands If you need a tune this afternoon I'm your man And I swear by the monkey wrench clenched in my hand If you lack something basic in black I'm your man |
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27 May 08 - 05:31 AM (#2349944) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Grab Damn, missed the interview. Hope it's on "listen again"! Nothing too wrong with the more rock stuff. But cheap Casio drum machines and cheesy keyboard sounds - bad move, Mr Cohen. :-( "First we take Manhattan", some of it works and some of it doesn't. "10 new songs", none of it worked for me. The really sad bit was that there was still some interesting writing underneath it, but the arrangements were so appalling that it was almost impossible to look past them to find the writing. Graham. |
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27 May 08 - 07:53 AM (#2350013) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: quokka We had an afternoon of Leonard Cohen at the Fairbridge Folk Festival with various performers singers LC songs. Famous Blue Raincoat was a highlight...mind you it's my fave LC song Cheers, Quokka |
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28 May 08 - 06:40 AM (#2350839) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST,albert Try THE FUTURE by Leonard Cohen.It is wonderful! albert |
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28 May 08 - 06:43 AM (#2350845) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Mr Happy Hallelluiah!! |
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28 May 08 - 11:26 AM (#2351062) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: quokka I second that Mr Happy!! But my 12 yo daughter insists on tea and oranges for breakfast Cheers, Quokka |
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28 May 08 - 11:35 AM (#2351070) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Peace But do they come all the way from China? |
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28 May 08 - 11:47 AM (#2351080) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST,Arkie Was at Ramblin' Conrads, Bob Zentz club in Norfolk, Virginia and a fellow, I know not who, sang Suzanne. Went record shopping and found Judy Collins singing Suzanne. I later bought many of her records. Then finally found a Leonard Cohen record and I was hooked. Continued to buy Cohen records, found his novel Beautiful Losers, and introduced him to both my kids. Also have Jennifer Warnes CD of Cohen songs thanks to a good friend. Am still listening to Cohen after all these years. Giok and others thanks for the 'heads up'. |
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28 May 08 - 11:53 AM (#2351085) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: frogprince I was just on You tube, watching videos of Saint Utah. On one of them he mentioned mentioned some of the alternative medical suggestions he'd been getting. One was sensory deprivation, which he described as being submerged in cold water, in total darkness. Utah said that if he wanted that experience, all he had to do was listen to Leonard Cohen records. : ) |
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28 May 08 - 11:55 AM (#2351089) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: fat B****rd The Guests is one of my possible Desert Island Discs. |
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28 May 08 - 11:21 PM (#2351617) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: TRUBRIT Giok - you were GUILTY of playing Suzanne -- I pronounce you INNOCENT. I agree that I think The Future is one of his best -- Democracy is a classic also..........as of course many of them are. I wonder when we reach the point that just because he/she is popular they can't be good anymore......... I think LC is good! |
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28 May 08 - 11:57 PM (#2351635) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: meself I always want to sing: she brings you tea and oranges, that come all the way from Steinbergs (the latter being a central-Canadian grocery chain). Somehow I doubt I'm the first one who's thought that thought. |
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30 May 08 - 06:54 PM (#2353392) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: DannyC Listened in again... LC's the world's most humorous sad man. such as who had a worm and who had a rock and who had you thru the mail |
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31 May 08 - 04:46 PM (#2353874) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Ed T I submit that the man has a very poor singing voice. His music was also dull. Yes, he had a couple of OK songs. Mostly other folks made them popular (for example dird on a wire). But, beyond that, I feel he is very over-rated for what he contributed to music. I am a Canadian, but I just don't get Leonard Cohen. Far too much sheep blood on doors in his lyrics for me, (or is it goats blood). And what's the deal with the dreary jew's harp, (jaw harp, mouth harp). in the background? |
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31 May 08 - 04:48 PM (#2353877) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Ed T dird=bird:) |
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31 May 08 - 05:23 PM (#2353907) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: bobad It's an age thing, also a romantic thing for some. |
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31 May 08 - 07:21 PM (#2353994) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Tattie Bogle Got my ticket to see him live (for the first time for me , tho' a long-time fan) in Edinburgh in July. Watch this sapce for review! |
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31 May 08 - 07:45 PM (#2354009) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Tattie Bogle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/frontrow_mon Thanks for link above: found it quite hard to locate so hope this is more direct, TB |
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31 May 08 - 08:12 PM (#2354032) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Little Hawk "The Future" and "I'm Your Man" are superb albums among his more recent ones. I think his early stuff was great, his middle stuff was great, and his later stuff was even greater. The man just kept getting better. Superb lyrics, great music, a "dark" singing style that suited his stuff perfectly, great backup from the likes of Jennifer Warnes...what more could you ask? If ya don't get it, well...okay...but I think it's all wonderful. I would proudly sing Suzanne any time. It was a great song then, and it's great now. The only reason people diss it is they heard it too many times in their youth by too many different singers, most of whom were relative amateurs. That's just another example of familiarity breeding contempt, that's all. It's a beautiful song. The most beautiful song in the world can suffer badly from overexposure, which is what happens when something becomes too popular for awhile. People then go against it just to show they aren't "part of the crowd" (they're too smart for that), and to let everyone know it. Then they start believing their own sarcastic putdowns of whatever they're going against, but they'd never have noticed it in the beginning if it hadn't been so popular, and it got that way because it deserved to be. I've seen that happen more times than I could be bothered to enumerate. |
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31 May 08 - 10:36 PM (#2354096) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: TRUBRIT Ya Littlehawk.............you are so right. |
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01 Jun 08 - 08:18 PM (#2354756) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: open mike Bird on a Wire |
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02 Jun 08 - 08:22 AM (#2355046) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: mattkeen "The Future" and "I'm Your Man" are superb albums among his more recent ones." Absolutely agree Little Hawk These are mega works IMO |
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06 Jun 08 - 12:06 AM (#2359013) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: TRUBRIT Juat relistened - rewatched 'I'm your man' -- what an awesome video......... |
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22 Jun 08 - 02:07 AM (#2371733) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: BK Lick The link given by Tattie Bogle above now leads to an account of LC's recent Dublin concert -- at 12 minutes, 20 seconds into the broadcast. The original 28 minute interview from 5/26/2008 is archived here. |
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22 Jun 08 - 04:24 AM (#2371767) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Big Tim We once went on an excursion to Hydra but the locals clammed up when we asked where Leonard's old apartment was! |
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22 Oct 16 - 01:39 AM (#3815936) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Mrrzy There are a ton of threads on this guy so I picked this one to refresh with this great interview, previously aired, but which I heard today. |
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22 Oct 16 - 02:33 AM (#3815938) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST,HiLo One of my favourite songwriters. he is now 82 and just released a new album, You Want It Darker, great album, beautiful lyrics. |
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22 Oct 16 - 05:25 AM (#3815958) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST,CJB Was in the Sounds of the 60s programmme on BBC 4 last night, introduced by a very young Julie Felix. The prog. may be watched on iPlayer. |
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22 Oct 16 - 06:57 PM (#3816025) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: Tattie Bogle I never got back about the Edinburgh concert in 2008: on the Castle Esplanade, while the Tattoo seats are still set up. It was simply tremendous! 10-piece brilliant backing band and himself on very good form. |
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23 Oct 16 - 06:47 AM (#3816067) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST, Paul Slade There's an excellent October 2016 New Yorker article on Cohen here. It's built round the journalist's visits to Cohen's home, and includes some lengthy quotes about the great man's songwriting from his Bobness. Dylan almost never deigns to get involved in press articles, so it's a measure of the esteem he has for Cohen that he's commented so fulsomely here. |
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23 Oct 16 - 08:03 AM (#3816072) Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen From: GUEST,HiLo That is a very good article on Cohen. Thank you for posting the link. |
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24 Oct 16 - 02:08 AM (#3816185) Subject: RE: Info: Leonard Cohen From: Andrez A great article, I agree. Many thanks for the posting too. Cheers, Andrez |