Leonard Cohen thread

[LetMeSleep]

Oh man that's truly sad news.

Fuck you 2016. You've been an utter bastard.

[ridleybradout]

Very sad indeed - what a gift to the world he was.

Amazing that he and Bowie were producing such quality and vital music right up until their deaths - so dignified until the very end

[stip]

Behold the gates of mercy
in arbitrary space
and none of us deserving
the creulty or the grace

[William Bloke]

Fuck you 2016. You've been an utter bastard.

Sad and shocking news.

[swan]

[daft twat]

i am too daft to get the YouTube thing to work, but you guys might enjoy this cover the last shadow puppets released last week:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LtrwbEUow

[dimejinky99]

This is good news.

Javier
https://www.leonardcohen.com/band/javie ... world-tour

[Stickman]

10yr old Kaylee Rodgers hails from Donaghadee, County Down, and has autism and ADHD. A student at Killard House Special School, she started singing as a way to help build her confidence.

[washing machine]

I've always been familiar with his debut and I'm Your Man, but I'm finally making my way (slowly) into his deeper catalog.

I like Death of a Ladies man, actually. I know it's not a popular one, but I can almost smell the cigarettes and feel the formica from whatever studio it was recorded in when I listen to it. It's definitely a dated relic, but I'm into it.

Would anyone care to recommend a definitive LC bio that I can read?

[Jorge]

I liked I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

[tattooedeverything]

I liked I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

Yup. Great book.

[washing machine]

I liked I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

Yup. Great book.

Thanks for this recommendation. I'm listening to the audiobook now. So far, it's making me nostalgic for my cozy upbringing in 1940s Jewish Canada.

[Clem Halibut]

Death of a Ladies Man movie - a bunch of Cohen songs (obviously)

Made me go back and listen to the album - produced by Phil Spector & apparently Phil was completely off the rails on that record and once pulled a gun on Cohen during one of the Sessions.

Memories is such a great song

[GreenMosquito1996]

Death of a Ladies Man movie - a bunch of Cohen songs (obviously)

Made me go back and listen to the album - produced by Phil Spector & apparently Phil was completely off the rails on that record and once pulled a gun on Cohen during one of the Sessions.

Memories is such a great song

Such an unique album in Cohen discography, especially with New Skin for the old Ceremony and Recent Songs before and after. " Don't go home with your hard-on " is really weird song.

Memories really is a standout track. The live version of Memories on the Field Commander Cohen live compilation may be the definite version for me.

Also The National's " Dark side of the Gym " is a nod to this Cohen song.