Darryl Webster said:
Been a Cohen fan since the rather rediculous age of 11/12 with Greatest Hits and Songs of Love And Hate Albums. Seen him live in 77 at the age of 15...im 48 now.
At my weding we had a guy sing "True Love Leaves No traces " from Death Of a Ladies Man.
Dont think my X wife got the irony either at the time or now!
No one quite speeks quite so consistanly the truth free of "the Con" and its no word of a lie his words have both inspired me to seek the truth as well as helped me through hard times.
"From bitter searching of the heart we rise to play a greater part"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruDxyOebIQM
Enjoy!
For me my favourite Cohen song is "Democracy"
http://www.youclubvideo.com/video/89890/leonard-cohen-democracy.
Also his poem "the captain". But i get excited whenever i hear any of his songs. Their popular for covers seeing as there was the succesful album "Im your fan" with famous singers covering his song. From this spawned the hallelujah discrace i mention below. When i heard someone in the underground sing " and Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water"(guess the song
) i immediately stopped and ended up being late because i listened to the whole thing.
I used to love "Hallelujha" but the rights were bought by simon coweel who eager to squeeze every penny he can out of every opportunity, had the winner of his reality tv singing competition the "x factor" run with it for christmas number 1. To say the song was butchered to fit this talentless winner is an understatement. I would say it was hung drawn and quartered, and its whole meaning was lost in the proccess, though then again, its whole meaning would have been lost on the audience anyway.
But what was worse is that some people didnt like that Cowell was ripping off the original. They decided that "the original" was the Jeff Buckley cover
. So they started buying this one again in their numbers and the show biz obsessed media were for about two weeks reporting the battle between the cover and Buckleys original
Stupid ****s.
Libertine Seguros said:
I am a massive fan of Dylan. An even bigger fan of Cohen, and an even bigger fan than that of Waits.
I think I might have to give Kaczmarski a go, though I imagine my rudimentary Polish will not stand up to the quality of the lyrics.
I would also insist that Jacques Brel be added to this pantheon of the all time greatest.
I forgot to mention that Cohens popularity was such that at one time, they translated "Dance me to the end of love" word for word using the same tune, and i heard it playing on a pop radio station a few years ago. Unfortunately polish music has with globalisation declined to become probably the worst in the world now.
Personaly for me it goes Waits<Dylan<Cohen, though i think Waits and Cohen deserve far more praise than they get while Dylan hogs it all so to speak.
I was shocked to learn that Dylan is on a exclusive list, together with the Queen, the PM, the Potus, and Paul Mcartney, of people whos deaths would interrupt bbc coverage.
One admirable quality they all have in common is a tendancy to stay away from the spotlight. Waits has done a few late night talk shows, and Dylan used to do interviews now and again, but neither over do it, and as far as Cohen goes, i dont think ive ever heard him speak a single word outside of song.
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