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by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:45 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 60 Versions of Leonard’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked --Newsweek
Replies: 12
Views: 29381

Re: 60 Versions of Leonard’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked --Newsweek

I took the point about the amusing commentary, so I tried a few more of them. Just listened to the King's Singers version. Biggest laugh I've had all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un-b9iDBgqg

Not, I think, what LC meant by 'passing through the Eye of the Camp'.
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:04 pm
Forum: OLD IDEAS
Topic: For those who love Old Ideas (positive comments only!)
Replies: 8
Views: 11928

Re: For those who love Old Ideas (positive comments only!)

Yup, I love every song on this album (with the possible exception of Anyhow, though I would love to know who it is about). Going Home seems deeper and more puzzling to me every time I hear it. Is it good or bad that he is 'going home'? Should we hear the loss of the burden and the sorrow as in some ...
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 60 Versions of Leonard’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked --Newsweek
Replies: 12
Views: 29381

Re: 60 Versions of Leonard’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked --Newsweek

Thank you, that's a really beautiful clip, especially LC and kd bowing to each other at the end.
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:57 pm
Forum: OLD IDEAS
Topic: Old Ideas in comparison....
Replies: 15
Views: 16230

Re: Old Ideas in comparison....

Hmmm, as a new listener I would put many of the songs on Old Ideas ahead of a number of the songs on this Top 40 list, fabulous though many of them are. (I notice that there are no songs from 'Dear Heather' on that list, not even The Letters or The Faith, both of which I would think are candidates.)...
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:32 pm
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Go No More A Roving
Replies: 58
Views: 75821

Re: Go No More A Roving

I disliked Go No More the first time I heard it- I also thought it was pretty much a lazy rip off (of Byron's poem of course), set to muzak ... and that if you're going to reuse a folksong, you should at least make sure the tune is as good as the original. But I grew to like it over several playings...
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:13 pm
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Dear Heather 10(ish) years on
Replies: 5
Views: 21560

Dear Heather 10(ish) years on

I got around to buying a copy of Dear Heather for the first time this weekend (having gotten into LC properly just late last autumn). I listened to it six times through, more or less (Morning Glory more, as it took me several playings to make any sense of it, Because of and Dear Heather less, becaus...
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:12 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Sharon's photo book "On Tour with Leonard Cohen"
Replies: 38
Views: 13112

Re: Sharon's photo book "On Tour with Leonard Cohen"

I certainly hope he doesn't quit! Why should he? He's only 80- he's got 25 years to go to catch up with Roshi.

I reckon he has still got a lot to say that he hasn't said yet, some of it maybe in song form, some of it in other forms.
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 60 Versions of Leonard’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked --Newsweek
Replies: 12
Views: 29381

Re: 60 Versions of Leonard’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked --Newsweek

One could argue this forever, but to me kd lang far outshines all the others- except LC himself, obviously.

But I agree that the studio track on Various Positions was not the best of his versions. Live in London is the best one I've seen so far.
by AlexandraLaughing
Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:54 pm
Forum: OLD IDEAS
Topic: Favourite song from Old Ideas [POLL]
Replies: 9
Views: 9541

Re: Favourite song from Old Ideas [POLL]

Thinking again about the difference between the ways these songs were performed on the studio album and the way they are performed in Live in Dublin, I would sum it up as 'more sad'. It's an interesting contrast with Popular Problems, which does also have some heart-rendingly sad songs, but also mor...
by AlexandraLaughing
Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:01 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Leonard Nominated for Four 2015 Juno Awards
Replies: 2
Views: 1511

Re: Leonard Nominated for Four 2015 Juno Awards

I love it that Popular Problems is nominated both for Best Album and Best Adult Alternative Album (alternative to what?).

That sums it all up right there.
by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:57 pm
Forum: 2014 releases: Popular Problems & Live in Dublin
Topic: Musicians on Live in Dublin
Replies: 6
Views: 9681

Re: Musicians on Live in Dublin

Many thanks, everybody, for the links and the welcome. Someone mentioned the possibility of another 'tour' album to include the many songs performed on this last tour that aren't on Live in Dublin. This would be brilliant. Particularly The Night Comes On, Sisters Of Mercy, and Heart with no Companio...
by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:37 pm
Forum: News
Topic: No New Tour in 2015
Replies: 17
Views: 8318

Re: No New Tour in 2015

Thanks for your more exact reply, Jarkko- I have my theories as to what it means, but I won't start any unsubstantiated rumours! I actually think I would be too afraid to meet LC if the occasion ever offered. One might as well try and talk to Jane Austen, or St Augustine. You know what you would say...
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:59 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Roshi again
Replies: 7
Views: 2935

Re: Roshi again

Thanks for that. I suppose it is nothing to Roshi what people who never even met him think of him, but, again as I know from the Catholic context, these things spread poison way beyond individuals, because the systematic denial and the institutional covering up end up being worse than the original o...
by AlexandraLaughing
Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: No New Tour in 2015
Replies: 17
Views: 8318

Re: No New Tour in 2015

I notice Jarkko also said this would be a year of 'happenings and surprises'.

I look forward to them.

***In June we are going to meet on Hydra, and in October it's time to have the Walking Weekend in Barcelona.
There will be no tour news but looking forward to something else. Jarkko
by AlexandraLaughing
Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:29 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Roshi again
Replies: 7
Views: 2935

Re: Roshi again

Well, I've read the thread surrender linked to now, and it's basically shocked reaction from one week in February 2013 (which is also the week Pope Benedict resigned), with a few demurs. Then, on the thread for Roshi's death, people mostly say it's not appropriate to say anything bad about him when ...

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