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by grant
Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:35 pm
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Re: criticisms of "Dear Heather"
Replies: 71
Views: 74079

The late-night posts tend to be incomprehensible, but Cohen would certainly approve of that, if he still abides by the opinion of the self he portrayed in "Ladies and Gentlemen. . .Leonard Cohen." Nonetheless, I sincerely thank you for your comments and only hope that I can do justice to w...
by grant
Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:01 pm
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Re: criticisms of "Dear Heather"
Replies: 71
Views: 74079

Cohen's music has always been negative, if one can say that without a smirk. Cohen is as "negative" as Melville; as Frost; as Kesey; as any great poet who has not only seen but created objects of those things beyond what we ever will. Ken Kesey once gave the following quote to a professor ...
by grant
Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:51 am
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: the song, "Dear Heather" in relation to Milosz
Replies: 8
Views: 5200

There are undoubtedly distinct differences in the intent of both poems. Milosz hones his sights in on what it is to 'be' in the moment; Cohen revels in the moment. Milosz wants it again, wants to cling to it, wants to understand it; Cohen encompasses himself with it, his polite manner a facade to sh...
by grant
Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:05 am
Forum: Tribute concerts, Cover versions & Soundtracks
Topic: The absolute WORST Leonard Cohen cover ever...
Replies: 52
Views: 20707

Lloyd Cole's Chelsea Hotel

Lloyd Cole's version finds itself succumbing to the same pitfalls that Jarkko aptly said Elton John did in his version of "I'm Your Man." Cole, by speeding up the song and ridding his version of Cohen's unique phrasing, loses all the pathos and subtlety that made the original so heartbreak...
by grant
Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:29 am
Forum: Tribute concerts, Cover versions & Soundtracks
Topic: Leonard Cohen covering someone else's songs?
Replies: 34
Views: 14222

"Tennessee Waltz" off Dear Heather (by Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King) "Passing Through" off Live Songs (by R. Blakeslee) "Be For Real" off The Future (Frederick Knight) "Always" off The Future (Irving Berlin) "The Partisan" off Songs from a Room (A...
by grant
Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:43 am
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: the song, "Dear Heather" in relation to Milosz
Replies: 8
Views: 5200

the song, "Dear Heather" in relation to Milosz

One of my literature professors has been close friends with Cohen for a few years now and was also had a very intimate friendship with Czeslaw Milosz before his passing this past September. I was giving Dear Heather a very attentive listening the other day and was immediately reminded of Milosz's po...

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