Thank you both a lot! I'm going to reply to the private messages ipso facto, if of course this pirated wireless connection doesn't fail before I manage to write.

Well, I do have all the Leonard Cohen albums, but navigating through the Leonard Cohen Files I discovered all this concert recordings I really don't have. I am specially interested in all those albums, specially the later ones, because even though I love the old Cohen songs I do certainly prefer the...

Maybe I am too used to surreal poetry, but I do not know if you should be searching for a splicit reason in those images. Take them as they are, but do not expect to practice some taxidermy to find out what Cohen meant, after all, what matters is what they matter to you. In the case of this song, I ...

About this song Cohen said that the conflicts are ignored without, on the other hand, solving them. They are a fuel in an epoch of ecological crisis (1974) a source of energy. [Canciones y nuevos poemas 2, Alberto Manzano.] Mmm... I feel this song somehow expresses the dialectic confrontation (that...

I believe that it does not respect the spirit of the Cohen's song Sabina says it's a "versión libérrima", and that's what it is. Sabina makes his own version, and his own version, well, is not as hard as Cohen's. Someone could say Sabina's is more optimistic...although it's hard to speak ...

Forgive me, but I'm absolutely enthralled with your avatar. Heh, it's from a Studio Ghibili movie. Not their best film, but the character was very charming, and the movie was preety nice, mainly because it was so imaginative. http://www.onlineghibli.com/cat_returns/ Dylan and Cohen, or Dylan vs. Co...

Well, most good discoveries tend to be by coincidence, and this was a chain of coincidences. Truth is I rarely listen to music in English, I have Cohen- wich I adore- and Bob Dylan, wich I like a lot. Bob Dylan is hard not to know about, since he is insanely famous and an icon of the sixties. Cohen,...

Umm...my mistake, English is not my first language, I sometimes confuse things, forgive me.

Well, I am a great fan of Federico García Lorca, the Spanish poet. Through the album "Poetas en Nueva York", I learned about the version of Leonard Cohen of "Pequeño vals vienés" (Take this Waltz). I loved the version, but my interest in Cohen didn't grow until I bought a tango C...

It seems like the link is not working, because it won't allow me to leech my own free space. That has a simple solution. http://membres.lycos.fr/discepolo/pie.htm Voilá, now it works It looks like your asterisk placement would have the phrase be, "The haves with [the] have-nots" [those wit...

I can't stand that album, really. The lyrics may be good, I listened to "Memories" and "Don't go home with your hard-on", mainly because there was a Cohen live version of Memories and a cover of the second in "I'm your fan". I have never got to listen "Death of a l...

Thank you for your welcome. The avatar is from the Ghibili studio movie "The cat returns", a film full of very charming characters. I forgot a few verses while copying from the booklet. These go just before the first "in the war the martir...": "There is a war between the co...

I can imagine most Spanish speakers in this forum will have heard of Joaquín Sabina, one of the greatests songwriters alive. He is closer to Dylan than to Cohen- I think, I don't know if he would agree- and he is a great fan of Leonard, he actually says he listens to him everyday. Yesterday his new ...