Removed now.

Not really much help, but they are all amazingly moving. I think the only honest answer - for me - would be to say the one I've just listened to. What an extraordinarily high quality output the man has.

For ever. I can't think of a time when he wasn't part of my adult life. I came relatively late to non-classical music, and along with The Doors, and Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins, Leonard was one of the singers/groups that opened my eyes to the reality that it wasn't all "bubble-gum" musi...

The only reason (forgive me) that I joined this forum, of whose existence I was ignorant, was to comment on this thread. Oh how I wish we could hear Leonard Cohen singing it. I've heard three versions now and all illuminate the song differently, which has to be a measure of what a great song it is. ...