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by AlexandraLaughing
Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:46 pm
Forum: 2014 releases: Popular Problems & Live in Dublin
Topic: CD v. DVD of Live in Dublin?
Replies: 5
Views: 8031

CD v. DVD of Live in Dublin?

Which do you prefer as regards Live in Dublin- listening to the CDs or watching the DVD? I find it's a very different experience. Actually, watching the band live is terrifying (but the I've never seen him live and for real). Though interesting. You can feel the terror of the first few songs until h...
by AlexandraLaughing
Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:28 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: The Darkest Leonard Cohen Song
Replies: 26
Views: 34168

Re: The Darkest Leonard Cohen Song

Samson in New Orleans. What makes it so particularly dark is that a thousand people did die, and they really were dishonoured by their country, which didn't even take the trouble to pick up their corpses in some cases. I am guessing that that's a gentler version than the one he originally wrote, too...
by AlexandraLaughing
Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:14 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: 120 years from now
Replies: 6
Views: 3554

Re: 120 years from now

I don't think the question of the history of his impact on musicians and fans is particularly hard to answer- it just comes down to what sources survive and are preferred. They'll presumably use newspaper/magazine reviews of albums, maybe record sales in some format or other, the major biographies, ...
by AlexandraLaughing
Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:43 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: 5 favorite "lines"
Replies: 11
Views: 5698

Re: 5 favorite "lines"

This would have to be the 5 favourites off the top of my head, at this instant, rather than a considered response... 'My father said I'm chosen, my mother said I'm not'. 'It's spring and it's summer and it's winter forever' 'Did you really love the city, or did you just pretend?' 'Try me again when ...
by AlexandraLaughing
Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:23 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: When,Where,And What Was The First LC Song You Heard?
Replies: 150
Views: 60875

Re: When,Where,And What Was The First LC Song You Heard?

I got to know Leonard Cohen in a very Leonard Cohen way- forty years after everyone else, via kd lang. I must have heard LC songs many times throughout my life (I'm 46), including on Shrek I, and I certainly knew the name. When I learned to play the guitar (vaguely) in the late 1980s, my guitar tuit...
by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:59 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: The use of Jesus and Christian symbolism
Replies: 13
Views: 19953

Re: The use of Jesus and Christian symbolism

I just wanted to comment on this topic, Lilifyre, because as a Catholic I think are absolutely right about the way LC uses Jesus and Christian symbolism. When LC was young, the Jewishness of Jesus was just being rediscovered, including by Catholics. LC employs Jesus as a Jewish hero. Jews rightly co...
by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:34 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: Most Frequently Listened Album
Replies: 20
Views: 9610

Re: Most Frequently Listened Album

Ten New Songs. I just listen to the whole album over and over. But sometimes I do a short version starting from By Rivers Dark. Second is Popular Problems, and third is Old Ideas. I think I'm one of the few people who prefer LC's later work (though I don't have Dear Heather and have never heard it- ...
by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:00 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: What's your favourite song from each LC studio album?
Replies: 72
Views: 42721

Re: What's your favourite song from each LC studio album?

Songs of Leonard Cohen - Sisters of Mercy Songs From a Room - The Partisan Songs of Love and Hate - Famous Blue Raincoat (inevitably) New Skin For the Old Ceremony - There Is A War Death of a Ladies' Man - Death of a Ladies' Man Recent Songs - The Gypsy's Wife Various Positions - Dance me to the End...
by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:48 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: any Cohen song you DONT like!?!?
Replies: 31
Views: 11526

Re: any Cohen song you DONT like!?!?

It may sound odd, but I really don't like Chelsea Hotel #2. It was so interesting hearing the #1 version, which I really like, and #2, with its harsh last verse, seems so nasty and vicious. Though the way he does it on Live in Dublin is good- the last verse sounds like 'I don't even think of you tha...
by AlexandraLaughing
Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:30 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: Thank you, Leonard Cohen
Replies: 2
Views: 2015

Thank you, Leonard Cohen

It occurred to me that now that LC is 80, it might be worth saying something to him that it won't be possible to say for ever. (I understand people on this forum who know him will pass such things on to him as appropriate.) So I wanted to say thank you to Leonard for documenting the passionate inten...
by AlexandraLaughing
Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:25 pm
Forum: 2014 releases: Popular Problems & Live in Dublin
Topic: Did I Ever Love You - "major misstep"?!
Replies: 40
Views: 47767

Re: Did I Ever Love You - "major misstep"?!

This is the song I play most often on this album. I could get drunk on it. As soon as I have finished it I often play it again immediately. The female doubling acts as the sort of ghostly 'voice in one's head' asking the questions over and over that one asks about a regretted relationship. I think i...
by AlexandraLaughing
Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:14 pm
Forum: 2014 releases: Popular Problems & Live in Dublin
Topic: Cohen's religious roots
Replies: 2
Views: 8413

Re: Cohen's religious roots

I would love a thread on Cohen's use of Catholic imagery (being Catholic myself). It seems to me that, while Judaism is Cohen's religion and Zen his preferred form of religious discipline, Catholicism is his Other (more recently the specific imagery of Catholicism has been replaced to some degree by...

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