Posted on 11/10/2016 6:24:24 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Thanks for the link.
RIP, great songwriter with a unique (Haunting) voice. ‘A Thousand Kisses Deep’, my favorite of his.
I liked two of his songs.
The Future, and Waiting for the Miracle.
I discovered him relatively late in hi career. He is one of the great singer song writers. Each album he produced was better than the last.
R.I.P.
Really sorry to hear this. RIP Leonard.
R.I.P. His music is a perfect soundtrack in “McCabe and Mrs. Miller”.
“He’s looking for that card that is so high and wild he’ll never need to deal another.”
https://youtu.be/PBo-n_17XU0
The Canadian Bob Dylan is Bruce Cockburn; an equal lyricist and one of the guitar masters, and similarly off the track politically.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
He was great; we’ve lost a lot of great musicians this year. I used to play “Suzanne” all the time.
Bob Dylan on Leonard Cohen - he’s always above it all...
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker
“Dylan, who is seventy-five, doesn’t often play the role of music critic, but he proved eager to discuss Leonard Cohen. I put a series of questions to him about Number 1, and he answered in a detailed, critical way—nothing cryptic or elusive.
“When people talk about Leonard, they fail to mention his melodies, which to me, along with his lyrics, are his greatest genius,” Dylan said. “Even the counterpoint lines—they give a celestial character and melodic lift to every one of his songs. As far as I know, no one else comes close to this in modern music. Even the simplest song, like ‘The Law,’ which is structured on two fundamental chords, has counterpoint lines that are essential, and anybody who even thinks about doing this song and loves the lyrics would have to build around the counterpoint lines.
“His gift or genius is in his connection to the music of the spheres,” Dylan went on. “In the song ‘Sisters of Mercy,’ for instance, the verses are four elemental lines which change and move at predictable intervals . . . but the tune is anything but predictable. The song just comes in and states a fact. And after that anything can happen and it does, and Leonard allows it to happen. His tone is far from condescending or mocking. He is a tough-minded lover who doesn’t recognize the brush-off. Leonard’s always above it all. “
Word is, there will be a memorial in Los Angeles soon, date TBA.
I am not taking this news well at all.
A great loss. RIP, sir. Your songs will live on for years to come.
Thank-you! I listened to that before posting a ‘’final verse’’ (that I wrote) for Cohen.
Hallelujah means...God, save us! :)
Thankyou for noticing! It isn’t part of the song...just a verse I wrote impromptu for the end of Cohen’s life.
I ave also experienced the same. I think the back and forth over the election is the reason for the volume increase.
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