Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: May 21, 2013 - 20:40 | |
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milleronic
(Minnesota) | | Posted: Apr 20, 2013 - 13:14 | |
Jelani wrote:I love the way this song ends.
I love that it ends. |
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max_p
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Those Malboro reds in the photo speak volumes
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 16:49 | |
Everybody in my church loves this song...
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helgigermany
(Germany) | | Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 00:10 | |
SweTex wrote:One of the only lyrics that matters. One of the best poets in music business! |
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Oct 14, 2012 - 07:23 | |
calypsus_1 wrote: Leonard Cohen by IconistaKate http://www.flickr.com/photos/iconista/6 Jan 1988, Trouville, France —- Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, writer and poet Leonard Cohen during the filming of a music clip by the French photographer Dominique Issermann. —- Image by ——————————————————————— I remember you well in the chelsea hotel You were famous, your heart was a legend..... Glorious Vintage All rights reserved OK, this photo just messed me up. scrolling through the comments and I stumble on a photo of an aged Adam Sandler. Ouch. I don't know how to cope with this. |
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Oct 14, 2012 - 07:19 | |
I love the way this song ends.
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Megavolt
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Now *this* is a prophecy.
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helgigermany
(Germany) | | Posted: Oct 14, 2012 - 07:15 | |
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On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 17:57 | |
thais wrote:One of the major achievements of the 60´s (in the music field) to the human culture is that the worth of an artist is if he/she has something to say and not only if he/she is able to sing accordingly to the " standard musical education".
Right, if he/she can not sing at all, is far better to give songs to others that can do it.
However, if he/she can sing even in a basic way (very basic, most of the times) is allowed to sing his/her own song, because nobody than the author knows the real meaning of a particular song.
There are lots of people whose have very "educated" voices, but nothing to say.
L. Cohen has lots to say. Worth a bump for sure. I get so tired of the whiners who say "(insert name here) can't sing" which almost always means they don't have a pretty voice. Give me Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen (et al), who sing with actual emotion and vulnerability, over the perfect , calculated, auto-tuned, bland, plastic voices that the masses seem to love so much. Not sayin' you gotta like Cohen's voice, just don't tell me he "can't sing". |
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TerryS
(Another SW) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 17:54 | |
A dirge. Unforgettable. Unrepented, me.
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Aug 12, 2012 - 06:32 | |
scraig wrote:you continually posting the wonderful lyrics doesn't take away from the fact that Leonard CAN NOT SING! Everyone can't be Josh Groban or Celine Dion - thankfully. |
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ckcotton
(Adding snarky comments since 2007) | | Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 19:58 | |
God this song is looong......... And not in a good way
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SweTex
(Swede living in Texas) | | Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 19:52 | |
One of the only lyrics that matters.
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Hpverbier
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ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | | Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 04:07 | |
His recent live version is perhaps his best and most compelling version of this excellent song. In fact, that can be said for much of LC's work.— his most recent live release has some of his best performances of his songs.
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AndyJ
(Oregon) | | Posted: May 09, 2012 - 08:56 | |
He also goes well with a glass of whiskey or two... That's when he seems to have been reading your mind.
lemmoth wrote:
Amen brother, or sister, this is rock and roll or pop music dammit - it ain't opera.
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lemmoth
(NYC) | | Posted: May 09, 2012 - 08:53 | |
thais wrote:
One of the major achievements of the 60´s (in the music field) to the human culture is that the worth of an artist is if he/she has something to say and not only if he/she is able to sing accordingly to the " standard musical education".
Right, if he/she can not sing at all, is far better to give songs to others that can do it.
However, if he/she can sing even in a basic way (very basic, most of the times) is allowed to sing his/her own song, because nobody than the author knows the real meaning of a particular song.
There are lots of people whose have very "educated" voices, but nothing to say.
L. Cohen has lots to say.
Amen brother, or sister, this is rock and roll or pop music dammit - it ain't opera. |
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optimeyes4u
(Surf City USA) | | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 13:57 | |
neuticle wrote: And Neil Young
tell it to Dylan and T Waits
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djengs
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Had the sound down- thought it was Chris Rea
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 13:54 | |
Odds are improving all the time against the chances of dying a violent, painful death. People always bring up the many horrors of the 20th century, but the world population was so much higher, that, as a percentage, the violent death rate was a lot lower than had been historically. |
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BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.) | | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 13:54 | |
Does nothing for me at all. No range, no feeling, no......nothing. I got nothing. 2
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max_p
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it is music, but enuf of this guy already on RP
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thais
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scraig wrote:you continually posting the wonderful lyrics doesn't take away from the fact that Leonard CAN NOT SING!
One of the major achievements of the 60´s (in the music field) to the human culture is that the worth of an artist is if he/she has something to say and not only if he/she is able to sing accordingly to the " standard musical education". Right, if he/she can not sing at all, is far better to give songs to others that can do it. However, if he/she can sing even in a basic way (very basic, most of the times) is allowed to sing his/her own song, because nobody than the author knows the real meaning of a particular song. There are lots of people whose have very "educated" voices, but nothing to say. L. Cohen has lots to say. |
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 11:14 | |
Everybody in my hotel room loves this nihilistic song...
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ick
(...out of the primordial ooze) | | Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 11:19 | |
I like it. I like it a lot. Harbinger of doom? Soothsayer? Priest?
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California) | | Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 16:57 | |
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neuticle
(fog fog fog) | | Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 16:53 | |
scraig wrote:you continually posting the wonderful lyrics doesn't take away from the fact that Leonard CAN NOT SING!
tell it to Dylan and T Waits |
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juanos
(Somewhere between the US and Guatemala) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 09:53 | |
scraig wrote:you continually posting the wonderful lyrics doesn't take away from the fact that Leonard CAN NOT SING! That's probably what makes his songs/pomes even better |
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scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 09:48 | |
you continually posting the wonderful lyrics doesn't take away from the fact that Leonard CAN NOT SING!
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