Reminds me the great group "Yello" 

 drcrnp wrote: 
Cohen is hardly monotone.  Subtle expression yes, but he sings.  This is not a tone-poem.

 drcrnp wrote: 
I can see your point - I feel much the same way about Bob Dylan. Both are great poets, but have voices that are acquired tastes, right enough. I've acquired the taste for Leonard Cohen's subsonically-deep monotonic drawl, which literally gives me goose pimples. It's scary, in a good way. At least in this song, though, his gravelly delivery is softened by the female vocalists.

Iconoclastic & mellow-tonic sound.  Alluring and hard to know if I am to be relaxed or moved by this song... intriguing

Cohen, you are LO MAXIMO!

Leonard Cohen is a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.

 

I so hear you, if you'll pardon the expression.
The endless monotone just doesn't do it for me.
As a lover of language, though, I have to admire him.  Too bad the delivery makes me tune out (pardon me again) the words.

Sasha2001 wrote: 

This is such a fabulous photograph.  Thanks, calypsus!

 calypsus_1 wrote: 

Oh yes: An outstanding song, as well!

 sfListener wrote: 
Yep, definitely similar to Underwater Boys.

Checking my library now - I had forgot about this album. Thanks for the refresh. 

 
Leonard Cohen by ~endraum
Efthimia Panagiotopoulou  ©2008-2010 ~endraum

@Terra Vibe, 30.07.2008 .........*

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I LOVE this CD. This is a 9.

 imaheatfan wrote: 
So wild when I came across your comment — the 1990 Christian Slater movie "Pump Up The Volume" was where I was FIRST exposed to Leonard Cohen !!  It was "Everybody Knows", and I loved it so much I ran out and bought the soundtrack.  Then I was sorely disappointed to find his version was NOT on the soundtrack!  The song was performed by Concrete Blonde, who I like as a band, but I wanted Leonard's version.  Back in 1990 there was no internet, and no one I asked ever seemed to know who sang that song.  Finally about 6 years later I was in a club waiting for a band to start, and the background music was Everybody Knows!  I was so excited to hear it again — I asked the bartender if he knew who it was.  I think he might have rolled his eyes when he told me Leonard Cohen.  I've been a huge fan ever since.   

 lmic wrote: 
I dont believe in that. I think , its the modern medicin and the genes!

 lawman wrote: 
Scary, huh? I bet Lenny's Buddhist practice helps him cope with the ultimate fact that All Things Must Pass...

His voice is just so.....deep, frozening and so so sexy

Leonard Cohen by ~endraum
Efthimia Panagiotopoulou  ©2008-2010 ~endraum

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L Cohen, Cat Stevens . . . not my cuppa.

Funny, I always thought this song was titled Babylon. 
But then, he does sing about Babylon quite a bit.  Maybe I was thinking of 'Dance Me To The End of Love'...

"Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon / Show me slowly what I only know the limits of / Dance me to the end of love / Dance me to the end of love..."

I think I like this one better.

He collapsed on stage in Spain recently but thank goodness he appears to be recovering from what was an apparent case of food poisoning.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/21/leonard-cohen-hospital

Cool spooky set: Black Soul Choir and Rivers Dark.

Pump Up the Volume!

Legend.

There's that line good poetry straddles between a sense of progression and utter gibberish. This song does it.

I saw him 5/12 in Philly. Fantastic show.

My god: (thanks to RP's Lazy-Boy Wikipedia links I learn that) Leonard Cohen is 74!

I dunno: and then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you; no-one told you when to run...
  (shit: and he's 65! What's happened?!?!?)

 Paul_Skybreakers wrote: 

I agree.