MsJudi wrote:I disagree...in the present anyway.  His voice was, imo, wonderful on his most recent live album cd/dvd. 

He really needs to stick to writing and composing and letting someone else sing his otherwise brilliant music.

Every time I heard this song, I think about the loser that I was fool enough to give shelter and love, and it makes me want to puke.

oh no not another johnny cash er i mean leonard cohen song to wade thru
atleast they've got background singers going wooo aaah 

This is perfect!

I would very much like to visit a concert bij LC: will he ever come to Europe anymore?

I'm your fan

Magic!
Stops me in my tracks when i hear this tune.

 ch83575 wrote: 
It's why artists record...to get played...how often they are is a signal about how well they did...you don't like it? PSD, mate...The Great Canadian Bullfrog will still be playing long after you can't type anymore. 

His "voice" has improved over the years and I now love him even more!  His last tour was outstanding.  I saw him in Liverpool (UK) and you could have heard a pin drop when he was talking in between songs.  The sound system was one of the best in terms of clarity in a big arena that I have ever heard.  The concert was fun - and this really comes across on the DVD - "Live in London" he is a very amusing guy believe it or not! Sharon Robinson, one of his song writing  "collaborators" was also superb as a backing singer and soloist.  Her only album is great for late night listening.  Her co backing singers, The Webb sisters, are two English sisters who are also terrific in their own right.  The musicians that he picked are of the highest quality which all helped to add up to one of the greatest concerts/gigs of my long music loving life! 

I am so sick of this dude.  Sure, this song has only been played twice in the last 30 days, but lets add up all the times any leonard cohen song has been played.  This is a valid mathematical summation, since all leonard cohen songs sound exactly the same.  The total # of plays is WAY to high in my opinon.

 fredriley wrote: 
Jennifer Warnes' "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "Tower of Song, The songs of Leonard Cohen" a Cohen "tribute" album, both have some really accessable vocals doing his music, if you'd like a rest from the Great Canadian Bullfrog :) 

 fredriley wrote: 

Well said, Fred. I wholeheartedly concur.

  

 deepwoodskev wrote: 
The songwriting. He's in the same league as Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, great songwriters and street poets with voices that are, to put it gently, an 'acquired taste'. Next time this comes on, hit mute and find the song lyrics and see if they grab you. Cohen's not the greatest singer on this earth, but I've come to like his gravelly near-subsonic voice thanks to repeated exposure by RP.

 

ThePoose wrote: 

 If you keep ratimng songs like this a 10 i will rate them a 0. kinda keeps things equal. Just rate it correctly not just to up it's value....sigh!!!!
andreicio wrote: 

Very annoying...
I think I like listening to Leonard Cohen about as much as someone scratching a chalkboard with their fingernails.

 

Another old fart sounding like an old fart

Yeah, you don't like them, you love them.

 hippiechick wrote: 

Again, I don't understand the appeal of this guy and why he's played so much on RP. What the hell am I missing?

 andreicio wrote:
 
No no no no no no no...  there are many many many many songs I do not bother rating at all, because I only have room for 10's...  Radio Paradise plays tons of tens...  this is one of them...

An Acquired Taste!!  you guys can keep Neil Young & Van Morrison to yourselves — Leonard is MY MAN! 

Not my fav song of him!

 MojoJojo wrote: 
It can't end soon enough for me, I'm falling asleep.

I don't like this...and that's ok.