I hope you are having a wonderful time right this minute...  hugs to you...

this song is marvelous... 

I think Bill should fake everyone out one of these times and play Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" instead of Bowie/Queen's "Under Pressure". Just for shits n giggles.

Fantastic poet. Passable music. If you're listening to Mr. Cohen as a musician you're most likely going to be disappointed. But if you're listening to him as a poet who uses music to convey his verse, he's infinitely more satisfying.

I would love to hear more LC.  Especially from his recent work.

Everybody in my hotel room loves this cool song...
 

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I like this music but it ALWAYS makes me think of a movie soundtrack. I'm surprised I don't see similar comments.

There is a really good version of this song done by Bono/U2 and, I think, the Corrs.  It's much more atmospheric than this version.

You know, I'd like to hear Nick Cave and Kylie do it, a la their  "Wild Rose" duet.  That would be interesting and perhaps quite good.

Learn the difference between techno and hiphop, then come back and make an intelligent comment.

You're like the guy staring at the Pollock saying "my kid could do that!"

Love this song. The lyrics makes me think of a young soldier returning from war. I wonder if that's what he had in mind.

Quite a curious reversal of terminology when you realize the Picts and Celts (Scots, Irish & Welsh) were the original Britons.  The English are Saxon (German.)

Their version has a different title:  "I HOID It Through the Grapevine"

I heard this again today, and looked up the lyrics again and half of them said something close to what I had first thought he said:

"There's a lot of things that can kill a man,
there's a lot of ways to die,
and some already dead that walk beside me"

some of 'em say "some already dead that walk beside you"

whatever, I'll stick with my first thing.

Rita Moreno at the Muppet Show: check Youtube

Wonder why the album title. Anyone know? It's a great little island for watching bird migration. Are Massive Attack into that?

I  like Pens!  

No no no - the 80's was definitely all about

Enjoy your woman with a little Massive Attack.

wow didn't see this comment before to post mine. I found the name for Twin Peaks Angelo Badalamenti  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Badalamenti

interesting that you call this sound "reinvented." i'd like to hear an explanation of exactly how this shows any musical growth from what was being created in the eighties. there is no reinvention or evolution here, just a mimicry of was done 20+ years ago. everybody recognizes the impact of kraftwerk and depeche mode and other electronic pioneers of the late 70s and early 80s. it has been done - long ago. it's time to move on. let's hear something that builds on that foundation and brings something fresh and inventive.

Just once Bill you gotta play the Vanilla Ice...

Actually, he uses "careless sex". At least he did at the two shows I saw.

Remember everyone he HAD a good voice, he doesnt HAVE one

It's funny that the title of this song caused so much controversy, because it's not about religion at all. "Losing your religion" is a southern expression about losing your temper and doing or saying things that are "un-Christian".

I had no idea Leonard Cohen was singing with Depeche Mode.

Giving it a tentative 5 for now.  It'll take a few more listens...

I was blown away when this song came on in the movie "Watchmen."

See the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ySu-kY3YWc

This song in my opinion is the grandmother's 'Hotel California' by Eagles

Her voice is fine, what is killing me is the 'phone ringing' in the back ground.

The whole song.

I couldn't even figure out the instrument making the noise.

I just wanted someone to answer it.

Or for punctuation and spelling.

This was definitely used in too much soundtracks and used as background-music for felt 1 million documentaries. But it still works. F*cking beautiful!

For those who don't know, Nick Cave wrote the score for The Assassination of Jessie James. 
So beautiful - give Nick a chance guys you don't know what you are missing.

I hear what he's sayin' though—it DOES sound slower to me too. It may be because popular radio stations had (and still have) a tendency to 'pitch-up' singles to just up the tempo a little, you know, for the kids.

I wonder if the version I've always heard on the radio is the result of such chicanery?

 Stefen wrote:Except, uh, this song is about worldly love - actually the antithesis of spiritual transcendence. That's why it's a cold and it's a lonely hallelujah.

Yes, the song "Birthday" comes to mind.
 
But I keep hearing this as being a more up-tempo version of the "Twin Peaks" song. 

Being on the other side of the pond, you may not have heard that a few years ago Mr. Cohen came down from Mt. Baldy Zen Centre to find that his manager had cleaned him out quite thoroughly.  He may indeed still be digging himself out of that financial hole.

There's something very Thomas Newman-y about this one.  Feels very cinematic.

A cool Burn!! "Sig Heil!"...J/K...and proof I'm not German...although I love BMW's