Definetely me We listened to some of his songs in my english class cos my teacher is an huge fan of him ... And after I downloaded lots of his songs ... I feel a bit guilty since i learned that he's almost broke now I'm gonna buy one of his albums soon though ... My favorite songs would be First we take Manhatthan or Suzanne ...
Of couse Leonard Cohen. That sounds like a fun English class, Antoine. I never got to listen to such beautiful music in school. Favorite songs? "So Long, Marianne," "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," and of course "Hallelujah."
Farley Morris wasn't your english teacher i see Oh the joy of enriched english ... The regular classes keep making crappy orals and stuff (Keep in mind that i'm french and going to a french school )
How can Americans hate the French when they listen to Leonard Cohen in school? Well, I guess the less sophisticated always hate the more sophisticated.
i listened to one of his albums recently, and i really enjoy it. i'll most likely get into him down the road
Haha, It's my art teacher that got me into him I used to only like "There Aint No Cure For Love", but now I'm much more into him.
I love Leonard Cohen. From 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' - one of THE acoustic albums of the 60's through to his latest 'Dear Heather'.
leonard cohen is one of the best singer songwriters of all time havent got a favourite track cos all his stuff is brilliant
Yeah, I have his best of. Pretty ethereal sounding. In fact, he reminds me a LOT of solo Syd Barrett. Same sort of atmosphere.
My favourite song by Leonard Cohen would probably be "I tried to leave you". And one of my favourite songs is Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah. And if you really like Leonard Cohen you should read his book "Beautiful Losers"
After 40 years of enjoying Leonard Cohen(1966-2006), I wrote the following eulogy today--in appreciation and in praise. Best wishes Leonard as you head into the late evening of your life--and thanks for the musical trip! _____________________ COHEN’S SHISH KEBAB After finishing my writing and reading last night it was a little after 2 a.m. I went downstairs and turned on the TV to rest my eyes and brain before going to bed. I was surprised to see Leonard Cohen in an interview on one of the Australian TV stations.1 The interview inspired me that same afternoon to read about Cohen on the internet. The material here comes from several interview sites.2 “I feel tremendously relieved,” said Cohen in 2005 at the age of 70, “that I’m not worried about my happiness. There are things of course that make me happy…..But what I am so happy about is that the background of distress and discomfort I had had in my life has at last evaporated. It’s not that I don’t feel distressed or sad about things that I see and know and what happens to people around me. It’s not that the emotions don’t come, it’s just that the background is clear. Before…it was very dark. I could pierce the darkness. Before…..there was a kind of mist, a kind of distress over everything, but that has lifted at last. –Ron Price with thanks to 1Leonard Cohen, Interview with Leonard Cohen, August 2nd 2006, 2:00-3:00 A.M. TV; and “An Interview in 2005,” Kari Hesthamar, Los Angeles, 2005. You’ve been writing poetry as long as my life’s been associated with the permeation of that light, with that most wonderful and thrilling motion with the very inception of the Kingdom of God on earth when the manifest Standard began waving in the centre of the great continent where we were born and raised. It’s been a heavy trip for you, Leonard, and I’m so pleased your distress and discomfort has evaporated at last—me too, Leonard, me too: at last a lifting, an ease,a tranquillity never known, forgiveness and an early peach with all labour put away---well, not quite all, eh Leonard, eh?--- the heart still cooks, sizzling like, how did you put it—shish kebab? Ron Price August 2nd 2006
And finally, Leonard, a little piece that one of your sentences sent me off into poetry: ____________________________ KEEPING NOWS FOR THEN To apply to the source of mercy....I found that the art of writing was the proper form for my prayers. -Leonard Cohen, Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Ira B. Nadel, Bloomsbury Pub. Co Inc., London, 1991(?), p.237. Anything done in the spirit of service is prayer, but their special verses kindle one’s very soul with sweet melodies and, I am told, attract the hearts of all men, while the scattering angels of the Almighty scatter the fragrances of the words and cause the hearts of righteous men to throb. The virtue of the grace, in time, influences my own soul—such is the mystery of Revelation-- all sorts of revelation: poetic, literary, religious. Such is the nature of the mystic. Such is some of the context of prayer: enthralling Leonard, don’t you think? For their poems tie down an instant and relive it forever, separated from fixed time: somehow it keeps nows for then. My life seems partly in the hands of the poetry of so many of the world's revelators. Ron Price 31 January 1998 __________________ Thanks again, Leonard
I love Leonard Cohen. Every song is a masterpiece, beautiful... 'I'm Your Man' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat' are my favorites.
