R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, 82

[Hypoxia]

He wasn't easy.

I've been singing his songs since about 1966.

I'll sing a few more now.

Bye, guy.

 

[SamScribble]

He wasn't easy.

I've been singing his songs since about 1966.

I'll sing a few more now.

Bye, guy.

Yep. He stood the test of time.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Let it never be forgotten that he found a rhyme for "orange". ("Door hinge".)

I saw him in concert a few years back. Amazing night, superb performer.

 

[ChloeTzang]

He wasn't easy.

I've been singing his songs since about 1966.

I'll sing a few more now.

Bye, guy.

He's gone? That's tragic, he was one of the best.

Dance me to the end of Love - Leonard Cohen

Or if you prefer the man himself......

 

[ElectricBlue]

Forever in the Tower of Song

 

[Gwanji16]

Closing time

We will miss you, mr. Cohen.

 

[rawsilk]

Let it never be forgotten that he found a rhyme for "orange". ("Door hinge".)

Ahh yes those were the days, when poets took pride in their rhymes,
before it became unfashionable.


Some twenty years ago or so whilst dining with a lecturer, a young man of letters, we were told rhyming was passe and compromised what poets really wanted to say!





Vale - Leonard Cohen, a man and a poet, who never compromised what he wanted to say!



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[RideFl71]

One of my favorite movies and one of my favorite Leonard Cohen song on the soundtrack

https://youtu.be/mEQldSi-heE

http://i.imgur.com/itVvSsv.jpg

 

[Haulover]

I've always loved his music.

I learned his chords and finger picking patterns for each song, and actually performed a few of them on stage when I was young and foolish enough to think I had a prayer of being a full-time musician. (Unfortunately his songs didn't always go down well with the uninitiated, who wanted more lively stuff.)

His lyrics were excellent, and often a bit esoteric. It sometimes took a few re-reads to understand what he was saying. Whatever the subject, his music always sank deep into my soul.

RIP, Leonard - your work has been woven into the fabric of my life since I was a teenager.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Ahh yes those were the days, when poets took pride in their rhymes,
before it became unfashionable.

He didn't always rhyme: All There Is To Know About Adolf Eichmann.

 

[sbrooks103x]

A Real Treasure

I came to his music via Judy Collins, and his singing was more of an acquired taste for me, but there was no denying his writing, and I was won over to his singing as well.

Pure genius, and the world is a lesser place for his loss.

 

[Haulover]

Spinning "New Skin for the Old Ceremony" right now ... his best, IMO.

 

[Athalia]

There was a wonderful article on him just a couple of weeks ago in the New Yorker magazine. What a wise and sensitive man he was. I feel like I've just lost a brother, or a lover.

 

[FantasyXY]

Hallelujah

I think that about sums it up.

 

[HeyAll]

A true genius.

"Waiting for a Miracle" and "The Future" are some of my favorites of his classic songs.

A lot of his new songs are also really good.

"Everybody Knows" is also very underappreciated.

 

[Handley_Page]

Sorry, but I feel I should chuck in a note from the very underappreciative.
I always felt that his music was far too gloomy; it was described by a pal of mine "music to commit suicide by."

 

[Bramblethorn]

Sorry, but I feel I should chuck in a note from the very underappreciative.
I always felt that his music was far too gloomy; it was described by a pal of mine "music to commit suicide by."

He certainly did make a career out of melancholy, but now and then he'd turn that around into something uplifting. I think my favourite LC lyric is this one:

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
- That's how the light gets in.

I saw him about ten years ago and he was bouncing around the stage with a surprising amount of energy for a guy in his seventies who'd only come out of retirement because his manager stole his savings.

He had a sense of humour. It's reported that when he was making an album with Phil Spector (now doing 19-to-life for shooting an actress), Spector aimed a loaded and cocked gun at him and said "I love you, Leonard."

LC's reply: "I hope you do, Phil."