Anyone give this a listen?? This album sounds great on a good audio system. What a great album has amazing renditions of Cohen's songs. Martha Wainghright's voice on Tower of Song sounds beautiful!!

I got my first Cohen album a few weeks ago. Called something like "various Positions". I am very impressed. I'll try to locate the one you recomend.....thanks

Didn't he play with Country Joe & The Fish at one time. GREAT stuff......

Didn't he play with Country Joe & The Fish at one time. GREAT stuff......


I think that is a different Cohen. This Cohen had Wrote and performed songs such as Suzane, (Takes you down to a place by the river), Like a Bird on a Wire, and Famous Blue Raincoat. As far as I know he always was a solo artist from Canada.

Saw the movie and just finished ordering the DVD. Am a newbie to his stuff, but was engaged by the movie.

Saw the movie and just finished ordering the DVD. Am a newbie to his stuff, but was engaged by the movie.
great movie,a must see for all Leonard Coehn fans,even if your not a must see because he has been such an influence on other artists as well as his material being covered by so many artists.

Long Leonard Cohen Interview on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5422403

The documentary "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man" is more tribute than documentary. Most of it being interviews or performances of other artists doing his songs. Disappointing if you're expecting to see a chronicle of his life.

Priceless close though, with his deadpan delivery of "Tower of Song" onstage with Bono and Edge in front of a pink/red sequined curtain…Just wish he would have done "Closing Time."

So were drinking and were dancing
And the band is really happening
And the johnny walker wisdom running high
And my very sweet companion
Shes the angel of compassion
And shes rubbing half the world against her thigh
Every drinker every dancer
Lifts a happy face to thank her
And the fiddler fiddles something so sublime
All the women tear their blouses off
The men they dance on the polka-dots
And its partner found and partner lost
And its hell to pay when the fiddler stops
Its closing time

Were lonely, were romantic
And the ciders laced with acid
And the holy spirits crying, wheres the beef?
And the moon is swimming naked
And the summer night is fragrant
With a mighty expectation of relief
So we struggle and we stagger
Down the snakes and up the ladder
To the tower where the blessed hours chime
And I swear it happened just like this
A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
The gates of love they budged an inch
I cant say much has happened since
But closing time

I loved you for your beauty
But that doesnt make a fool of me
You were in it for your beauty too
I loved you for your body
Theres a voice that sounds like God to me
Declaring that your bodys really you
I loved you when our love was blessed
And I love you now theres nothing left
But sorrow and a sense of overtime
And I miss you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
It something in betwen, I guess
Its closing time

Were drinking and were dancing
But theres nothing really happening
The place is dead as heaven on a saturday night
And my very close companion
Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
Shes a hundred but shes wearing
Something tight
I lift my glass to the awful truth
Which you cant reveal to the ears of youth
Except to say it isnt worth a dime
And the whole dam place goes crazy twice
And its once for the dvil and its once for christ
But the boss dont like these dizzy heights
Were busted in the blinding lights
Of closing time

I forget to pray for the angels

And then the angels forget to pray for us.



I gotta see that movie!

Take care,

Ed

Anyone give this a listen?? This album sounds great on a good audio system. What a great album has amazing renditions of Cohen's songs. Martha Wainghright's voice on Tower of Song sounds beautiful!!

It's a great tribute album. If you like Cohen try "Dear Heather" :yes:

-j

I loved you for your beauty
But that doesnt make a fool of me
You were in it for your beauty too

What a great line