"Take this longing from my tongue" ,with his songs of love and unspeakable yearning,Leonard Cohen occupies my heart. He was born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.He is a poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter.He has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and he is a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
I'm your man
I don't like clips but I failed to find other good versions of this song
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насчет исполнителей не знаю, у меня по стилям.. Оч лю psychеlic trаncе, это красивая музыка с быстрым ритмичным тактом. А из рус исп люблю Михея, Дельфина. Ну и конечно депеши форева!
For four decades, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose works achieve greater depths of mystery and meaning as time goes on. His songs have set a virtually unmatched standard in their seriousness and range. Sex, spirituality, religion, power – he has examined the largest issues in human lives. These questions are the reasons why his songs never lose their overwhelming emotional force.
His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), announced him as an undeniable major talent. It includes such songs as “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “So Long, Marianne” and “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Good Bye,” all now longstanding classics. If Cohen had never recorded another album, his reputation would have been assured by this one alone.
However, the two extraordinary albums that followed, Songs From a Room (1969), which includes his classic song, “Bird on the Wire,” and Songs of Love and Hate (1971), provided whatever proof anyone may have required that that the greatness of his debut was not a fluke. (All three albums are reissued in April, 2007.)
Part of the reason why Cohen’s early work revealed such a high degree of achievement is that he was an accomplished literary figure before he ever began to record. His collections of poetry, including Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) and Flowers for Hitler (1964), and his novels, including Beautiful Losers (1966), had already brought him considerable recognition in his native Canada. His dual careers in music and literature have continued feeding each other over the decades – his songs revealing a literary quality rare in the world of popular music, and his poetry and prose informed by a rich musicality
At the Eighties Cohen’s star began to rise once again. The listeners that had grown up with him had reached an age at which they wanted to re-examine the music of their past, and a new generation of artists and fans discovered him, attracted by the dignity, ambition and sheer quality of his songs.
Cohen released two consecutive albums, I’m Your Man (1988) and The Future (1992), that not only rank among the finest of his career, but that perfectly capture the texture of particularly complicated times. Cohen had long documented the high rate of casualties in the love wars, so the profound anxieties generated by the AIDS crisis were no news to him. Songs like “Ain’t No Cure for Love,” the wryly titled “I’m Your Man” and, most explicitly, “Everybody Knows” (“Everybody knows that the Plague is coming/Everybody knows that it’s moving fast/Everybody knows that the naked man and woman – just a shining artifact of the past”) depict Cohen surveying the contemporary erotic battleground and reporting on it with characteristic perspective, insight and wisdom.
In the title track of The Future, Cohen ironically describes himself as “the little Jew who wrote the Bible,” and his immersion in Jewish culture, obsession with Christian imagery, and deep commitment to Buddhist detachment rendered him an ideal commentator on new millennium and the apocalyptic fears it generated. Along with the album’s title track, “Waiting for the Miracle,” “Closing Time,” “Anthem” and “Democracy” limned a cultural landscape rippling with dread, but yearning for hope. “There is a crack in everything,” Cohen sings in “Anthem,” “That’s how the light gets in.” Our human imperfections, he seems to be saying, are finally what will bring us whatever transcendence we can attain.
Since that time, Cohen has released Ten New Songs (2001) and Dear Heather (2004), as well as Blue Alert (2006), a collaboration on which Cohen produced and co-wrote songs with his former background singer Anjani Thomas, who provides the vocals.
All three albums have only solidified his place in the pantheon of contemporary songwriters. At 72, Cohen continues to produce compelling work, while enjoying the honors that deservedly come to artists who have achieved his legendary status. Documentaries, awards, tribute albums and the ongoing march of artists eager to record his songs all acknowledge the peerless contribution Cohen has made to what one of his titles aptly calls “The Tower of Song.”
Hallelujah
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1041 days ago 4 Nov 2007 01:40
а я просто обожаю Стинга, а когда попала на концерт Police в Стокгольме, послушала и посмотрела вживую, то влюбилсь в него по-настоящему, теперь на собственном примере знаю как нелегко любить только своего мужа.. и даже в мыслях оставаться ему верной... ОЧЕНь НЕЛЕГКО
And when I am listening to Cohen's lyrics ,I always think of my love.
The Traitor
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1041 days ago 4 Nov 2007 03:05
Bella
You are on your own at the moment and I previously picked up on your love of Leonard Cohen .
Thanks for the uploads or whatever the correct phrase is .
Like you , I could probably produce an enormous list of singers , acroos a number of musical styles .
But the person who got under my skin more than anyone else is Bebel Gilberto whom I have mentioned before but nobody seemed interested -- or ignored .
Frank Sinatra , Ella , Billy Holiday , and endless Pop names .
But for some reason this woman has gripped me very deep . Perhaps she needs listening to a few times before the "penny drops" . A bit like a good wine .
May be you will look her out some time . Only 3 CD's available in the UK , 2002 , 2005 and this year , from memory .
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1041 days ago 4 Nov 2007 03:22
Я вообще-то,как и Дьяволенок,психоделик обожаю.
Но ктому же очень люблю немецкий хит-хоп.Ксавье Найду мой любимец.Попытаюсь вставить клип.
Дома слушаю только lounge musik chill out:Buddha bar,например. http://www.youtube.com/player2.swf
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trixxxi Luxembourg 2051 days with MM 3517 posts in Forum
Bebel Gilberto (born Isabel Gilberto on May 12, 1966 in New York City) is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque. Bebel has been performing since her youth in Rio de Janeiro
Ramon, I should admit she is very sexy, her voice is soft, a tune is gentle. It's nice to listen to her sipping a good red wine, very nice, but not more. IMHO
Annie Lennox (born Ann Lennox on 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician, vocalist, and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, called "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999. Both as a solo artist and with Eurythmics, Lennox has sold approximately 80 million records.
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IamElvis USA-Tennessee 1547 days with MM 9092 posts in Forum
And this is my all time favorvite Slow song to sing along with..It is the band ''KANSAS'' and the singer is Steve Walsh singing the worldly beautiful song about all of our lives on this earth
all we are is ''DUST IN THE WIND''
Enjoy this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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IamElvis USA-Tennessee 1547 days with MM 9092 posts in Forum
Ok that did not work--This one wil!!! ''DUST IN THE WIND''
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enjoyourself France 1625 days with MM 1830 posts in Forum
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1041 days ago 4 Nov 2007 07:10
trixxxi:
Я вообще-то,как и Дьяволенок,психоделик обожаю.
Но ктому же очень люблю немецкий хит-хоп.Ксавье Найду мой любимец.Попытаюсь вставить клип.
Дома слушаю только lounge musik chill out:Buddha bar,например. http://www.youtube.com/player2.swf
trixxi,
Don't know if you think about the same style like this one enclosed, but i like to hear mix from Buddha Bar -- relax! :))
Particularly like this voice -- that's what i'm listening now
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1041 days ago 4 Nov 2007 07:22
General Fatty
How much do you weigh ?
When you fly , do you buy one or two seats?
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1041 days ago 4 Nov 2007 08:17
Bella ,
I threw in Bebel low key many moons ago to see whether anyone knew and liked her .
We all have our unique resonance frequencies and she is on mine .Or I am on hers .
I mentioned Annie recently because after a long silence she has brought out a Masterpiece double CD called Sounds of Destruction , which is greater than even Medusa , her last offering .
As far as our ladies go , I feel Amy Winehouse is the greatest talent we have found over here in my lifetime and if she can handle the drugs and alcohol , she will be up there with Billie Holliday .
The other great voice is from Joss Stone who sounds like a young Aretha Franklin at times , save she is White .
Beverley Knight has been around a few years and is a wonderful song writer and superb singer though not quite in the league of all the others I have mentioned .
We have hundreds of girl groups and girl solo singers but they all come from one of two identical moulds and are of no long term consequence .
You might enjoy sampling some of them .
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