leonard cohen

[jacko50]

does anyone besides me like leonard cohen?

[Ward-Minter]

Love the guy with a passion. Every album plus the live ones. Not too keen on his poetry books or novels, but musically I find him fantastic.

Favourite CD is Songs of Love and Hate

Favourite single is I'm Your Man

[c00ky83]

My dad.  Don't know why.

[ermintrude35]

..I do too... since  was 17...I was a right miserable teenager... my fave album is "Songs from a Room" and my fave tracks are "Suzanne" and "Halellujah"...

[kags]

me.

[SeaJayPea]

and me

[brachiopod]

Me too.

[lindapinda]

 Leonard Cohen always reminds me of this bar we used to hang out in on a saturday afternoon,and they always played Suzanne.Moody,but evocative!!

[Ouisch]

I like him!  My favorite song of his is "Democracy."

[Johnmof]

Here's me thinking I was all alone. My wife and son forbid me to play Cohen in the house or car. Claim he's too depressing. I heard an interview on the radio a few years back with a female singer who had sung First We Take Manhattan. I think it was Jennifer Warnes. She was asked what the attraction was in Cohen's music and said that there had to be room in music for melancholy, which I though was a good way of putting it. Maybe those who like his music are more rounded than those who listen to the same stuff all the time. Or maybe we're just sad b......s. Don't ask my wife which category I fit into.

Favourite tracks Sisters of Mercy and Waiting For The Miracle.  

[andy hughes]

Melancholy - as opposed to depressing - as I said in my answer to this question on CB - it's an important distinction.

There is a local Sisters Of Mercy convent near where I live, and apparently the eldest nun, Sistrer Bernadette was mortally offended to see the band of the same name on Top Of The Pops. She was slightly molified when told that Andrew Eldritch had taken his band's name from the Leonard Cohen song of the same name, and then she went off on one at the thought of LC writing a song about nuns! Old people today ... 

[WeeAngie]

It has to be "closing time " for me

[Johnmof]

I'd forgotten about Closing Time. It's right up there but I wonder about the lyrics - "The women take their blouses off and the men they dance on the polka dots".

What kind of parties does he go to?

[snapdharlich]

It's maybe too easy to pick this song but Hallelujah is beautiful - but I have to admit it's been better when covered by other artists.

[Amelie]

I like one which lyrics says: first we'll take manhattan, then we'll take berlin

[Annie Blue]

How can anyone not like Leonard? Silly question really. I have loved the man for 30 odd years, his lyrics are second to none. The personal passion in every word he writes just makes my skin tingle. I also love to hear other singers interpretations of LC. My hubby listened to Tower of Song before I told him they were covers and he loved the whole album but always said he didn't like LC. Must be his voice that doesn't do it for the unconverted.

Faves are definitely 'Coming back to You', 'Famous Blue Raincoat', 'If it be your Will'....too many to pick.

Just enjoy him and be glad you are one of the elite who 'get it'. 

Now how about Tom Waits.........

[lissyl78]

Had a little boy in February and his middle name is Cohen as a tribute.

I heard these beautiful words he wrote which I just love: You go your way. I'll go your way too. x

[Bluemukka]

In my opinion he is one of the greatest ever songwriters. I got into him at the tender age of 8 when my dad bought his "Greatest Hits" - fantastic. My faves are So Long, Marianne, Chelsea Hotel, Bird on the Wire and Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley's version is the greatest). I'm 29 now and still love him, am I an exceptionally young fan or is he liked by all ages?

[karabulut]

Loved him for years....

Favourite songs...'Waiting for the miracle' and 'The Future'

'Give me crack and anal sex..take the only tree that's left,and stuff it up the hole in your culture'

Top stuff!!

[hodgey]

Difficult choice but i reckon "I'm Your Man" favourite single. Love to cover it if i had a band. And I'm a girl!

[edna]

Oh, I have been loving him since 1971 till today!!!!