Leonard Cohen: Sisters of Mercy- Live - : YOU WILL BE TRANSFIXED: Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Cohen Week: Day 6
So we come to the last video of this week but what a track. We have loved this week and loved the chance to sit and really listen to an absolute master.
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May thanks to Alex and George for presenting this with such flair, and to all of those who came to watch, listen and enjoy this great artist. I enjoyed the week more than I can say, it was fun to put together.
Thank you Brian. It has been a great week. I(George) have learned so much and enjoyed every second. Really appreciate all the work an time you put in to make this week happen
@@TheThamesmen you know, music that grabs you from the first is struck and you still think about it a minute later. That is the song to put onto the appropriate play list. All other songs just function as wallpaper. And yeah, too many play lists is my main problem. Oh well.
Thank you! 🌹
@@Paul_C we have too many playlist? You maybe right! Too many videos? Something for everyone!
@@TheThamesmen me personally, I actually have too many. For one particular mood I have 4 lists. Multiply that with as many moods you can think of and you start to see the problem. Multiply that again for each decade I'm alive... too many playlists, just too many
Thank you, Brian, for your time and effort in putting this together. It was a great gift to all of us.
“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.”
― Leonard Cohen
At least this was one night he didn't spend alone.
🇨🇦🙏 We miss you Leonard. I still walk by your house when I visit Montreal. And found the cafe you frequented, and found lots of pics of you on the walls. Felt honoured just to be there.
Wow. How lovely. Thanks for sharing
In Montréal, a 10,000 square-foot mural rises 21 storeys above the city, clearly visible from the top of Mount Royal. It depicts Cohen in his trademark fedora. Cohen always considered Montréal his true home, though he travelled widely. The citizens of that city felt about him just as he felt about them. He's as Montréal as the bagels at St. Viateur. If you are going through his music, you must end with his final masterpiece, the song "You Want It Darker?", released three weeks before his death.
That song was astounding and so appropriate. He really lived a full life. Amazing talent
Watch Leonard Cohen Live in London . It is a revelation. His voice is perfect . He is funny and compassionate. It is a perfect performance.
I agree 100%..that same year I saw him live in a small concert hall in St'John's, NL.................thought I was in heaven !
my favourite cohen song...
Thank u for paying tribute to this amazing poet and singer 🙏
Great week of music
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Great movie with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. This was part of the soundtrack. It fits the narrative perfectly
Ooh would like to see that
“It’s the frailty which makes it so attractive”. That’s a great insight, Alex…..I never stopped to think about it with Cohen. Other singers perhaps, like Aurora, but not Cohen. And it’s very true.
Thanks!!! I hope you’re well. Cheers Alex
Now I know the back story it all makes sense. I can finally get the picture of two nuns out of my head. Can I recommend Tower of song, live in London. Love, Loss and Humour. And , yes Leonard Cohen is an immersive experience.
Ha ha
The back story. Cohen had been pushed out in front of this about to riot massive crowd and this song actually quietened them down proving once again the power of a single song.
That was in Britain somewhere.
A classic amidst the classic songs of Cohen, thanks again for this beautiful week
Thanks for the support
Thank you so much for your Cohen week! Listen to his "Tower of song" (live in London) and you will know what kind of guy he was, a witty and thoughtful guy.
I love your Aussie weeks, but Cohen has been a breath of fresh air!
Not everyone cup of tea but their loss if they don’t watch!
I loved the whole week with Leonard Cohen! I have been a huge Joan Baez fan for many years. I would love to see a curated week showing how her music and songwriting developed from covering folk songs in a Cambridge Massachusetts bar, to her stormy romance and collaboration with Bob Dylan, to becoming a controversial international star.
Get to it Betsy. Email us.
Such a pity the Cohen week is over. Great songs and you both really managed to keep quiet during the music ;-)
We are here to listen to music. Not talk over it! Thanks for support
Even I didn't know that back up story. I learned to know this song via vinyl, but it also appered on a movie McCabe & Mrs Miller by Robert Altman, where Cohen had composed the music.
I discovered this song from watching the movie in the 70's
Lol, I saw the title and thought it was a collab with Sisters of Mercy and this'll be a dark but interesting merging of styles..
Then I clicked play.
Ha ha :)
Another great choice. It's been a great week guys, lots of memories.
Thank you and your curator.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks Nick and thanks Brian for the curation.
I discovered Leonard Cohen from backtracking from the band Sisters of Mercy in the early 1990s and love both.
That is great. Interesting path!
G'Day Guys thanks for your content and background information on the songs. There are so many more Cohen to visit including a favourite Dance me to the end love.
On 30/7/2022 Singer/Songwriter Archie Roach died, can you react to his song Took The Children Away ? I
It is a very emotional song that tells of his life experience as part of the stolen generation, where as a child he was removed from his Aboriginal family and placed in foster care. This was the Government policy of the time that removed the children and placed them in mission camps, orphanages of in foster care.
Thanks for recommendation. Sounds a tough story for sure
Late to the party, but if you search "Remembering Leonard Cohen, and Edmonton's Sisters of Mercy" you will get a link the CBC story from 2016.
Compelling. Really compelling.
Great choice!
Thanks for this week, Brian!
Cheers Sean !
You want it Darker, Tower of Song, First we take Manhattan are just a few that we couldn't fit in because Cohen just has so much amazing material. Maybe some other time in the future they could be done as one-offs.
I think that sounds a great idea as I want to hear more
This song and other Cohen songs were used by Robert Altman in his great Western revisionist movie , McCabe &Mrs Miller!
Oh interesting. Thanks
Beautiful.
Truly was
Tremendous.
Musicians beware! If Alex gets keen on your material, take out some life insurance!!
😂😂
your lenny crowin stuff is awesome and if simon peg and nick frost were ever in a time machine ...lookin at you
Would be great if you could get to some of Leonard's more recent work. Please. check out:
Anthem
Tower of Song
Nevermind
Closing Time
A Thousand Kisses Deep
My Secret Life
You Want It Darker
Everybody Knows
I know you want it Darker. Sublime song
cheers bi
Great week of Cohen. loved the focus on the early period for the whole week. You could break his catalog into 4 periods-I’ll list what I think they’d look like below and add a 5th which would be his live recordings/videos.
I know he’s often mistaken for ‘doom and gloom depressing’ but I think many miss his dry (Canadian) humour with permeates his songs. He actually was a stand-up comic poet in his early days as is evidenced in the opening monologue in this documentary, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen’ - A National Film Board of Canada production. This was filmed during the time he was living in Greece with Marianne on a visit to his hometown of Montreal. ruclips.net/video/Uv4J7sID3Pk/видео.html - brilliant film. another good Cohen film, shot in Toronto is 'I Am a Hotel - Leonard Cohen - 1983' ruclips.net/video/PEzUK6zN074/видео.html
I think Cohen had four distinct periods to his music career and his first is sort of a poet/singer/songwriter in the 1950s and ’60s, and he has incredible literary credentials
1st period:
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Songs from a Room (1969)
Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
2nd period: This was my first live intro to seeing Leonard during the ‘New Skin’ tour -brilliant.
New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974)
Death of a Ladies' Man (1977)
Recent Songs (1979)
Various Positions (1984)
The 3rd period he becomes sort of a pop-star and he has a huge resurgence in the late ’80s and early ’90s.”
I'm Your Man (1988)
The Future (1992)
- you could call the next 2 albums 3b - Ten New Songs (2001)
Dear Heather (2004)
The 4th period I find fascinating as he focuses on the later part of ones life
Old Ideas (2012)
Popular Problems (2014)
You Want It Darker (2016)
Thanks for the Dance (2019)
5th period - Live:
His live albums included Live Songs (1973), Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert (1994), Live in London (2009), Songs from the Road (2010), from his 2008-2009 world tour, and Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009).
Anyway I’ve rambled on. Perfect Cohen week gentlemen-well done and I look forward to many more weeks!
Brilliant
Big words from Rick, high praise
We can sit back and debate who we feel can best cover a specific Cohen song but it is and always will be lacking when compared to the writer. There is no one but the writer has experience the emotions of writing songs poetry etc at his level.
@@rickfairman5640 tend to agree
Uncomfortable overtones, but I will let them pass.
Strong, compassionate lyrics. Powerful delivery. What else can I say, Leonard Cohen is his own genre.
Thanks Alex (I think it's your turn to be named first) and George for bringing this week to us. I now have a deeper understanding of Leonard Cohen. It was a truly awesome set of tracks.
Thankyou to Brian for putting this together. Cohen would never have attracted me to a concert because I am more a hard rock, heavy metal type of guy. Cohen was on my periphery, I knew him, but I would say he was not on my radar. So Brian, thankyou for rectifying that problem. I loved it.
As usual George and Alex, this week was really well thought out by your contributor (Brian) and you have done his selections justice. I am looking forward to what is next.
Thanks for all the great comments and support this week. Cheers !
Many thanks Len for the very kind words. Cheers Alex.
I recommend you watch Leonard Cohen Live in London. A supreme band , Leonard Cohen whose voice gets so much better as he ages . A poet first . But funny , witty and a man of huge intelligence and compassion.
@@leonhalliday1429 Thanks for the tip, Leon, I will definitely have to check that performance out
Musicians that had been influenced by Leonard seem to be all 'dark': for example Aurora (has some intense songs although I don't enjoy verything of hers, but I do give her a lot of credit when I like it -recommend Through the eyes of a Child live in a big cathedral, one of the best things I've seen lately), and Nick Cave, which the first song of the fist album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (his second band) is a cover, or better a version, of Avalanche, probebly the darkest song of Leonard Cohen. It makes sense, in a sense.
I read a complaint online last year about how Tom Hardy (actor) on purpose speaks more softly than he has to in order to get the audience to "lean in" and listen a little harder when he talks.
I am wondering how long that has been around and if Cohen was not aware of it as well.
Oh good point
Wonder if the two hitcher-girls knew they were in the presence of genius! And where they are now?
I wonder how they tell the story
I dont know much about Leonard Cohen ' I'm more familiar with Brian Cohen.
What about Suzie Cohen ?
Iv'e known three Suzies ' two of them were killed crossing the road' and the other one died at the age of thirteen' which wasn't a bad innings.
Hi sometime could you please react to Bob Dylan's song 'Murder Most Foul' from 2020, thanks!!!!
It sounds like you're a musician killer Alex, no more introducing you to bands I like!