Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (complete, German TV, February 17, 1988)

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  • Complete video from "Na-Siensie" show.

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  • @rhymeandreasoning
    @rhymeandreasoning 8 месяцев назад +8

    Those 2 back up singers with him are just models. They are miming to the actual vocalist of the song who is Anjani Thomas. She layered her vocals on the song.

    • @dongdongvu1
      @dongdongvu1 3 месяца назад

      yeah the female vocals do sound like 2 singers

    • @Karstenbiering
      @Karstenbiering 3 месяца назад

      I thought Anjani came into his life much later.

    • @eirinlvskog192
      @eirinlvskog192 Месяц назад +3

      The backup singer is Jennifer Warnes, she and Cohen were lifelong friends.. It sound like two because of multiple layers of voices on the recording.

  • @petergreen3122
    @petergreen3122 6 лет назад +51

    A genius! Fantastically arranged song with dark and complex lyrics...

    • @DidYaServe
      @DidYaServe 2 года назад

      Love his lyrics. I'd put him ahead of Dylan. Only Robert Hunter, who wrote for Dylan and The Grateful Dead, comes close.

    • @shithead
      @shithead 2 года назад

      you must be listening to a different song than i am lol

    • @peternorth1721
      @peternorth1721 Год назад +3

      The lyrics are not actually very complex. Theyre actually to the point.

    • @suatustel746
      @suatustel746 Год назад +1

      @@DidYaServe well originally he was... a poet...... ..

    • @aparisg9734
      @aparisg9734 8 месяцев назад +1

      Lyrics is about spiritual collapsus in the world

  • @IAmEverythang
    @IAmEverythang 10 лет назад +31

    This is a kick ass song, he sounds creepy and condescending plus the ladies on vocals are AMAZING. It all blends very well together

    • @idunaasgard1183
      @idunaasgard1183 7 лет назад +1

      He *IS* creepy!

    • @theunrealtimemm
      @theunrealtimemm 2 года назад

      more threatening than condescending.

    • @josetheman239
      @josetheman239 2 года назад +2

      This is lip sync

    • @chouchoue
      @chouchoue 2 года назад

      @@josetheman239 LOL I know. omg they sound just like on the record!

    • @tsb3093
      @tsb3093 Год назад +1

      @@chouchoue…😂that’s because they are miming to the recording…

  • @garymcswain6161
    @garymcswain6161 7 лет назад +17

    Absolute Perfection, sadly I only discovered him very late in life

  • @Codaks
    @Codaks 13 лет назад +14

    Two of my friends has always loved Leonard Cohen... Now I know why! He is awesome. The Lyrics the music and the voice like that... freaking awesome!

  • @powerinvolved-di3vl2yd6q
    @powerinvolved-di3vl2yd6q Год назад +3

    Cohen, the dark poet. Legend. Manhattan is already subdued. Tomorrow we seize Brooklyn!

  • @Samuel-sg2iv
    @Samuel-sg2iv 4 месяца назад +1

    Did anyone else see, he cried a little while singing. I wonder why, it was just a single tear though.

  • @danielaragao
    @danielaragao 3 года назад +6

    He cries in the scene 4:26 This video shows how Cohen was such a great actor

  • @Monkofmagnesia
    @Monkofmagnesia 6 лет назад +9

    This song always cheers me up. I have the feeling Cohen wrote the whole thing with tongue in cheek. This version has better sound than the Vevo one.

  • @robertharty6547
    @robertharty6547 8 лет назад +8

    great lyrics great singer

  • @TheTsapan
    @TheTsapan 5 лет назад +4

    Just look at him. The man doesnt even blink!

    • @Sacha_Kudli
      @Sacha_Kudli 4 года назад

      TheTsapan 😂

    • @S73tub
      @S73tub 7 месяцев назад

      Yes jaja 😱

  • @TheKonrad1984
    @TheKonrad1984 11 лет назад +6

    This is sooo cool song and the music is pure awesomnes right boys and girls :)

  • @petrusdecourtrai
    @petrusdecourtrai 8 лет назад +37

    Rest in peace, my friend.

    • @StefanReich
      @StefanReich 8 лет назад +2

      Who says they rest?

    • @petrusdecourtrai
      @petrusdecourtrai 8 лет назад +9

      if your body will have worked for 82 years, you'll know the meaning of the word rest, Stefan :-)

  • @zahraohosein1507
    @zahraohosein1507 7 лет назад +2

    what coud i say for mister cohen this big poet man I love you mister cohen and god bless you realy after your died we missed you and you left a very empty place
    il ya bcp a dir sur ce grand poéte ce grand chanteur ki a laissé un grand vide je l ai connu petite et je l ai tjrs aimé merci mister cohen pr tous vos poésies et chanssons ki ont et garderont tjrs leur valeur

  • @agusem1
    @agusem1 8 лет назад +7

    Viaja al infinito campeón. Descansa en paz. Jamás te olvidaremos. Todos los días te recordaré con tú música y poesía

  • @ArthurDelaclos
    @ArthurDelaclos Год назад +1

    I love the complicity of the singers and léonard cohen ❤

  • @SWISSCONDOR2
    @SWISSCONDOR2 10 лет назад +5

    JUST LOVE THISA SONG... AND L. COHEN

  • @bartolomewjaysimpson2047
    @bartolomewjaysimpson2047 8 лет назад +8

    PRECIOSAS VOCES.

  • @manuelacosta7838
    @manuelacosta7838 Год назад +1

    El coro que hacen estas dos chicas tienen unas voces impresionantes, hizo una gran elección Leonard Cohen 👍

  • @nivagnoswal
    @nivagnoswal 3 года назад +1

    one of my favorite cohen songs...the most uranian song he ever wrote...

  • @lawabidinganarchist
    @lawabidinganarchist 11 лет назад +5

    That's a better video than the vevo one lol

  • @evazquezuy
    @evazquezuy 10 лет назад +4

    megamáximo un meastro total!!!!!

  • @wleon4068
    @wleon4068 11 лет назад +4

    First we take Manhattan, THEN WE TAKE BERLIN!

  • @urbanfryk2878
    @urbanfryk2878 2 года назад +1

    Leonard Cohen! Just perfect! Need I say more? Cheers from Sweden folks! Happy new year - and take good care! A million thank's for upload Hermitage Prisoner! We are not alone - at all!!! God Bless!

  • @slider2417
    @slider2417 4 года назад +1

    Danke für Deine sehr wichtige Nachricht. Woher sie auch immer kommt. Sie hat mich tief berührt.

  • @SMSimas-yz4yo
    @SMSimas-yz4yo 8 лет назад +4

    a Great Folk singer...RIP

  • @abuhtolestaqui931
    @abuhtolestaqui931 11 лет назад +4

    Maestro!!

  • @ursulak.7289
    @ursulak.7289 Месяц назад

    Cohen kommt nie wieder. Er war einmalig in Gesang und Text...

  • @ruiportugal2763
    @ruiportugal2763 7 лет назад +2

    Saudades ! Meu amigo! Descansa em paz!

  • @eddiecochran
    @eddiecochran 3 года назад +2

    Si no he escuchado 1000 veces esta cancion...no la he escuchado nunca.

  • @franciscosanchez3491
    @franciscosanchez3491 3 года назад +2

    una de mis canciones favoritas...

  • @cosidosvarios9246
    @cosidosvarios9246 Год назад

    El cantante , que mejor supo cantar hablando. Genio,poeta, narrador etc.

  • @SoulStylistJukeBox
    @SoulStylistJukeBox 10 лет назад +13

    "I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons..."

    • @mongoose2182
      @mongoose2182 7 лет назад +1

      I guess you're being sarcastic, but remember, he lived in a tumultuous era also.....terrorism was HUGE back then, as well as it is now.

  • @RafaelSanchez-vg9ky
    @RafaelSanchez-vg9ky 7 лет назад +2

    cantante y poeta impresionante

  • @chrisgreene2405
    @chrisgreene2405 7 лет назад +2

    Brilliant lyrics

  • @davidcraze1211
    @davidcraze1211 2 года назад

    beautiful and uplifting

  • @toothlesscrocodile1355
    @toothlesscrocodile1355 8 лет назад +18

    He played this in 88, in 89 the Berlin wall came down. Then we took Berlin. No more walls anywhere.

    • @ALEXANDERDALEZ
      @ALEXANDERDALEZ 7 лет назад +6

      WRONG !!! CYPRUS!!!!

    • @mongoose2182
      @mongoose2182 7 лет назад +2

      AND soon between the U.S. and Mexico....glad Leonard never had to see this.

    • @johnsullivan186
      @johnsullivan186 6 лет назад +3

      Toothless Crocodile We need more walls.

    • @enneaogdoa
      @enneaogdoa 6 лет назад

      YOU DIDN'T GET IT, DID YOU?

    • @moondancer9066
      @moondancer9066 4 года назад

      @owen O'Neill What do you mean?

  • @alicetimu8048
    @alicetimu8048 3 года назад +1

    vety clever, and informative.

  • @SWISSCONDOR2
    @SWISSCONDOR2 10 лет назад +2

    FANTASTICO...

  • @JorgeLuiz-cd5df
    @JorgeLuiz-cd5df 3 года назад +1

    A genial Singer and fantástic showman!

  • @cohen1940
    @cohen1940 8 лет назад +2

    Mijn favoriet

  • @nnknkable
    @nnknkable Год назад

    Miss him

  • @erichsauter4671
    @erichsauter4671 8 лет назад +2

    Super

  • @FirstUsedBooks
    @FirstUsedBooks 7 лет назад +5

    Fucking amazing, despite how you or anyone would like.

  • @gordonm.7387
    @gordonm.7387 7 лет назад

    Great great song.

  • @benirvine2726
    @benirvine2726 Год назад

    This is great

  • @דוידגורכוהל
    @דוידגורכוהל Год назад

    בלי נשים בעולם לא היו יוצרים מוזיקה מעולה!! אין כמו אימא בעולם!!!!!!!!

    • @SithStudy
      @SithStudy 2 месяца назад

      Come clean about the conspiracies though, Leonard literally exposes your tribe in this song

    • @דוידגורכוהל
      @דוידגורכוהל 2 месяца назад

      @@SithStudyאין ! אין כמו אימא 💟בעולם!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @SithStudy
      @SithStudy 2 месяца назад

      @@דוידגורכוהל The Goy is aware !!

  • @Cimbarius
    @Cimbarius Год назад

    i think i watched this back then in 1987 when it was aired on TV

  • @Bogna1
    @Bogna1 11 лет назад

    Amazing!!!!!

  • @agentk2465
    @agentk2465 8 лет назад +4

    Quite eerie performance to say the least.
    - Cohen acts completely like a chairman of a secret weird lodge with the ladies as 'deputies'
    - Cohen shows '9/11' at 3:01 (the 11 with the arms and the 9 is on the watch)
    - They bring here the version with the 'announcement' (starting at 2:23)
    - The video even features a 'one-eye' (3:48)
    - and some other signalling (for example at the end the way Cohen folds the paper is reminding of a chairman after an important decision)
    Additionally, the Jennifer Warnes version 'predicted' the La Belle attack (German newsspeaker at the beginning) if the first release date January 1986 of this version is correct.

    • @JeroenK
      @JeroenK 8 лет назад

      After this week I see him as president Trump in this.

    • @dreamlandnightmare
      @dreamlandnightmare 7 лет назад +2

      It's too bad David Lynch never collaborated with Leonard Cohen.

    • @webcom100
      @webcom100 7 лет назад

      I had exactly the same thought now with the new TP season.Maybe it was a Little too late for Cohen.

    • @SophiahKoikasWindyQueen
      @SophiahKoikasWindyQueen 2 года назад

      @@dreamlandnightmare ikr!

    • @professormoosesr6865
      @professormoosesr6865 Год назад

      Thought we all knew Leonard Cohen did 9/11. Get past it. It's over now.

  • @jellyfishman5465
    @jellyfishman5465 Месяц назад

    playing this in germany is awesome lol

  • @JustieCrustie
    @JustieCrustie 2 года назад

    4.25 mark..anyone else notice the tear falling from his left eye..Wow!

  • @nahannisouthern8978
    @nahannisouthern8978 10 лет назад +2

    Oh Yeah! !!
    ; ).

  • @fiorellafenati5395
    @fiorellafenati5395 3 года назад +1

    fantastic song. and Leonard...so sexy

  • @lloydnns3918
    @lloydnns3918 8 лет назад +2

    RIP

  • @tbk2010
    @tbk2010 2 года назад

    Interesting that they subtitled these back then, I can't remember seeing that as a kid. The translation is a bit questionable in some places though. And why put "beauty" in quotation marks? It's like the transistor wanted to distance himself from the content lol.

  • @chicagofineart9546
    @chicagofineart9546 Год назад +3

    Too bad he didn't sing this in German. I know he could have. It would have been even creepier!

  • @juanmari1973
    @juanmari1973 2 года назад +1

    👏👏👏🎼🎼🎼👏👏👏

  • @ManuelGarrocho
    @ManuelGarrocho Год назад

    Música de mucha calidad e dicho

  • @jonathanchalk2507
    @jonathanchalk2507 7 лет назад

    Fab.

  • @DaveAlbiston
    @DaveAlbiston 10 лет назад

    glorious!! :-)

  • @dejayrezme8617
    @dejayrezme8617 7 лет назад +2

    Because of the disgusting Syria comment by Williams:
    They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
    For trying to change the system from within
    I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
    First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
    I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
    I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
    *I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons*
    First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
    Leonard Cohen in an interview in 1993:
    "I felt for sometime that the motivating energy, or the captivating energy, or the engrossing energy available to us today is the energy coming from the extremes. That’s why we have Malcolm X. And somehow it’s only these extremist positions that can compel our attention. And I find in my own mind that I have to resist these extremist positions when I find myself drifting into a mystical fascism in regards to myself."

  • @felixber2901
    @felixber2901 6 лет назад +3

    I love the redhead girl

    • @joedellamura9015
      @joedellamura9015 3 года назад

      I love the black girl mmmmm

    • @siggimaier6357
      @siggimaier6357 3 года назад

      Who was this redhead girl? It must be a grey-redhead granny now...

  • @enneaogdoa
    @enneaogdoa 6 лет назад

    THE GREAT LEONARD: FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN E THEN WE TAKE THEM ALL

  • @elministerial
    @elministerial 11 лет назад +1

    UNA MARAVILLA. Leonard es Leonard. Unico.

  • @Fbl116
    @Fbl116 Год назад

    Otrolig

  • @Ana_crusis
    @Ana_crusis 4 года назад +1

    very badly cut off at the end. needs re posting

  • @professormause
    @professormause 4 года назад

    Why....was there no 'Club Edit' of this......?

  • @josetheman239
    @josetheman239 2 года назад +1

    The black chick is so pretty I cant keep my eyes off her.

  • @joe98102
    @joe98102 8 лет назад +4

    Who are the women singers with Leonard in this video ?

  • @tamaragurzuff6798
    @tamaragurzuff6798 Год назад

    прекрасне виконання! і кліп цікавий, незвична делікатна постановка)

  • @joesummer
    @joesummer 6 месяцев назад +1

    Comrade cohens orders

  • @alicetimu8048
    @alicetimu8048 3 года назад

    wery sarcastic and nice.

  • @ovieimoni5832
    @ovieimoni5832 8 лет назад +28

    I'd love to see Putin perform this

    • @duewhit310
      @duewhit310 5 лет назад +2

      Ovie Imoni it'd make a great SNL skit.

  • @timbrico
    @timbrico 10 лет назад

    Una muy buena cancion, por cierto la pelirroja, es Perla Batalla??

  • @naskhes
    @naskhes 11 лет назад +2

    At 3:42 he places a handkerchief on his eye, so he can fake a tear at 4:27!

  • @markuse9018
    @markuse9018 4 года назад +2

    i see adam sandler

  • @annaliaboero4580
    @annaliaboero4580 Год назад

    U na voce che graffia

  • @Doctorlivesly55
    @Doctorlivesly55 11 месяцев назад

    2:00 :)😊

    • @Doctorlivesly55
      @Doctorlivesly55 11 месяцев назад

      How I end inuyasha and kangomes story I will put a night of love making with the song witch is this

  • @eddiecochran
    @eddiecochran 3 года назад

    Cancion prohibida despues del atentado del 11 S. Toda una premonición.

  • @Thekamelspath
    @Thekamelspath 2 года назад +1

    This is obviously a song about the nwo right? Obviously.

    • @christlneubauer7298
      @christlneubauer7298 Год назад

      Wer sind deine "NEUEN" .. meine NEUEN heißen "WHITE HATS" 🕊

  • @oreopagus2476
    @oreopagus2476 5 лет назад +1

    I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
    First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin
    Trump: "Representing the Air Force you will soon see beautiful brand new F-22 Raptors from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia,
    and one magnificent B-2 Stealth bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.” (July 4, 7:05 pm ET)

  • @MichGins
    @MichGins 11 месяцев назад

    Hands up if you're watching this in 2023 and you finally discovered (like me) what you're ACTUALLY looking at...

    • @coolvids841
      @coolvids841 8 месяцев назад

      what do you mean?

    • @MichGins
      @MichGins 8 месяцев назад

      @@coolvids841 can't you see the symbolism?

    • @coolvids841
      @coolvids841 8 месяцев назад

      @@MichGins no

  • @ЯнМыльный
    @ЯнМыльный 10 лет назад +3

    Он даже слезу пустил, когда пел про скрипку =3

  • @LolliPop2000
    @LolliPop2000 2 года назад

    Zerlensky is epic!

  • @reginakniprode246
    @reginakniprode246 4 года назад

    you never got Berlin

  • @DidYaServe
    @DidYaServe 2 года назад

    Lenny 4 prez

  • @peterroman4874
    @peterroman4874 10 лет назад +1

    Great song--,average to poor translation,Really authentic crummy 1980,s video style....I hated everything about the 80,s as far as fashion, hairstyles and most of popular music at the time is concerned....so there!! hate me if you want to..lol

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis 9 лет назад +3

      Peter Roman you clearly don't understand the imagery of the song. The whole bimbo image is part of the fun.

    • @mattheweichenlaub78
      @mattheweichenlaub78 9 лет назад

      +Peter Roman I even hate the thought of the 80's. I still hate the fucking 80's - let me tell you how I really feel: I hate the fucking 80's!!!

    • @peterroman4874
      @peterroman4874 9 лет назад

      +kha sab Learn to read properly."authentic" was the word I used.If you were a real fan of Cohen you would know what he said about that time and this video in particular.

  • @KIVALTERI
    @KIVALTERI 8 лет назад +2

    No one recognizes these women?

    • @MarkMark-zw6tk
      @MarkMark-zw6tk 3 года назад

      Nobody know them.... unfortunately....

    • @eddiecochran
      @eddiecochran 3 года назад +2

      Zeta Aurigae...creo que una es China Forbes, la otra no se quien es. Creo que es Perla Batalla.

  • @Bogna1
    @Bogna1 11 лет назад

    I am just different than you baby...I am an introvert...aquarius....I am one of them...and it's an issue...

  • @Perom6696
    @Perom6696 7 лет назад +1

    What a lost :(

  • @eddiepoole
    @eddiepoole 3 года назад

    i like your body, your spirit and your klöten.

  • @joelturner6260
    @joelturner6260 8 лет назад +6

    hiliary loves donald as a loser but now she's worried he just might win ... she knew the ways to stop him but she never had the discipline lol ... r.i.p Mr Cohen you'll be greatly missed xx

    • @FirstUsedBooks
      @FirstUsedBooks 7 лет назад +1

      Please stop poetizing.

    • @agentk2465
      @agentk2465 7 лет назад +1

      It is really funny that many people REALLY seem to think that Trump is not 'establishment'. And the many people who don't like Trump find a lot to be criticized about him and his behaviour, but really nobody with a clear mind can call him a 'loser'!

    • @skullguy8504
      @skullguy8504 6 лет назад

      Agent K 2 LOL right? Trump is pro FISA, Goldman Sachs, and Saudi Arabia.

    • @shithead
      @shithead 2 года назад

      ha

  • @Plejaden1971
    @Plejaden1971 7 лет назад +2

    Mein Beileid Berlin und fuck you illuminati ----

  • @optimistx4187
    @optimistx4187 Месяц назад

    Bad taste!

  • @idunaasgard1183
    @idunaasgard1183 7 лет назад +1

    This sounds like what the terrorists bombing Europe would be listening to in their trucks.

  • @Chooseaname74
    @Chooseaname74 10 лет назад +3

    First we take Crimea!! Then we take Trans-Dniester!! GO PUTIN!!

  • @samanshafiezadeh7155
    @samanshafiezadeh7155 8 лет назад +1

    Such a ridiculous version, Joe cocker did a fantastic job singing this song. RIP DEAR JOE

    • @PeterLoweSMI
      @PeterLoweSMI 8 лет назад +12

      u MUST be kidding , right ?

    • @shithead
      @shithead 2 года назад

      @@PeterLoweSMI this shit sucks