Leonard Cohen was an amazing poet. His songs are all very deep and beautiful. He always had a dark deep voice, but with age it became even raspier. My favorite song from him would be "Everybody knows" but there are so many. "Hallelujah" is probably the most famous and most covered of his many many writings, but if you really want something deep and profound, try "you want it darker"
Such a gorgeous, haunting song. It’s both romantic and tragic. Structured as a love song, but it’s inspired by the Holocaust. The burning violins refers to the quartets that were forced to play while others were being taken into the chambers, knowing that their time was coming. Leonard Cohen as a brilliant writer.
I absolutely love Leonard Cohen and I love this song. The music is even dancing and his delivery just puts it over the top. Thank you for reaction to this wonderful song.
I hope you do more Leonard Cohen. He is one of my top favorite writers/songwriters/vocalists of all time. You should hear his studio tracks, you can really feel, not just hear, his baritone/gravely vocals. Here are more songs of his to check out. And I hope you do. - Hallelujah - Everybody Knows - A Thousand Kisses Deep - I'm Your Man - Waiting For The Miracle - Anthem - Come Healing
I've attended many concerts in my life and seeing Leonard Cohen live was one of the best. When he played this magical song a fan in a long billowing dress glided across the floor twirling to the music.
Great reaction! He's right beside Bob Dylan on both my lists of favorite singer-songwriters and favorite poets. He has many other songs you might like, Halleluja or Suzanne among many others.
@@loucilehall7560 That's your opinion. Mine is that they are equally great and both leave a wonderful body of poetic and musical works. I love Leonard too, and I have ever since I picked up a reprint of his first book of poetry in a Harvard Square bookstore in 1964 and had to buy it after reading two of the poems. I also bought his first novel, "The Favorite Game" in the same year. I was surprised a couple of years later when I bought a Judy Collins album and noticed he was the writer of my favorite song on the album, "Suzanne". The following year, 1967, was when he came out with his first album and I got to hear his beautiful original version of the song. Still among my most prized relics of the past are my original copies of his first five record albums and my original copy of his 1968 book of "Selected Poems 1956 - 1968". Unfortunately the other books I had by him have been lost over the last 55 years, probably loaned out and never returned.
Love your reactions !! I followed Leonard Cohen from "day one" in the mid- 1960's. He was a Jewish Canadian who lived in Greenwich Village in New York. when Bob Dylan was just starting. Many of his songs were written and sung, about the Chelsea Hotel. When I met my current wife in 1980 she was going thru my albums and asked me.. "Who is Leonard Cohen ?" I told her about him and started playing his albums chronologically, and she Immediately fell in love with him and his music. Give a listen to one of his last albums "I'm your man" from which this song was taken from. Great Album !! Luv you... Keep it up .
The music video for this song is beautiful as well it intermixes video of a young couple in the first bloom of love with real elderly couples standing and dancing in front of their wedding pictures.
Well now, we're getting into the serious classics now! Thank you for this one 😁 Since you understand and enjoy the "grave!ly voice" singers like Joe Cocker and Leonard Cohen, I've got another one from the early days for you..... You might like Tom Waits, "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You" or "Martha". Fair warning, Kleenex alert!!! 🤓😁😇🌹
Had to dig for it: your comment about how the voice hit you reminded me... dig, dig, dig FOUND IT (next day)- when LC performed in NYC in Feb 2009, a review of the concert by Lavinia Jones Wright in Billboard (link lost): a voice as hot and raspy as a flaming shot of whiskey. Thought you might enjoy.
The point being there Is know end to Love ~ The Dance never ends, timing In a world of disambiguate always finds rhythm Is a dancer...Lovetrain bogie far Coexist car ~ Abstract Concept lost and found...Now Shiva dancing Aldous Huxley approach, Brave New World ~ Of Love and Peace ~~~~~~~
This one is totally in another category! I can just picture Lily James dancing the waltz to this tune! Lily was in the popular UK series Downton Abbey! It's similar to Upstairs Downstairs! Cheerio!
Mad props to Robert for the Patreon Request, and thanks to you for your reaction, Angela! Any time one of your patreons suggests a Leonard Cohen song don't hesitate to jump on it!! The man is a legendary songwriter and a great performer!!
you should listen to some of his earlier songs. "so long Marrianne" and "bird on a wire" for instance> he was a poet who put his poems to music. wonderful Enjoy
You should react to the song from 1975 called Rocky by Austin Roberts. Or at least given it a listen to. I know what I’m saying. It’s an emotional good song. I’m sure you will appreciate it. It’s worth your time. Take care
You will love the violons too In this song The Zac Brown Band Live from Austin City Limits Song is 🎵 FREE/INTO THE MYSTIC 🎵 🎶 KEEP THE GOOD WORK SUNSHINE 🌞
This song's music sounds very Hebrew; like music I used to hear in synagogue. I love it. It's beautiful. Thank you for reacting to this. He's just - - unique. Yeah; that grovelly voice; he's a legend. All the best to you. -jk
It is. The song is about the holocaust. It was inspired by a documentary about the musicians kept from the gas chambers to.entertain the Germans at dances and dinners, and even to play outside the gas chambers to.cover up the screams.
Nice. Thanks for your reaction to this Leonard Cohen classic. Other Leonard Cohen songs to check out: Anthem; Bird On A Wire; The Future; You Want It Darker; and of course -Hallelujah. Also check out some Bob Dylan--Ring Them Bells; Dignity; Blind Willie McTell; Lord Protect My Child; Goodbye Jimmy Reed; and the list goes on and on. Thank you again. I enjoy your channel.
@@distanceismyplastercast I know but it's like saying Picasso's Guernica is only about an attack on a village. Can it mean something else to a person who sees it? Or hears it? Or do we all have to be literalists?
If you want another amazing Leonard Cohen song, but covered (with his blessing) by Jennifer Warnes (off The Famous Blue Raincoat album: audio first), you should listen to Joan Of Arc, and another great is First We Take Manhattan, who has SRV as lead guitar.
The dark edge of this song is not obvious. It is about the holocaust. Prisoners would play music while the others were taken to gas chambers. Some couples would have one last dance as they were led to their deaths.
Two things. First, if you like the poetry, check out Jaques Brel, a Belgian songwriter who wrote social commentary songs. He was an influence on Leonard. Leonard surpassed Brel by magnitudes of talent. Second, there is a hot hot hot video of a couple dancing the tango to Leonard singing "Dance Me To The End Of Love." I'll try to put the link in here: ruclips.net/video/fJ1P3LjkE28/видео.html
"Dance me to the End of Love" is " a song with a chilling scenario inspired by Nazi concentration camps. It is optimistic in its assertion of the joy of the will to survive in the struggle against evil,Germans made Jews play their wedding ceremonies to them in camps. they had to pick a bride and a groom, and sing and dance for them. the scene of a young couple dancing right before being burned to ashes was hard to shake
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The most amazing lyricist I've ever heard. I hope you listen to this again. Closely. It's not a love song. It's about the prisoners in the nation concentration camps being led to their death. They played music while they were walked into the gas chambers. Burning violin. It's brilliantly written and one can be excused for thinking it a love song. Until you listen closely.
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I played this at my wifes funeral. It was a perfect summation of my love.
Im sorry for your loss my friend ❤
@@dfd659 Thanks I miss her every day.
@@brockmiles1606 Cant even imagine the pain, take care man.
Sorry for your loss
I happy for you that you had the time together.
Leonard Cohen was an amazing poet. His songs are all very deep and beautiful. He always had a dark deep voice, but with age it became even raspier. My favorite song from him would be "Everybody knows" but there are so many. "Hallelujah" is probably the most famous and most covered of his many many writings, but if you really want something deep and profound, try "you want it darker"
Darker is such a great song.
@@Wilkidw Darker is such a song... it's the culmination of a poet at the end of his journey.
Agree 'Everybody Knows' is so timeless
Such a gorgeous, haunting song. It’s both romantic and tragic. Structured as a love song, but it’s inspired by the Holocaust. The burning violins refers to the quartets that were forced to play while others were being taken into the chambers, knowing that their time was coming. Leonard Cohen as a brilliant writer.
I liked your reaction, it's so nice when younger people listen to Leonard Cohen and enjoy him.
He wrote hallelujah he wrote so much beautiful poetry and I still missed now
It's a unique pleasure to watch someone falling in love with a song in real time. Great reaction to a gorgeous song.
I absolutely love Leonard Cohen and I love this song. The music is even dancing and his delivery just puts it over the top. Thank you for reaction to this wonderful song.
I hope you do more Leonard Cohen. He is one of my top favorite writers/songwriters/vocalists of all time. You should hear his studio tracks, you can really feel, not just hear, his baritone/gravely vocals. Here are more songs of his to check out. And I hope you do.
- Hallelujah
- Everybody Knows
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- I'm Your Man
- Waiting For The Miracle
- Anthem
- Come Healing
Legendary Leonard
I've attended many concerts in my life and seeing Leonard Cohen live was one of the best. When he played this magical song a fan in a long billowing dress glided across the floor twirling to the music.
"Lift me like an olive branch".
Wonderful!
Love that line, too.
Haunting!
Requiescat in pace, frère Leonard. Peace forever.
His last concert. IN london when he was 80 years old. Great artist.
Great reaction! He's right beside Bob Dylan on both my lists of favorite singer-songwriters and favorite poets. He has many other songs you might like, Halleluja or Suzanne among many others.
Much better than Bob Dylan. 100 times greater. I love Leonard
@@loucilehall7560 That's your opinion. Mine is that they are equally great and both leave a wonderful body of poetic and musical works.
I love Leonard too, and I have ever since I picked up a reprint of his first book of poetry in a Harvard Square bookstore in 1964 and had to buy it after reading two of the poems. I also bought his first novel, "The Favorite Game" in the same year. I was surprised a couple of years later when I bought a Judy Collins album and noticed he was the writer of my favorite song on the album, "Suzanne". The following year, 1967, was when he came out with his first album and I got to hear his beautiful original version of the song.
Still among my most prized relics of the past are my original copies of his first five record albums and my original copy of his 1968 book of "Selected Poems 1956 - 1968". Unfortunately the other books I had by him have been lost over the last 55 years, probably loaned out and never returned.
Love your reactions !! I followed Leonard Cohen from "day one" in the mid- 1960's. He was a Jewish Canadian who lived in Greenwich Village in New York. when Bob Dylan was just starting. Many of his songs were written and sung, about the Chelsea Hotel. When I met my current wife in 1980 she was going thru my albums and asked me.. "Who is Leonard Cohen ?" I told her about him and started playing his albums chronologically, and she Immediately fell in love with him and his music. Give a listen to one of his last albums "I'm your man" from which this song was taken from. Great Album !! Luv you... Keep it up .
RIP Most underrated musician ever
Poet
more Leonard Please!
You must listen to more of Leonard Cohen he is a fantastic singer and poet and some of the songs he writes are just wow.
7:27 Women love Leonard. They get that quiver look whenever he sings. Never fails
The music video for this song is beautiful as well it intermixes video of a young couple in the first bloom of love with real elderly couples standing and dancing in front of their wedding pictures.
Finally some Leonard Cohen. A master of prose.
OH CANADA ! RIP Leonard ! Peace & Love :)
Such a fantastic sounding voice. Kind of a gruff type of voice but the ladies singing back up with the violin and kind of haunting sound. Loved it
Please check out " Everybody knows" and "Hallelujah" by Mr. Cohen. An all time great.
good find for you.....he's amazing...not mainstream...but amazing....old music done modern
so glad u dug it. aside from the obvious ( Hallelujah) and original, try "The story of Isaac" or, "Bird on a wire."
Yes it is a great one listen to
“everybody knows” by him
You have to listen to more Leonard ….Bird on a wire, So long Marianne, Suzanne and so many others!
Well now, we're getting into the serious classics now! Thank you for this one 😁 Since you understand and enjoy the "grave!ly voice" singers like Joe Cocker and Leonard Cohen, I've got another one from the early days for you..... You might like Tom Waits, "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You" or "Martha". Fair warning, Kleenex alert!!! 🤓😁😇🌹
Oh yes. Love the gypsy feel!
I adore your reaction to this sweet romantic ballad! Cheers girl 💕
I think my favorite song of his is probably Death of a Ladies' Man.
Had to dig for it: your comment about how the voice hit you reminded me... dig, dig, dig FOUND IT (next day)- when LC performed in NYC in Feb 2009, a review of the concert by Lavinia Jones Wright in Billboard (link lost): a voice as hot and raspy as a flaming shot of whiskey. Thought you might enjoy.
The point being there Is know end to Love ~ The Dance never ends, timing In a world of disambiguate always finds rhythm Is a dancer...Lovetrain bogie far Coexist car ~ Abstract Concept lost and found...Now Shiva dancing Aldous Huxley approach, Brave New World ~ Of Love and Peace ~~~~~~~
Every American should (and must !!) listen to "Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A". Especially during these turbulent times in America.
leonard, you're the man
Cohen was a premier lyricist. Hopefully, you get to his song called "Suzanne" one day. It's a beautiful tune. You'd like it.
Gypsy vib and one perfect phrase after another. One of the songs moonlight was made for.
Love this song and reaction. They both made me feel something
This one is totally in another category! I can just picture Lily James dancing the waltz to this tune! Lily was in the popular UK series Downton Abbey! It's similar to Upstairs Downstairs! Cheerio!
Mad props to Robert for the Patreon Request, and thanks to you for your reaction, Angela! Any time one of your patreons suggests a Leonard Cohen song don't hesitate to jump on it!! The man is a legendary songwriter and a great performer!!
great reaction. You are incredibly beautiful. Greetings from Norway. 😀
Awesome request, awesome reaction. Keep the exceptional quality coming. Cohen was so great.
Nice dance moves 👌🏿
Lovely reaction. Greetings from Norway. 😀
You really got into the vibe of this song. Wonderful reaction to a beautiful song.
you should listen to some of his earlier songs. "so long Marrianne" and "bird on a wire" for instance> he was a poet who put his poems to music. wonderful Enjoy
Beautiful hair.
Isn’t this a song that slowly pulls you into one of the loveliest feelings of love and sex and movement.
Obe of the greatest Canadian songwriters of all time!!
There's a fabulous cover of this Cohen classic by another Canadian singer, Madeleine Peyroux.
Check her out, she's a hidden gem! 😍
A masterpiece! This has been on my playlist forever.
You should react to the song from 1975 called Rocky by Austin Roberts. Or at least given it a listen to. I know what I’m saying. It’s an emotional good song. I’m sure you will appreciate it. It’s worth your time. Take care
His voice is so mesmerizing and seductive.
You will love the violons too
In this song
The Zac Brown Band Live from Austin City Limits
Song is
🎵 FREE/INTO THE MYSTIC 🎵 🎶
KEEP THE GOOD WORK SUNSHINE 🌞
more leonard cohen would be nice, he has lots of great ones; stranger song, suzanne, chelsea hotel number 2, you want it darker would all be good x
The great Leonard Cohen.
This song's music sounds very Hebrew; like music I used to hear in synagogue. I love it. It's beautiful. Thank you for reacting to this. He's just - - unique. Yeah; that grovelly voice; he's a legend. All the best to you. -jk
In his autobiography it says he wrote this as a response to his mother suggesting he wrote more songs like the ones they sang in the synagogue
@@susannahiley9106 Oh, cool. Thanks for sharing that. I didn't know. That's so sweet.
It is. The song is about the holocaust. It was inspired by a documentary about the musicians kept from the gas chambers to.entertain the Germans at dances and dinners, and even to play outside the gas chambers to.cover up the screams.
Nice. Thanks for your reaction to this Leonard Cohen classic. Other Leonard Cohen songs to check out: Anthem; Bird On A Wire; The Future; You Want It Darker; and of course -Hallelujah. Also check out some Bob Dylan--Ring Them Bells; Dignity; Blind Willie McTell; Lord Protect My Child; Goodbye Jimmy Reed; and the list goes on and on. Thank you again. I enjoy your channel.
Thanks. A wedding song, or an anniversary song, if ever there was one.
Sorry, but it's about the holocaust and the musicians forced to play as others were matched to their deaths.
@@distanceismyplastercast It's art. It means what it means to the listener. Or it can mean just one thing as prescribed by you.
@@custardflan That's what Cohen said it was about in interviews
@@distanceismyplastercast I know but it's like saying Picasso's Guernica is only about an attack on a village. Can it mean something else to a person who sees it? Or hears it? Or do we all have to be literalists?
@@custardflan I know, it is a live song. But it's a dark love song notba happy ever after one.
Hi Ms. D., Mr. Leonard wrote & co-wrote many songs.. I will leave it there.. ♠W.G.
You would love "I'm your man". Here hoping you give it a go sometime /hat's off.
❣️❣️❣️
If you want another amazing Leonard Cohen song, but covered (with his blessing) by Jennifer Warnes (off The Famous Blue Raincoat album: audio first), you should listen to Joan Of Arc, and another great is First We Take Manhattan, who has SRV as lead guitar.
Please do I'm your man, the ultimate courting song
I would recommend I'm Your Man
The dark edge of this song is not obvious. It is about the holocaust. Prisoners would play music while the others were taken to gas chambers. Some couples would have one last dance as they were led to their deaths.
It’s the line dance me through the panic that gives this an edge. That was always a line I never got until I knew that this was about the holocaust.
Two things. First, if you like the poetry, check out Jaques Brel, a Belgian songwriter who wrote social commentary songs. He was an influence on Leonard. Leonard surpassed Brel by magnitudes of talent.
Second, there is a hot hot hot video of a couple dancing the tango to Leonard singing "Dance Me To The End Of Love." I'll try to put the link in here:
ruclips.net/video/fJ1P3LjkE28/видео.html
"Dance me to the End of Love" is " a song with a chilling scenario inspired by Nazi concentration camps. It is optimistic in its assertion of the joy of the will to survive in the struggle against evil,Germans made Jews play their wedding ceremonies to them in camps. they had to pick a bride and a groom, and sing and dance for them. the scene of a young couple dancing right before being burned to ashes was hard to shake
Next, Everybody Knows
you might check out the song by the Bee Gee words
Shoshana Bean "Make It Rain" LIVE at the Theatre at Ace Hotel
is that tune zorba the greek ?
Leonard is great, check out The Future.:)
may I suggest Non Sara or Vinceró Perderó sung by Mario Frangoulis
You should have watched his official video of this song from 1985. You would have gotten a whole different view.
It's the white Barry White !
please leonard cohen i'm your man
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic - Leave the Door Open [Official Video]
Gladys Knight & The Pips "Midnight Train to Georgia"
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Alchemy Live)
Angela are you ever gonna do Donna Summer's love to love you and I feel love?
You showed the typical female reaction all womans have when they hear Cohen xD
Hi could you please react to Bob Dylan's 'Murder Most Foul' from 2020, thanks!!!
I see that this tune brought out the gypsy in you......
So he got you too?
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Artists.a. di grand e talento
The most amazing lyricist I've ever heard. I hope you listen to this again. Closely. It's not a love song. It's about the prisoners in the nation concentration camps being led to their death. They played music while they were walked into the gas chambers. Burning violin. It's brilliantly written and one can be excused for thinking it a love song. Until you listen closely.
About being serenaded by musicians forced to play while others were being led into the gas chambers.
A bit too show tuney for me. Great musicians though.