what song's this from?
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:50 am
you don't want to lie not to the young
Was that just a random 'name the lyric' question then?bunnyben wrote:i'd say various posistions was his masterpiece
no. it came into my head and i couldn't remeber what it was from so i posted on here and just after i pressed post i remebered what it was from. i was going to delete the message but you fine people had replied so i left it upduppyconquerer wrote:Was that just a random 'name the lyric' question then?bunnyben wrote:i'd say various posistions was his masterpiece
Perhaps we should set up a Spiritualized forum pub quiz...
Really? I've just started getting into Cohen properly and i'm turned off to everything from various positions onwards due to the way too shiny production. Am i being too judgemental?bunnyben wrote:i'd say various posistions was his masterpiece followed closely by songs of love and hate and songs of leonard cohen
yeh, i'm with you on that one at the moment. i think being more academic about it would drive me towards the first one (just because of the apple core and the fareground instrumentation and the only drowning men could see him and all that ...), but those two are pretty great lps.My current favourite is songs of love & hate, closely followed by new skin for the old ceremony.
for me with cohen it's all about the lyrics. if he has something to say then he can make a good song. various posistions is a bit 'clean' but i thnk that that adds to its beauty.angelsighs wrote:Really? I've just started getting into Cohen properly and i'm turned off to everything from various positions onwards due to the way too shiny production. Am i being too judgemental?bunnyben wrote:i'd say various posistions was his masterpiece followed closely by songs of love and hate and songs of leonard cohen
My current favourite is songs of love & hate, closely followed by new skin for the old ceremony.
I agree- he's one of those 'lyrical' artists whose music is there just to frame the words really, but that musical framework can really ruin or lift a good song. Hallelujah, i think most of us would agree, is a ridiculously fine song but its the various cover versions that seem to have made it shine.bunnyben wrote: for me with cohen it's all about the lyrics. if he has something to say then he can make a good song. various posistions is a bit 'clean' but i thnk that that adds to its beauty.
with songs from a room i was a bit put of 'musically' by the way that most the tunes have been used before by him either on this album or on 'songs of...'. yet saying that some mighty fine lyrics!angelsighs wrote:I agree- he's one of those 'lyrical' artists whose music is there just to frame the words really, but that musical framework can really ruin or lift a good song. Hallelujah, i think most of us would agree, is a ridiculously fine song but its the various cover versions that seem to have made it shine.bunnyben wrote: for me with cohen it's all about the lyrics. if he has something to say then he can make a good song. various posistions is a bit 'clean' but i thnk that that adds to its beauty.
Interestingly, another cohen album (songs from a room) is ruined for me by the production being too far the other way- there its too muffled! i'm so hard to please!
Moody bastard !a beautiful noise wrote:ahh that era of cohen os brillinat, yeah that music sounds similiar, he's just playing a classical guitar.
you didn't listen to dylan for his guitar work.
but you defo have to be in "a" mood to listen to cohen, what mood that is i don't know but i do know a few thousand moods that don't work for cohen.
any mood works with cohen for me! his genius is in the way he can make you laugh and cry in the same breath, oh and that he's one of the greatest writers ever, not just lyrical poetry. anyone read his two novels, the favorite game and beautiful loosers?a beautiful noise wrote:ahh that era of cohen os brillinat, yeah that music sounds similiar, he's just playing a classical guitar.
you didn't listen to dylan for his guitar work.
but you defo have to be in "a" mood to listen to cohen, what mood that is i don't know but i do know a few thousand moods that don't work for cohen.
'a bunch of lonesome heroes' is ridiculously similar to 'so long marriane' if i remember correctly? what other re-usings are there?bunnyben wrote: with songs from a room i was a bit put of 'musically' by the way that most the tunes have been used before by him either on this album or on 'songs of...'. yet saying that some mighty fine lyrics!