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Title: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: nullity on November 11, 2016, 12:06:54 AM
Let me fix that.

Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: esteban on November 11, 2016, 02:57:48 AM
The only good song he did was the one that Christian Slater intentionally played at a slow speed in Pump Up The Volume.

"Everybody knows..."

:)
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: esteban on November 11, 2016, 03:50:24 AM
The only good song he did was the one that Christian Slater intentionally played at a slow speed in Pump Up The Volume.

"Everybody knows..."

:)

But it was so good that it singularly surpasses the entire body of work from some musicians.  Kind of like Barnes and Barnes with Fish Heads.

Yes. Eat them up, yum.
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: Jibbajaba on November 11, 2016, 04:07:11 AM
"Fish Heads" is a great song.  It's no "Bulbous Bouffant" but it's still great in its own right.

I was not familiar with any of Leonard Cohen's work until I looked it up last night.
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: esteban on November 11, 2016, 04:27:09 AM
"Fish Heads" is a great song.  It's no "Bulbous Bouffant" but it's still great in its own right.

I was not familiar with any of Leonard Cohen's work until I looked it up last night.

Shame on you for never watching Pump Up The Volume.

:)
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: Lost Monkey on November 11, 2016, 04:36:22 AM
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: Lost Monkey on November 11, 2016, 04:37:36 AM
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: roflmao on November 11, 2016, 12:49:55 PM
He's up there with Tom Waits as one of the greatest unknown songwriters. Such sad news. Listening to his most recent album, it sounds like he knew the end was near and was ready to go. RIP. :(
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: dallaspattern on November 11, 2016, 04:02:22 PM
The entire Future album is a banger.
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: ccovell on November 12, 2016, 04:12:08 PM
In his native Canada, he certainly is not unknown.

I'm not a big fan of his, but his lyrics (basically poems put to song, like Jim Morrison/Doors works were) were clairvoyant.

"Things are gonna slide, slide in all directions.  There won't be nothin' you can measure anymore..."
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: esteban on November 12, 2016, 09:22:46 PM
In his native Canada, he certainly is not unknown.

I'm not a big fan of his, but his lyrics (basically poems put to song, like Jim Morrison/Doors works were) were clairvoyant.

"Things are gonna slide, slide in all directions.  There won't be nothin' you can measure anymore..."

Absolutely...even folks who don't like his music, per se, have appreciated the force of his lyrics.

I will admit, however, that I am a sucker for gravelly voices. His voice, plus his delivery of lyrics, were undeniably part of his appeal.

The fact that he is Canadian will be excused.  :)
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: seieienbu on November 13, 2016, 07:30:18 AM

Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: esteban on November 13, 2016, 07:41:08 AM


http://youtu.be/JTTC_fD598A


First we'll take Manhattan, then we'll take we Barstow.

:)
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: Joe Redifer on November 13, 2016, 11:31:40 AM
I had never heard of him until he began to decompose.
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: esteban on November 13, 2016, 01:29:35 PM
I had never heard of him until he began to decompose.

Has no one seen Pump Up The Volume?

Damn.
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: Joe Redifer on November 13, 2016, 08:51:03 PM
Does Pump Up the Jam from Technotronic count?
Title: Re: No "RIP Leonard Cohen" thread?
Post by: esteban on November 14, 2016, 10:00:55 AM
Does Pump Up the Jam from Technotronic count?

It counts in terms of multiplying awesomeness.

As in "any experience in life will be *15x more awesome* if accompanied by a song by technotronic"...

(20x more awesome if a bystander sings along)


As far as Pump Up The Volume... it was young, naive suburbia's glimpse of pirate radio stations (a proto-YouTube)...

...funny how quaint it seems now.

:)