Leonard Cohen dead at 82

[Ernest Jones]

**** you, 2016, you've been a really shitty year.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3926066/amp/Canadian-singer-songwriter-poet-Leonard-Cohen-dead-82.html?client=safari

[boogielicious]

9 hours ago, Ernest Jones said:

**** you, 2016, you've been a really shitty year.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3926066/amp/Canadian-singer-songwriter-poet-Leonard-Cohen-dead-82.html?client=safari

Yes it has. 

[nevets88]

RIP 

 

[Ernest Jones]

5 minutes ago, nevets88 said:

RIP 

 

You want chills? Look up KD Lang doing that song!

[David in FL]

What an amazing talent.  RIP...

[Ernest Jones]

57 minutes ago, Ernest Jones said:

You want chills? Look up KD Lang doing that song!

@nevets88

 

[iacas]

I always liked the Jeff Buckley version.

Almost all of the reason I like that song is due to West Wing.

 

I have a live version too. And one by Allison Crowe that's not bad.

[Ernest Jones]

3 minutes ago, iacas said:

I always liked the Jeff Buckley version.

Almost all of the reason I like that song is due to West Wing.

 

I have a live version too. And one by Allison Crowe that's not bad.

 

Wow, thanks. Never heard that version, beautiful.

[nevets88]

3 hours ago, Ernest Jones said:

You want chills? Look up KD Lang doing that song!

KD Lang's was chilling, Buckley's guitar work was electric and inspiring, Regina Spektor's the most intimate. Willlie Nelson's the most soothing. I heard a cover by a guitarist in the subway that made me dusty. 

[JetFan1983]

5 hours ago, Ernest Jones said:

Wow, thanks. Never heard that version, beautiful.

NEVER?!

Get into Jeff Buckley right now, haha. I was in a Jeff Buckley cover band in college, so sorry if I'm way too enthusiastic about this. 

[Ernest Jones]

41 minutes ago, JetFan1983 said:

NEVER?!

Get into Jeff Buckley right now, haha. I was in a Jeff Buckley cover band in college, so sorry if I'm way too enthusiastic about this. 

I will certainly check more of it out. Great stuff. 

And you don't have to be so sorry, regular sorry will do. 

 

 

[colin007]

Jeff Buckley's Grace + two glasses of wine on an empty stomach makes me pretty much suicidal LOL… his song Lover, You Should've Come Over is especially hard hitting for me. What a voice....

[No Mulligans]

From this article, interview of the author of The Enduring Legacy Of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'

: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/11/501749360/the-enduring-legacy-of-leonard-cohens-hallelujah

Quote

 

SHAPIRO: It took more than a decade for the song to find its audience. Alan Light wrote the book "The Holy Or The Broken" about the unlikely ascent of "Hallelujah," a song Cohen released as his career seemed to be winding down.

ALAN LIGHT: Through the '70s and into the '80s, it was a bit of a gradual decline in interests. And by the time it was 1984 and he recorded the "Various Positions" record, which included "Hallelujah," he turned it in to Columbia Records and they rejected the album.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HALLELUJAH")

UNIDENTIFIED CHOIR: (Singing) Hallelujah.

LIGHT: Came out on a very small indie label to virtually no attention and no acclaim. He had written 40, 50, 70 verses for this song. And he just couldn't figure out exactly what the song was. John Cale from The Velvet Underground saw Leonard perform and saw him do one of these versions of "Hallelujah" and thought that might be an interesting song to do.

So he asked Leonard, can you send me over the lyrics so I get it right? And apparently they sent him pages and pages of lyrics. And Leonard just sort of said, see what you like in here and you figure it out.

 

 

[WUTiger]

One of the most timely: Kate McKinnon as Hillary C. singing "Hallelulah" at start of SNL. I'm a Republican who has always been in awe of Kate M's talent and sincere passion.

A thoughtful wrap-up to a rough campaign year.