As a Canadian I especially love Leonard Cohen, I think it's wonderful people are learning more about him and his music, I grew up listening to it. If you're into poetry, his poems are mostly his songs, and his songs his poems, so if you don't like his voice (It's an acquired taste much like Hawksley Workman) - I highly recommend reading some of his poetry, it's quite beautiful. :)
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#43First off, I've always been a huge fan of Cohen. But the opening paragraph made me bristle slightly: "He got by on a three-thousand-dollar grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. This was 1960..." I'm assuming that's Canadian dollars. So he was living abroad doing what he loved, and presumably not breaking much of a sweat. No less than ten years later, in the same country, my parents were struggling to bring up t…
FYI, drugs are always cheap or free for good looking young poets.
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#44> Dylan went on driving. After a while, he told Cohen that a famous songwriter of the day had told him, “O.K., Bob, you’re Number 1, but I’m Number 2.”
> Cohen smiled. “Then Dylan says to me, ‘As far as I’m concerned, Leonard, you’re Number 1. I’m Number Zero.’ Meaning, as I understood it at the time—and I was not ready to dispute it—that his work was beyond measure and my work was pretty good.”
Pretty fitting after today's Nobel prize award. Cohen is definitely up there with the greatest songwriters and poets of this generation.
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#45Why is this on Hacker News? It is a promotional piece about the new album he's releasing, isn't it?
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#47Leonard Cohen is absolutely one of the best (Canadian!) artists of the last century. Seriously; if you have the time, do what you can to discover his music. Songs of Leonard Cohen, Various Positions, and of course I'm Your Man are all must listen albums.
Dont forget Gord Downie, he could probably win a nobel for is poetry also!
It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves, one star at time
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#48I was fortunate enough to see him live quite a few times during his touring between 2008 and 2012, and I have never seen better live music in my life. In his late 70s he would give a 3+ hour performance full of energy and enthusiasm, it was truly incredible to see.
I saw him once in 2009. Indeed maybe the best show I've ever seen. Part of it was due to the fact that I sort of knew I would never get to see him again, and part of it because it was a truly great performance.
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#49If someone told me that there would come a day when two of the first three HN posts will be about Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I would have dismissed them as high or delusional. Turns out that I would be very wrong.
wah wah people have interests other than jerking it to TechCrunch
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#50Leonard Cohen is absolutely one of the best (Canadian!) artists of the last century. Seriously; if you have the time, do what you can to discover his music. Songs of Leonard Cohen, Various Positions, and of course I'm Your Man are all must listen albums.
I'd also recommend checking out his poetry. His earlier stuff especially. This is a good place to start: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2a/8c/98/2a8c980c4....
Check out Irving Layton as well (another Canadian poet/professor). Really good stuff, and clearly influenced Leonard Cohen's writing.