If anyone is interested to know, Martin Gore (of Depeche Mode) did a solo concert in Stockholm last night (Tuesday 22nd), and played Cohen's Coming Back To You. He made a version similar to the one he did on the Tower of Song tribute album, and sang it beautifully. It certainly was one of the concer...

Hey, yeah! Thanks, Jarkko, I can sleep again. Hope you don't see me as this moping grumpy from Sweden after posting that, but it HAS been giving me the fidgets for a while. :shock: Even a thing like me saying "with that chorus, you all know it, in between them" and not, which would be the ...

Hi all. Forgive a tiresome pedantic, but I just can't get out of my head that the quotation of The Guests on the homepage here gives the impression of being a whole poem, it isn't marked as an outtake. Hence the whole idea of the lines "the openhearted many, the brokenhearted few" given ag...

Just hope they put The Stranger Song on that compilation since it hasn't been on any before. Sure will be interesting to see the whole track list for it. Is Mr Cohen himself involved with the choices? When will they be released?

Bob is a genious, although apparently a very restless one. Not too much into perfecting all his great ideas. (As for me I don't care. I love his best albums). You're A Big Girl Now, for instance, one of my favourites. Perfect chord-structure and atmosphere. Lyrically the first verse is perfect too. ...

"Misery's the river of the world... Everybody row, everybOdy row..." Haha, that's a heavy one. I love the album, The Part You Throw Away is really brilliant, and the last track, don't remember the title, with the first line: "I always play russian roulette in my head..." Tom rule...

"Absence is the only weapon / against the supreme arsenal / of her body"

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