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- Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:16 pm
- Forum: OLD IDEAS
- Topic: "Elaboration of a tube" line in "Going Home"?
- Replies: 104
- Views: 81387
Re: "Elaboration of a tube" line in "Going Home"?
He will speak these words of wisdom Like a sage, a man of vision Though he knows he’s really nothing But the brief elaboration of a tube At some point during some internet research I was doing quite a while back now I stumbled upon what I felt to be a more specific and consistent seeming answer to ...
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:07 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: mail columnist stephen glover comments on leonard's consumption of drugs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1144
Re: mail columnist stephen glover comments on leonard's consumption of drugs
This is a fallacy. A logical fallacy: In logic, a fallacy (from Latin: fallacy, 'deception') is an argument or a postulate that seems valid, but it is not. And that fallacy has a name: Cum hoc ergo propter hoc (in Latin, 'with this, therefore because of this') is a fallacy that is committed by infer...
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 1:03 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: New unauthorized CD: LC - The Eternal Classic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3693
Re: New CD: LC - The Eternal Classic
This is not a new release. This compilation was released in the year 2008. I have looked for it (and found it) in the web page discogs.com, where it states: "CD, Compilation, Unofficial Release ": https://www.discogs.com/Leonard-Cohen-The-Eternal-Classic/release/2129304 According to the we...
- Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:38 pm
- Forum: You Want It Darker
- Topic: Darker Album in the charts
- Replies: 75
- Views: 138399
Re: Darker Album in the charts
The Spanish music site jenesaispop.com states that You Want It Darker is golden disc (20.000 copies sold) in Spain. http://jenesaispop.com/2017/01/04/285216/you-want-it-darker-leonard-cohen-disco-oro-espana/ At the end, the article says (I translate): "This certificate adds to gold also in the ...
- Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:29 pm
- Forum: You Want It Darker
- Topic: The Darker Album and the Songs
- Replies: 341
- Views: 272514
Re: The Darker Album and the Songs
Hi Violet, The "you" in the song could be played by any authority figure where a person has placed ultimate degrees of faith in. (God, psychologically, is often a super-parental figure.) I wouldn't presume any particular stand-in for God for the song writer. The potency of the song for ot...
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 1:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Tributes to Leonard around the world
- Replies: 72
- Views: 28722
Re: Tributes to Leonard around the world
Thank you, B4Real. I myself made a transcription of the lyrics while listening to Lil' Andy's cover of the song. I have possibly commited some mistakes making the transcription, so there are a few errors... In any case, thank you for your answer. After reading your post, I found this 1992 interview ...
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:35 am
- Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
- Topic: In My Secret Life
- Replies: 39
- Views: 54933
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(...)It seems to me that when phrases like "wisdom of old" are used in a deferential sense, that what is implied is their having stood the test of time. True, that everything was a "hit" at one point; however, the majority of those hits end up with "flash-in-a-pan" sta...
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 9:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Tributes to Leonard around the world
- Replies: 72
- Views: 28722
Re: Tributes to Leonard around the world
From the link you put, I see songwriter Li'l Andy was one of the performers. I have looked for him in Google (I didn't know him); and I have seen he performed "Democracy" in 2013 in the same place he did the tribute to Leonard yesterday, the Rialto, with Patrick Watson and Little Scream. W...
- Wed Dec 14, 2016 8:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: New book in Spanish by Alberto Manzano. La historia de Leonard y Marianne
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2636
Re: New book in Spanish by Alberto Manzano. La historia de Leonard y Marianne
I don't understand. Why would they put a photo of Christian Bale on the cover of a book about Leonard Cohen? "Although he usually appears as a clean-shaven mortal, our research team recently uncovered evidence that Leonard Cohen has experienced the dynamic moustached lifestyle". http://ww...
- Wed Dec 14, 2016 3:58 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Study: Religious thoughts trigger same reward systems as love, drugs, music and sex
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2814
Study: Religious thoughts trigger same reward systems as love, drugs, music and sex
This notice was published in the Spanish section of The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2016/11/30/religion-sexo_n_13318918.html); here is my English translation of the notice. Spiritual or religious experiences activate the reward system of the brain, the same area that reacts to stim...
- Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: The most famous cover of the Beatles, versioned with those that have left us in 2016
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2729
The most famous cover of the Beatles, versioned with those that have left us in 2016
The most famous cover of the Beatles, versioned with those that have left us in 2016: http://nerdist.com/someone-updated-sgt-peppers-album-art-with-everyone-we-lost-in-2016/ Leonard is in the middle of the last row, he is the third man with hat in the last row. The first one is Leon Russell, and the...
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: Collectors' and Traders' Corner
- Topic: 2013 Recordings
- Replies: 62
- Views: 51643
Re: 2013 Recordings
Thank you, sturgess66, I just entered YouTube page before noticing your message and I've had it as a suggested video for me! I'm just enjoying now that concert...
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:23 pm
- Forum: You Want It Darker
- Topic: The Darker Album and the Songs
- Replies: 341
- Views: 272514
Re: The Darker Album and the Songs
The desert requires a higher degree of attentiveness, if we are to perceive that it is alive. ● Alfonso, why not give it a try. Please understand: My English is too poor for the Bible text you quote, so I googled a French and a German version to eliminate the problems of vocabulary and grammar. The...
- Tue Dec 06, 2016 5:07 pm
- Forum: You Want It Darker
- Topic: The Darker Album and the Songs
- Replies: 341
- Views: 272514
Re: The Darker Album and the Songs
WARNING (to whom it may concern): This post is guilty of over-analysis. Do not read it! — My apologies for first suggesting things, and then leaving them unexplained for such a long time. Let's say, I'm still somewhat paralysed — stunned by this powerful album, shocked by the sad news, astonished b...
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:46 pm
- Forum: Collectors' and Traders' Corner
- Topic: 2013 Recordings
- Replies: 62
- Views: 51643
Re: 2013 Recordings
[quote] Leonard Cohen 11 December 2013 Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia --- Here is another (much-delayed) recording from Leonard Cohen's most recent concert tour. A year ago tomorrow, Mr Cohen graced the stage of the Adelaide Entertainment Centre for a wonderful finale to the Aus ...