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What I find refreshingly adolescent is this answer of Mr. Womac :

"leonard cohen could piss in the toilet bowl for three hours and he would say more than any other modern singers being tightly package to hit (...)"

I mean. If one speaks chinese to somebody that does not understand chinese and get the feed-back that this is silly, creasy, etc. etc. without obviously having given a second thought to the matter, then, one could be tempted to just reply to this with fake chinese language, just for laugh. What else to do when confronted to such a non-sense? Laugh, laugh, laugh. And laugh again.

What? I feel like if this critic just said to her (him?) self : I want to have a name as a very harsh critic to fear that good old Montréal's artistic community, they all will do in their pants just in the hearing of my name, OK, guys, let demolish the Montréal's Myth to begin with. Ha. Ha. (I have a lot of imagination, as you can see).

Banjo time.

Yes, that is a good quote, Tchocolatl ~ and s/he does make the point, " . . . and he would say more than any other modern singers" with it .

Some new critics do set out to establish themselves in just the way you've described, so you may be right on that, as well.

i would have say "many" not "any", but that was not my comment.

For the critic, I really do not know...

Of course, for me, in the modern singers and other categories, there's

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. . . and then there's the rest.


Love,
Lizzy

Yes! For me, in regard of "saying" I could hear what others say but I'm only fan of "the man"!

lizzytysh,
You've demonstrated quite a knowledge of Leonard Cohen but what about the rest? Takes more than one light to make a beautiful Christmas tree. Could this be what Dr. Freud would call fixation?

Now, Lightning, you know I haven't demonstrated quite a knowledge of Leonard. That would be you . I've demonstrated my appreciation of him, though. Dr. Freud could easily call this fixation. However, I feel Dr. Freud had a couple fixations of his own. Perhaps, the Christmas tree lights analogy would work with saying that Leonard is atop the tree, whilst others circle around it. Jacques Brel would be atop yours.

Since I'm rather sick at the moment, yet unable to sleep, that's about the best I can do. I do like, even love, some of the others' music. There's still just noone like Leonard for me. I can't help how I feel, nor do I want to change it.

~ Elizabeth

Lizzytysh and all,
Whatever is at the top of your tree or whatever sets your yule log aflame, may your solstice be merry and bright . And, as the earth will be recovering it's light starting tomorrow, may we all be making our annual comeback.

My dear Lizzytysh,

I am sorry that you are sick. Get off the computer, kick the cats out and go to bed.

jarkko wrote: The record kicks off with a terrible, sax-laced adult contempo version of Lord Byron's Go No More a-Roving dedicated to Cohen's late best friend, Irving Layton.

Why is that song "terrible"? I very much enjoyed it. I sometimes listen to it on repeat.

I assume the question is rhetorical as no-one who contributes to this board finds any of Leonard's work "terrible." I'm glad you found some music to enjoy so much, hope you don't wear it out and continue to enjoy it. There are earlier folk versions of "Go No More A-Rovin" by Richard Dyer-Bennet and Joan Baez which are more conventionally pretty which you may also enjoy.
If you consider that "vagina" is Latin for "sheath", you will enjoy it even more.

Haha, I see you are a part time comedian.

That's a very interesting slant, Lightning. I'm certain Leonard's quite aware of his Latin, as well.