I did not see the two other threads of Yellowhe.
Yes Yellowhe, même si nous faisons du coq-à-l'âne, you can bring back or switch subjects any time in the same thread.
Let say that you did. I quote you.
Yellowhe wrote
I feel I should explain something one more time. I love Jacques Brel but I feel unhappy when I listen to him. It can also occur in everydaylife.
I wrote about Brel only to explain what I most often feel when I hear Leonard cohen: real happiness even when he expresses feelings that are not always exactly expressing joy.
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michele dassy
Yes, Brel does not always sing in a soft tone, like Leonard Cohen does. His voice is loud, when is is "yealin" while signing, "sharp" like a knife, at some places, hard like a rock at others, hurting my hears. Usually I prefer to hear signers (male or female) who are "not yealing". But Brel, well, Brel, hits a soft spot in me anyway. This is personal like we said, I do not ask people to share this. It is just chatting about this.
Also I always say that Leonard has a gift to tame, to cure all the sufferings he is signing about. I read that one of his translator, Michel Garneau, thinks almost the same, he was saying that Cohen signing was a way to cure himself, like a kind of semi incantation, semi hyptonical trance. I'm sure we are many to think the same thing, more or less.
I think that this is why I (and so many people) feel good about hearing songs that could be seen as plain sad if only the (wonderful) lyrics were known.
(I think this is why One Bourbon one Scotch and one Beer brings a feeling of feeling good, even if this is a very sad story about I guy that was just dumped by his girlfriend and was getting drunk to sooth the pain. The pain is soothed all right, according to the feeling I have when I listen to the song.)
He himself - Cohen - would have said that he is pleased to think that music won over the nazism. I read this somewhere. Even if "inner feelings come and go" and he may still not think this, well...
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