That's a good idea.
May I expand it and suggest a
New Songs & Rarities section?
It's a questionable idea, I know.
But what about A Street (Toronto 2006), Book of Longing / Puppets (radio 2005), various A Thousand Kisses Deep recitations (1990s, 2005)? Where is the borderline between old and new (Taken Out of Egypt 1985 -> I Can't Forget 1988 -> Born in Chains 2010), between a poem and a song (A Street, A Thousand Kisses Deep)?
I guess we should talk rather about well-known and little-known Cohen.
Well-known = officially released (it may be the least popular track from DOALM or Dear Heather, doesn't matter - it got a chance to be heard).
Little-known = unreleased (thanks to bootlegers, and Greg and DrHGuy as the main popularizers many Cohenites know these songs; but nevertheless it's - I have to say, although I'd like to be wrong - a drop in a sea).
There are several subjects that lay somewhere between the existing Forum sections (Comments & Questions; Leonard Cohen's music; Live performances & YouTube clips; Leonard Cohen's poetry and novels; all the 20XX Concert Reports sections):
- 1970s improvisations
- poetry recitations, including
- 1976 poetry sets
- LenTalk: there are some brilliant prose fragments
Those subjects could enrich our understanding of LC.
OK, I don't want to pretend that the absence of this section is the reason why we rarely share and discuss such pearls from the past. Probably, it would be another almost empty section (Time Traveling Pack).
Anyway, some of my Comments & Questions are related to a field of Leonard Cohen music, poetry and live performances at the same time. Let's call it Cohen in Concert or Rare Cohen or however you like
