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There is a new album out of his stuff today. I don't know how they manage that since he drowned such a long time ago, but most of Grace is on it, including the song one would expect.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/revi ... f-buckley/

http://www.amazon.ca/So-Real-Songs-Jeff ... 926&sr=8-2

Hi Anne

I know it's ghoulish but do you think this proliferation of posthumous releases for Buckley is an example of how death can be a very good career move? Eva Cassidy and Elliott Smith are more popular now than when they were alive don't you think?

I commend Buckley for being one of the first to jump on the Hallelujah train but I was surprised when Grace came second (behind Dark Side Of The Moon) as Australia's favourite album of all time. This was in a poll conducted by our national broadcaster late last year (apparently more than 100,000 people voted). I remember thinking, where was I when this happened? I did my best but not one LC album got a look in to the top 100.

Apologies for my digression.

Well, I had Grace before he died. I was a fan of his. I think he is famous because he died young and beautiful, and in a way that sounds an awful lot like suicide. I know it was 'accidental death', but it was weird.

In any case, he still sang a lovely cover of Hallelujah.

That's interesting, blonde madonna, that the Australian and British mind should think alike: I remember commenting on a poll on the radio (BBC Radio2) over here last year when a track from Dark Side of the Moon came first and Buckley's Hallelujah came second. Listeners were asked to vote for the song that would be most likely to elicit appreciation for music in someone who professed not to like music (apparently such people do exist). In our poll there were a high number of voters too. Until then, I had no idea Buckley's Hallelujah was so widely known. It seems to me to be quite significant that Hallelujah strikes such a chord (a secret chord?) even with a sample of people who are not Cohen followers. I wouldn't have thought it has anything to do with the fact Buckley is no longer with us.

Diane

Diane
I didn't think of it that way but you may be right. My mother now loves Hallelujah after hearing kd lang's version and she has never been one much for music or her daughter's taste in music. Just last night my father professed to liking LC and agreed with my daughter that he was a poet. I shook my head (to myself) amazed at how time changes things.

Thanks to your always positive light I now think that the whole world (large chunks of England and Australia anyway) loves Cohen, they just don't know it (they think they love Buckley).

"Just last night my father professed to liking LC and agreed with my daughter that he was a poet."

Will your father be posting any of his poems in here?

Hi Blonde madonna, congratulations for converting the family. I agree with you: people hear the words through Buckley's magnificent cover, but they are Leonard Cohen's words. Indeed. Nice new av. btw .

Diane wrote:Nice new av. btw .

Diane, I am a LC fan, can't hide it.

Byron, you do make me chuckle. BTW, love the moniker:
1. It was LC who lead me to the Romantic poets,
2. there is a magic place here, Byron Bay, you should visit.

I will try and convince my father to post - he is a man of few words (it's the Parkinsons) and they are like gold/poetry to me.

I will try and convince my father to post - he is a man of few words (it's the Parkinsons) and they are like gold/poetry to me.

Hi Blonde Madonna ~

Please include my encouragement alongside yours to your father. My Dad had Parkinsons when he died, so I understand very well what you're saying about his Parkinsons-compromised words being few and like gold/poetry to you.

Perhaps, even with your assistance, he could post something. It would be a pleasure for all of us.

We haven't encountered many father-daughter relationships here, and your mentioning this causes me to wonder about how the concurrent reading of "Beautiful Losers" is going for another father and daughter, the daughter sharing it with us here.

I hope you can make this happen.

By the way, I love Leonard's colourful art piece, too. Great choice for an avatar . Maybe I'll use the green chair for awhile, if I can figure out how .


~ Lizzy

blonde madonna wrote:

Diane wrote:Nice new av. btw .

Diane, I am a LC fan, can't hide it.

Byron, you do make me chuckle. BTW, love the moniker:
1. It was LC who lead me to the Romantic poets,
2. there is a magic place here, Byron Bay, you should visit.

I will try and convince my father to post - he is a man of few words (it's the Parkinsons) and they are like gold/poetry to me.

I have a bookmark to Byron Bay that I got from a motorcycling forum I'm in. It is a lovely part of Oz.

The fewer the words, the heavier their importance.