Although I can see why the poll asks for the favourite Leonard Cohen 'period' by decade, I have to agree with some other posts that have pointed to this classification's limitations. I think most of the albums link to the next chronological one quite nicely. The only exception being Death of a Ladie...

This link might help those who'd like to see the poem and the lyric side by side without flicking between pages and CD booklets.

http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/waltz.htm

Awww, John Cale is a God- so glad to see fellow fans here! I saw him on Jools Hollands' Hootenanny! a whiole back and it was amazing! I got into Cale via VU, but think 'Paris 1919' and 'Fear' equal that materiual. Although Vinatge Violence is a good album, I don't rank it alongside his major works i...

In my (limited) experience and reading the concept of the 'kitsch' is widely associated with an aesthetics of deception and self-deception, as opposed to the 'camp' or 'passé' which contrast the bad taste of yesterday with the supreior refinement of the contemporary (however many minutes that may la...

Leonard does mumble along, but it was Anjani Thomas ' vocals that seemed to grate a little when I listened. The singing on DH as a whole seems OK which is why I'd wondered if this track seemed a little out of sorts to anyone else. I'll maybe try it out on a friend's system just to be absolutely sure...

The link already provided looks about as comprehensive as anything anyone could provide. If you post the title of your thesis or which songs/albums/themes of Cohen's you are working on I might be able to expand on your bibliography or at the very least suggest parallels (being something of a followe...

Thanks for the pointers. I'd looked around various CD/record fairs without much success.

I think I'll be concentrating on alternative (i.e. live) versions of songs now I see that the singles don't contain original B-sides but only album tracks- and there seems to be plenty to look for!

Regards,
CDB

Brecht is starting to be recognised as the great poet he was, although I think his epic theatre should stand as his monumental contribution to C20 literature. Does anyone know if those awful translations by John Willett have been superseded yet? (I don't know if you used JW's trans, greg and it's no...

Nice to see good old EP getting a mention. Quite a fan of hugh Selwyn Mauberley myself. Of course he doesn't get the credit he desrves for editing 'The Waste Land' or for his Cantos. Great poet, shame about the politics. It's a pity more readers haven't realised the difference between the two yet. R...

Have I scratched my CD of Dear Heather, or are my speakers crap?
-because the vocals on Morning Glory sound awfully fuzzy to me, considering this is a bona fide recording...

Or am I just going mad as a cow fed on its brethren?

regards,
CDB

I am Leonard Cohen enthused enough to have just about all of the 'official releases' i.e. albums from 'Songs of...' to 'Dear Heather' + L.C. Live, Live in Concert, Field Commander Cohen + 'I'm Your Fan' and 'Tower of Song' tribute albums. I understand that I cannot offer to buy bootleg recordings, e...

I think Death of Ladies' Man marks an important stage in Cohens' development as a singer/songwriter and that the only track that really suffers from the (over?)production is 'Fingerprints'. Labouring as I am against the illusion of the romantic ego, I find the album an inspirational collaborative pr...

'The Future' on the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's 'Natural Born Killers' of all things... I heard it and I knew it was the future gem of my CD collection, so I promptly went out and got the 'Greatest Hits' not really knowing much about LC or even the names of songs, etc. Imagine my surprise after hea...