Guardian: My Favourite Album

[commonweal]

The Guardian newspaper has been doing a series of My Favourite Album, in which assorted Guardian hacks write about, well, their favourite album.

The Songs of Leonard Cohen has now been subjected to this treatment (hurrah!). And the piece is not so bad.

See here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicbl ... nard-cohen

[hydriot]

Thanks for this. I really loved:

"In fact, this is Cohen's special skill, to sound like he's been around the block so many times he's come out the other side; he can stick up for old-fashioned moral values from a position from deep inside the hippy gender war."

I hadn't seen the opening credits of McCabe and Mrs Miller before, with The Stranger Song. Interesting, the long instrumental in the middle. Did Leonard record this version specially for the film (I notice she doesn't try the handle of the road), or did they edit in a session guitarist, I wonder? (I ask this because in the instrumental bridge there are some rapidly repeated chords which, while atmospheric, don't sound like Leonard, at least to me).

[somewhat_nifty]

Hehe, I was wondering when Leonard Cohen would turn up. I'm sure I do believe this guy, but referencing LC seems to have become a shortcut to cool these days...