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Hi!
What do you think is the 10 best songs of Leonard Cohen?

1.

1. Last Year's Man
2. Take This Waltz
3. Sing another song, boys
4. Famous Blue Raincoat
5. One of us cannot be wrong
6. Avalanche
7. Dress Rehearsal Rag
8. Suzanne
9. Seems so long ago, Nancy
10. Story of Isaac

I think each of us will have a different list.

it changes from day to day. here's my list at the moment:

1. Last Years Man
2. Everybody Knows
3. Closing Time
4. Hallelujah (i consider both versions one song)
5. Seems So Long Ago (Nancy)
6. Night Comes On
7. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
8. Anthem
9. The Future
10. Suzanne

First ten which comes to mind: The Letters, A Thousand Kisses Deep, The Law, Night Comes On, Hallelujah, Anthem, Famous Blue Raincoat, Stories of the Street, The Window, Waiting for the Miracle.

Ahem. I forgto my favourite One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong. And Everybody Knows. Also my favourite:-)
Ten's not enough:-)

glad to see one of us cannot be wrong is up there - what an ending - while we are on the sbject why d you think he chose toend the song like that.

Ok here's my top 10

1 Famous blue Raincoat
2 The Stranger Song
3 One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
4 Take This Longing
5 The Master Song
6 Avalanche
7 Dress Rehearsal Rag
8 The Letters - fucking briliant
9 Leaving Greansleaves
10 Leaving greensleaves

1. Anthem
2. Bird on the Wire
3. Dance me to End of Love
4. Hallelujah (live version)
5. Ain't No Cure for Love
6. Democracy
7. Tower of Song
8. If it be Your Will
9. One of us Cannot be Wrong
10. Take This Longing

Runner-ups:
There is a War, Seems so Long Ago, Nancy, Master Song, In My Secret Life...I should just stop here.

In no particular order:

-. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
-. Anthem
-. Light As The Breeze
-. Undertow
-. Suzanne
-. Avalanche
-. Dance Me To The End Of Love
-. Take This Waltz
-. Hallelujah
-. The Future

1. if it be your will
2. if it be your will
3. anthem
4. famous blue raincoat
5. dress rehearsal rag
5. night comes on

most of the other songs i like equally, but those above are those where i often listen to one song for many times on an evening without playing anything else.

why did he choose to end One of us cannot be wrong that way?

who knows? the ending is sort of funny. so is the song (then he wrote himself a prescription and your name was mentioned in it / his body is gone but back here on the lawn his spirit continues to droll ...)

i guess that the song felt too straight forward love song, so he decided to include some ironic lyrics, and to keep the balance - added some self-parody to the tune itself.

From today's perspective:

1. In My Secret Life
2. Avalanche
3. The Window (Live-version)
4. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
5. Suzanne
6. Anthem
7. First We Take Manhatten
8. The Guests
9. The Law
10. There For You

The Partisan
Who by Fire
Chelsea Hotel #2
Including my top 3 as to make 10 choices would take me far to long

Oh, difficult question! There are too many I love... So, in no particular order of preference...

1. Love Itself.
2. Waiting for the Miracle
3. Suzanne
4.Hey, That's no Way to Say Goodbye
5. The Window
6. Lover, Lover, Lover
7. Who by Fire
8. The Guests
9. Memories
10. Everybody Knows (because it makes me laugh immoderately!)