» Set list
00:16 Je Veux Vivre Tout Seul
05:00 Kevin Barry
08:59 Die Gedanken Sind Frei
12:31 Store Room
17:08 As Time Goes By
19:35 Don’t Go Home with Your Hard-on
22:34 Blessed is the Memory
26:01 Silent Night
28:24 Dead Song
28:45 Another Saturday Night
29:42 Ballad of the Absent Mare
36:49 Guerrero
40:08 The Butcher
44:40 Un As Der Rebbe Singt
45:39 Song to the Machines
48:26 If It Be Your Will
52:13 Thirsty for the Kiss
55:48 A Thousand Kisses Deep
58:08 I Tried To Leave You
01:13:04 Whither Thou Goest
01:14:48 Mr Cohen Must Be Going
01:15:26 Banana Song
» Liner notes by Sylvie Simmons, Ruth Stimson, and Allan Showalter (AKA DrHGuy)
There was something on the radio about Michel de Montaigne, the French Renaissance essayist. From the day he was born, he heard nothing but Latin - an experiment conducted by his dad. Montaigne grew up as fluent in Latin as his schoolfriends were in French. He also suffered depression. The famous Essais he wrote were a form of self-therapy, it said. Which wouldn't have made him popular with Dr Heck, the shrink, Leonard Cohenite and philanthropist who, along with messalina79, compiled this free album and then signed me up to write free liner notes. Leonard, famously, spent his life avoiding psychiatrists; Leonard, as we all know, was uncommonly smart.
Montaigne's story made me think of Leonard and his writing. In particular his songs - songs I've listed to closely, quizzically, vertically and horizontally since 1968, when Cohen was considerate enough to choose the second I hit puberty as the release date for his first album. It made me wonder what would happen if, as an experiment, you raised your baby on nothing but Leonard Cohen songs.
Cohen's songs are the kind you are drawn back to over and over; we go back to them not always for their familiarity and solace but for their mystery, the unknown. Another Other Songs Of Leonard Cohen includes a number of songs that are old friends, but whose unusual versions are akin to seeing your old friend in odd socks or a wig. There's a rocking rendition of The Butcher, and Bird On The Wire/Je Veux Vivre Tout Seul with an uncharacteristically insipid French verse. (No, Leonard didn't write it; or if he did he had the good sense to do it under a pseudonym and the good manners to sing it in French-speaking countries).
Among the other rarities here are early, pre-album performances of Don't Go Home With Your Hard-on and Guerrero/Iodine. Notoriously perfectionist, Leonard put many of his songs through countless changes, sometimes tried out onstage, before deeming them worthy of release. There are songs here too that never passed the audition: Store Room and Blessed is the Memory remained in the vaults until Leonard's record company dusted them off to use as bonus tracks on recent reissues.
As on this album's predecessor, Other Songs Of Leonard Cohen, there are several cover songs. Leonard, particularly in early concerts, could knock out an impromptu take on anything from Sam Cooke's Another Saturday Night to the Christmas carol Silent Night when the mood took him. And there are also traditional songs: Jewish folk (Un As Der Rebbe Singt), Irish rebel folk (Kevin Barry) and an old German song about freedom (Die Gedanken Sind Frei). The songs span his whole musical career.
"When I look back, I think I tried my best", Leonard said. "I keep on trying my best." Starting out, as Leonard himself did, with poetry (Dead Songs), Another closes, just as appropriately, with Whither Thou Goest, as Leonard packs his case and hits the road again for the next leg of his tour.
» Thanks to messalina79 and DrHGuy
» Picture in the thumbnail by janeadamsart
» On Paradise Lost old songs will be revisited. Some of them are very old but memory must be preserved. On the other hand, new music is always present. Like everything else, music don't stop!
00:16 Je Veux Vivre Tout Seul
05:00 Kevin Barry
08:59 Die Gedanken Sind Frei
12:31 Store Room
17:08 As Time Goes By
19:35 Don’t Go Home with Your Hard-on
22:34 Blessed is the Memory
26:01 Silent Night
28:24 Dead Song
28:45 Another Saturday Night
29:42 Ballad of the Absent Mare
36:49 Guerrero
40:08 The Butcher
44:40 Un As Der Rebbe Singt
45:39 Song to the Machines
48:26 If It Be Your Will
52:13 Thirsty for the Kiss
55:48 A Thousand Kisses Deep
58:08 I Tried To Leave You
01:13:04 Whither Thou Goest
01:14:48 Mr Cohen Must Be Going
01:15:26 Banana Song
» Liner notes by Sylvie Simmons, Ruth Stimson, and Allan Showalter (AKA DrHGuy)
There was something on the radio about Michel de Montaigne, the French Renaissance essayist. From the day he was born, he heard nothing but Latin - an experiment conducted by his dad. Montaigne grew up as fluent in Latin as his schoolfriends were in French. He also suffered depression. The famous Essais he wrote were a form of self-therapy, it said. Which wouldn't have made him popular with Dr Heck, the shrink, Leonard Cohenite and philanthropist who, along with messalina79, compiled this free album and then signed me up to write free liner notes. Leonard, famously, spent his life avoiding psychiatrists; Leonard, as we all know, was uncommonly smart.
Montaigne's story made me think of Leonard and his writing. In particular his songs - songs I've listed to closely, quizzically, vertically and horizontally since 1968, when Cohen was considerate enough to choose the second I hit puberty as the release date for his first album. It made me wonder what would happen if, as an experiment, you raised your baby on nothing but Leonard Cohen songs.
Cohen's songs are the kind you are drawn back to over and over; we go back to them not always for their familiarity and solace but for their mystery, the unknown. Another Other Songs Of Leonard Cohen includes a number of songs that are old friends, but whose unusual versions are akin to seeing your old friend in odd socks or a wig. There's a rocking rendition of The Butcher, and Bird On The Wire/Je Veux Vivre Tout Seul with an uncharacteristically insipid French verse. (No, Leonard didn't write it; or if he did he had the good sense to do it under a pseudonym and the good manners to sing it in French-speaking countries).
Among the other rarities here are early, pre-album performances of Don't Go Home With Your Hard-on and Guerrero/Iodine. Notoriously perfectionist, Leonard put many of his songs through countless changes, sometimes tried out onstage, before deeming them worthy of release. There are songs here too that never passed the audition: Store Room and Blessed is the Memory remained in the vaults until Leonard's record company dusted them off to use as bonus tracks on recent reissues.
As on this album's predecessor, Other Songs Of Leonard Cohen, there are several cover songs. Leonard, particularly in early concerts, could knock out an impromptu take on anything from Sam Cooke's Another Saturday Night to the Christmas carol Silent Night when the mood took him. And there are also traditional songs: Jewish folk (Un As Der Rebbe Singt), Irish rebel folk (Kevin Barry) and an old German song about freedom (Die Gedanken Sind Frei). The songs span his whole musical career.
"When I look back, I think I tried my best", Leonard said. "I keep on trying my best." Starting out, as Leonard himself did, with poetry (Dead Songs), Another closes, just as appropriately, with Whither Thou Goest, as Leonard packs his case and hits the road again for the next leg of his tour.
» Thanks to messalina79 and DrHGuy
» Picture in the thumbnail by janeadamsart
» On Paradise Lost old songs will be revisited. Some of them are very old but memory must be preserved. On the other hand, new music is always present. Like everything else, music don't stop!
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