And I'm one hell of a fingerpicker, but i don't understand what technique he employs here. Anyone have any name for it? Granted it may be obvious, but I lean towards country and folk stylings. This sounds Spanish.
He's a very underestimated fingerpicker . I love the way he turns his patterns around. There is so much detail
in his right hand as he changes with the bass end trebble strings. It looks simple but , it's not. In combination with his psychedelic voice and lyrics that makes him a god.
@thedylanschrader Funny, he's widely regarded as not having a great voice, but when I hear others covering his tunes, I find them lacking. Cohen's voice has a weightiness (especially in his later years) that supports and really delivers his lyrics. He has a voice I trust.
one of my favorite songs. I saw Cohen in Paris 3 weeks ago :)
there is a canadian singer called Graeme Allright. he sings Leonard's songs in french [not comparable but i mention him because i knew him before when i was 8 :)]
if u like this song, try :Ballad of the Absent Mare
mcd, I find Jim Morrison's lyrics more profound , just to name one, though his rnroll star attitude might make us forget to listen to the words...but true that Leonard Cohen is such a good storyteller with perfect pronounciation any foreigner would like to learn english with him as a teacher
it is that first album of his that's so outstanding in its unity of musical and poetical expressiveness that all those wise comments go up like smoke being blown away.
Emotion is not the main product of music but a byproduct produced by an arrangements of sound through space and time, actually depending on ones school Classicist , modernist, post modernist, structuralist etc. their does exist a platonic or purely abstract idealized form by which to judge a song as good or bad. To judge a song by the emotion it produces is faulty but to judge it on how well the song produces or mimics the "physicality" of emotion is good.
And who gets to determine what the "main product" of music is, and whose idealized form are you talking about? It's different in conception for each person, even within the same school (and how many listeners would even know the difference b/t modernist and post-modernist?). It is music... and it just is. It has no inherent meaning. Deconstruct it all you want, but like most things it's the individual that brings the "beauty" or the "ugliness" to it, no the other way around.
I hear many people complaining about Leonards composing,guitar-playing and singing talent.Matter of fact,I hear that even from his loyal fans.
Weird.
Id put about a hundred of you smart girls and boys in one room,give you everything you need(paper,instruments,food,wine,drugs...) and let you out after a year to see what you have made.
I bet you would not come out with an album as nearly as great as the Cohen´s "weakest" album.
Good comment BrianGodard! You've obviously got it. I have no problems playing the guitar like he does, no problem singing the song in tune either, but when it comes to composing the thing, I just bow my head... It is so... Well he is a true artist, and I'm just a copycat, and copycats don't count.
This might be cohen's best song. What I find really amazing about it is his ability to do that repetitive picking pattern and not fuck it up. Do you have any idea how difficult that is? try and play this song the way he does, it's hard. When i heard the album version of it, i swore it couldn't be him playing but i was just proven wrong.
i'm probably just speaking from a folksinger's perspective. I'm not saying he's one of the great guitar players ever, i'm just saying it's exceedingly difficult to pick something the same over and over and not screw it up, while singing. i didn't think cohen had it in him.
Well, to his modest credit, Leonard always said that he only had one guitar trick, and he demonstrated it by playing "Avalanche", (which you can also find on here). Same repetetive-triplets "trick" he's using here. It's wonderful, as his guitar playing always is.
In my opinion this demonstrates why people can never manage good Cohen covers: It's in the man's voice.
If you look objectively at this song the melody is incredibly simple and repetitive. The lyrics are interesting, as always, but I'm not sure they could put the song over on their own.
To give Buckley a fair chance I just relistened to the version.
Yep, outside of the melodic and lyrical strength alredy hardwired into the piece, it's insipid uninspire pap. I'm not sure where people got the idea that whispering and simplistic guitar strumming equals talent.
A simple and repetitive melody can be very beautiful (as it is here). That it is simple or repetitive is in itself no objection.
No one can look at any song "objectively" and on that decide if it is good or not. A good song will evoke an emotional response--which is subjective to each listener. I think it's amusing when someone posts like they are the keeper of the platonic form of "music". I like some covers better than his originals, some I don't.
Bill Callahan, NIck Cave, Joanna Newsom are all current and just a credible. I think Cohen is the best; in fact, he is the musical father of these three.
When you listen to something like this, you have to thing that there's something missing from recording artists today. Man, I wish we had an other Leonard.
I think Mark Kozelek is the closest we have right now, but he has a very different style than Cohen. He shares Cohen's melancholy and- to a slightly lesser extent- Cohen's way with words. The only songwriter that can compare to Cohen is Townes Van Zandt, in my opinion.
Leonard Cohen has graced us with some of the finest poetry. Many of his songs were recorded by"big name" performers. Listen to some of his other performances here, you may find many truths in the pictures he draws in your mind with his words.
L.Cohen's poem "Not A Jew": Anyone who says I'm not a Jew is not a Jew I'm very sorry but this is final so says:Eliezar, son of Nissan,priest of Israel; a.k.a Nightingale of the Sinai,Yom Kippur 1973; a.k.a Jikan the Unconvincing,zen monk; a.k.a Leonard Cohen,Certified Food Worker,San Bernadino County, CA; a.k.a The Founder,Order of the Unified Heart; a.k.a The Best Dressed Man in Montreal(local newspaper)
Sorry, too, if I did misunderstand, kluksch. None of us would like to admit it, but we're all influenced by prose and Leonard Cohen is the best at it. Hope it all goes well for you Kluksch
Great song, great artist, great performance. If you notice, he almost never blinks during the nearly 5-minute long song. Not to rule out the emotion, but that helps explain the tear at the end.
Ridiculous...discussion about Cohen's heritage given the remarkable library of his work. He was a miraculous poet and a human being first. I don't imagine God would care if he was buddhist, christian, or bahai. He spoke the heart of humanity; not every Jew can do that.
Kluksch, if you were sincere about the importance of Cohen being a 'human being first' you couldn't have followed it up with that covert put down of his religion. Nature, nurture and ethnicity play a role in who people ultimately become. Cohen is an ordained Buddhist monk in but says he's happy with Judaism. He's open to learning which is why you can admire his work. He recognizes his roots, why can't you? I doubt that he would have cared for you as a fan.
i find it hilarious when people aren't able to appreciate something because their hearing and recognition of peoples voices is so bad that they associate it with something completely different. it doesn't sound like eric cartman, would he even express an emotion like this? thats retarded.
WOW. Just totally beautiful, and he puts so much into the singing you forget,(and the camera angles ignore until near the end) that he is still playing that sad haunting melody and keeping perfect time. It took the second watching to see the tear, but I believe it!
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a beautiful song this man is one of the poetic wonders of our times. anyone who says that you have to be a women to like his music is very wrong i'm a guy and he is one of my favorite writers and singers
i agree with you man, its so tiring that people waste their time posting stupid things on videos that actualy mean something to other people. This isnt some random video of some emo kids acting weird, this is goddman beautiful music man, so tiring that people have to be stupid with technological advancements.
I didn't start it sirmarkthomas - I responded in kind. If I didn't love LC, I wouldn't be watching. I'm alack in the turning the other cheek department.
I'm in NW London knumberd (another mistake?) if you're up for that! I know more about Dylan, Cohen, Guthrie and Lead belly etc than you ever will - don't mean to be bellicose but you started it by calling me a twat, cunt-face! How's the bed-sit big-time songwriter?
You place your self upon the same plane as a genius as Leonard Cohen? - 'That's how we operate!' Get a fucking grip - you couldn't begin to conceive of or explain how he operates any more than I could.
thats how musicians operate in general , we hear the music first you fuckin twat,Im not placing myself on the same level dont take shit out of context.
You're the twat - I'm published, are you? Tell us about one of your songs that I'll have heard of - come on big man, you're the songwriter. As a writer, possibly your grammar, punctuation and spelling might be areas you'd care to look at. I love Cohen but if you want a fight, carry on.
Ironically I am a musician....I play guitar, violin, and I am a drummer....I just find that cohen is a lyricist first....there is nothing wrong with that.
It really isn't playback. :) You can distinctively hear the difference with the recorded album version. What a wild idea, that he would be miming... Why would he?
The first time i heard this song was when i saw this very video on the tele, at the time my mind was bent sidewise with a fever, i found it mezmorizing, just seing that face fill the screen with the pulsating arpeggios and the haunting lyrics. i didnt want it to end, it was perfect.
What an EXCELLENT clip! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! Love Leonard Cohen, loved Beautiful Losers way back when. Not a single note of this clip varies from the recorded track--positively AWESOME! Thanks yet again!
Well that was just awesome. Thanks for the post imatthws. Does anyone know why Cohen is not as big in the UK as he's in other European countries like Spain, France, Portugal...?
I'd never seen this but have always loved this song, from his early album "Songs of Leonard Cohen." This song and many others from the album were used in Robert Altman's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" soundtrack.
Why does Leonard Cohen look like Dustin Hoffman?
AdamDonnie 2 months ago
@AdamDonnie errr they do a bit, good point - just another gorgeous Jewish man :)
wojiaokatya 1 month ago in playlist Leonard Cohen
I think felix is baked at the beginning.
Mynameisnumber5 2 months ago
Actually this was shown 27/1/68 - "Sounds of the 60s" got the date wrong. It survives courtesy of a Bob Pratt compilation.
sambda 3 months ago
And I'm one hell of a fingerpicker, but i don't understand what technique he employs here. Anyone have any name for it? Granted it may be obvious, but I lean towards country and folk stylings. This sounds Spanish.
thedylanschrader 4 months ago
Hi
He's a very underestimated fingerpicker . I love the way he turns his patterns around. There is so much detail
in his right hand as he changes with the bass end trebble strings. It looks simple but , it's not. In combination with his psychedelic voice and lyrics that makes him a god.
l3uzze 3 months ago
and if I ever wrote a song that made me cry I would certainly know I'd found the atom of poetry.
thedylanschrader 4 months ago 2
he doesn't have a fantastic voice but I've never gone for that. Dylan, Townes, Cohen, are my messiahs.
thedylanschrader 4 months ago
@thedylanschrader Funny, he's widely regarded as not having a great voice, but when I hear others covering his tunes, I find them lacking. Cohen's voice has a weightiness (especially in his later years) that supports and really delivers his lyrics. He has a voice I trust.
burpo 3 months ago
@zibimark what do you live for?
Bewegungmaffel 8 months ago 5
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complete no talent
zibimark 9 months ago
the Canadian Bob Dylan.
ciao614 9 months ago
brilliant!!!
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gives the same respect I give to them naneedj.info
malkanthekurulu 1 year ago
She is gorgious.
Medafets 1 year ago
Canadian class
stanleysoldman 1 year ago
Está llorando!!!!... Si algo le faltaba a Leonard era eso... qué conmoción!!!
Casi que nos contagia, Dios!!!
juani201982 1 year ago
I'm not gay, he's probably not gay, but I could fall in love with him.
petesmuk 1 year ago 3
amazing i love his music he is a genius !!!!!
batiansk8 1 year ago 3
it's superb !
hamamaamiia 1 year ago
This song means so much to me that it's beauty like this that justifies life and living for love.
TheFylup 2 years ago 3
Quite possibly the most brilliant lyrics ever written. God this song is perfect. "And while he talks his dreams to sleep
you notice there's a highway
that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder"
dasbakon 2 years ago 7
damned good song.
seanreillyireland 2 years ago 2
What an incredible pice of art! Hypnotic, thoughtful, tender, moving. I love this song.
markbremnerreedy 2 years ago 2
classic early cohen! the first tv performance? just around the time the first album was released i should suspect.
thanks muchly for this....
wordofgord
thewordofgord 2 years ago 2
He sounds more baritone than bass at this age.
dkw12002 2 years ago
Why can't I make my fingers do that!?!?
ErieLestatLuvr 2 years ago 5
this song is playing on a classic guitar.
hamamaamiia 1 year ago
well, now there are two of us.
very frustrating, yes.
pacotabaco2 1 year ago
one of my favorite songs. I saw Cohen in Paris 3 weeks ago :)
there is a canadian singer called Graeme Allright. he sings Leonard's songs in french [not comparable but i mention him because i knew him before when i was 8 :)]
if u like this song, try :Ballad of the Absent Mare
and thank me :)
walidabboud 2 years ago 4
this always makes me cry
Opetti 2 years ago 12
back when music still existed
JohnnyCreepy 2 years ago 3
apisteytos moysikos!
DISCOLACHINO 2 years ago
A genius performing one of his masterpieces. Such a truthful poem, such a wondeful song...Thank you L. Cohen!
Erasitexnhs 2 years ago 7
He is crying.. At the end of the video you see the tear run down his face.
I love his music. He is such an incredible personality.
madbara 2 years ago 26
@madbara yesss wow
wojiaokatya 1 month ago in playlist Leonard Cohen
julie felix = babe
jimmyeatskids 2 years ago 8
it's song of my life.
The most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
tiops 2 years ago 4
the partisan :P...
is the most beautiful thing i've ever heard.
but this song is simply incredible.
lolNEDMftw 2 years ago 3
oh my god. thx very much ;d
amazing, just amazing :)
tiops 2 years ago 3
Registo fantástico.
jogensyou 2 years ago
Such a beautiful song
jgarrigang 2 years ago 2
Excellant song & vid...thanks. 5/5
trlstaff 2 years ago
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iver bon iver bonbonbon iver iver iver bon....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wisconsin wilds lyrics...
50percentfree 2 years ago
incredible song! just an amazing songwriter, i dont think there will ever be another artist capable of writing such profound lyrics!!
mcd1302 3 years ago 4
mcd, I find Jim Morrison's lyrics more profound , just to name one, though his rnroll star attitude might make us forget to listen to the words...but true that Leonard Cohen is such a good storyteller with perfect pronounciation any foreigner would like to learn english with him as a teacher
itnow 2 years ago
What a wonderful introduction she gave, who is she?
Blondejack2003 3 years ago 5
Julie Felix...probably before your time
robroy999999 3 years ago 6
Thanks - I'm assuming she is a musician as I see a guitar strap on her. Is she known for anything else?
Blondejack2003 3 years ago 4
love it! love him! love them! sooooo romantic ....... sulla scia degli a'm'arcord mai vissuti ....... parte dell'eterno 'longing' collettivo
izzuncy 3 years ago 2
His brilliance reaches out and makes you feel insignificant and small. I love you, Leonard!
ace296692 3 years ago 3
it is that first album of his that's so outstanding in its unity of musical and poetical expressiveness that all those wise comments go up like smoke being blown away.
would you just open your heart and listen.
MadMusicologist1 3 years ago 2
so good this is my fav song
remonkuijt 3 years ago
Emotion is not the main product of music but a byproduct produced by an arrangements of sound through space and time, actually depending on ones school Classicist , modernist, post modernist, structuralist etc. their does exist a platonic or purely abstract idealized form by which to judge a song as good or bad. To judge a song by the emotion it produces is faulty but to judge it on how well the song produces or mimics the "physicality" of emotion is good.
slopydrunk 3 years ago
And who gets to determine what the "main product" of music is, and whose idealized form are you talking about? It's different in conception for each person, even within the same school (and how many listeners would even know the difference b/t modernist and post-modernist?). It is music... and it just is. It has no inherent meaning. Deconstruct it all you want, but like most things it's the individual that brings the "beauty" or the "ugliness" to it, no the other way around.
vagueex 3 years ago 2
yeah slopydrunk cut the pretentious talk.
markbotatski 3 years ago
Shut up Theodore Adorno....or whoever you are...someone similar....
ejcurtis100 3 years ago
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what are u smoking, just answer me this, was this song wrote before or after dylans rolling stone?
jfk144 3 years ago
Let us put it this way. Leonard was a reader and Dylan had a photographic memory for phonograph records - played over and over again...
naturbouy 2 years ago
I hear many people complaining about Leonards composing,guitar-playing and singing talent.Matter of fact,I hear that even from his loyal fans.
Weird.
Id put about a hundred of you smart girls and boys in one room,give you everything you need(paper,instruments,food,wine,drugs...) and let you out after a year to see what you have made.
I bet you would not come out with an album as nearly as great as the Cohen´s "weakest" album.
BrianGodard 3 years ago 5
Good comment BrianGodard! You've obviously got it. I have no problems playing the guitar like he does, no problem singing the song in tune either, but when it comes to composing the thing, I just bow my head... It is so... Well he is a true artist, and I'm just a copycat, and copycats don't count.
Ohyta 3 years ago
...and he taught Himself to play guitar!
chevy55tool 3 years ago
This might be cohen's best song. What I find really amazing about it is his ability to do that repetitive picking pattern and not fuck it up. Do you have any idea how difficult that is? try and play this song the way he does, it's hard. When i heard the album version of it, i swore it couldn't be him playing but i was just proven wrong.
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Cohen is a mediocre guitarist at absolute best. It's the lyrics that made him special.
HoshoLegacy 3 years ago
i'm probably just speaking from a folksinger's perspective. I'm not saying he's one of the great guitar players ever, i'm just saying it's exceedingly difficult to pick something the same over and over and not screw it up, while singing. i didn't think cohen had it in him.
outofaces 3 years ago 4
Well, to his modest credit, Leonard always said that he only had one guitar trick, and he demonstrated it by playing "Avalanche", (which you can also find on here). Same repetetive-triplets "trick" he's using here. It's wonderful, as his guitar playing always is.
SFJonesy 3 years ago
he was crying at the end.
zinkros15 3 years ago
Beautyful!
Malone70 3 years ago
In my opinion this demonstrates why people can never manage good Cohen covers: It's in the man's voice.
If you look objectively at this song the melody is incredibly simple and repetitive. The lyrics are interesting, as always, but I'm not sure they could put the song over on their own.
It's the way he SAYS them.
EuchridEucrow1 3 years ago 4
Nobody makes a good Leonard Cohen cover...what are you talking about??????
It's all down to the words, he's just as she says a poet.
jjay75 3 years ago
"Nobody makes a good Leonard Cohen cover...what are you talking about??????"
I thought it was pretty straight forward. Most Cohen covers are atrocious. Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" leaps to mind immediately.
EuchridEucrow1 3 years ago
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If you hoestly feel that Leonard Cohens original of Hallelujah is better than Jeff Buckleys theres something terribly wrong with you.
jjay75 3 years ago
To give Buckley a fair chance I just relistened to the version.
Yep, outside of the melodic and lyrical strength alredy hardwired into the piece, it's insipid uninspire pap. I'm not sure where people got the idea that whispering and simplistic guitar strumming equals talent.
EuchridEucrow1 3 years ago
OK, your entitled to your own opinion. Thanks for coming with such an unoffensive response.
jjay75 3 years ago
A simple and repetitive melody can be very beautiful (as it is here). That it is simple or repetitive is in itself no objection.
No one can look at any song "objectively" and on that decide if it is good or not. A good song will evoke an emotional response--which is subjective to each listener. I think it's amusing when someone posts like they are the keeper of the platonic form of "music". I like some covers better than his originals, some I don't.
vagueex 3 years ago
The "and suddenly you feel a little older" is in the original, but as with all Cohen songs multiple versions are common.
CraigSW1979 3 years ago
"he did not wrote "songs", he wrote beutiful poems with music. You dont find lyrics like these in today´s music."
I 100% agree,
ysf
ysfaljanabi 3 years ago 2
Bill Callahan, NIck Cave, Joanna Newsom are all current and just a credible. I think Cohen is the best; in fact, he is the musical father of these three.
ashburnhouse 3 years ago
Joanna Newsome? is that a joke?
MYABUTTREEKS 3 years ago
Her lyrics are shit, I agree
ftwelve12 3 years ago
The woman talking has one very sexy mouth.
johnwolcot 3 years ago
When you listen to something like this, you have to thing that there's something missing from recording artists today. Man, I wish we had an other Leonard.
Someguy1975 3 years ago 3
I think Mark Kozelek is the closest we have right now, but he has a very different style than Cohen. He shares Cohen's melancholy and- to a slightly lesser extent- Cohen's way with words. The only songwriter that can compare to Cohen is Townes Van Zandt, in my opinion.
nebulacafe 3 years ago 2
good god it makes me cry
krilla 3 years ago
he did not wrote "songs", he wrote beutiful poems with music. You dont find lyrics like these in today´s music.
julien1212 3 years ago
"and suddenly you feel a little older". I don't remember that line from the album version
zeldagoblin 4 years ago
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I wish that bitch would shut up! and let Master sing.
ashburnhouse 4 years ago
I think she's really good. Compared to today's tv hacks? C'mon.
sunwillset 4 years ago 5
yeah!
tzaraabelardo 3 years ago
I love you, Julie Felix!
ookaninam2000 4 years ago 2
Real music. REAL talent. You can't beat it!!
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webgirl37 4 years ago
Love this little Canuck ! Such a GREAT writer !
Just amazes me , how poorly his two beautiful novels have sold worldwide ...
´Favorite Game ´is a minor classic , and with time will be a major one .
Hemulen40 4 years ago
Leonard Cohen has graced us with some of the finest poetry. Many of his songs were recorded by"big name" performers. Listen to some of his other performances here, you may find many truths in the pictures he draws in your mind with his words.
fatwang 4 years ago
through a black period of my life this haunting sound helped me enjoy my agony
cwegers 4 years ago 3
I never thought I'd see a visual that transcended the recorded version of this song. . . thank you.
KeyYawnUh 4 years ago
That single tear, man.
asalingerreference 4 years ago
Yes.
sunwillset 4 years ago
lovely
Dixie50 4 years ago
amazing.
IamELduderino 4 years ago
Lip-synced. Why bother posting? Gimmee live stuff.
swingster39 4 years ago
You must be kidding. This is absolutely live, 100%.
sunwillset 4 years ago
Leonard Cohen is a great artist. He is hundred times better than a Bob Geldoff.
vitali69 4 years ago
When I was younger I heard the Judy Collins "In My Life"
with "Tom Thumb's Blues" by Dylan and the two tracks by Cohen.
I didn't know what to make of them. All the songs were good
but the Cohen songs were so diferent. I bought the album
with him fixing his tie in the mirror and all the songs were good
but they were sad and flat. Much later I would hear "Stranger" or "Joan Of Arc"
and I would say...what the hell was that? It was like hearing a monologue by
Joe Frank...hard to describe.
nothingbutstars 4 years ago
UnwiseWisdom 4 years ago 2
Ugh, and he's proud of that? Why? Is he connected to the banking or porn industry?
Alfrunk 4 years ago
Sorry, too, if I did misunderstand, kluksch. None of us would like to admit it, but we're all influenced by prose and Leonard Cohen is the best at it. Hope it all goes well for you Kluksch
Coralie2 4 years ago
i´m sorry.maybe you did misunderstood.this song is a journey simillar to mine.I wept as I listened.
kluksch 4 years ago
uff, strong stuff
kluksch 4 years ago
Great song, great artist, great performance. If you notice, he almost never blinks during the nearly 5-minute long song. Not to rule out the emotion, but that helps explain the tear at the end.
viscousjim 4 years ago
if there is a leonard cohen autobiography movie made, dustin hoffman has got to play him!!!
lpyyxw 4 years ago
me gusta mucho también la versión que hace Nacho Vegas de este tema, lástima que no haya un video de eso, o al menos eso creo.
garagedays 4 years ago
Ridiculous...discussion about Cohen's heritage given the remarkable library of his work. He was a miraculous poet and a human being first. I don't imagine God would care if he was buddhist, christian, or bahai. He spoke the heart of humanity; not every Jew can do that.
ClayKMcK 4 years ago
Kluksch, if you were sincere about the importance of Cohen being a 'human being first' you couldn't have followed it up with that covert put down of his religion. Nature, nurture and ethnicity play a role in who people ultimately become. Cohen is an ordained Buddhist monk in but says he's happy with Judaism. He's open to learning which is why you can admire his work. He recognizes his roots, why can't you? I doubt that he would have cared for you as a fan.
Coralie2 4 years ago
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this guy sounds like eric cartman
kmw4 4 years ago
i find it hilarious when people aren't able to appreciate something because their hearing and recognition of peoples voices is so bad that they associate it with something completely different. it doesn't sound like eric cartman, would he even express an emotion like this? thats retarded.
rascalrascal 4 years ago 5
so quick to attack? actually this is a reply to someone elses comment if you view all comments maybe youll "appreciate" it
kmw4 4 years ago
haha sorry
rascalrascal 4 years ago
thanks
Gekkho77 4 years ago
Funny! The beautiful smiling girl introduced the brooding Leonard Cohen - cracking song brilliant composer.
wascillywabbit 4 years ago
WOW. Just totally beautiful, and he puts so much into the singing you forget,(and the camera angles ignore until near the end) that he is still playing that sad haunting melody and keeping perfect time. It took the second watching to see the tear, but I believe it!
neetumal 4 years ago
wow that one tear man one tear...
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jaydo131090 4 years ago
this is just amazing
kingprune 4 years ago
people say you have to be a women to like leonard cohens music?!? Why??
WeTeX30 4 years ago
a beautiful song he is one of the greatest writers of all time and just listing to him will convince anyone of that
grimis22 4 years ago
a beautiful song this man is one of the poetic wonders of our times. anyone who says that you have to be a women to like his music is very wrong i'm a guy and he is one of my favorite writers and singers
grimis22 4 years ago
beautiful
mikederpanzer 4 years ago
Yeah, you can see it really clearly on the DVD.
donning 4 years ago
One of the most important musicians and poets in the history
Giuseppe11 4 years ago
fingerless, very perceptive observation. thank you for pointing it out.
robion2020 4 years ago
i believe so.
BlueScarecrow 4 years ago
Man, there isn't a clip I can watch without reading hateful comments by pissed off people. What a fucking drag.
sirmarkthomas 4 years ago
i agree with you man, its so tiring that people waste their time posting stupid things on videos that actualy mean something to other people. This isnt some random video of some emo kids acting weird, this is goddman beautiful music man, so tiring that people have to be stupid with technological advancements.
Hendrixleft 4 years ago
I didn't start it sirmarkthomas - I responded in kind. If I didn't love LC, I wouldn't be watching. I'm alack in the turning the other cheek department.
donning 4 years ago
I'm in NW London knumberd (another mistake?) if you're up for that! I know more about Dylan, Cohen, Guthrie and Lead belly etc than you ever will - don't mean to be bellicose but you started it by calling me a twat, cunt-face! How's the bed-sit big-time songwriter?
donning 4 years ago
grman----obviously your not a musician. thats just how we operate, music sets the mood
knumberd 4 years ago
You place your self upon the same plane as a genius as Leonard Cohen? - 'That's how we operate!' Get a fucking grip - you couldn't begin to conceive of or explain how he operates any more than I could.
donning 4 years ago
thats how musicians operate in general , we hear the music first you fuckin twat,Im not placing myself on the same level dont take shit out of context.
knumberd 4 years ago
You're the twat - I'm published, are you? Tell us about one of your songs that I'll have heard of - come on big man, you're the songwriter. As a writer, possibly your grammar, punctuation and spelling might be areas you'd care to look at. I love Cohen but if you want a fight, carry on.
donning 4 years ago
Better still, come and call me a twat Affronti affrontare, tune-smith.
donning 4 years ago
Ironically I am a musician....I play guitar, violin, and I am a drummer....I just find that cohen is a lyricist first....there is nothing wrong with that.
grman 4 years ago
amen to that!
knumberd 4 years ago
lol now that you mention it i do see a lil bruce willis in em
knumberd 4 years ago
terry wogan????
omarsabar 4 years ago
does he look like bruce willis with hair to anyone else?
mahoneysmusic 4 years ago
im a guitar payer, trust me that was live and it was amazing
knumberd 5 years ago
apparently he was grief struck at the loss of his parents at an early age and was very sad for a very, very long time..
ckalbacher 5 years ago
It really isn't playback. :) You can distinctively hear the difference with the recorded album version. What a wild idea, that he would be miming... Why would he?
jellevancop 5 years ago
Absolutely incredible...
jellevancop 5 years ago
Why would he mime? Besides, he's singing in a different key, like a whole step higher, or so. And slower.
LoveandMusic 5 years ago
Or I could be wrong.
obscurelines 5 years ago
He's miming. The song isn't live. There is a live version on youtube but this isn't it. It's note for note identical to the recorded song.
obscurelines 5 years ago
The first time i heard this song was when i saw this very video on the tele, at the time my mind was bent sidewise with a fever, i found it mezmorizing, just seing that face fill the screen with the pulsating arpeggios and the haunting lyrics. i didnt want it to end, it was perfect.
TimTimmenycharoo 5 years ago
Did anybody else notice the tear streaming down his left cheek at the end of the song?
pjbrubak 5 years ago
one of my alltime favorite Cohen songs :"reaching for the sky just to surrender"
pjbrubak 5 years ago
I was about 13 when I heard this in the UK on "sounds of the 60's", it made my spine tingle.
I went out and bought "songs of leonard Cohen". Which made my spine tingle.
Thanks for this posting - brings back great memories.
jamierip 5 years ago
speaks to my soul...thx for the post
therealnewfinator 5 years ago
pleas help me for download it
arashcohen 5 years ago
i want to download this video
arashcohen 5 years ago
He's a buddhist now, no longer jewish.
cookienekot 5 years ago
You are wrong. He may be a Buddhist, but he is still Jewish, in his heart and in his identity. :-)
elisan693 4 years ago
What an EXCELLENT clip! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! Love Leonard Cohen, loved Beautiful Losers way back when. Not a single note of this clip varies from the recorded track--positively AWESOME! Thanks yet again!
Pikatso 5 years ago
what's wrong with her mouth?
myroncope 5 years ago
crazy good
Miker2 5 years ago
does anybody have tabs for this or sheet music or anything?!
the tabs online are almost completly wrong
MFRedeemerp2 5 years ago
it's rather easy, it's all about the right hand.
goes in a D -C- - A - E - FM" - with the little finger tapping on the minor tones
jjkrogsveen 5 years ago
Well that was just awesome. Thanks for the post imatthws. Does anyone know why Cohen is not as big in the UK as he's in other European countries like Spain, France, Portugal...?
maneldesig 5 years ago
I'd never seen this but have always loved this song, from his early album "Songs of Leonard Cohen." This song and many others from the album were used in Robert Altman's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" soundtrack.
jackfame 5 years ago
I reckon Julie sold out and became Cher...
And in response to the guy above ` he`s prety jewish` sorry sorry comment you made. wide open your eyes should be.
alkalidock 5 years ago
Well, jews have done a lot of bad things, so maybe you should be open minded...
Alfrunk 5 years ago
so have christians fuckface
grman 4 years ago
did you consider that he might have being sarcastic?
pinholedstars 5 years ago