Someone just told me about your post - love it! I actually wrote a 33 1/3 book about this album, and the weird phenomenon of tribute albums in general, a couple years ago. There's an extended 30-plus minute version of Nick Cave's "Tower or Song," before they cut it down for the album, that is truly insane.
Love this very much. Like so many people, I feel like Leonard Cohen resonated deeply throughout my life and I wrote quite a lot about him and his influence, and the influences on him and the importance of Judy Collins in basically giving him a career in my book 'Lovers Dreamers Fighters' as well as writing a song I called 'Parting Gifts' on the morning of his death that felt weirdly like it was written both through and for him. Long live Leonard in the never ending Tower of Song.
I recently heard a performance of Hallelujah at a Catholic Mass. The singer had a good voice, maybe too trained for the song. But they omitted the second and third verses that contain broken thrones, broken Hallelujahs, and accusations of blasphemy. As I listened to the amended version of Cohen’s epic, it occurred to me that I amend miracles by calling them coincidences.
Someone just told me about your post - love it! I actually wrote a 33 1/3 book about this album, and the weird phenomenon of tribute albums in general, a couple years ago. There's an extended 30-plus minute version of Nick Cave's "Tower or Song," before they cut it down for the album, that is truly insane.
Love this very much. Like so many people, I feel like Leonard Cohen resonated deeply throughout my life and I wrote quite a lot about him and his influence, and the influences on him and the importance of Judy Collins in basically giving him a career in my book 'Lovers Dreamers Fighters' as well as writing a song I called 'Parting Gifts' on the morning of his death that felt weirdly like it was written both through and for him. Long live Leonard in the never ending Tower of Song.
I recently heard a performance of Hallelujah at a Catholic Mass. The singer had a good voice, maybe too trained for the song. But they omitted the second and third verses that contain broken thrones, broken Hallelujahs, and accusations of blasphemy. As I listened to the amended version of Cohen’s epic, it occurred to me that I amend miracles by calling them coincidences.
The cuts make it sound already. I’d love to read your book!
And that you are the witness to your own holy and broken hallelujahs, and that the world is full of editors, especially in church.
Tim Buckley's album LORCA (1970) is quite amazing.
My favorite cover of a Leonard Cohen song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaIA20nsU34