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MrHyde![]() Special user 810 Posts ![]() |
OMG
As the official Patron of the official Mentalists for LC Guild let me say I'm actualy at a loss for words to describe the concert I've just returned from. ( Perhaps Destiny will do better ) His voice is supernatural, the themes are the very essence of what we as mentalists should explore, and his stage craft impeccable. On a more basic level, here's the set list - read it and weep Set 1 1. Dance Me to the End of Love 2. The Future 3. Ain't No Cure for Love 4. Bird on the Wire 5. Everybody Knows 6. In My Secret Life 7. Who By Fire 8. Chelsea Hotel #2 9. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye 10. Anthem Set 2 11. Tower of Song 12. Suzanne 13. The Gypsy Wife 14. The Partisan 15. Boogie Street 16. Hallelujah 17. I'm Your Man 18. A Thousand Kisses Deep [recitation] 19. Take This Waltz Encore 1 20. So Long Marianne 21. First We Take Manhattan Encore 2 22. Famous Blue Raincoat 23. If It Be Your Will 24. Democracy Encore 3 25. I Tried to Leave You 26. Wither Thou Goest PS. this added up to just about 3 hours on stage. |
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DT3![]() Inner circle Hill Valley 1918 Posts ![]() |
Wow. What a set list. I'm jealous.
Timothy did you take notes or memorize the set list as he played? I'm impressed either way. D |
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MrHyde![]() Special user 810 Posts ![]() |
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I could use that as a cue to push my new book and the memory tricks it contains (see link below - available now)... however no ... google is my friend. Actually, last nights show was around show #90 of the world tour and from what I read, the set list is fairly constant, unlike say a Dylan concert, where the open and close might be the same but the rest completely different from one night to the next. Honestly, Don, my head is still reeling from the experience and the incredible sense of community and compassion it invoked. |
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MrHyde![]() Special user 810 Posts ![]() |
Reviving this old thread
in celebration of the new Leonard Cohen album OLD IDEAS his first in 8 years anyone else have it yet? |
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mastermindreader![]() V.I.P. Seattle, WA 12589 Posts ![]() |
No. But I plan on getting it soon!
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gmeister![]() Inner circle 1579 Posts ![]() |
I've heard parts and there are some songs that will become classics. THE NEW YORKER publlshed some of the lyrics a week or two ago. A must have!
Can we resurrect the group? Please! |
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MrHyde![]() Special user 810 Posts ![]() |
"Going Home" was the poem / song they published in the New Yorker last week
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love to speak with Leonard He’s a sportsman and a shepherd He’s a lazy *** Living in a suit But he does say what I tell him Even though it isn’t welcome He will never have the freedom To refuse He will speak these words of wisdom Like a sage, a man of vision Though he knows he’s really nothing But the brief elaboration of a tube Going home Without my sorrow Going home Sometime tomorrow To where it’s better Than before Going home Without my burden Going home Behind the curtain Going home Without the costume That I wore He wants to write a love song An anthem of forgiving A manual for living with defeat A cry above the suffering A sacrifice recovering But that isn’t what I want him to complete I want to make him certain That he doesn’t have a burden That he doesn’t need a vision That he only has permission To do my instant bidding That is to SAY what I have told him To repeat Going home Without my sorrow Going home Sometime tomorrow Going home To where it’s better Than before Going home Without my burden Going home Behind the curtain Going home Without the costume That I wore I love to speak with Leonard He’s a sportsman and a shepherd He’s a lazy *** Living in a suit |
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MrHyde![]() Special user 810 Posts ![]() |
Oh for ****'s sake
you've got to be kidding me you can see the uncensored version with the shocking word "*******" still intact and the lovely New Yorker font here http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/......em_cohen |
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gmeister![]() Inner circle 1579 Posts ![]() |
Thank you, Mr. Hyde!
You DO NOT--I repeat--DO NOT--edit/censor poetry and/or other works of literature. NOT! NOT!! NOT!!! Do the mods understand how "filthy" Shakespeare is if you have a basic understanding of the language?!? I expect this criticism will be "unposted" by the puritanical powers that be. (BTW, the Puritans were actually quite a raunchy bunch!) |
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David Thiel![]() Inner circle Western Canada...where all that oil is 3921 Posts ![]() |
Someone is reading my mind. I just spent all day with Old Ideas playing over and over on my iPod. Brilliant...as always. Sensual...as expected. Sharp perfect words. It's sublime and hypnotic.
I thought I was the only LC Gourmet! "I'm Your Man" is one of the top ten recordings of all time. How do you top lyrics like "looks like freedom but it feels like death...it's something in between I guess." or "the moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with the mighty expectation of relief." And ALL of Dance Me. The growl is a song and the song is a poem and the poem is a symphony to your soul. That's Leonard Cohen. If there's a club I'm in. David
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears. Bears will kill you.
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MrHyde![]() Special user 810 Posts ![]() |
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On 2012-02-03 22:28, David Thiel wrote: We've run out of membership cards but all are welcome "One by one the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many The broken-hearted few And those who dance begin to dance And those who weep begin Welcome, welcome, cries a voice Let all my guests come in" The Guests .. LC |
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aligator![]() Inner circle Canada 2050 Posts ![]() |
That set is quite the list and it does not evem include my favourite - The Stranger Song - if you don't know, try it on Youtube. It may not to appeal to others as much as it does to me, but I'm sure you will all like it. Saw him do this one live almost 35 years ago and I still love it.
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gmeister![]() Inner circle 1579 Posts ![]() |
Is there anything better than hearing LC's songs in the context of a brilliant movie? Remember the haunting image in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" of the prostitutes riding in the rain to the town to the background music of "Sisters of Mercy"? If you've seen it, you'll never forget it!
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Joshua J![]() Special user 665 Posts ![]() |
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On 2012-02-03 23:45, gmeister wrote: I liked the use of first we take Manhattan on Watchmen. I'm quite liking the new album. The songwriting is till top notch. I like his increasingly gruff voice. He's got the common sense to make use of the backing singers alongside his own. Wasn't expecting much, but pleasantly surprised. |
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MrHyde![]() Special user 810 Posts ![]() |
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On 2012-02-04 05:49, Joshua J wrote: This was on the terrific LC Fan Site http://1heckofaguy.com/ Warning Signs of Leonard Cohen Syndrome "You found The Watchmen to be miscast, overblown, and jejune – except for the use of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” which transformed the three minute sex scene between superheroes, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II, into a tragicomic masterpiece destined to become a cinematic classic." http://1heckofaguy.com/2010/04/06/warnin......yndrome/ just saying ![]() |
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todsky![]() Inner circle www.magicstore.ca 2334 Posts ![]() |
Leonard's son Adam recently came out with a new album as well, called 'Like a Man', and he's sounding very Cohenesque.
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DT3![]() Inner circle Hill Valley 1918 Posts ![]() |
Happy 79th!
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David Thiel![]() Inner circle Western Canada...where all that oil is 3921 Posts ![]() |
I bought him a burning violin, but FedEx refused to ship it.
David PS Happy birthday, Leonard. You rock.
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears. Bears will kill you.
www.MindGemsBrainTrust.com www.magicpendulums.com www.MidnightMagicAndMentalism.com |
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Mind Guerrilla![]() Inner circle Queens, NY 2661 Posts ![]() |
I like that song he wrote about a blindfolded car drive/PK Touch routine:
Suzanne "And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind." |
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Synesthesia![]() Regular user 115 Posts ![]() |
Let us Canadians not forget that in addition to his music, his novels (though he only wrote two) are among the most striking our country has ever produced! I choose the word "striking" because they are works of either great beauty or great ugliness depending on your tastes.
In Montréal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, "The winter has not killed us again!" Spring comes into Québec from Japan, and like a prewar Crackerjack prize it breaks the first day because we play too hard with it. Spring comes into Montréal like an American movie of Riviera Romance, and everyone has to sleep with a foreigner, and suddenly the house lights flare and it's summer, but we don't mind because spring is really a little flashy for our taste, a little effeminate, like the furs of Hollywood lavatories. Spring is an exotic import, like rubber love equipment from Hong Kong, we only want it for a special afternoon, and vote tariffs tomorrow if necessary. - Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers Happy birthday to The Ladies' Man! |
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