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NEW ALBUM: Leonard Cohen "thanks for the dance" - CRAZY-HORSE - 22-11-2019 Spotify listen: posthumous release of tracks he was working on in the weeks leading up to his death. Jennifer Warnes returns once again as backing vocalist. album produced by his musician/producer son Adam. Adam says "theyre not songs, theyre sketches of discussions we had for their completion" I have to agree, they don't sound like songs and nothing on here anywhere near the class of his final album. not something I would buy but im not a diehard fan RE: NEW ALBUM: Leonard Cohen "thanks for the dance" - Music Head - 09-12-2019 enters the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #61 courtesy of Spotify better than expected for me like most tracks and love yours and the title track but of course I was a huge fan so factor that in RE: NEW ALBUM: Leonard Cohen "thanks for the dance" - CRAZY-HORSE - 09-12-2019 as a question MH did Cohen go through a "trans"(as in NY) stage in the 1980s or has he always been consistent? RE: NEW ALBUM: Leonard Cohen "thanks for the dance" - Music Head - 10-12-2019 the only departure from his norm would be 77's Death Of A Ladies Man when he drew in Phil Spector as producer the wall of sound didn't go over too well with fans or critics except for his #1 fan of course I still managed to love the title track and True Love Leaves No Traces but I will admit Don't Go Home With Your Hard On was pretty pathetic Death Of A Ladies Man Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread "I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said. His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete. "O baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet. "I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love." And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust She took unto herself most everything her lover lost Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view With a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude." He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room He promised her protection for the issue of her womb She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon She took his much admired oriental frame of mind And the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind She took his blonde Madonna and his monastery wine "This mental space is occupied and everything is mine." He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back." She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance, She mocked his female fashions and his working-class mustache. The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get A woman's education but he's not a woman yet And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy. So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. RE: NEW ALBUM: Leonard Cohen "thanks for the dance" - CRAZY-HORSE - 10-12-2019 LOL I could probably be called Neil's #1 fan so I hear ya im probably the only guy in the world who still buys Neil's crap on that pathetic song title sounds like he was decades ahead of his time, Minaj would be proud!