NEW ALBUM: Leonard Cohen "thanks for the dance"

[CRAZY-HORSE]

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

[Music Head]

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

[CRAZY-HORSE]

as a question MH

did Cohen go through a "trans"(as in NY) stage in the 1980s or has he always been consistent?

[Music Head]

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

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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.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

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!