Little piece about Leonard...

goblinski · Post by **goblinski** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:56 pm

This is a few days old, so sorry if it's been discussed, but I just found this little piece of writing relating to Leonard Cohen's new album on Pitchforkmedia.com, and rather liked how the writer put it, so I thought I'd share:

Leonard Cohen Readies 11th Album
Joins Veronica, J.D. in plot to take down the new breed

Joshua Sharp reports:
I'm not a betting man. This is partially because I don't have very much money; I'm lazy, and I'm not very good at resisting impulses. But if you asked me off the record, I'd wager Leonard Cohen to be straight-up immortal. Granted, there might not be a whole lot of biological evidence suggesting the man holds the silver key to life eternal-- at least not in the traditional sense of the term "evidence"-- but the songs Cohen has written possess a nearly singular quality: Most of them are impervious to the very possibility of a natural demise.

It is my own subjective assessment that the lasting power of Leonard Cohen's output can be attributed to two intrinsic elements: Cohen's true calling as a man of the pen, and the paradoxical ability of his words to be visually precise/visually evocative while remaining semantically applicable/semantically evocative in innumerable situations of a more individual context. Perhaps this suggests not merely timelessness, but also placelessness. For all their detail, all their setting, all their visual singularity, Cohen's songs contain a human flexibility that enables them to be related into our own individual contexts. For this, his music may never die.

songbird · Post by **songbird** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:27 pm

Thank you for sharing that.

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:27 pm

Nice to see that pitchforkmediacom thinks so good about LC. This will shut up some people I vaguely know... I'll copy this article

tom.

Arno · Post by **Arno** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:36 pm

very nice indeed!

that kinda sums it up for what I would have needed a lot more words;)

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:56 pm

That's unbelievably excellent, goblinski! Thank you so much!

goblinski · Post by **goblinski** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:07 pm

Yeah, I just thought it was nicely put - and it's just a news piece (I didn't bother pasting the album bit, cos I guess y'all alreasy know about it). It's got its detractractors, but I've always found Pitchfork to be an excellent source of reviews, recommendations and appraisals, and it's especially good to see them giving dear Lenny his due...