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What's your favourite Leonard Cohen song?

93 replies

EmmaGrundyForPM · 07/08/2023 09:00

I've recently rekindled my love for Leonard Cohen and am playing a lot of his music. I think my favourite song is Suzanne. What's yours?

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DaisyDando · 07/08/2023 09:02

Chelsea Hotel!

Borka · 07/08/2023 09:04

So long Marianne

Cynderella · 07/08/2023 09:04

Was 'Chelsea Hotel' until 'The Future' was released - love 'Closing Time'. Oh, and 'Everybody Knows' from I'm Your Man'.

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stickygotstuck · 07/08/2023 09:06

If it be your will.

VenusClapTrap · 07/08/2023 09:10

Famous Blue Raincoat.

I recently stayed at the Chelsea Hotel. It was amazing being there, knowing all the songs and books written there, and crazy stuff that went on.

User1755387908 · 07/08/2023 09:16

Light as the Breeze, it's on The Future album

GreyCarpet · 07/08/2023 09:18

Oh so many but it tends to he certain lines in the songs that get me -

Famously Blue Raincoat - and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good, so I never tried.

Chelsea Hotel - second verse. Esp and fixing yourself you said, "well never mind", we are ugly but we have the music

And so many more.

Love him.

notprincehamlet · 07/08/2023 09:22

I am slightly obsessed with You Want It Darker

JammyThing · 07/08/2023 09:25

Tower of Song.

MsRinky · 07/08/2023 09:25

I'm Your Man. Or Everybody Knows. Or whichever one I'm listening to at the point you ask me. Love Leonard.

User1755387908 · 07/08/2023 09:27

I don't think there is any I dislike I even like the Death of a Ladies Man album which is always slated in reviews.

MontanaSapphire · 07/08/2023 09:28

You Got Me Singing. It's on Popular Problems.

screentimehelpplease · 07/08/2023 09:29

Famous Blue Raincoat or The Guests. But there are so many beautiful songs to choose from.
I was lucky enough to send him perform in (I think) 2006. Just wonderful.

RitzyMcFitzy · 07/08/2023 09:32

As sung by Leonard - So Long Marianna

My fave LC cover is Greg Dulli's cover of Paper Thin Hotel. Loooooooovr it so much.

RitzyMcFitzy · 07/08/2023 09:33

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MotherofPearl · 07/08/2023 09:33

Tower of Song

Blossomtoes · 07/08/2023 09:35

Suzanne. Takes me back to being young and innocent.

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 07/08/2023 09:36

Dance Me to the End of Love. Maybe. Too many to choose from.

FriedEggChocolate · 07/08/2023 09:39

So long Marianne, I love the letter he wrote to her when she died. It was so beautiful.

Or Tower of Song, Paper thin hotel, or That's no way to say goodbye. There are so many good songs

magnolia1997 · 07/08/2023 09:40

Bird on a Wire

YesterdayO · 07/08/2023 09:40

Suzanne.

I didn’t like him when I was young and the song came out, but I do now.

thebestsellingshow · 07/08/2023 09:41

Who by Fire

StillPerplexed · 07/08/2023 09:44

So many great songs but I really like his Queen Victoria. It straddles a strange line between bizarre and haunting.

Saisong · 07/08/2023 09:46

Suzanne maybe? But I love so many, they remind me of the old records played on my parents turntable.

Dance me to the End of Love is the most played song on my YouTube list.

MojoDojoCasaHouse · 07/08/2023 09:49

Suzanne for me as well. Second place to First we Take Manhattan.

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