Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Leonard Cohen

People often say that Leonard Cohen is too gloomy & depressing - music to commit suicide by

But the odd thing is, if youre really down, those songs fit the mood &, actually, lift you up

I once tried to convert a friend round to my point of view. He said that, in his opinion, while Cohen might be said to be the poet of our generation, Dylan was its reporter*. And therefore superior


Favourite LP has to be New Skin for the Old Ceremony



*Leonard Cohen is the Samuel Beckett of pop - Stephen Dalton