SONG REACTION: Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat

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►Song Link: • Leonard Cohen - Famous...
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[@tzaph67]

I started listening to Cohen when I was 14 and am now 63, so that’s nearly 50 years! He’s remained one of my favourite artists of all time, even when I was a punk, then a goth, then got into baroque and classical. Basically my love for Cohen’s music has been a constant throughout my life. I do love much of Dylan’s work, especially Desire and Blood On The Tracks, but Cohen would come first if I had to choose. His final album, You Want It Darker, recorded at home when he was dying, with assistance from his son, is also a masterpiece and a very moving and beautiful farewell.

[@sharonstonts]

This is the kind of song you have to listen to while reading the lyrics (well maybe all of his songs are like that). An absolute masterpiece.

[@devenscience8894]

My favorite Cohen song.

[@TheoZoffrok]

Wonderful song, by a unique lyricist. Unlike some, I love how he sings. It's a very intimate, conversational style. There is a *beautiful* version by Jennifer Warnes on her Leonard Cohen covers album, also called Famous Blue Raincoat, which I heartily recommend to one and all. It's the album that revived Cohen's career in the late 80s: Various Positions didn't do very well commercially and he wasn't sure he wanted to continue. But when Jennifer Warnes, his friend and long-time backing singer proposed the album, he gave her two new, as yet unrecorded songs: First We Take Manhattan and Ain't No Cure For Love. Warnes's album was a huge critical success and I think did well commercially, and such was the interest in Cohen's work that he was inspired to go back into the studio, emerging with the absolutely superb I'm Your Man, one of his best ever.

[@davidmannion7333]

I'm with you on this, always preferred Cohen to Dylan. I prefer Cohen's lyrical style, usually more direct but at times pretty dark and emotionally complex. Plus he ends this song with the line 'Sincerely, L.Cohen' which is just great.

[@annefrankenberry7914]

I love Cohen. Glad you're doing his albums at some point.

[@111oooo]

Cohen's the greatest lyricist ever IMHO

[@lawrencebass769]

Haunting and beautiful and sad

[@wille769]

I need to get more into Leonard Cohen, most of what I've heard is fantastic!

[@karolmetal4256]

I have almost all his albums.

[@arrow5599]

i thought between dylan and nick cave

[@markrodeo420]

Dylan is hard for some people, and I’ve been trying to figure out why for a long time. I think a lot of it has to do with the things people say about him, versus the songs and albums that are the most likely to be peoples introductions to him. Like I would never have recommended blood on the tracks as a first listen, the greatness of that album to me is defined by its relationship to his previous albums. It’s interesting for what it isn’t doing more than what it is. it’s probably his most popular album, but most of the people who loved it had knowledge of his other albums going in.
Cohen is great though. He’d work on songs for years, even after releasing them. Dylan would write 10 10 minute songs a day, all masterpieces, and throw half of them away. He breathed the stuff out, so it’s really hard to compare the two. Dylan I think has the more consistent discography though. His last few albums of original songs have been some of his best work, and the Sinatra cover records are really great too.

[@ritagryphon222]

He was a writer - poet - befor he started to make records

[@stephanevilleneuve9450]

The Jennifer Warnes rendition of this song in the 80’s was beautiful, but listening to the original by the author himself was blissful.

[@arrow5599]

u may also like tom waits early stuff