"by a guy named Leonard Cohen." He was one of the greatest songwriters ever. You should check out some more of his songs. The Sisters of Mercy, Suzanne, Dance Me To The End of Love, One of Us Cannot Be Wrong.
Dance Me to the End of Love is heartbreaking and amazing and Suzanne makes a surprising number of my playlists. I kind of wonder how MRM would feel about The Future, since it's so dark and cynical. Oh, or I'm Your Man.
Leonard was a powerful poet songwriter. A Canadian born into a serious Jewish family in Montreal was also affected by his irish Catholic nanny . Add in lust, depression and eventual mellowing after spiritual search. In college it was his songs of longing, lamentation. His dry sense of humor and gentlemanly ways touring in his 70s (after an employee embezzled almost all his money) I re-discovered him in his older years (I'm 70 now and his lusty youth kinda of scared me as a Catholic teenager- His Live From London DVD and CD revealed his charm an graciousness. Blessed by release from depression after deep spiritual search he became loveable. "Everybody Knows' is still kind of hard hitting to me, but his words and music still draw me in. Glad you liked that and explained why!
"Anthem", "I'm Your Man", "Hallelujah", "Dance Me To The End Of Love", "The Future", "Come Healing" - Any of these song by the GREAT Leonard Cohen I'm sure you would enjoy!
oooh The late Leonard Cohen had one of the most incredible bass voices ever! Loved his music! I agree; you should do 'Hallelujah'. LOLOLOL you have a really funny sister; she looks just like you!
Leonard Cohen was one of the best poet/song writer and story teller as well as Nick Cave in my opinion. Favorite Cohen songs Take this Waltz, Dance Me To The End of Love and Suzanne. My husband's father saw Cohen live three times and each time it was fantastic.One of the best remakes of this song is by Concrete Blonde Johnette Napolitano she has one a hell of a voice.My husband saw her live at a birthday party for friend of hers in Vegas.lucky SOB.
You're a bit young to know this but funny you said Cohen sounds like something that would be in a Tarantino type film. 3 of Cohen's songs are in Natural Born Killers, by Oliver Stone. So that's a good call on that, young man. You've definitely got profressional ear for music. 👍
Okay! I learned something! Ididnt know that he was the original artist who wrote Hallelujah. If I did, I didn't really pay attention. I had to stop for a moment and listen to his version. Though I knew all of the words and the music, it somehow felt sadder and darker when he performs it. Thanks for doing this, I always seem to learn something from your reactions and the comments.
Did you know that there are over 75 Verses to Hallelujah, and that you never knew which ones Leonard was going to sing the night of his concert, or how many. One concert of his, he went 30 Verses Deep, and we sat mesmerized having no understanding of when he would finish. When he did, well...
I'm glad you enjoyed the song. Leonard Cohen is definitely an acquired taste. I happen to love many of his songs, including Hallelujah, Who By Fire, and Dance Me to the End of Love.
I discovered Leonard Cohen from the movie Natural Born Killers.....I heard his voice and HAD to know who he was! His passing saddened me. 💜🎶💜🎶💜🎶💜🎶💜 Dancing to the end of love is incredible.
If I HAD to choose a favorite singer/songwriter it would be Leonard Cohen. I hope you've listened to a lot more of his music and listened to some of the interviews and his life story since you first heard this song. He is greatly missed by those who have loved his music for DECADES....
So glad that Mr Cohen got to this guy. The style is one thing, but the story -- massively metaphorical and allegorical spiced with vivid images to which we can all relate. LC was a giant and is just now being discovered by a new generation of people.
My first introduction to this song was from the movie Pump Up The Volume starring Christian Slater. He plays as a kid who runs a pirate radio station and this is his theme song. Fun fact, if you pay close attention, you can see one of the kids at his school is played by a young Seth Green.
Leonard Cohen songs have amazing lyrics. You can't help but stop and concentrate and the words! You need to hear him sing his own song: "Hallelujah". He sings it the way it should be sung (since he is the writer).
you are so right. I know this song from long times past, but I don't know it's meaning any more than you brother. Just gunna keep on keepin' on... God bless!!!
For years in my ignorance I dissed Leonard Cohen!! Then I discovered Neil Young, that led to Bob Dylan which in turn forced me to revisit Leonard Cohen. So glad I did, as you get older one's music tastes and appreciation changes and matures!!😌😌🇬🇧
It is very different, but what I love about Ty and his reactions is that I am listening to things I would never listen to on my own. Some of it, like this one, is a pleasant surprise. Some I just really don't care for, but at least I experienced it once , so it's never time wasted.
@@carolnikitaides2904 I agree. I personally, love to experience new songs. Especially, when those songs are requested by people, it gives insight to a piece of them and for those few moments you're experiencing something from their point of view.
The first time I heard Leonard's music was in the 1971 movie by Robert Altman - McCabe & Mrs Miller. Leonard had three songs on the soundtrack. I was hooked from the beginning. So privileged to see him in concert three times, the first being in 1980 in Sydney, Australia. R.I.P. Leonard - it has been nearly four years since your departure.
Leonard Cohen was Canada's Poet Laureate for some years - he started just writing poetry but found people didn't care much about poetry so he decided to add music and well, it was a huge success. From his early works like Susanne to the stuff he was doing up to his death in 2016.
Best concert i ever went to was him when he was 74 years old.... just a young man with a dream. I think this may have been from that tour.... same backup singers and arrangement.
He was a poet that put his poems to music. This song was apart of his last concert in London at 80 yrs old. He wrote "Ahlayluya" that everyone is singing now. K D Lang did it great, but I always like the original best. Apologize for the spelling of the song title.
Great song. You may like his love songs "Dance Me to the End of Love" and "I'm Your Man." The voice, the lyrics, the music - hypnotic, but makes you think. Thanks
He received an award from Spain's Royal .... something. You can hear the Spanish guitar influence clearly in this piece. Trivia, He played guitar for a while but wasn't satisfied with his playing. Then one day he heard a young man playing in a park and he asked to be taught. The arrangement didn't last long. The young man didn't show up for their session. Cohen went looking for him and learned he committed suicide. He said a lot of his music was based on the few things he learned from their short encounter.
The background singers are the Webb sisters. Check them out. They're amazing musicians in their own right and they're very beautiful too. They inspired me to buy my harp. ❤️
Bill Cooper had a radio show decades ago,and he had this song as a intro sometimes, there is a guy that posted alot of Coopers work on a channel called Bill Cooper.
Cohen has written so many great ones but this might be his best. Other recommendations would be The Future, First We Take Manhattan and Closing Time. And of course Hallelujah.
If you listen to his early songs, he had a lovely tenor voice. But years of smoking and drinking took a toll on his voice. But being a true artist, he made it work for him! If you listen to “You like it Darker” his voice is even grittier! He’s an amazing poet, and entertainer!
When Cohen died, he was in the process of introducing an album, , that felt like a curtain rising on the first act of the cascading spiritual crises the country was about to enter. In the ensuing years, I have sometimes caught the feeling that someone was leering at me. Or winking. Someone, somewhere, was trying to remind me: . Cruelty and chaos were the default settings against which moments of fleeting grace stood as contrast. You want it darker? I’ll kill the flame.
please watch "pump up the volume"! this song was the kinda theme song, and it has a partial version of his song "if it be your will" you'll love the movie, its about free will, and speaking out against the system
It was played in the film Heathers. Leonard Cohen was amazing. Also, in reference to another comment, I would also suggest checking out Sisters of Mercy.
Leonard Cohen is an acquired taste. He wrote a lot of music in his time and just passed away in 2016. The Sisters of Mercy is one of my favorite songs to sing and Suzanne, also. There's also a song called "The Stranger Song" that really shows his mastery of storytelling and his really unique guitar playing that actually sounds like part of the story. Hope you will listen to that one, sometime.
This song can be reinterpreted in many ways, but it was really written about the early AIDS epidemic. Back in the 80s and 90s, before there were better treatments for symptoms and for long-term well-being, people with AIDS would often have visible symptoms such as a particular skin cancer that produced lesions on the skin as well as wasting and rapid physical aging. In most places, people were ostracized who showed these symptoms. A lot of things (often incorrectly) were also assumed about people who were sick and people were very judgmental, as people are. So the song has a very literal interpretation. That being said, some of its themes are certainly applicable to other things. And, that voice, yeah. I hear ya on this.
Ty, you got the first part of the theme of this song correct. It has a sound like something is about to go down or someone is about to be busted. But then, when the cops arrive, you find out they are crooked and in on whatever was going down. This song has a lot of shady stuff going on below the surface and everybody knows it, but just kind of ignores it because it's easier to look the other way. At least that's how I interpret this song.
I miss him dearly. One of the greatest poets and songwriters of anytime
"by a guy named Leonard Cohen." He was one of the greatest songwriters ever. You should check out some more of his songs. The Sisters of Mercy, Suzanne, Dance Me To The End of Love, One of Us Cannot Be Wrong.
Last Year's Man!!
Majoofi and of course hallelujah
A wonderful POET. 💚💜
Dance Me to the End of Love is heartbreaking and amazing and Suzanne makes a surprising number of my playlists. I kind of wonder how MRM would feel about The Future, since it's so dark and cynical. Oh, or I'm Your Man.
Grinder Man Yes, I love Avalanche. But Joan of Arc is my favourite.
Leonard Cohen was genius with words.
"Everybody knows that you've been faithful... give or take a night or two.. " His LYRICS!!!
"Everybody knows you've been discreet, but there were so many people you just had to meet -- without your clothes" is my favourite 😂
@@vanyadolly me too!!
He could male you laugh and cry all in the same song.
Pure genius.
Most seem to forget Hallelujah is about a man's struggles with sexual desire... but, ya know.. God.
Ty, Leonard Cohen was a poet who set his poetry to music. Hallelujah as also written by him.
Yeah that's also a heart felt one. Pls react to it Ty. But the music video.
I love this song, it's my favorite Leonard Cohen song, ever since I heard it first as a teenager in the movie pump up the volume
Concrete Blonde, love how she does this song
Love this song and pump up the volume is one of my favorite movies.
@@Gantzz321 one of my fav movies.
I’m as horny as a ten peckered owl right now!
Shanwyn Pump Up The Volume is a great film!
Singer. Poet. Truth-speaker. Icon.
Leonard was a powerful poet songwriter. A Canadian born into a serious Jewish family in Montreal was also affected by his irish Catholic nanny . Add in lust, depression and eventual mellowing after spiritual search. In college it was his songs of longing, lamentation. His dry sense of humor and gentlemanly ways touring in his 70s (after an employee embezzled almost all his money) I re-discovered him in his older years (I'm 70 now and his lusty youth kinda of scared me as a Catholic teenager- His Live From London DVD and CD revealed his charm an graciousness. Blessed by release from depression after deep spiritual search he became loveable. "Everybody Knows' is still kind of hard hitting to me, but his words and music still draw me in. Glad you liked that and explained why!
Leonard Cohen, IM YOUR MAN
I love this song, I love this man and his poetry/music. He is a very different singer but his songs all pack a heavy punch.
"Anthem", "I'm Your Man", "Hallelujah", "Dance Me To The End Of Love", "The Future", "Come Healing" - Any of these song by the GREAT Leonard Cohen I'm sure you would enjoy!
Closing Time.
His first we take Manhattan is quite good as well.
That was different, A good different. I love hearing someone with a very unusual voice, makes them stand out.
One of the best songwriters ever!!
Please check out more!
I’m so impressed that you reacted to this brilliant songwriter, musician, singer, entertainer, and beautiful human soul! 👍🏽💙💃🏻
You absolutely cannot go wrong with Leonard Cohen. Ever.
Leonard Cohen is an acquired taste. He is one of the best songwriters/poets of our time. I agree with your Quentin Tarantino comment, definitely.
This has been my favorite Leonard Cohen song ever since I heard it on Pump Up The Volume.
Leonard Cohen was a genre unto himself.
oooh The late Leonard Cohen had one of the most incredible bass voices ever! Loved his music! I agree; you should do 'Hallelujah'. LOLOLOL you have a really funny sister; she looks just like you!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cohen 😍 love his music, a wonderful poet and musician. It was a sad day when he passed away
RIP Mr. Cohen: Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Legend.
every line of that song is an intense metaphore, overflowing with specific meaning
CYNICAL humorous poetry ,from leonard Cohen sadly missed ,RIP .
More Cohen, he has so many great songs. His lyrics will floor you.
"The Future". Genius.
Leonard Cohen was one of the best poet/song writer and story teller as well as Nick Cave in my opinion. Favorite Cohen songs Take this Waltz, Dance Me To The End of Love and Suzanne. My husband's father saw Cohen live three times and each time it was fantastic.One of the best remakes of this song is by Concrete Blonde Johnette Napolitano she has one a hell of a voice.My husband saw her live at a birthday party for friend of hers in Vegas.lucky SOB.
You're a bit young to know this but funny you said Cohen sounds like something that would be in a Tarantino type film. 3 of Cohen's songs are in Natural Born Killers, by Oliver Stone. So that's a good call on that, young man. You've definitely got profressional ear for music. 👍
Leonard Cohen is one of the most famous singer-songwriters on the planet. But maybe more outside the States.
The man with the voice.
When he talked, his voice was very similar to his singing voice. RIP Mr. Cohen.
Leonard Cohen was a poet who set music to his poems.
Okay! I learned something! Ididnt know that he was the original artist who wrote Hallelujah. If I did, I didn't really pay attention. I had to stop for a moment and listen to his version. Though I knew all of the words and the music, it somehow felt sadder and darker when he performs it.
Thanks for doing this, I always seem to learn something from your reactions and the comments.
Did you know that there are over 75 Verses to Hallelujah, and that you never knew which ones Leonard was going to sing the night of his concert, or how many. One concert of his, he went 30 Verses Deep, and we sat mesmerized having no understanding of when he would finish. When he did, well...
@@JoshSmith-uj1jd Definitely not, for me I like his version the most.
Leonard Cohen.... Thanks so much putting a shine on this under rated man. . Would you do Leonard’s. Hallelujah..His song...
One of my absolute Favorites!!!
His songs were used in NATURAL BORN KILLERS which was written by Tarantino.
He was calling out people's hypocrisy. He sings a lot about broken souls. And sometimes the beauty of being broken.
There is a crack.. a crack in everything...
That's how the light gets in...
:-)
OMG! I love Leonard Cohen. My parents always played him my house.
I'm glad you enjoyed the song. Leonard Cohen is definitely an acquired taste. I happen to love many of his songs, including Hallelujah, Who By Fire, and Dance Me to the End of Love.
What about "You Want it Darker." Now that is some great dark music.
Who by Fire is a take on a Jewish High Holy Day prayer.
I discovered Leonard Cohen from the movie Natural Born Killers.....I heard his voice and HAD to know who he was! His passing saddened me.
💜🎶💜🎶💜🎶💜🎶💜
Dancing to the end of love is incredible.
He is the man that wrote Hallelujah. Great song writer and story teller through music.
If I HAD to choose a favorite singer/songwriter it would be Leonard Cohen. I hope you've listened to a lot more of his music and listened to some of the interviews and his life story since you first heard this song. He is greatly missed by those who have loved his music for DECADES....
So glad that Mr Cohen got to this guy. The style is one thing, but the story -- massively metaphorical and allegorical spiced with vivid images to which we can all relate. LC was a giant and is just now being discovered by a new generation of people.
so many people you just had to meet, without your clothes! great line
Maybe it's addressed to someone who goes to nudist camps.
Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
LIVE version
I would rather see him react to "Hallelujah - 10 year old autistic girl singing"
Jeff Buckley does my favorite rendition of Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley for studio version. kd lang for live version.
I love kd lang version. When she sang live to Mr Cohen. Was at a special recognition of cohen... her version is so heartfelt...amazing
My first introduction to this song was from the movie Pump Up The Volume starring Christian Slater. He plays as a kid who runs a pirate radio station and this is his theme song. Fun fact, if you pay close attention, you can see one of the kids at his school is played by a young Seth Green.
yes it is worth listening to this brilliant souls entire catalogue ❣️
When it comes to lyrics, nobody better than leonard
The first time I heard this, I thought it was Tom Waits...who is the only other person I can think of with lyrics as raw and gritty as these.
@@randallsherman1309 Check out The Future by Cohen
the future by Cohen is awesome, or maybe tower of song
Leonard Cohen songs have amazing lyrics. You can't help but stop and concentrate and the words! You need to hear him sing his own song: "Hallelujah". He sings it the way it should be sung (since he is the writer).
you are so right. I know this song from long times past, but I don't know it's meaning any more than you brother. Just gunna keep on keepin' on... God bless!!!
For years in my ignorance I dissed Leonard Cohen!! Then I discovered Neil Young, that led to Bob Dylan which in turn forced me to revisit Leonard Cohen. So glad I did, as you get older one's music tastes and appreciation changes and matures!!😌😌🇬🇧
You and me too!! So glad I overcame my own stupidity and ignorance!!😁😁🇬🇧
Haven't heard this song in quite a while. Thanks for your reaction to it!
Another great song by Leonard Cohen is "In My Secret Life"
This was a very different vibe of music than I'm used too. The lyrics, however, are quite hypnotic.
It is very different, but what I love about Ty and his reactions is that I am listening to things I would never listen to on my own. Some of it, like this one, is a pleasant surprise. Some I just really don't care for, but at least I experienced it once , so it's never time wasted.
@@carolnikitaides2904 I agree. I personally, love to experience new songs. Especially, when those songs are requested by people, it gives insight to a piece of them and for those few moments you're experiencing something from their point of view.
That's because he SPEAKS to you when he sings... He sings what is in the back of our heads and right in front of our faces
The first time I heard Leonard's music was in the 1971 movie by Robert Altman - McCabe & Mrs Miller. Leonard had three songs on the soundtrack. I was hooked from the beginning. So privileged to see him in concert three times, the first being in 1980 in Sydney, Australia. R.I.P. Leonard - it has been nearly four years since your departure.
Leaving us with Songs...of Love...a nd War.
...will meet again, at the Alter!
omg I love Leonard Cohen!! Thanx
Sad that he's gone now but he's left such a legacy behind. Suzanne, So long Mary Anne, , Gypsy Wife +++, Bird on A Wire..so so many...love them all
everybody knows, that's how it goes. RIP Leonard, soul of an angel
Leonard Cohen was Canada's Poet Laureate for some years - he started just writing poetry but found people didn't care much about poetry so he decided to add music and well, it was a huge success. From his early works like Susanne to the stuff he was doing up to his death in 2016.
Best concert i ever went to was him when he was 74 years old.... just a young man with a dream. I think this may have been from that tour.... same backup singers and arrangement.
He was a poet that put his poems to music. This song was apart of his last concert in London at 80 yrs old. He wrote "Ahlayluya" that everyone is singing now. K D Lang did it great, but I always like the original best. Apologize for the spelling of the song title.
Love this one by Leonard Cohen, he also did the song Hallelujah another great one.
This song was written by Leonard Cohen's long time backup singer great song
Leonard and Concrete Blonde both had a version of this song on the soundtrack of a 1990 movie Pump up the Volume...great music and bloody good movie
Great song. You may like his love songs "Dance Me to the End of Love" and "I'm Your Man." The voice, the lyrics, the music - hypnotic, but makes you think. Thanks
the man, the voice, rip!
Oh man there is so much history behind this voice and many voices and just such a mark on time this man made. Great reaction.
Amazing song, incredible that I encounter it here, of all places...
He wrote Tower of Song, Alleluia, Bird on a Wire as well. I like his son as well. adam? Cohen
This song was used in the movie:
“Pump Up The Volume “
[ 1990], Christian Slater.
📻🙂
He received an award from Spain's Royal .... something. You can hear the Spanish guitar influence clearly in this piece.
Trivia, He played guitar for a while but wasn't satisfied with his playing. Then one day he heard a young man playing in a park and he asked to be taught. The arrangement didn't last long. The young man didn't show up for their session. Cohen went looking for him and learned he committed suicide. He said a lot of his music was based on the few things he learned from their short encounter.
That acceptance speech is very well worth the listen.
The late great Leonard Cohen!!
Try “The Future” Live in London
RIP Mr Cohen
Leonard was an amazing poet and he put his words to music. All of his songs are great. I LOVE him.
Who By Fire is my favorite of his😀
The background singers are the Webb sisters. Check them out. They're amazing musicians in their own right and they're very beautiful too. They inspired me to buy my harp. ❤️
Bill Cooper had a radio show decades ago,and he had this song as a intro sometimes, there is a guy that posted alot of Coopers work on a channel called Bill Cooper.
Leonard Cohen - The Future is in movie Natural Born Killers, first time ive heard Leonard
The future is a great song.
Crazy fact: Leonard Cohen once narrated the Tibet "Book of the Dead" for public televison
Everybody knows could be about any of us. Think about it. Great song/ thought provoking. Makes you sit and listen.
You were totally mesmerized.
Cohen sang the truth of the times.
You might like Tower of Song and damn near every song Cohen ever wrote/sang.
I used this song for the 2010 Quitline Campaign to stop people from smoking
Because Leonard Cohen is / was a poet.
Cohen has written so many great ones but this might be his best. Other recommendations would be The Future, First We Take Manhattan and Closing Time. And of course Hallelujah.
If you listen to his early songs, he had a lovely tenor voice. But years of smoking and drinking took a toll on his voice. But being a true artist, he made it work for him! If you listen to “You like it Darker” his voice is even grittier! He’s an amazing poet, and entertainer!
Pump up the Volume soundtrack
"You Got Me Singing" or "Did I Ever Love You" off one of his newer albums are excellent. "Closing Time" is his masterpiece, though.
When Cohen died, he was in the process of introducing an album, , that felt like a curtain rising on the first act of the cascading spiritual crises the country was about to enter. In the ensuing years, I have sometimes caught the feeling that someone was leering at me. Or winking. Someone, somewhere, was trying to remind me: . Cruelty and chaos were the default settings against which moments of fleeting grace stood as contrast. You want it darker? I’ll kill the flame.
I miss him, loved him. I believe this song is a prophesy on its way to being fulfilled.
We all are gonna get busted brother.
"Dance me to the end of Love."
please watch "pump up the volume"! this song was the kinda theme song, and it has a partial version of his song "if it be your will" you'll love the movie, its about free will, and speaking out against the system
One of the best lyrics ever.
Leonard Cohen sums up the opinion so many people have of political leaders and politicians the world over!
Never head this one, but I do love Cohen's DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE. Thanks for the reaction.
I just discovered this song and this is a beautiful song that really speaks to me
It was played in the film Heathers. Leonard Cohen was amazing. Also, in reference to another comment, I would also suggest checking out Sisters of Mercy.
Leonard Cohen is an acquired taste. He wrote a lot of music in his time and just passed away in 2016. The Sisters of Mercy is one of my favorite songs to sing and Suzanne, also. There's also a song called "The Stranger Song" that really shows his mastery of storytelling and his really unique guitar playing that actually sounds like part of the story. Hope you will listen to that one, sometime.
This song can be reinterpreted in many ways, but it was really written about the early AIDS epidemic. Back in the 80s and 90s, before there were better treatments for symptoms and for long-term well-being, people with AIDS would often have visible symptoms such as a particular skin cancer that produced lesions on the skin as well as wasting and rapid physical aging. In most places, people were ostracized who showed these symptoms. A lot of things (often incorrectly) were also assumed about people who were sick and people were very judgmental, as people are. So the song has a very literal interpretation. That being said, some of its themes are certainly applicable to other things. And, that voice, yeah. I hear ya on this.
my favourites of his are 'so long marianne' and 'dance to the end of liove'
Ty, you got the first part of the theme of this song correct. It has a sound like something is about to go down or someone is about to be busted. But then, when the cops arrive, you find out they are crooked and in on whatever was going down. This song has a lot of shady stuff going on below the surface and everybody knows it, but just kind of ignores it because it's easier to look the other way. At least that's how I interpret this song.