Quote:
Originally Posted by V
Man oh man, that's too bad.
I loved Russian Red's cover of So Long Marianne. That was the thing with Cohen, I found him more or less unlistenable, but his stuff was amazing when covered.
|
There are certainly a lot of great covers and homages to the man. It was actually Concrete Blonde covering Everybody Knows in the Pump Up the Volume movie that i liked and my cousin hated it. She was telling me to listen to the original, and I just ignored her as being a music snob at the time.
I sort of forgot about him and then I started to hear other musicians I like play more covers and name-drop him, which got me interested in his songs more. I think it was Curt Cobain saying "Give me Leonard Cohen Afterworld, so I can sigh eternally..." in the song Pennyroyal Tea which really made think about what I must be missing out on.