HE'S A LEGEND! Mike & Ginger React to YOU WANT IT DARKER by LEONARD COHEN

One of his last pieces of pure poetry, before his death, Leonard Cohen asks "You Want It Darker".
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[TroyYounts]

Everytime i hear this song, my eyes water

[Gtsafe]

Thanks for the reaction, always loved Leonard Cohen .

[lalosblahblahblah]

With Leonard, I put the full album on my phone which as I use as an mp3 player.
My first listen I took a walk.
When I came home my wife told me it was just a news alert that he passed that day.
I miss him.

[capablancauk]

He finished recording this song with his son on his death bed.

[jlerrickson]

This album felt stunning when I first heard it, mainly because I wasn't used to Cohen so completely questioning his faith for everyone to hear. In retrospect, it makes sense: whether he knew it or not, he was near the end of his path. One's fears tend to shift a lot at that stage.

[arthurwohlwill]

I think you will really enjoy Leonard's "Dance Me To The End of Love" as covered by the band The Civil Wars.. The live in London version is great.

[Jacques.Smith_]

I like it. Hallelujah is still my favorite Cohen song.

[jorgenkarlsson]

Thank you. I hope you can react to "Leaving The Table" from the same album

[mikethurman]

Please watch Nick Cave.
I would call him Cohen's spiritual God-son.
Nick would not agree.
But Nick is humble.
Merry Christmas!!

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[outernothingness]

It's not Yiddish. Just old school Biblical Hebrew. (And if you've missed out on "poets first", you've apparently missed out on Peter Hammill.)

[Jacques.Smith_]

It sounds like he was wrestling with death. There's only one way out. I hope he found it.

[JoakimLindqvist-dw]

Erik grönwall made an epic dark version of house of the rising sun!

[viceroyzh]

Not my favourite song by him, but who cares. Thanks for reacting to the man who should have gotten the Nobel prize in literature (but Bob is cool, too).