Leonard Cohen - A Career Restrospective (w/ guest Justin Pope)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian kick off 2017 with an appreciation for the late songwriting titan Leonard Cohen. They are joined in studio singer/songwriter/voiceover artist Justin Pope (justinpopemusic.com), a lifelong Cohen fan. Along the way, the trio discusses why it might not be the best idea to follow your idol to the same college, especially when said idol graduated 44 years earlier and hasn't lived there in nearly as long. We also opine on the difference a producer can make and whether or not recording a bad version of "Hallelujah" is even possible as we make our way through 11 great Leonard Cohen tunes!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:02.2	My name's Bell.
0:02.9	And I'm Brian.
0:03.7	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.6	We are kicking the new year off with a Leonard Cohen retrospective.
0:13.0	Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord,
0:21.6	but you don't really care for music, do you?
0:27.6	It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing,
0:43.3	Hallelujah.
0:48.3	Hallelujah!
0:49.3	Hallelujah.
0:50.3	Hallelujah.
0:52.3	What we do hear every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about what
0:58.2	makes it great. We try to have a conversation around the album the way that fans do. So we're going to
1:03.0	do kind of like a fan appreciation where we talk about why we love the artist, the album,
1:08.9	and then we're going to talk about how we got into it, and then we're
1:11.8	going to do a track-by-track review. But since in this case, we're not doing a specific album,
1:16.2	we're doing an artist, we're going to do all of those things, but it's just going to be a bunch
1:20.8	of different songs across. Track-by-track from records across Leonard Cohen's career.
1:25.6	Yeah, and welcome to 2017, everybody. Yeah,
1:28.8	Happy New Year, everyone. Season three of the great albums podcast. Indeed, indeed. And some
1:34.0	fun and interesting and different things coming up for everybody, which we already have on the
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