Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Leonard Cohen gets darker
With You Want It Darker the boho folk-singer faces death
You Want It Darker is full of heartbreaking odes to life and love.
In a recent interview with New Yorker magazine, bohemian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen stated that he was ready to die, that his health was shot and that he didn’t have much time left. His latest album, You Want it Darker reflects that mindset and is a somber look at the thoughts of a man who has seen and done it all, who is ready to face mortality.
Video:
"You Want It Darker"
...title track from Leonard Cohen's latest
The album is full of heartbreaking odes to life and love. Cohen has a long-reaching memory and nothing escapes his recollections. In the title track he rasps, “If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame/ you want it darker/ we kill the flame/ I’m ready, my lord.” His voice sounds withered and hurt, reminiscent of how Johnny Cash sounded on his final albums. In “Treaty” he laments the loss of his sweetheart, crooning, “I’m so sorry for that ghost I made you be/ only one of us was real and it was me.”
Other highlights include the somber “Leaving the Table,” which features a dreamlike and hypnotic guitar solo, the bluesy “On the Level,” which features him facing off with faith and fate, and “Traveling Light,” which features one of Cohen’s trademark sad waltzes.
You Want it Darker sounds like the last confessions of a dying man. All of Cohen’s creativity and soul poured onto these nine tracks. If this is indeed Cohen’s last album, then he goes out on a high note.
- Record: You Want it Darker
- Artist: Leonard Cohen
- Label: Columbia
- Songs: (1) You Want it Darker (2) Treaty (3) On the Level (4) Leaving the Table (5) If I Didn't Have Your Love (6) Traveling Light (7) It Seemed the Better Way (8) Steer Your Way (9) String Reprise/Treaty
Here's something you might be interested in.
Leonard Cohen gets darker
With You Want It Darker the boho folk-singer faces death
Leonard Cohen gets darker
With You Want It Darker the boho folk-singer faces death
You Want It Darker is full of heartbreaking odes to life and love.
In a recent interview with New Yorker magazine, bohemian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen stated that he was ready to die, that his health was shot and that he didn’t have much time left. His latest album, You Want it Darker reflects that mindset and is a somber look at the thoughts of a man who has seen and done it all, who is ready to face mortality.
Video:
"You Want It Darker"
...title track from Leonard Cohen's latest
The album is full of heartbreaking odes to life and love. Cohen has a long-reaching memory and nothing escapes his recollections. In the title track he rasps, “If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame/ you want it darker/ we kill the flame/ I’m ready, my lord.” His voice sounds withered and hurt, reminiscent of how Johnny Cash sounded on his final albums. In “Treaty” he laments the loss of his sweetheart, crooning, “I’m so sorry for that ghost I made you be/ only one of us was real and it was me.”
Other highlights include the somber “Leaving the Table,” which features a dreamlike and hypnotic guitar solo, the bluesy “On the Level,” which features him facing off with faith and fate, and “Traveling Light,” which features one of Cohen’s trademark sad waltzes.
You Want it Darker sounds like the last confessions of a dying man. All of Cohen’s creativity and soul poured onto these nine tracks. If this is indeed Cohen’s last album, then he goes out on a high note.
- Record: You Want it Darker
- Artist: Leonard Cohen
- Label: Columbia
- Songs: (1) You Want it Darker (2) Treaty (3) On the Level (4) Leaving the Table (5) If I Didn't Have Your Love (6) Traveling Light (7) It Seemed the Better Way (8) Steer Your Way (9) String Reprise/Treaty