u guys seem to like your interlectual gloom and is there any one smarty pants as gloomy as mr.cohen?

awsome wit combined with more irony then anyone dare give the guy credit for, laughing len comes highly recomended

excuse my spelling, i dont hold a degree

Gaz

Ten New Songs by the great man showed up Nick Cave for the grubby imposter that he is. ^_^

Yes.

Does Jandek do humour then?

(I bet he does, but it's really "subtle" and "understated")

Naw, Cohen's brill. Big fan.
Like Birthday Party but can't be doing with Nick Cave- irritating and unbearably pompous...

Here in Canada he's kind of a religion for your high-school English teachers...make that used ta be; some of them are illiterate now.

I quite like the early sparser recordings, especially the 'Live Songs' album.

His songs are used to great effect in Altman's sublime "McCabe & Mrs Miller." My first exposure to Cohen was seeing this by chance on late night TV.

Thanks for the Jandek link.

Isn't that the movie where someone gets their guts blown out at point-blank range by a shotgun? Scarred me for life, that.

I always loved Cohen's stuff. I was especially amused at the way he re-defined himself from old testament ballad crooner through the first decade of his recording career, to geriatric burlesque satirist on I'm Your Man---a most caustic album.

I saw him touring in Spain in 1987, performing mostly songs from IYM---he had 3 Labelle-like backing singers swinging and harmonizing the snide choruses behind him while he stood motionless, displaying no affect, deadpanning There is no cure for Love, for what seemed like 3 days. If you closed your eyes and shut out the content of the songs you could have thought you were listening to Dean Martin in Vegas after eleven dry martinis.

Thankfully no one's kicking at commander Cohen's corpus here, yet at least. Before he garnered the Nick Cave and Foetus validation in the early 80's, I don't recall hearing much championing from the hipper quarters. His dark whiney-ness was certainly tops in my square little world for many years. Glad to see this thread.

Those first three lps were among the key soundtracks to my sensitivo adolescent years. In fact I was so weirdly sturmed and dranged as a teen that I wanted to cultivate a persona like LC's. I really dug that world weary wheeze. I wanted to be elegantly dissolute, a beautiful loser. And he had great lines you could jab at your percieved tormentors and short shrifters - just like MES.

Take this you object of unrequited love: "The crumbs of love you offer me, they're the crumbs I've left behind." and glorious etc & etc.

In 1988 I saw him walking along 59th steet Columbus circle in NYC. I didn't know it was him at first, my attention drawn to this slow moving guy a few paces in front of me wearing a tour jacket that had a yellow screaming silkscreened "Leonard Cohen World Tour" written on the back. When I realized it was him, I quitely sideled up to him at the crosswalk, stuck out my hand and said, Mr. Cohen I've been a fan for many years. It's an honor to meet you." Nobody else seemed to have noticed him at all up to this point. He looked moved, made a continental bow as he took my hand and said, "Thank you sir.

Wow, he called me sir, I clucked to my fan boy self as I walked on. And shit, I was already in my thirties at the time!

I'm a big Cohen fan, have been for many years now.

Anyone else read his novel Beautiful Losers? I got it from the library while I was in college 15 years ago or so, and was thinking about trying to track down a copy to read it again. A very odd and beautiful book as I remember -- Foe

I did. In my case 30 yrs ago. I'd love to re-read it. Is it still available? Your mention reminded me also of Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me. Mimi & Richard Farina were more than a Mighty Wind.

Discovered on Amazon that Beautiful Losers is in print in the US in a trade paperback edition. The Fariña novel is also in print in paperback, with a forward by Pynchon; I think I read it once upon a time but don't remember it as well. Think I'll add both to my "Want List" -- Foe

Foe, I'm your man. In the fullest, sincerely L Cohen way. Thanks for the heads up

on a sorta tangent: The Farina's have a song called 'V', like the Pynchon novel.

Do you think Leonard Cohen write 'The Future' with a real belief that the below lyrics were coming true?

And when they said REPENT, what was it that they meant?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_drEFOaPaK8

I like Closing Time's lyrics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPEM2qc-j8&feature=related.

Absolutely fantastic.

Anyway - "The Future"

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...


[ www.azlyrics.com ]


http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/thefuture.html

Crack and anal sex? Yes please. No drugs though!!
Leonard aint miserable. "Don't go home with your hard on", while sounding like glum advice, is sung gleefully. And if he's being ironic, well so's Matt Groening so who's complaining.
Women love his later boomy voiced recordings don't they?
This Catholic boy aint just loved by serial killer filmmakers. He's seduction record Barry le Blanc without the radio wank!! Fire up the subwoofer and get doggie via the jowled Master of CBSex!!!

Ooh ooh ohh, I'm excited that someone's given me a spare to see Leonard Cohen in a couple of a weeks. To date my only recollection of him is fabulously awful arrangements undermining incredible songs, and The Hits like Hallelujah and Susanne.

Any advice on how to get the most from this apparently/potentially once-in-a-lifetime experience gratefully accepted...

I'm off to see him on Thursday !

His financial loss is our gain, I guess.

:lol:

Surely mentioned it before, but Recent Songs is a beautiful album. Humbled In Love & The Gypsy's Wife...World, listen!

Give your ticket to someone who will really appreciate it; they will be happy and you can experience feeling decent without needing to be "ironic".

I saw him at Glastonbury. I was drunk and tired so this means nothing, but I remember thinking, "fucking hell, I cannot believe I have not noticed this before, but Nick Cave has nicked everything from him."

And also, he seems charm itself, the old devil.

This translation by Len of a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca is one of the best I have ever read as it captures the essence and the mystery of Lorca's original.

Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily
In some hallways where love's never been
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
Dragging its tail in the sea

There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz it's been dying for years

There's an attic where children are playing
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz ...

And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
With the photographs there, and the moss
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
Oh my love, Oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now. It's all that there is

-- Leonard Cohen


If he played this live, I think I'd swoon. :wub:

That is indeed very beautiful.

It must be hard to write like that...anyone else trying may write a load of pretentious tosh.

Despite being a little pretentious, it *works*.

:)

Fantastic, indeed. One of my faves from I'm Your Man, I think.

I would if that were the case, but I'm in no way being ironic in looking forward to it a lot.

Went to see him in Dublin in June, he played Take This Waltz and it was everything you'd expect, but with a better arrangement than on the album. He played for close to 2 and half hours, that's not counting the interval. It was an open-air show and it pissed rain that night, but he transcended the conditions completely. The songs were mostly recent ones, highlights: In My Secret Life, Boogie Street, and a Thousand Kisses Deep - which was one of the most moving things I've ever seen (at least in a musical context). A storming (yes, storming) First We Take Manhattan, Take This Waltz, The Future, Tower Of Song, Anthem and So Long Marianne also stood out.

Anybody know if the point gig is going ahead and if so when are tickets going on sail

At first it sounded like this runs slow, but then later in the gig Sisters of Mercy sound about right :)

by the way according to Dime one of the recent London gigs (and others) are going to be compiled on a live lenny DVD and CD :)

"Leonard Cohen - Munchen 9 march 1985 (with soundcheck)
München, Deutschland - (Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle)
March 9, 1985

This is my first contribution to Dime. Please let me know whether you appreciate it or not. I have tried to remove flaws as much as possible. But I might have forgotten a few. If you discover a flaw please inform me then I can try to correct it and upload it again. Here is the setlist (every set is 1 cd):

1st set:
1. Bird On The Wire
2. The Law
3. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
4. Coming Back To You
5. Who By Fire
6. Dance Me To The End Of Love
7. The Gypsy's Wife
8. Story Of Isaac
9. Diamonds In The Mine
10. Avalanche - solo
11. Chelsea Hotel #2 - solo
12. The Stranger Song - solo
13. The Partisan
14. Famous Blue Raincoat



2nd set:

15. Lover Lover Lover
16. Tennessee Waltz
17. Hallelujah
18. Joan Of Arc
19. Memories
20. I Tried To Leave You
21. Suzanne
22. Bird On The Wire (2) - (first verse only)
23. Sisters Of Mercy
24. If It Be Your Will
25. Passin' Through
26. Bird On The Wire (3)



Soundcheck:
1. Tennessee Waltz
2. The Law
3. Coming Back To You

Regarding completeness of the concert please check www.leonardcohenlive.com. I consider that site as very thrustworthy.
I would like to have feedback from you, like tips, advice, critical notes etc in order to publish LC concerts on Dime as perfect as possible.

I hope you will enjoy this concert and the ones to come, because I am going to upload my complete LC collection. I will try to upload (on average) 1 concert every day. So It will take me at least a year to share it all. There is, however, a downside to this and that is the capacity of my hard disk. So after a while I am obliged to remove concerts from my hard disk ('fifo' = first in, first out).

Have fun (and please, share!!!!)

René"

Laughing Len's new live album is out soon ^_^

In the meantime I found some of the live gigs I have on tape but are too much trouble to transfer are on Dime :) :rollover:

#119799 Leonard Cohen - 1976/06/25 Montreux (FM) *clean copy*

A clean copy has been requested and I'm taking the chance to upload what can be called an *upgrade* as my copy is:
- clean
- a very low CDR generation from the cassette to CDR transfer which most of the common circulating versions are derived.

I have aleady seeded this flac fileset @ EzTree (about 2 years ago) and my guess is that the other torrent is either taken from: these flac files > CDR (multiple generations or not) > re-flac
or
radio FM recording > ? > analog low generation (JD's tape) > cdr (x) > flac

Let's hope this torrent will not be banned as a dupe...

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Leonard Cohen
Casino de Montreux
Montreux, Switzerland
June 25, 1976

radio FM recording > ? > analog low generation (JD's tape) > cdr (2) > eac (secure, w/offset) > .wav > Flac Frontend (level 8) > .flac

eac/flac by liveman, livecohen@hotmail.com

========================================================================

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (62:43)

01. Bird On The Wire 4:49
02. So Long Marianne 6:39
03. Who By Fire 5:09
04. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye 3:37
05. Store Room 4:50
06. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong 4:38
07. Lady Midnight 3:57
08. There Is A War 5:49
09. I Tried To Leave You 4:49
10. Diamonds In The Mine 4:04
11. Chelsea Hotel #2 - solo 5:31
12. The Stranger Song - solo 5:45
13. You Know Who I Am - solo 3:00


Disc 2 (61:15)

01. The Partisan 4:10
02. Story Of Isaac 4:30
03. Famous Blue Raincoat 5:50
04. Lover Lover Lover 5:45
05. Sisters Of Mercy 6:00
06. Is This What You Wanted 5:21
07. Suzanne 4:52
08. The Butcher 4:42
09. Bird On The Wire (2) 5:19
10. Tonight Will Be Fine 4:04
11. Joan Of Arc 5:37
12. Do I Have To Dance All Night 5:01


[1 flac disc, 685MB]

========================================================================

Note: this recording is much better than the bootleg CD "Live In Montreux June 25 1976" (Yellow Cat, YC 004) because it is sourced from a lower generation tape. Also, it contains the COMPLETE concert! (there were only 15/25 songs on the bootleg CD). If there is slight tape hiss in quiet spots, it is nothing compared with the boot source! That's why I've encoded this show to flac even with an elusive lineage information. An other reason is when you're trading for Cohen material, it is very hard to get accurate source info and sometimes clean copy. Mine comes from a trader who did the cassette transfer to CD-R and then sent me kindly a copy. But if you know a better lineage for this show in its complete form (with no CD-R or tape generation) and you think it can be compressed to a lossless format (shn or flac) please let me know at livecohen@hotmail.com and I will not trade this version anymore. Thanks!

< compiled by liveman on 8-3-2003 >

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=119799

Recommended

:)


Also grabbing this one as it seems worth getting too :)

Leonard Cohen - 1985 - Vienna, 6 July --complete sbd + soundcheck (RESEED)

Leonard Cohen
Arkadenhof
Wien, Österreich
July 6, 1985

Complete soundboard recording

Lineage: SBD > CASSETTE-M > DAT-1 > CDR(low) > FLAC

FLAC by Artery

Disc 1 (First set) - [53:09.18]

01. [8:20.57] Bird On The Wire
02. [5:36.64] The Law
03. [3:47.47] Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
04. [4:13.39] There Is A War
05. [4:40.03] Who By Fire
06. [5:49.37] Dance Me To The End Of Love
07. [6:01.42] The Gypsy's Wife
08. [4:58.01] Diamonds In The Mine
09. [5:47.05] Hallelujah
10. [3:54.23] Coming Back To You

Disc 2 (Second set) - [78:05.74]

01. [4:57.34] Avalanche - solo
02. [3:37.71] A Singer Must Die - solo
03. [5:44.04] The Stranger Song - solo
04. [4:49.17] Chelsea Hotel #2 - solo
05. [5:25.50] Night Comes On
06. [5:16.25] Story Of Isaac
07. [5:24.34] Famous Blue Raincoat
08. [7:18.50] Lover Lover Lover
09. [5:11.61] Sisters Of Mercy
10. [4:54.15] Tennessee Waltz
11. [3:59.69] The Partisan
12. [5:38.07] So Long, Marianne
13. [6:47.62] Memories
Encore #1
14. [4:02.06] If It Be Your Will
15. [4:58.19] Suzanne

Disc 3 - [70:11.27]

Encore #2
01. [5:00.23] // Passing Thru
02. [14:57.55] I Tried To Leave You

Encore #3
03. [4:35.23] // Heart With No Companion
04. [6:58.11] Dance Me To The End Of Love (2) (as audience leaves)

[Soundcheck - soundboard recording]
S05. [5:31.65] Guitar Test / Sound Levels
S06. [2:38.45] I Guarantee You'll Like It (band member vocal)
S07. [0:53.28] Who By Fire (instrumental tease)
S08. [3:15.68] Tennessee Waltz (incomplete)
S09. [4:58.17] Tennessee Waltz (complete)
S10. [6:55.48] The Law (complete)
S11. [4:26.13] Who By Fire (complete)
S12. [1:42.61] Hallelujah (incomplete)
S13. [8:17.20] Ballad Of The Absent Mare (complete)

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=159786

:)

The latest thing I've downloaded by laughing Len is proving enjoyable :)

#122360 Leonard Cohen - Festival Performances, Aug 1970
Torrent file Leonard Cohen - Festival Performances, Aug 1970.torrent (will be personalized for you upon download)
Downloads as Leonard Cohen - Festival Performances, Aug 1970
Info hash 00515387b233c863871356c50273dc2600e20c53
Description Leonard Cohen & The Army
Festival Performances, Aug 1970

Two partial recordings of festival performances from 1970 in wildly different quality.

The Aix show is an audience recording which suffered from severe speed/pitch fluctuation which I have done my best to remedy somewhat -- to remedy it completely would be an impossible task. The source has ugly crossfade edits between tracks which obviously nothing could be done about. All of Lenny comments and intro's are in French.

The Isle of Wight tracks are from the same pristine soundboard recording as the three officially released tracks ("Let's Sing Another Song, Boys" on SONGS OF LOVE & HATE, "Tonight Will Be Fine" on LIVE SONGS and "Suzanne" on MESSAGE TO LOVE and other various artists IoW albums). This recording is an absolute must-have.

Aix-En-Provence Festival, France, 2 Aug 1970 [AUD]
=======================================
01. Les Propriétaires de la Révolution (speech in French) 1:35
02. Bird on the Wire 3:50
03. So Long, Marianne 2:24
04. You Know Who I Am 3:11
05. Lady Midnight 2:36
06. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong 4:14
07. The Stranger Song 5:19
08. For No Reason At All (Improvisation) :40
09. Joan of Arc 5:02
10. The Partisan 3:34
11. Intro :38
12. Sisters of Mercy 3:30
13. Diamonds in the Mine 4:14

liberated from the bootleg "The Golden Voice of Leonard Cohen Vol. 3"
(portable reel-to-reel?) > ? > CD > WAV > FLAC > WAV (retracked, adjusted levels & pitch/speed w/ Magix ACL10) > FLAC (6)

Isle of Wight Festival, East Afton Farm, Isle of Wight, England, 31 Aug 1970, 4am [SBD]
=================================================================
01. Intro :51
02. One of Us Cannot Be Wrong 5:01
03. The Stranger Song 6:42
04. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye 4:18
05. Diamonds In The Mine (with first verse known as "They Gave Me Some Money") 5:10

reel > ? > cdr-x > NERO > WAV > dEdit (w/CEP) > shntool > FLAC (8) (w/Flac Frontend)

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=122360

The sound on the Isle of Wight gig is *beautiful*

a bit rougher on the French festival, but the performances have made up for that.

:)

Another good one
:)

#193583 Leonard Cohen - 1968 - BBC Broadcasts (JWB REMASTER)
This is a remastered version of torrent http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=122304 (pops and clicks removed, sound restored to true mono, equalisation. No compression or noise reduction)

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I'm reseeding this to replace jimmyfich's AT THE BEEB torrent. AT THE BEEB is muffled, runs slow and is missing the last track. This one is crisp and complete and includes additional bonus tracks from other BBC sessions that year. When I torrented this at the end of 2006 user JWB remastered it and put it up on (if memory serves) ZombTracker -- I think he improved the sound, so his version is the one I'm putting up this time.

Lineage is uncertain, but certainly the BBC2 show must have been recorded with a jack rather than the microphone-in-front-of-the-TV setup that was more usual back then.
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LEONARD COHEN
BBC Broadcasts 1968
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01 You Know Who I Am
02 Bird On The Wire
03 The Stranger Song
04 So Long Marianne
05 Master Song
06 There's No Reason Why You Should Remember Me
07 Sisters Of Mercy
08 Teachers
09 Dress Rehearsal Rag
10 Suzanne
11 Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
12 Story Of Isaac
13 One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
14 Bird On The Wire
15 So Long Marianne
16 You Know Who I Am
17 Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye (Duet with Julie Felix)

Tracks 01-13 Recorded Spring 1968 at Paris Theatre, London
Tracks 01-05 Broadcast August 31, 1968 on BBC2 TV ("Leonard Cohen Sings Leonard Cohen")
Tracks 06-13 Broadcast September 7, 1968 on BBC2 TV ("Leonard Cohen Sings Leonard Cohen")
Tracks 14-16 Recorded August 11, 1968 & Broadcast on BBC Radio 1 ("Top Gear with John Peel")
Track 17 Recorded January 27, 1968 & Broadcast on BBC2 TV ("Once More With Felix")

Total Time: 78:14

Sound Quality:
Tracks 01-13: Excellent Mono Soundboard (Possibly from a BBC tape)
Tracks 14-16: Very Good Mono Soundboard (FM Broadcast)
Track 17: Very Good Mono Soundboard (TV Broadcast)

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=193583

:)

Another laughing Lenny gig I've found.

:)

"Leonard Cohen 1979-12-08 Birmingham partial SBD - RESEED

I remember driving down to Santa Cruz from San Francisco listening to this and really digging it. But I left California almost three years ago, so it's at least that old.

Leonard Cohen
Birmingham Odeon
8th December 1979
Partial SBD Source
SBD>?>CC>CDR>CDWAV>CDR
New source - Mastered 5.5.05 by Artery

1. Sisters Of Mercy
2. Diamonds In The Mine
3. The Smokey Life
4. The Gypsy's Wife
5. 2 Quatrains
6. Chelsea Hotel #2
7. A Singer Must Die
8. The Partisan
9. Famous Blue raincoat
10. Our Lady Of Solitude
11. Billy Sunday"

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=236380

Just listened to Sisters of Mercy, now on Diamonds In The Mine...despite the 'rawk' guitar solo on the latter (thankfully counterbalanced / lost amonst beautiful and gentle playing by the rest of the musicians :) ), it's very good so far.

:)

I wonder if MES is a Cohen fan? Lord knows I am. Helped me understand love a lot better when I was 15. Wish I could afford to see him in Chicago. Hopefully not my last chance.

Well, he's 74, and if he comes through your town again it probably won't cost any less, but I'm passing up Lenny's show this year too; cheapest tickets work out to three or more club shows. The new live DVD is in my Netflix queue.

dunno, possibly?

I *think* I read once he liked Jacques Brel, which surprised me : while they are obviously not the same I guess it's possible.

What a beautiful sound

:)

Some of the links I've posted are due to loving the gigs I've picked up, but also needing to maintain my share ratio. I've finally scraped past the minium on Dime
:rolleyes: , but this sounds so good, even when waking up early (not working at present) feel like sharing this...hypnotic in places, it is.

I'm not sure why it's compiled from two sources...the bulk is in nice clear stereo...I guess the tracks sourced from the other (mono) recording, placed tracks which were damaged somehow. :unsure:

Anyway, the details -

Torrent #247604 Leonard Cohen 24 September 1974 West Berlin, West Germany

*Best Source Compilation*
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Lineage:

Source 1 (1-4,6-11//,12-17,19-23,25):
master/low gen tape > CDr > EAC > SF8 > TLH > .flac16

Source 2: (5,11,18,24,26-27 + all chatter/tuning between songs not present on Source 1)
low gen tapes > DAT > Denon DTR-2000 > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 thru S/PDIF > SoundForge 9.0e > Trader's Little Helper 2.4.1 > .flac16

---

TT: 122:23.00

Set One:
01. [5:28.05] Bird on the Wire
02. [6:31.26] So Long, Marianne
03. [5:24.54] Love Calls You by Your Name
04. [4:43.74] One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
--- tape pause ---
05. [3:44.09] Diamonds in the Mine
--- tape pause ---
06. [5:36.53] Why Don't You Try
07. [5:33.35] Joan of Arc
--- tape pause ---
08. [3:05.11] Who by Fire
09. [3:24.01] Lady Midnight
10. [4:22.67] Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
11. [4:29.37] Tonight Will Be Fine
--- tape cut ---

Set Two:
12. [4:15.74] Chelsea Hotel #2
13. [5:27.68] The Stranger Song
14. [3:16.43] A Singer Must Die
15. [2:29.31] You Know Who I Am
16. [3:59.39] The Partisan (Anna Marly/Hy Zaret)
17. [3:58.65] Story Of Isaac
--- tape pause ---
18. [4:57.32] Famous Blue Raincoat
--- tape pause ---
19. [4:23.18] I Tried To Leave You
20. [3:57.07] Sisters Of Mercy
21. [4:26.04] Lover, Lover, Lover
22. [4:36.26] Take This Longing
23. [3:34.73] There Is A War
--- tape cut ---

Encores:
24. [4:31.17] Suzanne
25. [4:26.16] Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
26. [6:50.51] Is This What You Wanted
--- tape cut ---
27. [4:47.39] The Butcher

t12-15 Leonard Cohen solo
Complete show.

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The band is:

Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar, hand whistle (4)

Emily Bindinger - vocals
Erin Dickens - vocals
Jeff Layton - banjo, guitar, mandolin, strings
John Lissauer - keyboards, saxophone, woodwind
John Miller - bass

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=247604

Recommended.

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Dear Lord, who bumped this post?

If you lot have done anything for me then it is improve my spelling/grammar :lol:

Just listened to some laughing Len in preparation for a planned upload - made me forget some of my worries, very soothing.

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Now on Demonoid.

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Leonard Cohen
Amsterdam Concertgebouw
30th October 1980
FM recording.

Cassette > Nakamichi Deck > CD > wav > flac

01. Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
02. Who By Fire
03. The Window
04. Passin' Through
05. The Guests
06. There Is A War
07. Suzanne
08. Stranger Song
09. Chelsea Hotel #2
10. The Partisan
11. The Story of Isaac
12. Gypsy Wife
13. Dance, Dance, Dance (improvisation)
14. Diamonds in the Mine
15. Famous Blue Raincoat
16. Lover Lover Lover
17. Memories
18. So Long, Marianne
19. Nancy
20. Joan of Arc
21. I Tried To Leave You
22. Do I have to dance all night

A very good show indeed, nice sound, with just a little hiss.

Enjoy!

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1978682/9964590/

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