Top 6@6 Week 31 Supplemental Poll: Post Your 6 Fave Songs by Leonard Cohen

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Subtitled: It’s just Folk with a Canadian Slant

First: The Who’s, What’s, Where’s & Why’s of the Supplemental Poll

In an attempt to squeeze as many bands in the shortest amount of time possible, as a regular feature, The Monday 6 @ 6 Poll, includes a Headliner poll and a Supplemental poll. This Leonard Cohen poll, like the featured Captain Beefheart and the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds threads will be closed and tallied 7 days from today, Monday November 26, 2002 at or about 6PM EDT. Results from all 3 polls will be posted a few minutes later on that same day in Week #32’s regularly scheduled Alice Cooper 6 @ 6 Poll.

Second: The Poll & How it Works

It’s simple enough, post your 6 favorite songs by the artist. Personal observations, opinions, liner notes, comments and the like are always welcome but are in no means required.

Third: The Supplemental Poll Artist’s Discography (Reader’s Digest Version)

If your memory of the supplemental artist of the week isn’t exactly up to speed, here’s a link to the discography with 30 second cuts of some of track previews when you drill down through the albums: Essential Leonard Cohen  Ten New Songs  Field Commander Cohen  Live  Future  I’m Your Man  Various Positions  Recent Songs  Death Of A Ladies Man  New Skin For The Old Ceremony  Songs Of Love & Hate  Songs From A Room  Songs Of Leonard Cohen.

The links are provided by CD Now, and are meant to refresh your Cohen “101” knowledge & jar loose any forgotten titles. (Please refrain from voting based on .wav previews)

Lastly: The Supplemental Poll Artist of the Week

Without further ado, the Field Commander himself: Leonard Cohen.

Here are my 6 LEONARD COHEN selections:

  1. Bird On The Wire
  2. The Partisan
  3. The Story Of Isaac
  4. Who By Fire
  5. So Long, Marianne
  6. Suzanne

So tell us…Do you have 6 favorite tracks by Leonard Cohen?

Thanking you all in advance I hope to see someone at the Captain Beefheart or Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds polls. Have a great week!

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  1. Famous Blue Raincoat

  2. I’m Your Man

  3. Take This Waltz

  4. Closing Time

  5. Tower of Song

  6. Everybody Knows

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No order:

Teachers

Master Song

Avalanche

Let’s Sing Another Song Boys

I’m Your Man

The Partisan (one of only two covers by Laughing Lennie, I believe)

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  1. First We Take Manhattan
  2. That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
  3. By the River’s Dark
  4. Hallelujah
  5. Suzanne
  6. Everybody Knows
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  1. I’m your man
  2. Tower of song
  3. So long Marianne
  4. First we take Manhattan
  5. Suzanne
  6. Sisters of mercy

Surprised that no-one else has mentioned Sisters of mercy yet…

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  1. Dress Rehearsal Rag (heard it for the first time on the car radio one day back in '71 and had to pull over to the side of the road, it was so powerful!)
  2. Bird on a Wire
  3. Suzanne
  4. Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
  5. Joan of Arc
  6. Famous Blue Raincoat
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  1. Joan of Arc
  2. Bird on the Wire.
  3. Who by Fire
  4. Famous Blue Raincoat
  5. Suzanne
  6. The Partisan
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  1. Teachers
  2. Everybody Knows
  3. The Stranger Song
  4. The Master Song
  5. First We Take Manhattan
  6. Sisters of Mercy
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1.Hallelujah
2.Everybody Knows
3.Take this Waltz
4.Suzanne
5.Famous Blue Raincoat
6.Who by Fire

It’s hard to choose just 6.

And the Worst-Ever Leonard Cohen tune is awarded to “Jazz Police.” The cheesy synth, the awful rhymes. God, there’s so much to hate.

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  1. Hallelujah
  2. Suzanne
  3. Bird on a Wire
  4. Closing time
  5. Famous Blue Raincoat
  6. Poem (not a song but was my first brush with the man)
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  1. I’m Your Man
  2. The Future
  3. Bird on a Wire
  4. First We Take Manhattan
  5. Hallelujah
  6. Everybody Knows
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Hallelujah
Suzanne
Bird on a Wire
Everybody Knows
First We Take Manhattan
Closing Time

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who by fire
Chelsea Hotel
Suzanne
Sister of Mercy
Hallelujah
Bird on a wire…

An I though I was the only non-Canadian to know the man!

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I’d request an Adam Cohen (Leon’s son) poll, but I fear I’m the only one who listens to him. I don’t know about Leon, but Adam has a beautiful voice :slight_smile:

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  1. Master Song
  2. Avalanche
  3. Joan of Arc
  4. Suzanne
  5. Dress Rehearsal Rag

1. Stranger Song (a wonderful song, an amazing poem)

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  1. First We Take Manhattan
  2. Bird on a Wire
  3. The Famous Blue Raincoat
  4. Suzanne
  5. Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
  6. Hallelujah
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  1. Who by fire
    2)Suzanne
    3)First we take Manhattan
    4)The Partisan
    5)Avalanche
    6)Waiting for the miracle
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  1. Everybody Knows
  2. Stranger Song
  3. Chelsea Hotel
  4. Lady Midnight
  5. Hallelujah
  6. Suzanne