All time favourite song

[SoapyTW]

I watched this actual performance  live in London and the review in the Guardian the next day said that it said

"I gave this song to the world but its still MINE "

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oh and its one of the  most covered modern songs

I love that song. First introduced to me via Jeff Buckley and always hits me hard in the feels. Was a great way to find Cohen who's stuff I really came to like.

There is a word called 'frisson' (External Link/Members Only) which is that flooding feeling of pleasure and emotion you get when you feel a shiver run through your body and the hairs on you arm stand on end. The Buckley cover always did that for me, but my all time favourite artist, and someone that I'm practically programmed to respond to now after a decade of listening to his stuff on repeat is Ludovico Einaudi. Hard to choose a single track, it would probably be Nuvole Bianche (External Link/Members Only)

If you're looking for something with lyrics, my favourite would probably be 'If you could read my mind' by Gordon Lightfoot (External Link/Members Only).... it getting immortalised by Trigger Happy TV was a nice bonus.

[Jonestown]

I watched this actual performance  live in London and the review in the Guardian the next day said that it said

"I gave this song to the world but its still MINE "

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oh and its one of the  most covered modern songs

The first cover version was by John Cale, of Velvet Underground fame, for which he largely rearranged it and used different verses to the original Cohen version. It's Cale's version that was used by Buckley and by most artists since, including Cohen himself apparently.

[timsussex]

The first cover version was by John Cale, of Velvet Underground fame, for which he largely rearranged it and used different verses to the original Cohen version. It's Cale's version that was used by Buckley and by most artists since, including Cohen himself apparently.

Apparently Cale chose the verses form the 70+ verses Cohen had

which reminds me my favourite instrumental

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