Oh Estey...bless you for bringing up Cohen. I've gotten no end to the grief for my including among my top ten of 2007 the collaboration between Cohen and Philip Glass on "Book of Longing." Do you have the book of poems and sketches? It's beautiful, and the record is gorgeous of gorgeous.
I love _Ten New Songs_, but I got to say that _New Skin for the Old Ceremony_ still just does something for me...I guess because it was the one that turned me on to him, and who doesn't want to be Marlon Brando to his Steve McQueen? Or KY Jelly to his Vaseline?
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Joseph Riippi said on May 13, 2008:
Oh Estey...bless you for bringing up Cohen. I've gotten no end to the grief for my including among my top ten of 2007 the collaboration between Cohen and Philip Glass on "Book of Longing." Do you have the book of poems and sketches? It's beautiful, and the record is gorgeous of gorgeous.
I love _Ten New Songs_, but I got to say that _New Skin for the Old Ceremony_ still just does something for me...I guess because it was the one that turned me on to him, and who doesn't want to be Marlon Brando to his Steve McQueen? Or KY Jelly to his Vaseline?
What a lyricist...