Comments on: Lenny http://stareintospace.com/2008/03/30/lenny/ Gerry Hayes' Blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:18:29 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Trousers http://stareintospace.com/2008/03/30/lenny/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Trousers Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:52:02 +0000 http://www.jimmypagestrousers.com/blog/2008/03/30/lenny/#comment-277 Sam: Nicely critiqued. Thank you. There's not enough expunging these days. Beth: While I'd have stood by for quite a bit of Cohen-bad-mouthing, I will defend Tom Waits to the death. Tom has been very good to me over the years. From his first few albums, full of mellow, jazzy goodness, through the scary, shoutiness of The Black Rider to the somewhere-in-the-middle brilliance of his last half dozen or so. Tom can do very little wrong. Whatever about Lenny, get more Tom in your life (you should get Lenny too though). Go on. You owe me one for The National (or do I owe you?). Sam: Nicely critiqued. Thank you. There’s not enough expunging these days.

Beth: While I’d have stood by for quite a bit of Cohen-bad-mouthing, I will defend Tom Waits to the death. Tom has been very good to me over the years. From his first few albums, full of mellow, jazzy goodness, through the scary, shoutiness of The Black Rider to the somewhere-in-the-middle brilliance of his last half dozen or so. Tom can do very little wrong.

Whatever about Lenny, get more Tom in your life (you should get Lenny too though). Go on. You owe me one for The National (or do I owe you?).

]]> By: beth http://stareintospace.com/2008/03/30/lenny/comment-page-1/#comment-276 beth Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:31:54 +0000 http://www.jimmypagestrousers.com/blog/2008/03/30/lenny/#comment-276 I don't 'get' him. I used to work with someone who loved him dearly & helpfully provided me with CD's to listen to so it's not like I didn't give him a go. Just didn't work for me. Mind you, it's only about the last six months that I've come round to thinking maybe there's a point to Tom Waits - so perhaps it will happen in good time? I don’t ‘get’ him. I used to work with someone who loved him dearly & helpfully provided me with CD’s to listen to so it’s not like I didn’t give him a go. Just didn’t work for me. Mind you, it’s only about the last six months that I’ve come round to thinking maybe there’s a point to Tom Waits – so perhaps it will happen in good time?

]]> By: Sam, Problemchildbride http://stareintospace.com/2008/03/30/lenny/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Sam, Problemchildbride Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:59:26 +0000 http://www.jimmypagestrousers.com/blog/2008/03/30/lenny/#comment-275 Istvanski, Cohen can be very cathartic for the bipolarly-tended. It's an expunging sort of music. Cohen's a great expunger. Perhaps the very best. Who can say for sure? It's all great stuff apart from the Phil Spector-over-produced "wall-of-sound" blip that was the Death of A Ladies' Man album, and that's not as awful as it's made out to be either, although it is slightly awful. Istvanski, Cohen can be very cathartic for the bipolarly-tended. It’s an expunging sort of music. Cohen’s a great expunger. Perhaps the very best. Who can say for sure?

It’s all great stuff apart from the Phil Spector-over-produced “wall-of-sound” blip that was the Death of A Ladies’ Man album, and that’s not as awful as it’s made out to be either, although it is slightly awful.

]]> By: Trousers http://stareintospace.com/2008/03/30/lenny/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Trousers Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:26:19 +0000 http://www.jimmypagestrousers.com/blog/2008/03/30/lenny/#comment-279 Nah, try it out. Good shit. Well, much of it anyway. Go on, you know you should. Nah, try it out. Good shit. Well, much of it anyway. Go on, you know you should.

]]> By: Istvanski http://stareintospace.com/2008/03/30/lenny/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Istvanski Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:17:59 +0000 http://www.jimmypagestrousers.com/blog/2008/03/30/lenny/#comment-278 I've been frightened to go near Cohen's stuff for fear of it triggering any bi-polar tendencies that I may have lurking in my mind. I’ve been frightened to go near Cohen’s stuff for fear of it triggering any bi-polar tendencies that I may have lurking in my mind.

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