Closing Time : A Leonard Cohen Sampler

Leonard Cohen – New Music – More Music Videos

Nobody really knows Leonard Cohen except those who are music diggers to the core. Even I myself would have thought just about a couple of years ago that he had been the Soft Cell vocalists all along, having name-sound similarity with Marc Almond. Almond, Cohen…probably the same new wave guy.

But a tribute CD had caught my attention one day and after listening or watching it, I had a thought about to where have I been to all these years. If you throw me a Bob Dylan record, some days I would surely prefer to play Leonard Cohen on my cellphone-cum-mp3 player-cum alarm clock. 

One thing is for sure, he is Canadian. Now that I know.

And he’d been playing music since Dylan did in his 60’s heydays. I wonder now why he’d been so widely-unknown, really amazes me, what with the silvery folksy music that he croons to, its unimaginable to a great extent.

Mr. Cohen in fact had to change his music style a bit just to garner interest in popular music, and one of them song is "Closing Time", featuring vibrant and dancy beat, complete with a polished and ultra-sleek music video released along with it. And the result, same gem music he often produces, telling and poetic, for he is also a published poet, and novelist as well as essayist.

So listen to this, "Closing Time"; Although I assure you, his best work does not make you dance at all.