iTunes Randomizer #9

Leonard Cohen “Lover Lover Lover” (from New Skin for the Old Ceremony 1974)

Sometimes my favorite Cohen LP (wavers between Songs of Love and Hate and Live Songs), but definitely the one I come back to most often. I guess I really love all of his records (up to and including 1979’s Recent Songs, after that it’s just songs here and there) each in certain ways, but this one has the perfect balance between his seemingly tossed-off profundity and enlightened playfulness that informs all my favorite things he does.

Leonard Cohen “There Is A War” (from New Skin For The Old Ceremony 1974)