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Popdose: Exit Music (For a Film): Leonard Cohen, “The Future”

  • Jack Feerick · 1 year ago
    I don't know if I'd call eleven albums in 40 years "prolific," particularly: other than that, a solid write-up on an underappreciated artist.
  • Zack · 1 year ago
    That's true, at an average of maybe 3 songs/year, he's no Robert Pollard. I think I got blinded by the hundreds upon hundreds of covers people have done of his songs - makes it seems like he's written more than he actually has.
  • Zack · 1 year ago
    Makes it "seem".
  • reval5 · 1 year ago
    Add me to the Natural Born Killer haters - it was perhaps the ultimate example of style over substance, and it came out around the time I decided Oliver Stone was not the greatest director in the history of film, but rather a hack.

    Cast my vote for the use of "Street Fighting Man" over the end credits of V for Vendetta. A nice lift for a mostly terrible movie.
  • 1Py_Korry1 · 1 year ago
    This song was my favorite part of the film, too. I liked it so much that when the CD came out, I snapped it up. It also has the song "Democracy" -- which Don Henley covered when Clinton was elected in '92.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWka3rZE3zI
  • WHarrisBullzEye · 1 year ago
    A great song from a great album...although, personally, I'm most partial to "Closing Time," which we always played five minutes before pulling down the fence at the record store where I worked. Precious few people ever paid attention, making it feel extra sweet when someone would suddenly twitch, look up at us, and ask with a smirk, "Are you trying to tell me something?"