I’m your man, I’m your fan (part 2).
Some random snips.
"Not everything Bono does I would necessarily agree with, but you’ve got to acknowledge that everyone’s got their own particular opinion. We don’t like all that others do but it’s the compromise that makes it work." - The Edge, interviewed by Mark Ellen in Word Dec 2005.
"If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library - everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right." - Bob Dylan, Chronicles Vol 1.
"There’s a school of poetry that believes ‘first thought, best thought’. That would have condemned me to a really inauspicious superficiality, because I don’t have any ideas. I don’t have an idea, and I don’t trust my opinions. I consider my thought-stream extremely uninteresting, and it’s only when I can discard it that I can say something that I can get behind." - Leonard Cohen, interviewed by Andy Gill in Word June 2006.
Leonard Cohen’s movie soundtrack is officially released on July 25, 2006. (See previous post). Allmusic.com gave it an excellent review, except for slamming down U2 and Bono’s "seemingly inauthentic over emotional ache". Featuring an impressive lineup which includes the Wainwrights (both Rufus and Martha), Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Teddy Thompson, Antony, Perla Batalla, The Handsome Family and U2.
I doubt if there will ever be a Malaysian release for this album.
Songs from the soundtrack for your downloading pleasure:
Download Beth Orton Sisters of Mercy.mp3
Download The Handsome Family famous blue raincoat.mp3
Download Rufus Wainwright everybody knows.mp3
Incidentally, I first heard Teddy Thompson from Brokeback Mountain soundtrack. Since then I have become a fan. Here’s a song from his Separate Ways album:
Download sorry to see me go.mp3
