POLLpular Problems: Leonard Cohen in the 2000s

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These late albums seem very much of a piece to me. Which one is the best?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
You Want It Darker (2016)	6
Ten New Songs (2001)	4
Old Ideas (2012)	4
Dear Heather (2004)	0
Popular Problems (2014)	0

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 13 September 2018 14:57 (seven years ago)

YWID = Ten New Songs > Old Ideas > Popular Problems > Dear Heather (probably his weakest album overall)

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 September 2018 14:59 (seven years ago)

ten new songs >>>>>>>>

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 September 2018 15:14 (seven years ago)

still my favorite cohen album

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 September 2018 15:14 (seven years ago)

the flat sardonic chintziness of the future made way way deeper and more heartbreaking

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 September 2018 15:15 (seven years ago)

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/ad/8f/8d/ad8f8d7d36f984c8dbfdd7d38d963072--popular-problems-blue-raincoat.jpg

― omar little, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:56 (seven years ago)

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/81/98/ff/8198ff9cbeded42acef31b4a3b0208f5--popular-problems-leonard-cohen.jpg

― omar little, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:59 (seven years ago)

safety first

― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)

Ten New Songs or Old Ideas

― niels, Thursday, 27 September 2018 08:15 (seven years ago)

glad there's a new thread for me to insist that Darkness is one of his deepest jams
https://youtu.be/5Bxbw0wfDOI

― niels, Thursday, 27 September 2018 08:17 (seven years ago)

I caught the darkness
Drinking from your cup
I said: Is this contagious?
You said: Just drink it up

― niels, Thursday, 27 September 2018 08:18 (seven years ago)

Ten New Songs is such an amazing album.

― Tim F, Thursday, 27 September 2018 12:34 (seven years ago)

I know it's not this poll, but I was listening to The Future, and after the introductory title track I started imagining Nick Cave's reaction upon hearing it for the first time.

Anyway, I like all his final stuff, but the title track of You Want It Darker is so cool.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2018 12:43 (seven years ago)

Dear Heather is the only dud.

― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 September 2018 12:56 (seven years ago)

The one-two punch of In My Secret Life and A Thousand Kisses Deep at the start of Ten New Songs is so, so good.

― triggercut, Thursday, 27 September 2018 13:00 (seven years ago)

Those two at least are on his two-cd hits collection, and it says a lot that they don't stand out as any less quality than what preceded them.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2018 13:17 (seven years ago)

I kinda like the YWID remix that popped up on streaming services earlier this year. I could go for more attempts to do things like that with his late material.

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 September 2018 13:21 (seven years ago)

we should poll ten new songs to see the incredible margin by which In My Secret Life will win

― niels, Thursday, 27 September 2018 13:33 (seven years ago)

i’d vote for “alexandra leaving”!

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 September 2018 13:36 (seven years ago)

"A Thousand Kisses Deep" used so expertly in The Good Thief.

― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 September 2018 13:39 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

though it all may be one
in the higher eye,
down here where we live
it is two

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 03:33 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

Interesting result, I thought Ten New Songs would walk this. I must confess I haven't listened much to You Want It Darker since release day so I guess I need to revisit it.

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 08:30 (seven years ago)

also, props to Simon H for more or less predicting the outcome correctly

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 08:33 (seven years ago)

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