Perhaps the greatest underrated masterpiece of rock music. Even Cohen himself had serious reservations about the album. But, the clash between Cohen's minimalism and Spector's symphonism creates an almost unbearable sense of despair, unique in popular music. There is so much musical innovation at display, that I'll never grow tired of the album. Which is ironic, since I can only listen to this at night and very tired.
The despair of the crowd. The sadness of a man surrounded by empty promises contained in glitty packages. This álbum is unique in perfectly describing the quiet depressive hollowness of the modern world
“It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really wanna go that far” now that ladies and gentlemen is poetry.
i saw him perform in London when Death of a Ladies Man was coming out. he was so SO in love with his music and came out for countless encores. it was one of the most memorable nights of my life.
The best album of Leonard Cohen. I enjoyed listening to it while drinking jack and coke, before going out at night or sitting there in my old apartment, and having a few beers. Very educational
The shittest one. Even Leonard hated it as it has only his scratch vocals on it after Phil ran off with the tapes. (obviously the song writing is still amazing).
Death of a lady man. Was the first time I hear of Leonard Cohen my husband at the time came home with it . And I love it and have been a fan of his music ever since. play his music every day . That’s the one good thing my ex done for me lol 😂 Love Leonard cohen had the privilege of seeing him in concert twice 2012 and 2013 in Dublin Ireland ❤
I identify with the "narrator" of this song a lot. It's implied in the lyrics that the lady had a lover before she got with "the man of her dreams" and I feel like that lover was the narrator. Since he seemed to watch the spectacle from a distance all the way until the end I feel he still harbors a love/hate feeling for the lady after everything that passed. I can relate to that feeling.
🕉This album is my "guilty pleasure" as a dancing child from 1960 I love to move my hands and arms on the sound of brass. ☮️It was my December gift in 1977. The best juvenile memories go with the drama of this album. Truth is, you could consider that look on his face a smile. 🕉Since L.Cohen himself has forgiven Phil Spector I'm a happy and proud owner of both the long player and CD
For me, Death of Ladies Man ranks alongside albums like Pink Floyd's The Final Cut or John Lennon's Sometime in New York City, in which I understand most of the criticism levied against them, but I still can't help but love it
I haven´t reawd anyhing about that but these sessions must have been extremely dysfunctional and drug fuelled to the max . I even hear it in Cohen´s voice , he sounds high/drunk af in this .
"Death Of A Ladies' Man" Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread "I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said. His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete. "O baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet. "I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love." And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust She took unto herself most everything her lover lost Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude." He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room He promised her protection for the issue of her womb She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon She took his much admired oriental frame of mind and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine -- "This mental space is occupied and everything is mine." He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back." She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance, she mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache. The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get a woman's education but he's not a woman yet And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy. So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
@@yvesligot7885 His only criticism was that he didn’t get to put down a definitive vocal but Spector knew it was right, Cohen went on to acknowledge that the album was indeed great in his later years.
Really, this production is horrific - if only somebody could get hold of the tapes... it sounds like it was recorded underwater! Phil Spector may have been a good producer once, but he was a joke by this point...
I don't think it's horrible at all. I think it's intentional and made to convey hopelessness and decadence, which it does very well. When played through speakers, the details come out more.
@@dimitrisb5089 Possibly its meant to be mastered with more 1-3khz in, but in comparison with other songs by him, it sounds like mud. Something's wrong there, and this is on the official Cohen channel, so there's something up. it needs a remix and re-release from the original multi-track if it survives, or at least a remaster with some presence in. I can see why cohen hated it, the performances aren't inherently bad, just almost unlistenable they are so lacking in definition. OK, this is just my opinion, but I understand now why this is considered the worst cohen album, something went very wrong here in between the studio and my ears...
'One day Phil just failed to return to the studio, keeping all the tapes (as he had done with Lennon's masters) and going on to mix them alone. Cohen was aghast. He did not consider his recorded vocals to be anywhere near definitive. As far as he was concerned they were merely "guide" vocals for the benefit of the musicians. He had expected to be able to take time on his singing but with Spector holding the tapes hostage at an unknown location this now seemed impossible, unless he brought his own bunch of heavies to take on Spector's. "I had the option of hiring my own private army and fighting it out with him on Sunset Boulevard or letting it go...I let it go."' '...At the time of the album's release, however, Cohen was much less generous in his public response to the album, calling Spector's production "a 'catastrophe.'"[1]....' It sounds like this for sure!
@@SamHarrisonMusic The production might be dodgy, but you can't deny the genius of bringing a solo vocal in in that final minute. It's so gloriously corny.
I love Leonard chohen and have been listening to him for 33 years now. but this album is terrible, I don't know what is the story behind it but it literally hurts me to hear it.
It's definitely very different from all the other albums. It reeks of the excesses of the late 1970's, I can practically see the smoky rooms and the disco balls when I'm listening to it. I wouldn't say I "hate" it, it took me a while to adjust to it. It lacks the smooth storybook poetry of the first 4 albums and not quite as catchy as the fusion between pop-ish blues in later works from 84, 88, and 92 but it's an interesting period of his life and works. It's ok if you hate it though, just like some people love collard greens but I can't stand the smell or the taste of them. At least we can agree he was a magnificent artist and lyricist and hopefully his music will live on long after us.
@@-o-light8863 Yes. It's generally regarded as his worst album as he lost control of it but it has a couple of gems, such as Iodine and True Love Leaves No Traces but it wouldn't convert the uninitiated to Cohen
@@talcumpowder1000 usually the layman goes for the pleasant sounds statics a cheap beer and cheap woman. if one hasn't read a good book of poetry other than Charles Bukowski one would not have a feel for Cohen's music and poetry.
By leaving your respects for Phil in this comments section, you may just be safe from Lily Allen's virtue signalling. Take cover! EDIT - Winnet alert in the replies.
@@MarvinSumpter So it appears Lily Allen "triggered" you by mentioning that Phil Spector was a murderer. I guess for some reason that fact upsets you? Then you got really mad so you came to youtube to tell everybody how triggered you are. Hope that helps!
The only album that was brushed under the carpet, cohen NEVER ever mentioned it again thru out the rest of his life, i met him way back 73 UK such a humble guy.
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Perhaps the greatest underrated masterpiece of rock music. Even Cohen himself had serious reservations about the album. But, the clash between Cohen's minimalism and Spector's symphonism creates an almost unbearable sense of despair, unique in popular music. There is so much musical innovation at display, that I'll never grow tired of the album. Which is ironic, since I can only listen to this at night and very tired.
The despair of the crowd. The sadness of a man surrounded by empty promises contained in glitty packages. This álbum is unique in perfectly describing the quiet depressive hollowness of the modern world
“It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really wanna go that far” now that ladies and gentlemen is poetry.
i saw him perform in London when Death of a Ladies Man was coming out. he was so SO in love with his music and came out for countless encores. it was one of the most memorable nights of my life.
I read that as sooo in love with himself that....
The last song I listened with my ex. I didn't know it at the time, but this was our time of saying goodbye. Bereaved forever.
The best album of Leonard Cohen. I enjoyed listening to it while drinking jack and coke, before going out at night or sitting there in my old apartment, and having a few beers. Very educational
This song really doesn't feel like it's 9 minutes long, such a great track.
Either that or an eternity well spent .
The most misunderstood and underrated Leonard Cohen album.
Why was it misunderstood??? I'm asking cause i just became a fan🥰
including by Cohen himself
True.
@@AswathReacher Because of the "wall of sound" mixing. Phil Specter.
The shittest one. Even Leonard hated it as it has only his scratch vocals on it after Phil ran off with the tapes. (obviously the song writing is still amazing).
Death of a lady man. Was the first time I hear of Leonard Cohen my husband at the time came home with it . And I love it and have been a fan of his music ever since. play his music every day . That’s the one good thing my ex done for me lol 😂
Love Leonard cohen had the privilege of seeing him in concert twice 2012 and 2013 in Dublin Ireland ❤
I identify with the "narrator" of this song a lot. It's implied in the lyrics that the lady had a lover before she got with "the man of her dreams" and I feel like that lover was the narrator. Since he seemed to watch the spectacle from a distance all the way until the end I feel he still harbors a love/hate feeling for the lady after everything that passed. I can relate to that feeling.
Thank you. The Master is missed.
full of great songs. I love this album. Especially Memories.
:) Hard to believe he was still doing music with such perfection just 4 years ago right up until he died. :) What a performer. --sigh-- Miss him.
🕉This album is my "guilty pleasure"
as a dancing child from 1960 I love to move
my hands and arms on the sound of brass.
☮️It was my December gift in 1977.
The best juvenile memories go with the drama of this album.
Truth is, you could consider that look on his face a smile.
🕉Since L.Cohen himself has forgiven Phil Spector
I'm a happy and proud owner of both the long player and CD
Dance absolutely whenever you want to❤️🔥
Well, that was a nice surprise on this rainy morning day, beautiful. Thank you, son of Leonard
"And the last time that I saw her, she was living with some boy who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy"
Love every song of him!
I'm 73 and still listening
i am listening with u michael❤
@@clearlikeday write again
Have been listening to Leonard Cohen since 1968. Each time it's like hearing him for the first time
I love this album. Such a great listen.
Thank you. Leonard lives on!
Always have loved this song!
This is lenoard Cohen. God rest him one of the best.
For me, Death of Ladies Man ranks alongside albums like Pink Floyd's The Final Cut or John Lennon's Sometime in New York City, in which I understand most of the criticism levied against them, but I still can't help but love it
This song is so fitting, even for today's times.
Awesome whimsical lyrics.
I believe Leonard must have listened to Dark Side of the Moon a few times before recording this.
Get the Sylvie Simmons biography about Leonard, the part where Phil Spector is producing this album is hilarious.
Yep, it very sure is. Gobsmacking.
@@paulwhitehead87 I hope I didn't jinx Phil with this comment. RIP to a legend!
I haven´t reawd anyhing about that but these sessions must have been extremely dysfunctional and drug fuelled to the max .
I even hear it in Cohen´s voice , he sounds high/drunk af in this .
I have several of his biographies. I've never felt the desire to read them but now I think I should like to read that one! 😂
@@MarvinSumpter An insane legend who was, let's be honest, a very bad human being.
My first time ever listening to this. It certainly is different, but it could grow on me ☺️😉
Agree. Can't decide if I like it or not. The first part of the song is nice but gets a bit strange. . Weird album for Leonard Cohen.
This song has a George Harrison "Isn't It a Pity?" musical vibe. Phil Spector also produced that Harrison song.
I was thinking Brain Damage by Pink Floyd.
A great singer! I’ll love it...........
Fernando Poveda 🙃could be considered an early rap as well though😷
incredible phil spector production
Unico.
Canzone meravigliosa ❤️❤️
Leonard was the master xsadly missed wonderful man .
How so brilliant
Im now 75 and still listening
Merci
masterpiece
My favourite LC song.
no one ever mentions the talent on this record. From Bob Dylan to Patti Smith to Tiny TIm
simple genius
Thanks for the song.
"Death Of A Ladies' Man"
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said.
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.
"O baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet.
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust
She took unto herself most everything her lover lost
Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs,
I'll show you solitude."
He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room
He promised her protection for the issue of her womb
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon
She took his much admired oriental frame of mind
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine --
"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."
He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back."
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,
she mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.
The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
a woman's education but he's not a woman yet
And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy
who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
You can't go wrong with Cohen and Spector.
unless you're a b movie actress looking for a break
Not exactly what Cohen himself said ...
@@yvesligot7885 His only criticism was that he didn’t get to put down a definitive vocal but Spector knew it was right, Cohen went on to acknowledge that the album was indeed great in his later years.
Cult and formidável!
RIP Phil Spector
RIP Lana Clarkson
Yes
Tryptich Endeavor did a hilarious reggae/ska/dub version of this.Worth looking out for just to hear once.
"She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache"
When i sing this song, i feel like im singing my own biography. lolz x
Beat me up
The music in this song sounds similar to Pink Floyd's song Brain Damage from the Dark Side of The Moon album.
👍👍👍
Sometimes it sounds like George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity?", also produced by Phil Spector
was looking for that comment 😚
Very Dark side of the Moon
Lee!
father john misty - mahashmashana
Rest in peace, Phil Spector.
Directed by Phil Spectoer, now a gonner to the pearly gates or purgatory.
Either nothing or purgatory. Certainly not the pearly gates lol
R.I.P Mr. Spector.
RIP Lana Clarkson
pink Floyd is crying :0)
Andy Olejnik 😇
The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from being seen...
Also sounds like a Pink Floyd song I can't place
💖🎤🎵🎶🎼🎹🎺🎻
er war ein reiner ehrenmann
Minha versão em portugues desse clássico:ua-cam.com/video/yLhoSVi1nzg/v-deo.html
❤❤🎶🎼🎵🎵💖👌
My. Baby. Len r.i.p.
😎
Isn't Phil Spector just plagiarizing Man in Me by Dylan here?
Yeah I agree I thought of that song when I heard this
No, several songs have similar melodies, just appreciate it for the masterpiece it so evidently is.
Love u. Pops in law never. Just my pops. Should. Have. Married u. Joking Len x
Really, this production is horrific - if only somebody could get hold of the tapes... it sounds like it was recorded underwater! Phil Spector may have been a good producer once, but he was a joke by this point...
I don't think it's horrible at all. I think it's intentional and made to convey hopelessness and decadence, which it does very well. When played through speakers, the details come out more.
@@dimitrisb5089 Possibly its meant to be mastered with more 1-3khz in, but in comparison with other songs by him, it sounds like mud. Something's wrong there, and this is on the official Cohen channel, so there's something up. it needs a remix and re-release from the original multi-track if it survives, or at least a remaster with some presence in. I can see why cohen hated it, the performances aren't inherently bad, just almost unlistenable they are so lacking in definition. OK, this is just my opinion, but I understand now why this is considered the worst cohen album, something went very wrong here in between the studio and my ears...
'One day Phil just failed to return to the studio, keeping all the tapes (as he had done with Lennon's masters) and going on to mix them alone. Cohen was aghast. He did not consider his recorded vocals to be anywhere near definitive. As far as he was concerned they were merely "guide" vocals for the benefit of the musicians. He had expected to be able to take time on his singing but with Spector holding the tapes hostage at an unknown location this now seemed impossible, unless he brought his own bunch of heavies to take on Spector's. "I had the option of hiring my own private army and fighting it out with him on Sunset Boulevard or letting it go...I let it go."' '...At the time of the album's release, however, Cohen was much less generous in his public response to the album, calling Spector's production "a 'catastrophe.'"[1]....' It sounds like this for sure!
@@SamHarrisonMusic YOUR COMMENT KILLED PHIL!!!
@@SamHarrisonMusic The production might be dodgy, but you can't deny the genius of bringing a solo vocal in in that final minute. It's so gloriously corny.
Reminds me of george Harrison
He is not a women yet!!
I love Leonard chohen and have been listening to him for 33 years now. but this album is terrible, I don't know what is the story behind it but it literally hurts me to hear it.
It's definitely very different from all the other albums. It reeks of the excesses of the late 1970's, I can practically see the smoky rooms and the disco balls when I'm listening to it. I wouldn't say I "hate" it, it took me a while to adjust to it. It lacks the smooth storybook poetry of the first 4 albums and not quite as catchy as the fusion between pop-ish blues in later works from 84, 88, and 92 but it's an interesting period of his life and works. It's ok if you hate it though, just like some people love collard greens but I can't stand the smell or the taste of them. At least we can agree he was a magnificent artist and lyricist and hopefully his music will live on long after us.
Why? It is the greatest one.
@@-o-light8863 Yes. It's generally regarded as his worst album as he lost control of it but it has a couple of gems, such as Iodine and True Love Leaves No Traces but it wouldn't convert the uninitiated to Cohen
@@talcumpowder1000 usually the layman goes for the pleasant sounds statics a cheap beer and cheap woman. if one hasn't read a good book of poetry other than Charles Bukowski one would not have a feel for Cohen's music and poetry.
@@-o-light8863 I love Bukowski
By leaving your respects for Phil in this comments section, you may just be safe from Lily Allen's virtue signalling. Take cover!
EDIT - Winnet alert in the replies.
You sound triggered.
@@georgehornsby6882 I was born in 1983, I can't be 'triggered'!
@@MarvinSumpter You clearly are.
@@nonokraan6567 Anyone privy to this diluted language care to explain exactly what brings them to make the observation?
@@MarvinSumpter So it appears Lily Allen "triggered" you by mentioning that Phil Spector was a murderer. I guess for some reason that fact upsets you? Then you got really mad so you came to youtube to tell everybody how triggered you are. Hope that helps!
konnte man mögen...musste man aber nicht..eigentlich nur schrecklich
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" vibes. This is the most derivative trash Cohen ever let himself be part of. Lyrics are good. Music is horrible.
The only album that was brushed under the carpet, cohen NEVER ever mentioned it again thru out the rest of his life, i met him way back 73 UK such a humble guy.
Good music...Lyrics suck
you do not get it. its a lady that exposed his vulnerability, and he couldn't play or commit himself to anyone else thereafter
What? They are some of the greatest lyrics ever committed to tape, try and come up with something better then talk shit