These albums are significantly better than Leonard Cohen's 1988 release, I'm Your Man.It's Cohen at his best, which, in my opinion, is still not very good.
It's folk music for pseudo-intellectuals. It's poetry sung. And it sucks. Cohen plays all of his cards right. He's a man of mystique. He lives in a Buddhist monastery. Doesn't say too much and yet can't seemingly get out of the headlines in indie rock magazines and blogs.
His lyrics make as little sense as possible and it works because the way to sell records is to not make any goddamn sense.
He also wrote one of the most popular songs of all time -- "Hallelujah" -- is also doesn't make any sense and if not for the terrific melody would be 1000 times less popular than it is. Otherwise, all that needs to happen is some singer on reality game show to sing it and it sells 1 million copies of Jeff Buckley's version. Still, Cohen makes bank.
He's run a very tight ship, Cohen has. It's made him rich. Gotten him laid and probably made him a pretty happy guy. They should make a business plan on how to be a popular rock star with the minimum of talent.
Finally, what needs to happen for Dustin Hoffman to portray Cohen in a biopic? They look exactly the same.
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