{"id":223,"date":"2006-08-18T21:08:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T04:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-05-12T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:25:20","slug":"working-hard-to-get-the-listing-on-the-tower-of-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/223\/working-hard-to-get-the-listing-on-the-tower-of-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Working hard to get the listing on the Tower of Song . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"I’m really not the off-topic type, but it’s Friday and I’m toast and I feel like sharing a little of the background here at Bloodhound HQ. For weeks now we’ve been listening to the soundtrack album<\/a>\"\"from the film Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the movie is still around in your town — it’s long gone from the world’s most sophisticated cow town — go see it. It has two redeeming features over most rockumentaries: First, the interview portions are viscerally honest, in contrast to the usual obviously phony PR treatment. And second, the interview portions are very brief, with the result that the music holds sway — vast stretches of uninterrupted music. Who’d’a thunk it? A music movie about music…<\/p>\n

Leonard Cohen is one of my secret vices — along with Tom Waits and Townes Van Zandt. However far they might fall from my own esthetic, I make room in my life for songwriters who ring true to me — no matter how gut-wrenchingly true. The obvious contrast is to Bob Dylan, who has whole suites of space in my mind, but who is always hiding behind one mask or another. If you listen to something like Marie<\/a>, the experience is the perfect antithesis to one of Dylan’s set pieces. With the possible exception of Blind Willie McTell<\/a>, which is excruciatingly excellent, Bob Dylan is nowhere to be found in a Bob Dylan song, whereas in a song by Townes Van Zandt or Leonard Cohen, the man is always right there. Tom Waits is a little more challenging, and I like to use a remarkably bad live bootleg I have of Falling Down<\/a> as a litmus test for sophisticates. If you can hear through level upon level of rubbled ugliness to the sad and perfect beauty of the song, I might let you look at my record collection.<\/p>\n

I’ve infected Cathy will all my musical affectations, and part of learning to live and work with me is learning to put up with, respect, like and eventually love what I admire in popular music — because if I feel a need to listen to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really not the off-topic type, but it’s Friday and I’m toast and I feel like sharing a little of the background here at Bloodhound HQ. For weeks now we’ve been listening to the soundtrack albumfrom the film Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man. 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