Comments on: Leonard Cohen and His Fellow Slowpoke Songwriters

By: AcidReign

AcidReign — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:06:37 +0000

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At some point, I become absolutely sick of working on one song, and it suffers after that if I keep pounding it. I wonder how many of these long development times include periods of shelving the song for a while? Coming back to an idea later is often best.

A lot of times, getting stuff down to tape while it's still raw and full of energy is the way to go!

By: nonce

nonce — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:40:19 +0000

I remember, in days of yore, reading about Trent Reznor shit-talking Kurt Cobain for not taking 2 years to write a song and thinking "huh?"

As another lit major and half-assed poet I understand both the usefulness of revision and the danger of always thinking of everything as a rough draft. There's a certain amount of discipline involved in making yourself getting it right on first try.

By: jb

jb — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:13:13 +0000

i heard irv gotti once brag on MTV as to how ashanti consistently bangs out songs in like 5 minutes. you don’t say. what ever happened to revisions? maybe i’m biased as a lit major and half ass poet but damn i wish more artists workshopped their songs or at least edited them which isn’t to say brilliance doesn’t strike quickly, just not often.

By: Breliant

Breliant — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:35:54 +0000

The interviewer knew the answer to that question, Len’s said that he still thinks the song’s unfinished.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:18:22 +0000

Until this moment, I never realized the similarities between Axl Rose and Leonard Cohen. Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen them in the same room?