<![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:10:34 EDT Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:10:34 EDT http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4720285 Cohen's version still beats them all, especially Buckley's flat and amazingly overrated one.

And yes, Leonard is alive and touring this summer.

drjimmy11

]]> 33:368015:c4720285 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:10:34 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4713024 yes, that album with Bono was very, very Bono.

rogerniner

]]> 33:368015:c4713024 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:24:38 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4710801 @rogerniner: You mean the god-awful Bono cover from the god-awful Tower of Song, right?

tigerpop

]]> 33:368015:c4710801 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:44:44 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4710526 @SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: Halleujah.

rogerniner

]]> 33:368015:c4710526 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:34:03 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4710456 @rogerniner: Ah, the glories of 5th grade. I'd go back in a heartbeat. For like a week. Then I'd want pot and sex back.

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> 33:368015:c4710456 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:30:31 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4710025 @SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: Maybe you were trying to decipher whether the song could help you avoid the mentioned "she" from giving you cooties by figuring out her movements.

rogerniner

]]> 33:368015:c4710025 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:14:58 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4709895 @rogerniner: What does Bono do that isn't god-awful? Though I had a weird obsession with 'she moves in mysterious ways' when I was 10.

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> 33:368015:c4709895 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:10:18 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4709632 The Buckley version follows the Cale version more than it did Cohen's, so Cale might be pissed... or indifferent. Probably indifferent.

Does anyone rememer the god awful Bono cover from "Tower of Song?"

rogerniner

]]> 33:368015:c4709632 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:00:22 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4709591 @SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: I am sure he digs the royalty checks.

Elijah-M

]]> 33:368015:c4709591 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:59:00 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4709356 @tigerpop: not only "The Pretender" is still charting, but if you rank the songs on the chart by the audience they reach, it's actually the #1 alternative single in the US right now, 32 weeks after it hit the airwaves. I can't wait for the format to implode.

Aleb

]]> 33:368015:c4709356 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:51:17 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4708826 @Elijah-M: Matos pinged me about a half-hour ago and made the same quip.

For the record (and, sorry, this is my bad): I know Leonard Cohen isn't dead. I was just (a) trying to be pithy; (b) indicating that Cohen (and his estate) probably makes more from songwriting than he makes from all his other activities (recording, touring, shagging improbably hot/younger women) combined.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:368015:c4708826 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:31:54 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4708792 @Chris Molanphy: I must have had my Jack Johnson blinders on. I wear them most of the time.

tigerpop

]]> 33:368015:c4708792 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:31:00 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4708769 @Elijah-M: HA! Seriously, poor Cohen. That Buckley cover is going to outshine him until his dying day. But who knows, maybe he digs it...

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> 33:368015:c4708769 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:30:03 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4708580 Before sending Jason Castro a thank you, the Cohen estate might first want to take notice that Leonard Cohen isn't dead yet.

Elijah-M

]]> 33:368015:c4708580 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:22:48 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4708417 @tigerpop: I consider him music to fall asleep to.

pantycrickets

]]> 33:368015:c4708417 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:17:12 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4708397 "Sexy Can I" has the best lyrics of 2008 (so far):

"Sexy can I, visit you at work
When you sliding down the pole,
no panties, no shirt.
Then you climb back up the pole,
then you drop and do the splits.
How you make that pussy talk,
Baby damn, u is da shit"

Ray-J speaks to the woman in me.







pantycrickets

]]> 33:368015:c4708397 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:16:35 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4708316 @tigerpop: And in what doped-up universe is Jack Johnson considered "modern rock"?

The new, bizarro world we're now living in -- see last week's column, last item.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:368015:c4708316 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:13:51 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4707834 "The Pretender" is still charting? Fackin A. And in what doped-up universe is Jack Johnson considered "modern rock"?

tigerpop

]]> 33:368015:c4707834 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:58:33 EDT <![CDATA[Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol]]> http://idolator.com/368015/bonkers-for-buckley-americas-dead-idol#c4707400 Well, I know for certain that I saw Jason Castro's version chart on iTunes last week when it was first released last week, at #94, did someone flub over at Apple's iTunes Store?

Ruf

]]> 33:368015:c4707400 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:45:17 EDT