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Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan - 1988

submitted by djsunkid

1 decade 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

To me, Leonard Cohen is a symbol of the passionate, personal chic of Montreal. Although i'm not really into his music, the content, and personality of it is compelling.

It makes me feel like I've gone to some cafe on Rue Ste Catherine for a coffee and croissant, and having a secret affair instead.

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Expired in Queue - 4 day limit.

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Saving this video from the discard pile and sending it back to the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 2:50am PDT - save requested by Fedquip.

Thanks for the save, but oh noes! It's dead! I've replaced the embed code, but now it has a stupid spam header. Anybody else able to find a better embed?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x102c9_leonard-cohen-first-we-take-manhatt_music

Better than dead wasn't too hard, as good as the original I won't vouch for though

much better! Thank you drattus!

Welcome

note to self...click embeds before promoting.

I was listening to the song on the radio at the time, decided to search for it on the sift...hence why I failed to click.

NadaGeek says...

ok why is leonard cohen not in rocknroll ? anyone anyone ? ok sure it's not van halen , but it surely rocks !

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One placeholder vote has been reclaimed by user drattus - reclaimvote declared by drattus.

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Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, December 27th, 2007 12:43pm PST - doublepromote requested by NicoleBee.

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 5:02pm PST - promote requested by notarobot.

To tell the honest truth here, I've always preferred the Jennifer Warnes' version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viy96IijHaI

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