The Afterworld Can Wait for Leonard Cohen

   In the Nirvana song Pennyroyal Tea,  Kurt Cobain sings "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally".  Cobain may be sighing but Leonard Cohen is still speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song, as he turns 80 this Sunday.

   In the early nineties I picked up a Leonard Cohen tribute album called "I'm Your Fan"  Here are three of my favorite songs from the disc.

REM - First We Take Manhattan

    The Pixies - I Can't Forget

Ian McCulloch - That's No Way To Say Goodbye

  Although the disc contained a cover of my favorite Cohen song "Tower of Song"  by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, I prefer Jesus and Mary Chains version.