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...at least, thank god, there is more. Not only has Cohen left an abundance of material to be perused and listened to over and over again, but he's still at it. Depressive? Hell, people seem to love to label people like Cohen (are there actually people like Cohen? It's just a figure of speech) as "dark" and "depressing" (see Nick Drake or Richard Thompson for probably as close as anyone comes to this sort of beatiful "darkness" which is really just the shade creeping across stories about life lived). If ever anything would be "depressive" it would have to have come from "Songs From A Room", and then only because I was in a similar room at the Henry Hudson Hotel myself, four years prior to Cohen's "dark" revelation there, and by god, there is no more depressing place on earth, so much so that I was unable to put into words the horrors I was feeling. Later he came along and did it for me, with amazing grace and beauty. He survived that and filed the report. Since then it's just gotten better and better, shadow and light. To whine about "Beautiful Losers" against the backdrop of this magestic body of work is what's really depressing. R.C., a huge Thank you! Hallelujia!
