Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social

*I think there's a case to be made that if you strip the lyrics from the songs and just read them on paper, Cohen is the best poet of the three, but I also think that's a fundamentally misguided way to understand lyrics, which may be why I don't like him quite as much as a songwriter

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Erich with an H @erichwithanh.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:41 UTC

Makes sense, since he was way more famous as a poet before he became a songwriter, and I believe many of his early songs were poems he set to music.

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