Favorite Albums of All Time : Leonard Cohen - Songs From a Room (1969)

Favorite Song: "The Old Revolution" and "Story of Issac"
Favorite Lyric: "Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows"
Why?: Leonard Cohen is a fucking poet. Songwriters are songwriters, but Leonard Cohen is actually truly, first and foremost, a poet, with the aid of simple, apt, and appropriate musical accompaniment. Amongst Cohen's discography, "Songs from a Room" is the one that stands out to me the most. It's such a musically simple album, but the stories its songs tell are some of the most heartbreaking, hopeful and honest, ones about the human condition I have ever came across. Good album for late night pondering.