Talk:Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen song)

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Although the lyrics cover a wide range of matters and seem politgical, isn't the essence really the singer's disillusionment caused by his lover's infidelities ? -- Beardo (talk) 07:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm new to Wikipedia. Should I just go ahead and change it?

While it may have been first, by what reasoning can it be stated categorically that "Pump Up the Volume" is the most notable use? "Pump" was, considering it's cast and hype, a relative flop at the box office and got lukewarm reviews. Atom Agoyan's 1994 "Exotica," however, won numerous awards and honors, is on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list, and earned almost half what "Pump" did at the box office, despite limited "art house" release and none of the star attraction, superstar soundtrack and studio promotion blitz of "Pump." The song is featured at least as prominently in "Exotica" as the theme song of one of the main characters whenever she dances. For all these reasons, the "most notable" statement is a matter of opinion and subject to debate, and I think it should be removed.

Also, if it's use in "Pump" merits an entire paragraph, I think it's prominent usage in "Exotica" merits more than half a sentence. And since "Fortier" started i n2001, the chronological order is squirrely. The Guns n Roses reference is unclear, but in any case does not appear to have anything to do with movie or television soundtracks, so it doesn't belong. The Alex Jones radio show use is closer to movie and television soundtracks, so it may deserve to stay. So here are my suggested revisions:

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Sountracks

"Everybody Knows" has been widely used in television and film. Allan Moyle's 1990 film Pump Up the Volume featured the song prominently. A favorite of protagonist Mark Hunter (Christian Slater, as the operator of an underground radio station), Cohen's song is played from an on-screen phonograph several times during Mark's clandestine broadcasts. A cover by Concrete Blonde is used at the film's end, and it is this cover version that made it onto the film's soundtrack album rather than Cohen's version.

Cohen's original version was also featured prominently in Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica, as the theme music of exotic dancer Christina (Mia Kirschner) when she performs at the club of the film's title. The soundtrack album for Exotica, featuring music composed by Mychael Danna, does not include Cohen's recording of this song, either.

The song is also used in the film King of Kong and as theme music for episodes of SexTV. It was used in an episode of the Quebec mystery Fortier. Though the show is entirely in French, the song is played with its original English lyrics.

Don Henley's version is heard in episode 219 of the television series Judging Amy, which aired in 2001. Recently the Concrete Blonde version was featured in the third episode of the first season of Dirty Sexy Money titled the "Italian Banker".

"Everybody Knows" has also been used in a June 2008 anti-smoking advertisement commissioned by the New South Wales government in Australia with the theme "everybody knows smoking causes these diseases ... yet you still do it". Cohen's version serves as bumper music for The Alex Jones Show, an American radio talk show.

What if?

Nobody knows...

1969 experimental nuclear missile attacks

1933 Hitler takeover in Germany

Leute,

ich kann analytisch denken, ich kann Geschichtsbücher lesen, 1989 wurden die Abiturprüfungen vorverlegt, um beliebige Leute zum Militär/Führung einzuziehen, aus dem Nichts heraus: bevor ich ...

2004 wurde mir bewusst:

Milton argumentiert, dass gemäss der Vorstellungen von Völkerrecht Satan Gott als Tyrannen deklamiert.

Was dann angeblich/whatif trotzdem nicht zum Erfolg Satans geführt habe.

Das Thema der heutigen Vorstellung vom Unterschied zwischen Alpha/Beta/Gamma Strahlung ist:

was ist kosten/effizienter dabei, Betonwände von ca 30 cm zu durchdringen? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A0A:A548:38F6:0:4105:6D20:A3A3:C310 (talk) 09:50, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Jimmyb10 (talk) 19:24, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]