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Music CD - Leonard Cohen: More Best of Leonard Cohen
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Music CD: More Best of Leonard Cohen
Artist: Leonard Cohen
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $5.35
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Everybody Knows
2. I'm Your Man
3. Take This Waltz
4. Tower of Song
5. Anthem
6. Democracy
7. The Future
8. Closing Time
9. Dance Me to the End of Love
10. Suzanne
11. Hallelujah
12. Never Any Good
13. The Great Event
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646863626
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1997-10-07
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great compilation
Comment: Always admired him but never bought a cd before of Leaonard Cohen. He is mezmerizing. What a poet and his music just stays with you. it's timeless. Still listening...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mr Music Man
Comment: This is a superb cd as one would expect from such a performer as Leonard Cohen. Most of the tracks are on his other cds but they are put together
on More Best of and the result is a great recording. Put the lights down low, put your head back on a cushion and just listen........
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Summary: I love this man's poetry
Comment: It has been far to long since I have listened to Leonard Cohen. If you have wandered away also, come back and listen to this cd. He speaks to my soul and to feelings that I would never be able to convey. I only wish that he would tour the USA as he is doing in Europe and Asia. Leonard, I know that there is no where in the US that would be as romantically inclined as a smokey bar in Paris but we need to see you.
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Summary: o/my/god
Comment: This is my first in-depth experience with Leonard Cohen, so you who are accustomed to his work will have to forgive my naive enthusiasm. I have never heard anything so serious in my life. The best comparison that I can come up with is that this artist combines the intellect of Bob Dylan with the delivery of Marianne Faithfull. This is poetry; it is bleak, it is depressing, it is horrifying, it is humorous, it is beautiful. Any thinking person needs to hear this. Actually a lot more people need to hear it, but unfortunately I believe that the very ones who need to hear it are the ones who will choose to ignore it.
The tracks cover a wide (to put it mildly) range of topics done in a variety of musical styles, difficult to describe. "Everybody Knows" is a pretty accurate view of our corrupt society, delivered in an appropriately cynical voice accompanied by appropriately sinister music. "Tower of Song" is more personal, seemingly about someone who is imprisoned by his circumstances. The music, including the backup singing, sounds lighter, perhaps because the victim has accepted his fate. Another personal song, "Suzanne", is the one I was most familiar with before buying this CD. A straight-up folk song, it weaves sex, religion and social issues together to form an unforgettable portrait of a girl who is "...half crazy/but that's why you want to be there." (The funny thing is, hearing this song again reminds me of a girl I knew very well by the same name, so, Suzanne, if you are reading this, you know who you are!) Black humor is in full force as "Democracy" comes to the USA, to the tune of a military march. And you know "The Future" will be grim if the singer prefers the near past and the present (crack, the Berlin Wall, Stalin, Hiroshima) to the worse future he describes as "murder". The finality of the reality eventually arrives in "Closing Time", a mid-tempo square-dance country number which contains still more black humor: "And the whole damn place goes crazy twice/and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ/but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights - we're busted in the blinding lights/of closing time." I'd say that's pretty final. Ah, but the disc ends with a spoken ray of hope, in which playing the Moonlight Sonata backwards will somehow have enough power to "...end the horror...end the sorrow...and assert the majesty of creation!"
People, you just don't find much music like this on the radio or on MTV and VH1. I am happy to have stumbled upon it through a series of odd coincidences, as if it were meant to be. I know now that having heard it, I can't do without it.
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Summary: An amazing artist!
Comment: This is one of the best CD's I have ever bought! If you like sultry singers with lyrics that make you think, than this is the Artist you will want to listen to. Leonard Cohen has a unique and remarkably deep voice, an excellent song writer! No one comes close. I have listened to this CD more than 6 times in the last month. I am impressed with his style and awesome voice.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Canadian poet Leonard Cohen sings with great weight and authority and his lyrics are among the most elegant and scripted of the rock era. This collection is culled from his past three albums (1988's I'm Your Man, 1992's The Future, and 1994's Cohen Live) and shows a man whose voice has deepened to the point of grim, foreboding death with lyrics sharpened to masterful precision. The arrangements are deliberately clunky--the cheese- whiz female back-ups lend unusual tension bordering on parody--but the sentiments are for real. Two previously unreleased cuts, "Never Any Good" and the non-event, "The Great Event" suggest his well is currently dry. But the unrelenting bleakness of "The Future" and uneasy celebration of "Democracy" are among the past decade's most challenging pop works. --Rob O'Connor
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