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For four decades, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning as time goes on.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This re-release contains 17 tracks. The following songs have been dropped from the original version: Lady Midnight, The Partisan, Last Year's Man & Take This Longing. Nine tracks from later albums have been added and eight songs remain from his early albums like Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, Songs Of Love And Hate and New Skin For The Old Ceremony. From the album Songs Of Love and Hate I would have chosen Joan Of Arc, though, instead of Famous Blue Raincoat.
The quality of these timeless songs is proved by the many cover versions, of which a few of the best include Rita Coolidge's Bird On A Wire plus The Lilac Time's and the Neville Brothers' covers of the same song, Sting & The Chieftains' Sisters Of Mercy, James' cover of So Long Marianne, Geoffrey Oryema, Judy Collins and Nina Simone's very different interpretations of Suzanne.
The best (or my favorites) amongst the nine new tracks are The Future & Closing Time from the Future album and Dance Me To The End Of Love from Various Positions. I would have preferred Take This Waltz from I'm Your Man over the title track, Everybody Knows or Manhattan. Likewise I think Alexandra Leaving is more memorable than A 1000 Kisses on Ten New Songs.
Cohen completists would also be interested in Essential Leonard Cohen. What I found particularly impressive on listening to this blend of old and new gems, were the brilliant arrangements and especially the siren-like quality of the female vocals so perfectly framing Cohen's voice. These songs just sound better and better as the years pass.
The quality of these timeless songs is proved by the many cover versions, of which a few of the best include Rita Coolidge's Bird On A Wire plus The Lilac Time's and the Neville Brothers' covers of the same song, Sting & The Chieftains' Sisters Of Mercy, James' cover of So Long Marianne, Geoffrey Oryema, Judy Collins and Nina Simone's very different interpretations of Suzanne.
The best (or my favorites) amongst the nine new tracks are The Future & Closing Time from the Future album and Dance Me To The End Of Love from Various Positions. I would have preferred Take This Waltz from I'm Your Man over the title track, Everybody Knows or Manhattan. Likewise I think Alexandra Leaving is more memorable than A 1000 Kisses on Ten New Songs.
Cohen completists would also be interested in Essential Leonard Cohen. What I found particularly impressive on listening to this blend of old and new gems, were the brilliant arrangements and especially the siren-like quality of the female vocals so perfectly framing Cohen's voice. These songs just sound better and better as the years pass.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For information, a previous reviewer lamented that 'Waiting for the Miracle had been drastically cut in half. I have just noticed that this is the cut from the soundtrack of 'Natural Born Killers'. I suppose the record company were trying to be clever (didn't work)
For Cohen's music on this disc, I have given 5 stars (I don't think I can ever give an album of Cohen's music anything less). Obviously we all have our favourite tracks that do not appear here 'Take this Longing' & 'Anthem' are just two among mine, and it is such an obvious cash in on the great man's world tour, but it is still Lenny and the songs are still wonderful.
For Cohen's music on this disc, I have given 5 stars (I don't think I can ever give an album of Cohen's music anything less). Obviously we all have our favourite tracks that do not appear here 'Take this Longing' & 'Anthem' are just two among mine, and it is such an obvious cash in on the great man's world tour, but it is still Lenny and the songs are still wonderful.
42 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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Made by Sony company of UK, without involvement of Leonard Cohen or his manager's office, this is outrageous re-packing of 1975 Best Of LP (known in Europe as Greatest Hits). Not only it's ridiculous in packing, but one of the best Cohen songs, Waiting for the Miracle, is cut off in half (at 3:24 instead of 7:42), after 3rd verse, and there's also major drop out at the beginning of the song, with two lines omitted in the first verse (what sounds like your CD skipped but it's there on the record).
Outrageous and shameful way of making money of Cohen's recent popularity.
Outrageous and shameful way of making money of Cohen's recent popularity.
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CD came quickly and it was packed well. It is for a present - so I cannot judge the cd.
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