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  • Audio CD (5 Feb 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Sony Music CMG
  • ASIN: B000024V0O
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Mini-Disc  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 54,898 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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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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This compilation brings together a varying collection of music. There some fine pieces here (including a fantastic live version of Suzanne) but also songs like The Great Event that even hardcore Cohen fans may find a bit too difficult to swallow. This is a great album, but compared to the first volume of his greatest hits, it fails to deliver.
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A Clumsy Collection 15 Sep 2007
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A clumsily-arranged compilation of post 'Various Positions' Cohen recordings, it opens with a clump of three tracks from 'I'm Your Man' (tracks 3,4,5 of that album in the same sequence) followed by the evergreen 'Tower Of Song', the better-known tracks from 'The Future', then some selections from 1993's Cohen Live, including a towering, aged-in-the-bottle recording of 'Suzanne', and ends with two previously unavailable tracks - the monstrously comic belter 'Never Any Good' and what sounds like a home-recorded experiment, called 'The Great Event', which some might possibly wish had remained unavailable. Myself, I'm having none of that: everything the man does is at least interesting.
All in all, it lacks the coherence of the first 'Greatest Hits' (post-post-ironic title, anyone?) but worth owning esp. if you don't already own the two studio albums and the as-usual-magnificent live set.
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It's FAB! ALL Leonard Cohen is fab. You should read his books and his poetry as well, but his music/lyrics/voice/presence are the very best of Cohen. Buy everything!
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