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- Original Release Date: 27 Jan 2012
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| Play | 2. Amen | 7:35 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Show Me The Place | 4:09 | £0.89 | ||
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| Play | 6. Crazy To Love You | 3:05 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Come Healing | 2:52 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Banjo | 3:22 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Lullaby | 4:45 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. Different Sides | 4:05 | £0.89 |
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158 of 162 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a truly great Leonard Cohen album in my view - something I've not been able to say for too many years. The music often sounds delicate but has a laid back robustness about it, too, with his trademark simple melodies and a very welcome varied sound and style, with elements of country, blues, gospel and rock. There are also the beautiful and familiar female backing vocals, and some simply magnificent work from a varied band - the trumpet on "Amen," for example, is unexpected and absolutely spellbinding.
Cohen's voice these days has passed through the Whisky & Cigarettes stage and is well on the way to a Chronic Bronchitis sound, but he still has that fabulous depth and resonance beneath the weariness and the creaks. He hovers between singing and speaking for much of this album even more than previously, but as a friend once said to me, "No one can sing a Leonard Cohen song the way Cohen himself can't." How true. He is miked very close so, particularly when listening on headphones, it really feels as though he is present and whispering into your ear.
All this is perfect for the songs here, whose lyrics are Cohen at his best: thoughtful, allusive, melancholy, witty and sometimes provoking. The religious imagery he has always used so brilliantly is well in evidence, and it is striking how much of it is now specifically Christian. Broken relationships, suffering and death have always been in the corner of Cohen's eye whatever he is writing about. They are often in plain sight here and are treated with insight, resignation, compassion and beauty. The old witty twinkle and his self-deprecatory streak are still there, though, and shine through what is often a very elegiac atmosphere. He still has that fantastic ability somehow to get to the heart of things both when he's speaking straightforwardly and even when direct meaning is elusive. These are songs to take into your heart, nurture and allow to grow there.
I think that several of these songs, including Amen, Show Me The Place and Different Sides are likely to become Cohen classics, but there is nothing to be sanitized and exploited by talent-show winners here and if you don't like Leonard Cohen this album certainly won't convert you. However, those legions of us who know that he was born like this, he had no choice, he was born with the gift of a golden voice will be delighted and deeply satisfied that that voice, both in what he writes and how he performs it, has lost none of its magnificent lustre.
I recommend this album wholeheartedly. I suspect that it may be a masterpiece.
Cohen's voice these days has passed through the Whisky & Cigarettes stage and is well on the way to a Chronic Bronchitis sound, but he still has that fabulous depth and resonance beneath the weariness and the creaks. He hovers between singing and speaking for much of this album even more than previously, but as a friend once said to me, "No one can sing a Leonard Cohen song the way Cohen himself can't." How true. He is miked very close so, particularly when listening on headphones, it really feels as though he is present and whispering into your ear.
All this is perfect for the songs here, whose lyrics are Cohen at his best: thoughtful, allusive, melancholy, witty and sometimes provoking. The religious imagery he has always used so brilliantly is well in evidence, and it is striking how much of it is now specifically Christian. Broken relationships, suffering and death have always been in the corner of Cohen's eye whatever he is writing about. They are often in plain sight here and are treated with insight, resignation, compassion and beauty. The old witty twinkle and his self-deprecatory streak are still there, though, and shine through what is often a very elegiac atmosphere. He still has that fantastic ability somehow to get to the heart of things both when he's speaking straightforwardly and even when direct meaning is elusive. These are songs to take into your heart, nurture and allow to grow there.
I think that several of these songs, including Amen, Show Me The Place and Different Sides are likely to become Cohen classics, but there is nothing to be sanitized and exploited by talent-show winners here and if you don't like Leonard Cohen this album certainly won't convert you. However, those legions of us who know that he was born like this, he had no choice, he was born with the gift of a golden voice will be delighted and deeply satisfied that that voice, both in what he writes and how he performs it, has lost none of its magnificent lustre.
I recommend this album wholeheartedly. I suspect that it may be a masterpiece.
55 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The voice so deep, "a thousand kisses deep", to say it with the words of one of his songs. After listening to the album three times in a row, you realize there is no standout track, no future evergreen (the word evergreen should be banned anyway: too much nostalgia even takes the good part of darkness away). The longest track, "Amen", is a hymn, a prayer that agnostics and atheists might fall in love with while enjoying the feel of ancient banjo, sepia-coloured violin and simple cornet. On "Old Ideas" the man with the golden voice (good old joke!) doesn't act like a preacher at all, and every verse that could seem to send a message carved in stone and song is quickly counterbalanced by dark humour, self-irony and stoicism.
There are bluesy moments, slow-motion-gospel - and jazz-vibes. The gravity comes from the voice, and how it nearly creates new definitions of close miking and sub-bass, with the result of warm intimacy. And then there are all the female voices of older and newer times (from Jennifer Warnes to the Webb Sisters) doing the jobs of a second voice, a background, and a choir. An old Cohen tradition: but remember, on the first studio album of his demon-chasing life, the producer added these kind of angelic colours against the will of the singer to soften the scenery. An old trick that still works.
It is the sincerity of the artist that allows him to stick totally to old ideas without any suspect he might have lost it. He's just slowing down, down, down - with a clear eye for exit signs and open places: "Sometimes I'd head for the highway/ I'm old and the mirrors don't lie/ But crazy has places to hide in/ Deeper than saying goodbye," he sings/speaks on "Crazy To Love You", accompanied by an acoustic guitar only. So, finally, closing time, silence, a last dying tone? No, that would be too pretentious. It's better to leave the scene with a beat, a rhythmic soul groove - and asking for a kiss. Amen.
There are bluesy moments, slow-motion-gospel - and jazz-vibes. The gravity comes from the voice, and how it nearly creates new definitions of close miking and sub-bass, with the result of warm intimacy. And then there are all the female voices of older and newer times (from Jennifer Warnes to the Webb Sisters) doing the jobs of a second voice, a background, and a choir. An old Cohen tradition: but remember, on the first studio album of his demon-chasing life, the producer added these kind of angelic colours against the will of the singer to soften the scenery. An old trick that still works.
It is the sincerity of the artist that allows him to stick totally to old ideas without any suspect he might have lost it. He's just slowing down, down, down - with a clear eye for exit signs and open places: "Sometimes I'd head for the highway/ I'm old and the mirrors don't lie/ But crazy has places to hide in/ Deeper than saying goodbye," he sings/speaks on "Crazy To Love You", accompanied by an acoustic guitar only. So, finally, closing time, silence, a last dying tone? No, that would be too pretentious. It's better to leave the scene with a beat, a rhythmic soul groove - and asking for a kiss. Amen.
37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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In his 12th studio album Leonard Cohen returns to his familiar theme of being human with all the frailties and challenges that attend the condition. Employing a simplicity of musical texture Cohen performs ten deeply personal songs delivered mainly as spoken word poetry to moving effect.
With exquisite backing vocals by long time associates Jennifer Warnes, Anjani Thomas, Sharon Robinson and the Webb Sisters the songs have an ethereal and hymnal quality that is often nurtured by a slow and elegiac violin. But that is not to say that it is just a monochromatic sound because there are strains of gypsy jazz strings, country and even shades of Dylanesque blues.
This is not the sound of an old man contemplating the end and he wryly observes "I love to speak with Leonard/He's A sportsman and a shepherd/He's a lazy bastard living in a suit". But it would be pointless to write a review that dwells too much on the lyrics of this almost flawless production. The important facts are that this is a masterpiece of poetry combining with a sublime musical tapestry that can relax, inspire and enthral in equal measure. It is simply beautiful and another classic Cohen album to cherish. I regret to say that his is a lost art and one that we will never see the like of again.
With exquisite backing vocals by long time associates Jennifer Warnes, Anjani Thomas, Sharon Robinson and the Webb Sisters the songs have an ethereal and hymnal quality that is often nurtured by a slow and elegiac violin. But that is not to say that it is just a monochromatic sound because there are strains of gypsy jazz strings, country and even shades of Dylanesque blues.
This is not the sound of an old man contemplating the end and he wryly observes "I love to speak with Leonard/He's A sportsman and a shepherd/He's a lazy bastard living in a suit". But it would be pointless to write a review that dwells too much on the lyrics of this almost flawless production. The important facts are that this is a masterpiece of poetry combining with a sublime musical tapestry that can relax, inspire and enthral in equal measure. It is simply beautiful and another classic Cohen album to cherish. I regret to say that his is a lost art and one that we will never see the like of again.
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Published 1 month ago by Mr. M. A. Reed
Love it!
This is soooo good. I loved Leonard when he (and I!) were younger but I think this is fab. His voice is even more gravelly than ever and the lyrics are great.
Published 1 month ago by bookclub
old ideas
Have been a fan of Leonard Cohen since I first heard 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' in the early 70s and have collected his albums ever since. Old Ideas doesn't disappoint. Read more
Published 1 month ago by sunnyonekatherine
really enjoyed
this album was a download on the the internet it was easy to do the content is excellent and very good value would purchase from this provider again really pleased with value and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. D. Collins
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Lenard Cohen has no equal as far as I'm concerned. Any one who purchases this CD or any of his other will not be disappointed. Tom Watkins
Published 1 month ago by David Humphreys
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