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Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Audio CD

A fair review of the Leonard Cohen "I'm Your Man" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Leonard Cohen reviews here, or go back to the Leonard Cohen tabs.

Leonard Cohen Band: Leonard Cohen
Title: I'm Your Man
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: First We Take Manhattan 2: Ain't No Cure for Love 3: Everybody Knows 4: I'm Your Man 5: Take This Waltz 6: Jazz Police 7: I Can't Forget 8: Tower of Song

Best Leonard Cohen album
But it is quintessential Leonard Cohen, uncensored or made "brighter" by him or by anyone else. This was perhaps his first album -- can't remember. Powerful lyrics, subjects, and voice.


Someone I just found while listening at a friend's house!
You have to listen and see the DVD of the live concert in London. . he is a great poet and has a great sound and backup musicians!.


Populist Cohen


Maybe it's a case of gratitude? This was the album that brought him back out of the cold, giving him his highest charting album in many years and pushing his back catalogue onto the charts around the world. I've heard that this is Leonard Cohen's own favourite among his albums; this would seem to be proved by the fact that his self-selected 'Essential' compilation features all but two songs from here. Many of the songs have become a latterday classics. . . . but many older fans will baulk at the gleaming, synethised arrangements, some of which now sound very dated indeed.

Not to worry, though: simply programme them out in your head. There's too much fine songwriting here to pass this one over just because you don't like the production. The only possible mis-step on here is 'Jazz Police' - or maybe this is just a private joke, a bit like 'Diamonds In The Mine'?

Whatever you think, this is an essential acquisition if you're any kind of fan.


Great Cohen album
Featuring some of his best songs this great record only gets better with time and still holds the same if not more significance as it did when it was first released. This album is one of Cohen's greatest achievements both lyrically and musically. .


A majestic album. Songs of the highest quality.
Leonard Cohen is an amazing man, who has created an amazing number of amazing songs over the year. As an album that you hear when your parents play it and come back to later to realise it's simply amazing, you can't get much better than this. For me, though, this is his essential album. Partly it's because my parents played it over and over when it first came out, and when I was too young to understand music like this for all its depth. I came back to it about five years ago to find that not only does it contain breathtaking songs, but I didn't have to wait a while to gain familiarity with them.

There isn't really time or space to go into detail about why each song is great, but suffice it to say that from the brooding Everybody Knows, to the wonderful 3/4 timed Take This Waltz, to the majestic closer Tower of Song, and everything in between, these are songs for all occasions. It'll take a bit of time - you'll need that familiarity that my parents bred into me before you fully appreciate this - and you'll at times have to look past the rather 80s synthetic instruments and the incredible blip of mediocre that is Jazz Police, but this album is magical.

Cohen's voice, his lyrics, and over all the craftsmanship and scale of his songs make this a truly excellent album. And one I can't rate highly enough! .


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