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Leonard Cohen - More Best of Leonard Cohen Audio CD

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Leonard Cohen Band: Leonard Cohen
Title: More Best of Leonard Cohen
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Release Date: 1997-10-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Everybody Knows 2: I'm Your Man 3: Take This Waltz 4: Tower of Song 5: Anthem 6: Democracy 7: Future 8: Closing Time 9: Dance Me to the End of Love 10: Suzanne 11: Hallelujah 12: Never Any Good 13: Great Event

Leonard Cohen's Magic
C. I fully enjoyed this music & lyrics of L. . Lie back. . . . . let it come to you!.


Great compilation
He is mezmerizing. Always admired him but never bought a cd before of Leaonard Cohen. What a poet and his music just stays with you. it's timeless. Still listening.


Mr Music Man
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. This is a superb cd as one would expect from such a performer as Leonard Cohen. Put the lights down low, put your head back on a cushion and just listen.


I love this man's poetry
If you have wandered away also, come back and listen to this cd. It has been far to long since I have listened to Leonard Cohen. 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.


o/my/god
I have never heard anything so serious in my life. 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. 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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