Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
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Free Music Review: CD
Hit: 5 Stars
The music is incredible and the CD was in great condition. It arrived promptly and I am very happy with it.Free Music Review: Populist Cohen
Hit: 4 Stars
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.
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. 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.
Free Music Review: A mixed bag here, with a gem or two...
Hit: 3 Stars
For my taste, 'Ain't No Cure for Love" is the keeper on this CD, but I have friends who like "First We'll Take Manhattan" or "I'm Your Man" or "Tower of Song" better. I like the last three better by artists other than Leonard, and in fact, "Ain't No Cure" is even done better by Jennifer Warnes. As with most Cohen albums I've heard over 40 years, his love lyrics, happy or sad, are his strong suit. Overall, this is weaker than "Various Positions" and I recommend that one, and also his Greatest Hits stuff from the '60's and '70's, ahead of "I'm Your Man."
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