Leonard Cohen - Live Songs
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Artist: Leonard CohenEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Live
CD Release Date: 2001-10-08
Music Label: Columbia Europe
Soundtracks:
- Minute Prologue
- Passing Through
- You Know Who I Am
- Bird on a Wire
- Nancy
- Improvisation
- Story of Isaac
- Please Don't Pass Me by (A Disgrace)
- Tonight Will Be Fine
- Queen Victoria
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Hit: 4 Stars
I have been a Leonard Cohen fan for many years, but my collection was limited to I'm your man, The Future and the compilation album So long Marianne. Only recently did I fully explore So long Marianne and the earlier songs grew so much on me that I started acquiring all the original albums.
Live Songs is my first "live" album. The sound quality and musical refinement is of course not comparable to the studio recorded albums, but that is not really the point. To me the recording presents the familiar songs (previously released) in entirely new ways. Instrumentation is more bare, with lyrics mostly true to the original. Where it is different, it is different in interesting ways - really adding to the effect of the song and the emotional experience.
The familiar songs that I particularly like is Bird on the wire and Nancy - both to me almost beautiful beyond description.
Songs I like and did not know from other original albums include Passing through which I would have loved as a studio recorded song as well.
I am not very fond of Please don't pass me by (too long and sentimental for my tastes), but I imagine that the song at the live event itself may have been special.
All in all I would recommend the album as it forms part of the overall Leonard Cohen collection, presents well-known songs in interesting new ways and includes enough previously unreleased material (?). I am of the opinion therefore that the album has a place of its own.
Live Songs Poster
1973 album comprised of live recordings made in 1970 & 1972 in London, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Isle Of Wight and Tennessee. 10 tracks, including 'Minute Prologue', 'Passing Through', 'You Know Who I Am' and 'Bird On The Wire'. A Columbia release.1973 Release Containing this Canadian-Born, Distinguished Poet's Folk Songs. Leonard Cohen, World Traveler, Wordsmith, Balladeer, Musical Prot?g? of Columbia A&r Man John Hammond. Includes Some of his Most Admired Poetry/Song Works: "Song of Issac", "Bird on a Wire", "Please Don't Pass Me By" and Eight More.
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