Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
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Music CD Cover Artist: Leonard Cohen Edition: Music CD Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2007-04-24 Music Label: Sony Legacy Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Songs of Love and Hate Album
Free Music Review: Bitter, harsher Leonard
Hit: 5 Stars
Like all Cohen's early albums, Songs of Love & Hate has grown in stature down the years. Other singers seem to like the songs more than Cohen does; for the collection that he compiled, Essential Leonard Cohen, he selected only one track from this album, Famous Blue Raincoat. Among those who highly esteem Songs of Love and Hate is Jennifer Warnes who covers Famous Blue Raincoat on her album of the same name which also contains a duet with Cohen on a longer version of Joan of Arc.
The Handsome Family interprets the same song on the soundtrack album Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man whilst Tori Amos performs it on Tower of Song:The Songs of Leonard Cohen. Famous Blue Raincoat is a great favorite, as Judy Collins included it on her Cohen tribute album along with Dress Rehearsal Rag and Joan of Arc. And on the appealing 1991 tribute I'm Your Fan, there is a French version of Avalanche by Jean-Louis Murat.
Sing Another Song Boys is Cohen at his bitter best, its harsh chorus atypical of the image of the poetic folkie but pointing to later songs like Lover Lover Lover on 1974's New Skin for the Old Ceremony. The fierce and uptempo Diamonds in the Mine is in the same vein, where the celestial female vocals are particularly effective in balancing Cohen's raw voice on this tale with its striking imagery. In tone, theme and delivery Diamonds in the Mine and Sing Another Song Boys are not too far removed from tracks like Iodine, Paper-Thin Hotel or Don't Go Home with your Hardhat on his much-criticized Death of a Ladies' Man (1978) that was produced by Phil Spector.
Besides the second more vibrant version of Dress Rehearsal Rag with full instrumentation & a denser sound, the original tracks are typical early Cohen. With astonishing elegance and simplicity, the haunting melodies, melancholy lyrics and ragged voice have a way of establishing themselves in the consciousness of the listener. Few other musicians touch the strings of the soul in the way that Cohen does. Dylan can do it; Nick Cave does, as do Nick Drake, Lou Reed, Richard Thompson and definitely Swans on their more gentle songs. Songs of Love and Hate is another jewel in Cohen's crown of ageless music.