Leonard Cohen - The Essential 3.0 Leonard Cohen (Eco-Friendly Packaging)
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Artist: Leonard CohenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Suzanne
- The Stranger Song
- Sisters Of Mercy
- Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- So Long, Marianne
- Bird On A Wire
- The Partisan
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- Chelsea Hotel #2
- Take This Longing
- Who By Fire
- The Guests
- Hallelujah
- If It Be Your Will
- Night Comes On
- I'm Your Man
- Everybody Knows
- Tower of Song
- Ain't No Cure For Love
- Take This Waltz
- First We Take Manhattan
- Dance Me To The End Of Love (Live)
- The Future
- Democracy
- Waiting For The Miracle
- Closing Time
- Anthem
- In My Secret Life
- Alexandra Leaving
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- Love Itself
- Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
- Love Calls You By Name
- A Singer Must Die
- Death Of A Ladies' Man
- The Traitor
- By The Rivers Dark
- The Letters
Free Music Notes for The Essential 3.0 Leonard Cohen (Eco-Friendly Packaging)
Free Music Review: Enhanced by a 3rd disc
Hit: 5 Stars
This 3.0 edition with its third disc is a magnificent retrospective. The first two discs draw heavily on Cohen's legendary earlier work like Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (Disc One, Tracks 1 to 11), and on later albums like Various Positions, I'm Your Man, The Future and Ten New Songs. The live albums are not represented at all, a great pity in the case of Live Songs of which Passing Through and Please Don't Pass Me By are particularly rare & unknown.
No doubt it deserves five stars - particularly since the artist himself made this selection - but I do miss some favorites, like the graceful The Window from Recent Songs (1979), Heart With No Companion from Various Positions (1985), which in my opinion would have been a better choice than Hallelujah (compare John Cale's great cover of this song on the I'm Your Fan tribute album) and Take This Waltz from I'm Your Man (1988).
I completely agree with the choice of tracks from The Future and Ten New Songs, especially the magnificent Alexandra Leaving, now joined by The Rivers Dark on the 3rd disc. Famous Blue Raincoat is joined by Love Calls You By Your Name to represent Songs of Love and Hate (1971). This album's masterpieces like Joan Of Arc and Diamonds In The Mine, amongst my favorites, have been omitted.
The Third Disc
Besides the aforementioned Love Calls You By Your Name and By The Rivers Dark inspired by Psalm 137 about singing by the rivers of Babylon (markedly less optimistic than the Boney M megahit!), it contains one further track each from Songs From A Room, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Death of a Ladies' Man, Recent Songs, Ten New Songs & Dear Heather.
Gravitas at its gravest, Death of a Ladies' Man has a majestic arrangement in which waves of multi-layered doom-laden vocals unfold in crests and in troughs where a single female voice momentarily caress Cohen's. The instrumental sound is similarly constructed, so when waning a single instrument or hypnotic instrumental pattern comes fleetingly to the fore. With its overall drone-like ambience this song is as oppressive as Lou Reed's The Bells on the Street Hassle album.
This is a great compilation of Cohen's poetic and melodic genius, infused as it is with a unique spiritual quality. One can trace the maturing of his vocals; it became distinctly weightier and wearier from the 1992 album The Future. The trend has continued down to Dear Heather, and it makes the contrast between his voice and the female vocals even more sublime.
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Each Essential Limited Edition 3.0 expanded 3-CD set features the biggest hits and best-loved songs from superstar artists, including material not previously available in an Essential package.
Definitive, career-spanning and comprehensive, The Essential 3.0 series features all of the must-have selections from the biggest names in music history--now with a 3rd disc!
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