Leonard Cohen Discography

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Songs of Leonard Cohen

Album : Songs of Leonard Cohen
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1989
Original Release Date : 1968
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:40:56
Total size : 94,5 MB (mp3), 183 MB (FLAC)

Individual track details :
01 - Suzanne
02 - Master Song
03 - Winter Lady
04 - The Stranger Song
05 - Sisters Of Mercy
06 - So Long, Marianne
07 - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodb
08 - Stories Of The Street
09 - Teachers
10 - One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

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Time has been extraordinarily kind to Songs of Leonard Cohen. While it attracted considerable fanfare upon its release in 1968, not everyone was immediately captured by its dusky charms. Randy Newman, for one, couldn't resist the temptation to parody "Suzanne," the album's brooding opener, on his 12 Songs album. (Conversely, director Robert Altman brilliantly drew upon the dirges here for the soundtrack to his classic anti-western, McCabe and Mrs. Miller.) But what some once found to be pretentious and affected has come to feel penetrating and ageless. Seeded with what have become signature songs of the Canadian wordsmith ("Sisters of Mercy," "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," "So Long, Marianne"), the album has a narcotic quality that owes as much to producer/musical director John Simon's inspired folk-baroque soundscapes as to Cohen's lofty lyrics and earth-bound vocals.
--Steven Stolder

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Leonard Cohen
Songs From a Room

Album : Songs From a Room
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1990
Original Release Date : 1969
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:35:35
Total size : 81,6 MB

Tracks:
1. Bird on the Wire 3:23
2. Story of Isaac 3:31
3. A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes 3:10
4. The Partisan 3:20
5. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy 3:35
6. The Old Revolution 4:42
7. The Butcher 3:11
8. You Know Who I Am 3:24
9. Lady Midnight 2:50
10. Tonight Will Be Fine 3:45

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"I choose the rooms that I live in with care / The windows are small and the walls almost bare," Leonard Cohen sings in a particularly telling couplet in "Tonight Will Be Fine," one of the highlights in this aptly titled album from 1969. The Canadian poet-performer's sophomore release has the sub rosa feel of an attic hideaway, thanks in part to Bob Johnston's restrained production. Cohen's near-monotone vocals are suitable for conveying his finely honed, meditative musings but--at this stage in his development--not much else. Johnston's soundscapes aren't as beguiling as the ones John Simon created for Cohen's superior debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen, though lovely orchestral shadings flatter such Cohen classics as the oft-covered "Bird on the Wire" and "Story of Isaac." Songs from a Room is only a secondary effort when it's stacked up against its consummate predecessor, But by any other measurement, it's an exceptionally literate and enigmatic recording by a true original.
--Steven Stolder

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Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate

Album : Songs of Love and Hate
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1995
Original Release Date : 1971
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:44:18
Total size : 101 MB

Individual track details :
1. Avalanche
2. Last Year's Man
3. Dress Rehearsal Rag
4. Diamonds In The Mine
5. Love Calls You By Your Name
6. Famous Blue Raincoat
7. Sing Another Song, Boys
8. Joan Of Arc

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For his third album, Leonard Cohen returned to Nashville and Bob Johnston in 1970. One of the songs they recorded was "Dress Rehearsal Rag," heard as a bonus track here in an early version from the second LP sessions of 1969.

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Leonard Cohen
Live Songs

Album : Live Songs
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 2001
Original Release Date : 1973
Lable : Columbia Europe
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:49:08
Total size : 112 MB

Tracks :
1. Minute Prologue
2. Passing Through
3. You Know Who I Am
4. Bird on the Wire
5. Nancy
6. Improvisation
7. Song of Isaac
8. Please Don't Pass Me By
9. Tonight Will Be Fine
10. Queen Victoria

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1973 album comprised of live recordings made in 1970 & 1972in London, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Isle Of Wight andTennessee.

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Leonard Cohen
New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Album : New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1995
Original Release Date : 1974
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:37:06
Total size : 85,1,1 MB

Tracks :
1 ."Is This What You Wanted" – 4:13
2."Chelsea Hotel #2" (words: Cohen, music: Cohen/Ron Cornelius) – 3:06
3."Lover Lover Lover" – 3:19
4. "Field Commander Cohen" – 3:59
5. "Why Don't You Try" – 3:50
6."There Is a War" – 2:59
7. "A Singer Must Die" – 3:17
8. "I Tried to Leave You" – 2:40
9."Who by Fire" – 2:33
10. "Take This Longing" – 4:06
11. "Leaving Green Sleeves" (trad./Cohen) – 2:38

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The original cover art for New Skin for the Old Ceremony was an image from the alchemical text Rosarium philosophorum. The two winged and crowned beings in sexual embrace, caused his U.S. record label, Columbia Records to print one early edition of the album minus the image substituting instead a photo of Cohen.

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Leonard Cohen - The Best of

Album : The Best of
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1990
Original Release Date : 1975
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:46:55
Total size : 107 MB

Tracks :
1. Suzanne 3:47
2. Sisters Of Mercy 3:33
3. So Long, Marianne 5:37
4. Bird On The Wire 3:23
5. Lady Midnight 2:50
6. The Partisan 3:20
7. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye 2:54
8. Famous Blue Raincoat 5:05
9. Last Year's Man 5:55
10. Chelsea Hotel #2 3:02
11. Who By Fire 2:29
12. Take This Longing 4:05

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Leonard Cohen
Death of a Ladies' Man

b]Album :[/b] Death of a Ladies’ Man
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1990
Original Release Date : 1977
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:42:30
Total size : 97,5 MB

Tracks :
1. True Love Leaves No Traces
2. Iodine
3. Paper Thin Hotel
4. Memories
5. I Left a Woman Waiting
6. Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On
7. Fingerprints
8. Death of a Ladies' Man

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Death of a Ladies' Man is the fifth and most controversial of Leonard Cohen's albums.[1] Produced by the storied Phil Spector, it was a SPAMise to some fans when the typically minimalist Cohen was surrounded completely by Spector's Wall of Sound.
15 songs were written by the two over a course of three weeks, and Spector described it as "some great fuckin' music". Not everyone agreed with this assessment, preferring Cohen's earlier acoustic folk music to the jazz-, rock- and even funk-influenced arrangements. Among the seven unknown outtakes is probably "Do I Have to Dance All Night". A live recording was released in France as a single in 1976.
Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg sang backup vocals on the chorus of "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-on".
Death of a Ladies' Man was recorded in Los Angeles, California. Before Cohen had completed his vocals, Spector barred him from the studio (supposedly under armed guard) and mixed the album by himself. For this reason some of the songs only have "guiding vocals" originally meant to be redone later.
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Leonard Cohen
Recent Songs

Album : Recent Songs
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1990
Original Release Date : 1979
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:53:02
Total size : 121 MB (mp3), 233 MB (FLAC & CUE)

Tracks :
1. Guests, The
2. Humbled in Love
3. Window, The
4. Came So Far For Beauty
5. Lost Canadian, The
6. Traitor, The
7. Our Lady of Solitude
8. Gypsy's Wife, The
9. Smokey Life, The
10. Ballad of the Absent Mare

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"I Came So Far For Beauty" finds Cohen in a familiar self-effacing mode, recounting his vain search for the perfect muse. Like NEW SKIN's "There is a War," "The Traitor" effectively analyzes personal travails through militaristic metaphor, over semi-classical backing. The closing "Ballad of the Absent Mare," later covered by Emmylou Harris, comes off like an epic prose poem in the classic ballad style, but its slight cowboy lilt provides a nice contrast to the lyric. RECENT SONGS is arguably Cohen's most mature '70s effort.
After recovering from his traumatic studio experiences with Phil Spector on DEATH OF A LADIES MAN (Spector was said to have brandished a gun at some point), Cohen retreated to friendlier sonic climes. Aided by co-producer Henry Lewy, he filled RECENT SONGS with stately songpoems marked by lush (but never overdone), elegant arrangements. While there was always a pronounced literary streak in Cohen's work, the songs here find him at his most purely poetic, more the chansonnier than the troubadour.

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Leonard Cohen
Various Positions

Album : Various Positions
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1995
Original Release Date : 1985
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:35:18
Total size : 81 MB

Tracks :
1. Dance Me To The End Of Love 4:38
2. Coming Back To You 3:30
3. The Law 4:24
4. Night Comes On 4:36
5. Hallelujah 4:34
6. The Captain 4:05
7. Hunter's Lullaby 2:23
8. Heart With No Companion 3:00
9. If It Be Your Will 3:40

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Various Positions, the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, was released in December 1984 (and February 1985). It marked not only Cohen's turn to the modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also - after her work on harmonies and background vocals on the previous Recent Songs (1979) - even further Jennifer Warnes's contribution to Cohen's records, with her being equally contributed as vocalist of all tracks beside Cohen himself.

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Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man

Album : I’m Your Man
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1988
Lable : CBS
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:40:58
Total size : 93,8 MB

Tracks :
1. First We Take Manhattan
2. Ain't No Cure For Love
3. Everybody Knows
4. I'm Your Man
5. Take This Waltz
6. Jazz Police
7. I Can't Forget
8. Tower of Song

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The lyrics to "Take This Waltz" are based on Federico Garcia Lorca's poem "Little Viennese Waltz."

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Leonard Cohen
The Future

Album : The Future
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1992
Lable : Columbia
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 00:59:37
Total size : 136 MB

Tracks :
1 Future
2 Waiting For The Miracle
3 Be For Real
4 Closing Time
5 Anthem
6 Democracy
7 Light As The Breeze
8 Always Has Always Will
9 Tacoma Trailer

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Leonard Cohen's 1992 release, THE FUTURE, is both a cynical attack on civilization and a spiritual edification, with the gruff-voiced theme "I've seen the future...it's murder." From the sinister whisper of the opening title track, the mood moves to the redemptive optimism of "Light As A Breeze," and the sardonic political march, "Democracy." There's a highly unlikely cover of Irving Berlin's "Always"; peculiar for an artist known more for his lyrical poetry than for his interpretive skills. But Leonard Cohen's voice translates uniquely to interpreting pop standards, and he gives the song a highly original bluesy read. Another unlikely cut is the closing instrumental, "Tacoma Trailer," featuring fine Synclavier work by Bill Ginn.

THE FUTURE is brimming with the tormented poetry for which Cohen is so well-known. His foghorn voice is close to a murmur on many songs, and he sets the mood (dark and foreboding), as he often does, through the able assistance of his omni-present female back-up singers. With the superb lyrics of songs like "Waiting For The Miracle" and "Closing Time," Leonard Cohen remains rock's preeminent poet.

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Leonard Cohen
Cohen Live

Album : Cohen Live
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 1994
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 01:11:35
Total size : 101 MB

Tracks :
01. Dance Me To The End Of Love (6:10)
02. Bird On The Wire (6:53)
03. Everybody Knows (6:08)
04. Joan Of Arc (6:13)
05. There Is A War (4:46)
06. Sisters Of Mercy (6:15)
07. Hallelujah (6:54)
08. I’m Your Man (5:29)
09. Who By Fire? (5:09)
10. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (5:20)
11. If It Be Your Will (3:18)
12. Heart With No Companion (4:50)
13. Suzanne (4:18)

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Leonard Cohen
Field Commander Cohen

Album : Field Commander Cohen
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 2001
Lable : Columbia
Number of Discs : 1
Total time : 01:02:52
Total size : 115 MB

Tracks :
1. Field Commander Cohen
2. The Window
3. The Smokey Life
4. The Gypsy's Wife
5. Lover Lover Lover
6. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
7. The Stranger Song
8. The Guests
9. Memories
10. Why Don't You Try
11. Bird on a Wire
12. So Long, Marianne

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Leonard Cohen recorded his last studio album--The Future--in 1992, so Columbia Records can perhaps be forgiven for continuing to mine the master tapes of his old live performances. The songs here are collected from two 1979 concerts at London's Hammersmith Odeon and Brighton's Dome Theatre. At that time, Cohen was touring in the wake of his Phil Spector-produced Death of a Ladies' Man album and was, to judge by the performances collected here, in fine form. His voice had not quite plummeted to the crockery-rattling depths captured on I'm Your Man (indeed, on "Memories", he positively yelps), and the backing band, including Jennifer Warnes on backing vocals, is terrific throughout. The songs, of course, are impeccable, including "Lover Lover Lover," "Bird on the Wire," "So Long, Marianne," and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye."
--Andrew Mueller

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Leonard Cohen
Ten New Songs

Album : Ten New Songs
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 2001
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time: 00:52:46
Total size : 72,5 MB

Tracks :
1. In My Secret Life
2. A Thousand Kisses Deep
3. That Don't Make It Junk
4. Here It Is
5. Love Itself
6. By The Rivers Dark
7. Alexandra Leaving
8. You Have Loved Enough
9. Boogie Street
10. The Land Of Plenty
11. Avalanche
12. Diamonds In The Mine
13. Coming Back To You
14. If It Be Your Will
15. Why Don't You Try
16. So Long, Marianne

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Where has Leonard Cohen been for the past nine years? The legendary songwriter's mostly been in a Zen monastery, it turns out, obsessively rewriting and polishing the oblique, lapidary lyrics for this austere collection. Ten New Songs is arguably Sharon Robinson's record as much as Cohen's--she cowrote all the songs, plays most of the instruments (primarily a synth that seems to have freshly emerged from a chintzy 1984 power ballad), and accompanies Cohen's gloomy croak with her own crooning. This is the most subdued album Cohen's ever made, which is saying something. It's as if he no longer has time for anything in music or performance that could alter the meaning and force of his words.
--Douglas Wolk

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Leonard Cohen
Dear Heather

Album : Dear Heather
Artist : Leonard Cohen
Release Date : 2004
Lable : Sony
Number of Discs : 1
Total time: 00:49:23
Total size : 113 MB

Tracks :
1. Go No More A-Roving (3:40)
2. Because Of (3:00)
3. The Letters (4:44)
4. Undertow (4:20)
5. Morning Glory (3:28)
6. On That Day (2:04)
7. Villanelle For Our Time (5:55)
8. There For You (4:36)
9. Dear Heather (3:41)
10. Nightingale (2:27)
11. To A Teacher (2:32)
12. The Faith (4:17)
13. Tennessee Waltz (live track, 4:05)

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