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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Leonard Cohen |
| Record Label: |
Legacy Recordings |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Singer/Songwriter |
| Release Date: |
October 22, 2002 |
| Number of Discs: |
2 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Suzanne
2. Stranger Song
3. Sisters of Mercy
4. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
5. So Long, Marianne
6. Bird on a Wire
7. Partisan
8. Famous Blue Raincoat
9. Chelsea Hotel # 2
10. Take This Longing
11. Who by Fire
12. Guests
13. Hallelujah
14. If It Be Your Will
15. Night Comes On
16. I'm Your Man
17. Everybody Knows
18. Tower of Song |
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Song List: Disc 2
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1. Ain't No Cure For Love
2. Take This Waltz
3. First We Take Manhattan
4. Dance Me to the End of Love (live)
5. Future
6. Democracy
7. Waiting For the Miricle
8. Closing Time
9. Anthem
10. In My Secret Life
11. Alexandra Leaving
12. Thousand Kisses Deep, A
13. Love Itself |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Personnel includes: Leonard Cohen (vocals). Producers include: John Simon, Bob Johnston, John Lissauer, Leonard Cohen, Henry Lewy. Compilation producers: Leanne Ungar, Bruce Dickinson. Recorded between 1967 & 2001. Includes liner notes by Pico Iyer. THE ESSENTIAL LEONARD COHEN manages the considerable task of documenting the career of a man many consider one of the finest songwriters in the English language. Easily on par with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon in terms of sheer poetic power, Canadian troubadour Cohen started out, appropriately enough, as a prose poet before beginning a recording career in the late 1960s. His early albums, amply represented here, found him accompanied chiefly by his own nylon-string guitar, delivering dark, but often romantic, reveries atop folk-based song structures. By the late '70s, Cohen's lyrics and musical settings had both grown more expansive, as is made plain here by judiciously chosen tracks from that period. In the late '80s, at an age when many of his contemporaries ha... |
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