Artist : Leonard Cohen
Album : Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Label : Legacy
Genre : Rock
Bitrate : 172 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:49:42 (64.4MB)
Rls date : 2007-04-19
Store date : 2007-04-24
[Track List]
1. Suzanne 3:50
2. Master Song 5:58
3. Winter LAdy 2:17
4. The Stranger Song 5:07
5. Sisters Of Mercy 3:36
6. So Long, Marianne 5:40
7. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye 2:57
8. Stories Of The Street 4:37
9. Teachers 3:02
10.One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong 4:29
11.Store Room (Bonus Track) 5:06
12.Blessed Is The Memory (Bonus Track) 3:03
A breathtaking and perfect debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen
marked the emergence of one of the most enduring, unique,
and brilliant voices in popular music. Led off by the
gorgeous "Suzanne," previously a hit for both Judy Collins
and Noel Harrison, the album is an exposed nerve, a
Fellini-esque parade of losers, victims, and fallen
angels. Brittle and unforgiving, tracks like "So Long,
Marianne," "Winter Lady," and "Sisters of Mercy" are
unflinchingly honest and desolate; the subdued beauty of
the songs' spartan backdrop only adds to their force --
Cohen takes acoustic folk, for so long a musical
expression of empowerment and hope, and bleeds it dry of
all its redemptive qualities. A masterpiece of perversity
and pain. [The 2007 edition includes bonus tracks.]