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  • Release Date: 10/07/1997
  • Sales Rank: 8,399
  • Label: SONY
  • UPC: 074646863626

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1LISTENEverybody Knows 5:32
2LISTENI'm Your Man 4:24
3LISTENTake This Waltz 5:58
4LISTENTower of Song 5:37
5LISTENAnthem 6:06
6LISTENDemocracy 7:12
7LISTENThe Future 6:40
8LISTENClosing Time 5:58
9LISTENDance Me to the End of Love 6:12
10LISTENSuzanne 4:19
11LISTENHallelujah 6:55
12LISTENNever Any Good 5:04
13LISTENThe Great Event 1:09

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Editorial Reviews

This second compilation covers Leonard Cohen's career from 1984 to the present (skipping over both Death of a Ladies' Man, which is understandable, and Recent Songs, which is more questionable). Cohen did not have any hits during this period, though a few songs, notably "Everybody Knows" and "Tower of Song," became well enough known to be essential choices. Otherwise, Cohen's craftsmanship makes a choice from among his work difficult. This set chooses four of the eight songs from the celebrated I'm Your Man album (and more might have been included) and four from its less successful follow-up, The Future. One track, "Dance Me to the End of Love," comes from Various Positions, with another of that album's songs, "Hallelujah," included in a live version. There is also a live version of the Cohen standard "Suzanne," and there are two previously unreleased songs, the typically funny and erotic "Never Any Good" and the minute-long disembodied recitation "The Great Event." It's easy to note important omissions -- "Came So Far for Beauty," "If It Be Your Will," and "First We Take Manhattan" are perhaps the most missed -- but what's here chronicles both the continuance of Cohen's talent as a songwriter and the improvement in his deepened voice and record-making abilities in the second half of his career. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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July 08, 2008: That's how the light gets in by Susan Rako, M.D. Fans of Cohen's will recognize There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in Rako, a comtemporary of Cohen, has given is a fascinating and remarkably candid look into her life and times. That's how the light gets in is wonderfully well-written and a great read. The writing just flows.

The Rich World of Macabre with LCby Anonymous

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September 15, 2006: Leonard Cohen, the most ubiquitously great singer-songwriter of the past fifty years years (in my opinion), is hard to accuse as having a dilettante collection of songs with his best hits collection. The sheer greatness of his work, though, can never be abhorred by anybody. As most people could not several wonderful songs are missing from the CD including "If It Be Your Will," "First We Take Manhattan" and, "The Window" and sparing several others. The main thrust of his songs never cease to impress, though. For instance, from the first song, he had detailed the declining power of America with such crises as Vietnam, Reaganomics, Watergate, AIDS, Cocaine epidemic, just to name a few in "Everybody Knows." Leonard Cohen never was one to shy away from topics, including the Apocylatic "Future," as we are seeing the vision coming true. He is up to his naughty self in the previously unreleased "Never Any Good," where he includes the typical Cohenian lyric..."I am sorry for my crimes against the moonlight." The fire still burns, even after 70. LC is proof of that.


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