| The Essential Leonard Cohen (Rm) (2CD) |  | Artist: Leonard Cohen
Label: Sony Music Canada Inc.
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 399
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 696998688421
EAN: 0696998688421
ASIN: B00006NSH8
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Suzanne | | • | Sisters of Mercy | | • | The Stranger Song | | • | Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye | | • | Master Song | | • | Bird on a Wire | | • | The Partisan | | • | Famous Blue Raincoat | | • | Chelsea Hotel No. 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 |
Disc 2
| • | 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 Miricle | | • | Closing Time | | • | Anthem | | • | In My Secret Life | | • | Alexandra Leaving | | • | A Thousand Kisses Deep | | • | Love Itself |
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From Amazon.com
This two-disc retrospective traces the Canadian bard's musical maturity from poet and novelist who sang a little to multidimensional artist whose oracular vocals and increasingly rich arrangements are every bit as compelling as his verse. Even when Cohen came to prominence through the 1960s songcraft of "Suzanne" and "Bird on a Wire," the "folksinger" tag never really fit. Later highlights ranging from the deadpan drollery of "Tower of Song" and "Everybody Knows" to the apocalyptic anthemry of "First We Take Manhattan" and "Democracy" suggest that other labels might be more appropriate: cabaret surrealist, spiritual gadfly, sensual prophet, agent provocateur. Cohen chose the selections, drawing more than half of the 31 tracks from three landmark albums--his 1967 debut Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1988's I'm Your Man, and 1992's The Future--along with four from 2001's Ten New Songs. The collection justifies its title as deep as it goes, though it's a shame that Cohen's commercial profile couldn't justify the more elaborate box set his artistry warrants (one that would at least include lyrics and musician credits). Those who sample the consistently inspired music here might come to the conclusion that everything Cohen records is essential. --Don McLeese
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 waste of money May 9, 2010
D. E. Pecican (Toronto, Canada)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This collection is a waste of money - I would not recommend it to anyone.
 Love this CD set! February 4, 2009
MamaMia (BC, Canada)
I bought this CD set blindly - didn't know much about it or Leonard Cohen except for a couple of songs. I absolutely love it and because a friend came by, heard it and loved it, I bought her one for Christmas ... then my sister was over and she heard it ... so I bought her the set as well - nice soothing music - can have it on all day - LOVE IT!
The Essential Leonard Cohen [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECO June 29, 2004
B. Viberg (New York, NY United States)
The Essential Leonard Cohen [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]~ Leonard Cohen is an amazing collection of cohens awesome tallent for lyric writing and his scrappy but loveable vocals. He is a serious man: yet it is never pretentious or boring. Which often happens with other vocalists of his God given tallent.
cheatin' and stuff May 8, 2004
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
Leonard Cohen is the one man I would cheat on my husband with. Yes, ma'am.
Potrait of An Artist As Both A Sage and Sinner May 3, 2004
Gavin B. (St. Louis MO)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
The beauty of Leonard Cohen is he has always followed his own eccentric path and I see no duality between Cohen, the young romantic rake who ages into the embittered sensualist. It was always clear that Field Commander L. Cohen was going to dance us to the end of love, regardless of the consequences. Wheter it's the young revolutionary partisan, or the world weary cynic railing against the excesses of "democracy", Cohen has never been satisfied with the political or moral status quo. His career is based on dissatisfaction with the things as they are. For Cohen, redemption is impossible without wallowing in the mire. I can't imagine living the last 35 years of my life without the music of L. Cohen. It is the autobiography of a man unafraid to be both master and slave to desire. There is no contradiction between Cohen the folk singer and Cohen the post-modern electronic poet, just as it's difficult to draw distinctions between Dylan the folk singer and Dylan the rock and roll star. Two sides of the same man that coexist as complimentary halves of the same man.Cohen may well be the most poetic songwriter of his generation. Well before he ever released "Songs of Leonard Cohen", he was a published poet and a literary icon in Canada. His more recent appeal among younger Bohemians for his existential honesty, differs from first generation hippies who celebrated Cohen as the embodiment of Eros and free love. His minmalist musical approach is a stark counterpoint to his poetic text which is lush with imagery, double meanings and ambivalent wordplay. "Sisters of Mercy" can be read as either a celebration of the good works of, either nuns or prostitutes depending on your viewpoint. "Hallelujah" makes a holy sacrament of uninhibited sexuality. Cohen always challenged the notion of duality in his themes by equating the sacred with the profane. His life's mission his been afflict discomfort on those who see the world in mutally exlusive terms of moral postivism. Cohen was the reckless romantic who spent several years in a Bhuddist monastary and now he has returned as an aging Siddartha to challenge our conventional wisdom about life, love and morality. "The Essential Leonard Cohen" is the journey of a seeker of the truth beginning with a potrait of an artist as a young man, and ending with jaded musings of a sage and sinner who discovers the more he learns about life, the less he really knows. This is Cohen the zen-master who has nothing left to prove. We are wiser people for Cohen's long jouney into the heart of darkness and if you want the unadulterated truth about love and life, Leonard Cohen will be the first to step forward and fearlessly proclaim, "I'm your man."
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