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Music : Songs of Love and Hate
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Songs of Love and Hate by: Leonard Cohen List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $10.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886970474122 Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered Label: Sony Legacy Manufacturer: Sony Legacy Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Legacy Release Date: April 24, 2007 Studio: Sony Legacy Sales Rank: 5556 MPN: 704741 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Bitter, harsher LeonardLike all Cohen's early albums, Songs of Love & Hate has grown in stature down the years. Other singers seem to like the songs more than Cohen does; for the collection that he compiled, Essential Leonard Cohen, he selected only one track from this album, Famous Blue Raincoat. Among those who highly esteem Songs of Love and Hate is Jennifer Warnes who covers Famous Blue Raincoat on her album of the same name which also contains a duet with Cohen on a longer version of Joan of Arc. The Handsome Family interprets the same song on the soundtrack album Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man whilst Tori Amos performs it on Tower of Song:The Songs of Leonard Cohen. Famous Blue Raincoat is a great favorite, as Judy Collins included it on her Cohen ... Read More: Rating: - No hate, only love for this albumAll of Leonard Cohen's early albums are truly masterpieces unto themselves, and a few of his later releases are also contenders. I would unabashedly endorse "Songs of Leonard Cohen", "Songs from a Room", "New Skin for the Old Ceremony", and this album, quite possibly the finest of them all. Each of these albums features a perfect combination of rich and poetic lyrics, understated and masterful musical accompaniment, and excellent production values (now highlighted by an excellent remastering). "Songs of Love and Hate" is definitely the darkest of the aforementioned albums, which means it is not to be played casually, and that one must be in the right mood to give it their whole-hearted attention. When these circumstances arise, this ... Read More: Rating: - Bitter, apocalyptic folkThe title of Leonard Cohen's third album is a pretty accurate description of the music found therein. These songs deal with human relationships at their most polarized and extreme, gushing with emotion and boiling over with intensity. The twist is, there are no love songs here, or hate songs either. For on Songs of Love and Hate, the two titular emotions are so tightly intertwined that they haunt each song with equal force, each one feeding the other, forming a musical cycle that explores human relationships at their most intense and unsparing. It's an album full of bitterness and longing, full of unforgiving regrets and ungranted wishes. Cohen's musical constructions are brilliant, a collection of quiet acoustic compositions that are laced with tension ... Read More: Rating:  - Stick we the older cd released of thisI heard a couple of these songs before i have a tape of his best of and that version of Famous Blue Raincoat is different and better. This new version has Cohen's voice up front and center which is not his strong suit. You cant hear the melody of the song that much anymore. I notice this on Last Years Man as well. The other songs on here are good accept that diamond song which is quite bad and really shows why he does not have much of a voice. I have the old cd version of songs of and the sound quality is not that good i have to turn up the volume so that is why i waited to get the restored version of this cd. I should have just gotten the old version of this instead. I would probably like it more with repeat listens it takes a couple of listens to get ... Read More: |
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