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The Future by: Leonard Cohen List Price: $6.99 CD-Charts Price: $4.99 You Save: $2.00 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886972369822 Format: Explicit Lyrics Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS. Manufacturer: SBME SPECIAL MKTS. Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: SBME SPECIAL MKTS. Release Date: February 01, 2008 Studio: SBME SPECIAL MKTS. Sales Rank: 1135 MPN: 723698 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: Leonard Cohen's deeply personal first LPs came out at a time when many of his peers were issuing furious, counterculture-inspired rants; he clearly had little interest in sticking with the pack at the time. So it makes a certain kind of contrary sense that Cohen would put out an offbeat topical collection two and a half decades later. The Future is an odd duck of an album; it's also brave, funny, and fascinating. "Give me back the Berlin Wall / Give me Stalin and St. Paul," Cohen petitions sardonically in the title track, adding, "I've seen the future, brother: it is murder." "Can't run no more with the lawless crowd / While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud," he intones in "Anthem." In "Democracy," he name-checks Tiananmen Square while surveying the United States ("The cradle of the best and of the worst"). Cohen has only improved with age as a vocalist; he sounds like a cross between Mark Knopfler and Barry White. While the polished production takes some getting used to, it's somehow suitable that cooing background vocals and programmed tracks temper these low-boil diatribes. This is, after all, The Future. --Steven Stolder Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - I have seen the futureFor those of you who are concerned about the drift of America over the last several decades, this album is the soundtrack of our country's descent. When Cohen sings, "I have seen the future. It is murder," he is talking about the arc through which we are falling. The poet says what the rest of us somehow sense but can't quite verbalize. Imagine Cohen in 1930s Germany. Except he is talking about us here in America, now, where we are and where we are going. "I have seen the future. It is murder." The rest of the album is pretty good too. "Charlie Manson, the white man dancing." All the way to the White House. Rating:  - leonard gets politicalIts an old one but a good one with lyrics that are as good today as when he wrote them Rating:  - Maybe add a half-star for better times in the past...I only liked "Closing Time" and "Anthem" on this CD, and even those are a cut below Leonard's best work. This release gave me the feeling it was made of tracks that were not good enough for earlier albums, and someone decided to put them all one disc and get rid of them. The biggest insult to his fans, however, is to try to cover Irving Berlin's "Always." Both Cohen and Berlin are great songwriters, separated by a generation and a World War and amazing changes in love and courtship and sex customs. Leonard is great at writing relationship lyrics, and so was Irving, but for different planets. Try "Various Positions" and his "Greatest Hits" albums instead of "The Future." This one is just not in the top ranks of his concept releases. Rating: - Five stars for the song "Anthem"The song "Anthem" on this disk is incredibly powerful, deep, beautiful. Goose bumps. The rest of the album is pretty good, but Anthem is the song I want played at my funeral. Its that good. Rating: - MasterpieceTracks on this 1992 album range from the soulful cover of Frederick Knight's Be For Real, to the flowing, country-tinged Closing Time and the sombre Anthem with its comforting lines: "There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in." Democracy is another tour de force with a lovely undulating rhythm and gripping lyrics whilst Light As The Breeze must rate as one of his most moving love songs. As Cohen's sole album of new material in the 1990's, this was a worthy follow-up to 1988's I'm Your Man and remains a masterpiece of poetry in song. Democracy has been covered by Judy Collins on her album of the same name whilst on the tribute album Tower of Song, there is a sensitive rendition of Light As The Breeze ... Read More: |
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