We didn't want it darker, but we got it. Leonard Cohen is dead, right when we need him, right when we could use his wisdom and grace and spiritual sensibility the most. The man was always an enigma—a songwriter and poet who put out his first album at age 33 and headlined Coachella in his 70s, a singer whose most famous song traveled from obscurity to become a global hymn for the modern age. Cohen's recording career transcended generations, ignored trends, obsessed over spirituality and sexuality, baffled label executives, remained vibrant well into his elderly years and produced virtually no hits unless you count "Hallelujah," which did not become well-known until after Jeff Buckley covered the song in the s. His songs captured longing, loss, lust and whatever other emotions are contained in Shrek. And now we're going to try to sum it all up for a new listener in just 20 songs. Futile, right? These are our absolute favorite Cohen songs, in order of chronology, not quality. One of Cohen's most beloved songs and also one of the most covered , "Suzanne" describes his platonic relationship with Suzanne Verdal, who was married at the time to Montreal sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. With its sweet melody and gentle guitar picking, "Suzanne" conjures a magical scene as the "half-crazy" Suzanne "takes you down to her place near the river" and "feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.
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Leonard Cohen, pictured in , passed away at the age of Poetry, fiction and songwriting were more or less equal forms of expression to Leonard Cohen — although one paid a hell of a lot better than the others. After mastering the mystical power of melody, Cohen went on to enjoy a long, fruitful career marked by spiritual hiatuses, reinvention and a surprising late-career second act unprecedented in American entertainment. Cohen was the sexy, late-blooming gloom-monger among a small, elite coterie of singer-songwriters who came to define the Sixties and early Seventies. His rumbling voice, Spanish-y guitar lines and deeply poetic lyrics transubstantiated the sacred into the profane and vice versa. While early songs like "Suzanne," "Sisters of Mercy" and "Bird on a Wire" made him a college-dorm fixture, later masterpieces like "Everybody Knows," "I'm Your Man" and "The Future" introduced him to a new generation of post-punks and fellow travelers. And then, in his 70s, he had to do it all over again, thanks to a larcenous manager. But touring rejuvenated our hero, not to mention his reputation. Cohen's songs, both old and new, sounded deeper, richer, and more important than ever, as this sampling demonstrates. Newswire Powered by.
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It reached number 83 on the Billboard , achieving gold status in the US in It peaked at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart , spending nearly a year and a half on it. Cohen had received positive attention from critics as a poet and novelist but had maintained a keen interest in music, having played guitar in a country and western band called the Buckskin Boys as a teenager. In , Cohen set out for Nashville , where he hoped to become a country songwriter, but instead got caught up in New York City's folk scene. Although Hammond who initially signed Cohen to his contract with Columbia Records was supposed to produce the record, he became sick and was replaced by the producer John Simon. Initially, Hammond had Cohen work up guitar parts for "Master Song" and "Sisters of Mercy" with jazz bassist Willie Ruff , and then brought in some of New York's top session musicians to join them, a move that made Cohen nervous; as biographer Anthony Reynolds observes in his book Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life , the dynamic between Cohen and Ruff had been intimate and natural but "the arrival of more anonymous personnel unnerved Cohen, the studio novice put off by their proficiency. I guess it was the best way to look while playing the guitar, or maybe it was just where the chair was. But I was very comfortable looking at myself playing.
The songs are arranged in chronological order; all studio albums released before are represented, except the album Death of a Ladies' Man. All tracks were digitally remastered by Leonard Cohen and Bob Ludwig. All songs on the compilation were chosen by Cohen himself. The album was re-released in August with an extra disc of previously not included tracks presented as the selection of "fans' favorite" songs. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leonard Cohen. Retrieved August 14, Phononet GmbH. Hung Medien.
