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The Future 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS. Catalog: Music Release date: 2008-02-01 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Format: Explicit Lyrics Ean: 0886972369822 Upc: 886972369822  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (9) |
 Future Waiting for the Miracle Be for Real | Closing Time Anthem Democracy | Light as the Breeze Always Tacoma Trailer |
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| 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 |
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 Written on January 31, 2008 Summary: The Future has never been brighter or darker.... This was the first Leonard Cohen album I ever bought, and it's still my favorite of all his work, and one of my favorite albums ever. It's really a remarkable album in that Leonard made it later in his career. It's a rather angry album, even though Leonard never shouts his anger. He whispers it, and we feel it more that way. Leonard Cohen is a remarkable musician/poet/songwriter. He's been amazingly consistent with his output, and has never really put out a bad album (except for Death of a Ladies Man, which wasn't entirely his fault). This one is impeccably written, produced, and executed. From the brilliant, signature title tune, to the beautiful, amazingly lovely instrumental Tacoma Trailer, there isn't a dull moment. I can't really pick one great song, because they're all excellent. Even the "throwaway" romantic covers, Always and Be For Real, are really well produced and are quite moving. I would also like Rebecca de Mornay, who was dating Leonard Cohen at the time, for inspiring Leonard (the album is dedicated to her). She was never much of an actress, but she was a good muse. I don't want to say that she was solely responsible for the entire album, but she helped, methinks. This is a wonderful, thought provoking album that you'll never get tired of listening to. Written on June 1, 2007 Summary: Thank Don Henley for turning me on to Leonard Cohen! In 1993, the night of Clinton's inauguration, I watched the MTV Rock & Roll Inaugural Gala, and Don Henley did a great set on that program, which was hosted by Dennis Miller. Henley did some of his old Eagles songs and a few of his solo hits, but when he introduced "Democracy", written by, as he said, one of the greatest singer-songwriters anywhere, Leonard Cohen, and then went right into the song, I was hooked right away. "Democracy" was the most intelligently written song I'd herd in a very long time, and when it opened with "Those nights in Teannemmen Square" Leonard Cohen's words had my full attention. I needed to hear more. "I can't Run no more with that lawless crowd, while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned up, they've summoned up, a thunder cloud - They're gonna hear from me!" Cohen intones in "Anthem". Words that ring through to the present day! Playful words in "Closing Time", a Rock & Roll apocalypse in the title track, the raw sexiness of the lyrics, all combine to make "The Future" a CD I keep going back to over and over again afer all these years. Years ago I turned a co-worker friend of mine on to the song Democracy, and later after he died, I put that tape on in my car, and got the distinct sense that he was alive again and riding right there in the car with me, just to hear that song that we both loved so well. Great work, Leonard! May your songs be sung and heard for generations! Written on January 4, 2007 Summary: Weird and Wonderful This is a good CD for background music or long trips in the car. The lyrics are worth listening to without the music. Leonard Cohen is a great poet. Written on November 23, 2006 Summary: Ring the bells that still can ring The voice. A gruff gatekeeper, but holy s--t, it is protecting some prophetic wisdom and blessed poetry! These songs, to me, are the modern-day gospel hymns. I challenge any music lover not to be seduced by waiting for the miracle. I challenge any eye not to tear up listening to anthem. Yes. There is a crack in everything. . .that is how the light gets in. There are not enough adjectives to describe Mr. Cohen. Written on November 15, 2006 Summary: Thanks for the Songs, Mr. Cohen Most of this great album is featured on "The Essential Leonard Cohen", which I've owned for a few years. Still, I bought "The Future" to enjoy the great songs I knew in their original order and context and to hear the few tracks that aren't on the later compilation. In whatever order, songs like "The Future", "Democracy", "Waiting for the Miracle", "Anthem" and "Closing Time" are all Cohen classics--each with its unique element of anger, irony, longing, reverence or joy. It's a dream of mine for someday, someone to sing "Anthem" at my church, perhaps even me. Of the "non-essential" songs, "Light as a Breeze" was the best--perhaps Cohen's most erotic song ever, though I haven't heard everything. "Be For Real" was a very loving cover--right down to the closing "Thanks for the song, Mr. Knight". Being a fan of lyrics, "Tacoma Trailer" didn't do as much for me. I'll excuse "Always" as a paean to Irving Berlin and a chance to loosen up in front of the mike. It doesn't sound like this one was done in very many takes. I haven't listened to all of Cohen's albums to be able to say that "The Future" is the best, but with its concentration of great songs, it's got to be right up there. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2008-02-01 | 2008-02-01 | 2008-02-01 | 2008-03-01 | 2001-10-09 | 2008-02-01 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | Explicit Lyrics | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ean | 0886972369822 | 0886972380629 | 0886972384825 | 0886972437422 | 0696998595323 | 0886972397825 |
| Upc | 886972369822 | 886972380629 | 886972384825 | 886972437422 | 696998595323 | 886972397825 |
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