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I'm Your Man 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Sbme Special Mkts. Catalog: Music Release date: 2008-02-01 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0886972380629 Upc: 886972380629  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (8) |
 First We Take Manhattan Ain't No Cure for Love Everybody Knows | I'm Your Man Take This Waltz Jazz Police | I Can't Forget Tower of Song |
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| Even the production, laden with synthesized strings and cooing female choruses, is wry on I'm Your Man, a definitive Leonard Cohen album. Though still touched with the tragic ("Take This Waltz," based on a Garcia Lorca poem), the album often achieves its high points by combining Cohen's world-weariness with black-humored evocations of social and romantic ills and artistic quandaries. "I was born like this, I had no choice," the gravelly Cohen intimates at disc's end. "I was born with the gift of a golden voice." --Rickey Wright |
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 Written on September 15, 2002 Summary: Been listening to it for the last 10 years.. What is actually incredible is not that this is a great album from Leonard Cohen. No. What is trully unreal is that this album stands out so far out infront from all his rest. Cohen is a poet and a great poet at that, but he is a poet before he is a songwriter and this might explain it all. In "I'm your man" everything falls together. The lyrics have the capability to grab anyone no matter what his mood or musical predisposition. The music is a perfect match and not only for the time it was written. I heard this album just this week in year 2002 (it was written in 1988) and i thought "hmm, if this had come out this year it would still be a huge hit". Which is why this album became a big commercial success. But you see, not all commercial music is cheap. What to mention first concerning the songs on offer here? The memorable "First we take Manhattan"? You would have to avoid not knowing this song and if you somehow have you have missed a true classic! But songs of great stature are in abundance in "I'm your man": the eponymous song of the album is a monument of Cohen's song writting ability, a very emotional song and a love song that manages to be great without being cheesy. The "Tower song" is a bitter recollection that a lot of people will relate to regardless of age and "Everybody knows" is a doomy one that will please the conspiracy freak in you (which you SHOULD have)... But all in all there is no song that falls below par, there is no "filler". There is no song in this album that you would want to skip. All that combined with Cohen's at times cold and at times emphatic delivery make the whole a classic album. In fact, if i were asked what in my opinion would qualify for a perfect album then "I'm your man" would be one of the first examples that would pop in my mind. "Everybody knows that the dice are loaded...."  Written on August 1, 2002 Summary: frustrating Laughin Lenny writes great simple melodies and brilliant complex lyrics, but he doesn't seem to take a firm hand when it comes to arranging and producing his records. When he's got sympathetic collaborators who give him folk arrangements, the albums are brilliant. When his collaborators try to bring him "up to date", the results can be very frustating. The songwriting on "I'm Your Man" is peerless - dry and sombre moralism, witty and self-deprecating. But the production, which may have been "industry standard" in 1988, is now so dated it's a trial to listen to this from start to end. Tinny drum machines, synthesiser washes, cheesy female vocalists. Not everything suffers equally: "Everybody Knows" has a beautiful flamenco guitar counterpoint, and "Take this Waltz" features gorgeous violin and co-lead vocals from Jennifer Warnes. But it's tough to sit through the stuttering artificial drums and sweetly anonymous backing vocals of "Jazz Police". This is one of the strongest available doses of Lenny's worldview, and I'd love this album like crazy if I could block out the 80's veneer. Written on July 18, 2002 Summary: One of Today's Greatest Poets As far as I am concerned Leonard Cohen is one of the greatest poets, living today. I find his work uplifting, rhythmic, soothing and enlightening. Of course I cannot pretend to know Cohen's meaning behind many of his songs, that does not matter at all. Like with all great poetry, I rely on my own interpretation. This CD is particularly ingenious. First We Take Manhattan: deals with a man's frustration with being unable to make a difference in an uncaring, immoral society, and a dream of conquering the world to set things right. Of course it speaks of influence through music, a love that Leonard Cohen and me share. Leonard Cohen, although not an observant Jew, is quite obviously very conscious of his Jewish heritage. Take this line: Ain't no Cure For Love: A beautiful and passionate love ballad .His love songs have a profound and passionate depth and are nothing like `those silly love songs' referred to in a song by Paul McCartney. Everybody Knows: A strong indictment of the horrible predicament that the world finds itself in today. A seemingly complete absence of morality and spirituality, with a horrible blend of monopoly capitalism and Bolshevik political correctness dominating the world today. It touches on the coming AIDS epidemic, written in 1991, which now really is now wiping huge populations in the world today. He includes a powerful warning to change their morality and way of running. The song is almost telling us that the horrible prophecies of Orwell and Huxley are coming to pass. I'm Your Man: A powerful song about the desperation born of love. Take This Waltz: Strong imagery of Vienna there. I have visited that city and can strongly see that imagery in my mind, while listening: ` Jazz Police: All about the PC cultural commissars that tell us which music, art, literature etc we can and cannot like. How about the last two songs on this album , I entirely leave up to you , gentle reader.But they are certainly hauntingly beautiful. These are my interpretations. Others may see completely different things in them. Written on May 26, 2002 Summary: Lorca and more The singalong melodies of "Manhattan", "Aint No Cure" and "Everybody Knows" contrast well with Cohen's trademark preoccupation with romantic despair and judeo-christian imagery as in: "It's written in the scriptures, it's written there in blood ..." or "everybody's got this broken feeling/Like their father or their dog just died." John Bilezikjian's oud adds a special dimension to "Everybody Knows." The elegant "Take This Waltz" is a lilting song that brings the Vienna of Federico G. Lorca to life in a series of vivid images underpinned by a fervent longing for the beloved. The brilliant arrangement is enhanced by Raffi Hakopian's violin and the voice of Jennifer Warnes. The wistful "I Can't Forget" has been covered by The Pixies, while "Tower of Song" has been interpreted by artists as diverse as Marianne Faithfull, Robert Forster and Nick Cave and lent its title to the 1995 tribute album Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen. I'm not crazy about either the experimental "Jazz Police" or the title track, but I am evidently wrong since "I'm Your Man" has been covered by Elton John and Bill Pritchard. Written on May 24, 2002 Summary: Un-Cohen Here, there's none of the sweetness that sent you into diabetic shock on his earlier albums. Here, he's wry, dry, biting. Lyrics are bizarro brilliant. The music is off-beat and hard to stop listening to. "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" is my favorite cut. You know how there's supposed to be anti-matter in the universe? This is anti-Cohen. It's odd how strikingly different these songs are from anything else he's ever done. I don't partiuclarly like his other CDs. This one I love. |
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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 | 2008-02-01 | 2007-04-24 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | - | - | Explicit Lyrics | - | - | Extra tracks, Original recording remastered |
| Ean | 0886972380629 | 0886972384825 | 0886972369822 | 0886972437422 | 8869723978254 | 0886970474122 |
| Upc | 886972380629 | 886972384825 | 886972369822 | 886972437422 | 886972397825 | 886970474122 |
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