Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen Reviewed

Bulldog · 05-28-2009, 05:39 PM

Might as well get this started now. Seeing as I've finished two pretty long threads something like this, I thought I'd move on to the delights of Leonard Cohen's discography as a next move. He may not exactly be one of the most talented vocalists ever or as stylistically versatile as some singer-songwriters I've seen fit to drone on about, but for me this man pulls off atmosphere better than any of contemporaries and, on top of that, he's probably my favourite ever lyricist as well. That and how I think of his output as being fairly consistent makes him one of my favourites by a long shot, and since he doesn't exactly get a mention around here as often as some makes it quite tempting to start a long-winded and pretentious thread about his discography. As with my other discography thread, I'll only be doing official studio albums like so;

1967 - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
1969 - Songs From a Room
1971 - Songs Of Love and Hate
1974 - New Skin For the Old Ceremony
1977 - Death Of a Ladies' Man
1979 - Recent Songs
1984 - Various Positions
1988 - I'm Your Man
1992 - The Future
2001 - Ten New Songs
2004 - Dear Heather

First review's going up tomorrow... maybe. This should keep me occupied for another few months at least.

05-28-2009, 05:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen Reviewed Might as well get this started now. Seeing as I've finished two pretty long threads something like this, I thought I'd move on to the delights of Leonard Cohen's discography as a next move. He may not exactly be one of the most talented vocalists ever or as stylistically versatile as some singer-songwriters I've seen fit to drone on about, but for me this man pulls off atmosphere better than any of contemporaries and, on top of that, he's probably my favourite ever lyricist as well. That and how I think of his output as being fairly consistent makes him one of my favourites by a long shot, and since he doesn't exactly get a mention around here as often as some makes it quite tempting to start a long-winded and pretentious thread about his discography. As with my other discography thread, I'll only be doing official studio albums like so; 1967 - Songs Of Leonard Cohen 1969 - Songs From a Room 1971 - Songs Of Love and Hate 1974 - New Skin For the Old Ceremony 1977 - Death Of a Ladies' Man 1979 - Recent Songs 1984 - Various Positions 1988 - I'm Your Man 1992 - The Future 2001 - Ten New Songs 2004 - Dear Heather First review's going up tomorrow... maybe. This should keep me occupied for another few months at least.