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Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985).It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited with Cohen as ...
Mark Deming of AllMusic calls it "something of a letdown" and "neither as striking or self-assured as Songs of Leonard Cohen" but concedes, "Despite the album's flaws, Songs from a Room's strongest moments convey a naked intimacy and fearless emotional honesty that's every bit as powerful as the debut, and it left no doubt that Cohen was a ...
Damien Rice, "Famous Blue Raincoat" Adam Cohen and The Webb Sisters, "So Long, Marianne" k.d. lang, "Hallelujah" Intermission Shaar Hashomayim Choir with pre-recorded videos of: Willie Nelson, Céline Dion, Peter Gabriel and Chris Martin and archival footage of Leonard Cohen, "Tower of Song" Sting, "Sisters of Mercy"
Most of the songs that Cohen performs are from his first two albums, Songs of Leonard Cohen and Songs From a Room, although three songs - "Diamonds in the Mine," "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "Sing Another Song, Boys" would appear on his next studio album Songs of Love and Hate in 1971, with the latter being culled directly from the Isle of Wight ...
With it, Cohen wanted to "make a definitive statement about the heroic enterprise of the craft" of songwriting. In the early eighties, he called the work "Raise My Voice in Song." His concern was with the aging songwriter, and the "necessity to transcend one's own failure by manifesting as the singer, as the songwriter."
Page appears on Batalla’s new album, too, more or less taking the role of Cohen in a radical and exciting, beat-propelled new arrangement of the 1991 song “Democracy,” produced by Mike Elizondo.
Leonard Cohen " Ain't No Cure for Love " is a song written by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen . It was first released by the American singer Jennifer Warnes on her 1987 Leonard Cohen tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat and subsequently appeared as the second track on Cohen's 1988 studio album I'm Your Man .
I'm Your Man is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, [5] released on February 2, 1988, by Columbia Records.The album marked Cohen's further move to a more modern sound, with many songs having a synthesizer-oriented production.