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"First We Take Manhattan" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was originally recorded by American singer Jennifer Warnes on her 1986 Cohen tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat , which consisted entirely of songs written or co-written by Cohen.
"First We Take Manhattan" I'm Your Fan Leonard Cohen tribute album: Leonard Cohen: Scott Litt and R.E.M. 1991 "The Flowers of Guatemala" Lifes Rich Pageant: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Don Gehman: 1986 "Forty Second Song" "Shiny Happy People" single: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Scott Litt and R.E.M ...
The song describes, in several choruses, the simple delights of Manhattan for a young couple in love. The joke is that these "delights" are really some of the worst, or cheapest, sights that New York has to offer; for example, the stifling, humid stench of the subway in summertime is described as "balmy breezes", while the noisy, grating pushcarts on Mott Street are "gently gliding by".
Released in November 1986, Famous Blue Raincoat is a tribute to Leonard Cohen, with whom Warnes had toured as a backup singer in the 1970s.The album's songs span much of Cohen's career, from his 1969 album Songs from a Room to his 1984 album Various Positions (on which Warnes sang), and even two songs ("First We Take Manhattan" and "Ain't No Cure for Love") from Cohen's then-unreleased album I ...
Against a backdrop of keyboards and propulsive rhythms, Cohen surveys the global landscape with a precise, unflinching eye: the opening 'First We Take Manhattan' is an ominous fantasy of commercial success bundled in crypto-fascist imagery, while the remarkable 'Everybody Knows' is a cynical catalog of the land mines littering the surface of ...
For the album's American release on Atlantic Records, R.E.M.'s rendition of "First We Take Manhattan" and House of Love's "Who by Fire" (the lead tracks on each side of the vinyl and cassette versions) were swapped so that R.E.M., one of the most popular American rock bands of the era, led the album. In all other countries where the album was ...
R.E.M. Live is a live album from R.E.M., recorded at the Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, on February 26 and 27, 2005, the closing nights of the winter European leg of the Around the World Tour in support of their thirteenth studio album Around the Sun, released in late 2004.
The second half is followed by "First We Take Manhattan" sung by Leonard Cohen. The song " The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning ", composed by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins for the soundtrack of Batman & Robin , although used in a promotional trailer, was not included on the soundtrack of Watchmen .