Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
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Album Review
Release date: 30 November 2000
Cohen, Leonard : Ten New Songs
King of misery returns from monastry with synthesizer.
Even his most optimistic fans could've been forgiven for thinking that they'd heard the last of Leonard Cohen, the most urbanely depressed of rock's elder statesmen. After all, he's just turned 67, hasn't released an album in nine years and, most pertinently, appeared to have found contentment of sorts living as a Buddhist monk in California. Fears of a red wine...
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- In My Secret Life
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- That Don't Make It Junk
- Here It Is
- Love Itself
- By The Rivers Dark
- Alexandra Leaving
- You Have Loved Enough
- Boogie Street
- The Land Of Plenty
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| Date / Time | Artist | Venue | Town/City | Seetickets | Viagogo |
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| Sep 08, 2012 15:00 | Leonard Cohen | Hop Farm Country Park | Tonbridge | Tickets not currently available. |
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Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs: Wikipedia Album Entry
"I'm back on Boogie Street," declares Leonard Cohen on two different songs in this collection, titled with characteristic understatement Ten New Songs. (Previous album titles have included Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, and Recent Songs.) More poet than musician, Cohen has, since his early albums, tended to rely on collaborations with musicians to put together his music: John Lissauer on 1974's New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Henry Lewy on 1979's Recent Songs, and, notoriously, Phil Spector on 1977's Death of a Ladies' Man. On Ten New Songs, his partner is former backup singer Sharon Robinson, who co-wrote "Everybody Knows" on 1988's I'm Your Man and earns co-writing credit on all the material here. She has also conjured the musical backgrounds ("All tracks arranged, programmed, and performed by Sharon Robinson, reads the credit), and she harmonizes with Cohen throughout. But all collaborators (even Spector) are in the service of Cohen's poetic vision, which remains the dominant element on this elegiac set. After a restatement of purpose on "In My Secret Life," he turns in a moody set of reflections on decline, even alluding to fellow poet Robert Frost's famous "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" in "A Thousand Kisses Deep": "And maybe I had miles to drive/And promises to keep/You ditch it all to stay alive/A thousand kisses deep." The songs are full of leave-taking, with titles like "Alexandra Leaving" and "You Have Loved Enough" accurately describing the tone, concluding with the prayer-like valedictory "The Land of Plenty," which gently remonstrates with the consumer society the poet has always engaged and rejected: "May the lights in the land of plenty/Shine on the truth some day." Even in the quietude of Cohen's catalog, the result seems like a coda.
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Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs Lyrics
Leonard Cohen - Boogie Street Lyrics
O Crown of Light, O Darkened One
I never thought weâd meet
You kiss my lips and then itâs done
Iâm back on Boogie Street
Leonard Cohen - By The Rivers Dark Lyrics
By the river's dark, I wandered on
I lived my life in Babylon
And I did forget my holy song
Leonard Cohen - Here It Is Lyrics
Here it is
Here it is
Here it is
Here it is
Leonard Cohen - The Land of Plenty Lyrics
Don't really have the courage
To stand where I must stand
Don't really have the temperament
To lend a helping hand
Leonard Cohen - You Have Loved Enough Lyrics
I said I'd be your lover
You laughed at what I said
I lost my job forever
I was counted with the dead
Leonard Cohen - That Don't Make It Junk Lyrics
I fought against the bottle but I had to do it drunk
Took my diamond to the pawnshop but that don't make it junk
I know that I'm forgiven but I don't know how I know
I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go
