2024 the best of leonard cohen review

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This amazing collection includes many fan favorite's and gems chosen by Leonard himself, including "Bird on a Wire," "Tower of Song," "First We Take Manhattan" and many more.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 5.4 x 6.3 inches; 5.8 Pounds
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1792481
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2002
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 36 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00006NSH8
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
Reviewer: N. C
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Well, what's to say it's Cohen
Review: I listen to this album and its songs from time to time. For me its complete enough and sounds great.

Reviewer: Priscila Adikuono
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful voice.
Review: The most unique voice I ever heard. I like all his meaningful songs. Some of his songs made me smile.

Reviewer: Rick
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great singer
Review: Timeless songs great singer songwriter ever

Reviewer: Beverly Martin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If I had to choose only one musical artist to listen to, Leonard Cohen would be it.
Review: His smokey whiskey voice colors the poetry of his music. His words are magic that paint pictures of the heart.

Reviewer: Virgil D. Gosch
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I've heard his recordings sound better
Review: For me one of his presentations of "Hallelujah" is almost intoxication and I can listen to it often and repetitively. This is not it, I wish it was. I was unable to get a pre-purchase sample so my purchase was a shot in the dark. I can only hope that the other 30 songs make this worth the money.

Reviewer: Kurt Harding
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Suitable Primer
Review: The name Leonard Cohen first came to my attention way back in the day when Suzanne was released. It was a fairly popular and much-covered song, but it never occurred to me to actually buy the album. I was into much musically heavier things at the time and so my awareness of Cohen gradually receded into distant memory.Nowadays, my musical interests are much wider and my pockets deeper, so I took a chance on Cohen's CD Ten New Songs when it was released several years ago. It took a while to get into, but I liked some of the songs immediately. My rule with music is that if I like a CD I've purchased by an unfamiliar artist, I buy something else by that artist also in order to give myself a broader enjoyment and understanding of their work. And so it went with Cohen. I picked up several more CDs and liked them enough to feel confident that I would be pleased with The Essential Leonard Cohen.I have read all the reviews posted here, both positive and negative, and observe that its a given with any compilation that one will always feel that some songs were included that shouldn't have been and some obvious winners omitted. My candidate for ejection is Alexandra Leaving. I would have much preferred to see Boogie Street included or possibly Joan of Arc in its stead.I think the CD is nicely divided into two periods because as several reviewers have noted, Cohen seems to have two voices. A lot of songs on the first CD one might classify as neo-folk, for lack of a better term. On this, I like Suzanne, The Partisan, Hallelujah, and I'm Your Man best.On the second CD, the music is more in the direction of soul tinged rock with the occasional nod to country. And Cohen's deepening voice on the second CD imbues the music with more mystery and even occasional menace. I prefer the second disc with its apocalyptic renderings of First We Take Manhattan and The Future. Cohen's blood-chilling delivery on the latter combined with its scathing lyrics should give everyone a lot to think about. Closing Time wouldn't be out of place in any country dancehall and could probably be an alt-country radio hit. A Thousand Kisses Deep is evocative of the work of Michael Franks during his Objects of Desire period. But next to The Future, you might find the live recording of the dreamy and romantic Dance Me To The End of Love to be the surprise best cut. It is really tremendous. Juxtaposed with the former, it shows Cohen to be a man of huge talent who can literately express the gamut of human emotion through song.This CD is not really for those who have all of Leonard Cohen's recordings already, but it is a suitable primer for anyone who wants an overview of this underrated musician's work.

Reviewer: Bob
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A great album!
Review: All the songs are timeless and fresh.

Reviewer: Jaden G.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love
Review: “The whole danm place goes crazy twice; it’s once for the devil and once for Christ;… it’s closing time.”

Reviewer: Heather
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is a great double CD. They both have many of Leonard's standard songs on them, and from different eras of his career. On one CD his older songs and his voice is more of a high bass or baritone. Very nice and youthful sounding. The other CD must have been recorded later, his voice is lower and huskier, more emotional and almost breathless at times. so more of a lower bass. Still very beautiful. The CD include some songs i hadn't heard before so I've been listening a lot. Among my favourites is Anthem - that's the one where he says, "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in." My new mantra for my life.

Reviewer: Alberto
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Buen disco . Cuando más lo escucho me gusta más. Tiene dos cds que por el precio que vale no esta mal. He visto un pack de música de él a muy buen precio que no he dudado a comprar y que estoy esperando que venga con muchas ganas de disfrutarlo.

Reviewer: ハナスタ
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: どの曲も美しく、また、コーエンの声の変遷も楽しめます。吟遊詩人です。リリックを少しずつ翻訳しながら、コーエン独特の言霊に感応しています。

Reviewer: KateP
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: All Cohen's hits; great to have in your music library

Reviewer: akinoume12
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 前回と同様の乾燥になりますので省略しますが、このCDがベスト盤に近いものだったのはいささか残念でした。もっと後期の録音のものにすればよかったと思っています。