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1. First We Take Manhattan

2. Ain't No Cure For Love

3. Everybody Knows

4. I'm Your Man

5. Take This Waltz

6. Jazz Police

7. I Can't Forget

8. Tower Of Song

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Cohen hits his mid-career peak on I'm Your Man. Though still dark, there are touches of black humour and irony throughout and Cohen's voice was never a deeply rich. -- S. Duda

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Even the production, laden with synthesized strings and cooing female choruses, is wry on I'm Your Man, a definitive Leonard Cohen album. Though still touched with the tragic ("Take This Waltz," based on a Garcia Lorca poem), the album often achieves its high points by combining Cohen's world-weariness with black-humoured evocations of social and romantic ills and artistic quandaries. "I was born like this, I had no choice," the gravelly Cohen intimates at disc's end. "I was born with the gift of a golden voice." --Rickey Wright

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of Today's Greatest Poets, July 17 2002

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Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I'm Your Man (Audio CD)

As far as I am concerned Leonard Cohen is one of the greatest poets, living today.
I find his work uplifting, rhythmic, soothing and enlightening. Of course I cannot pretend to know Cohen's meaning behind many of his songs, that does not matter at all. Like with all great poetry, I rely on my own interpretation.

This CD is particularly ingenious.
Let me refer to a few of the songs on this compilation. It rings a real chord with me in this postmodern age, where it is so difficult to make sense of a world that seems to have become an Orwellian nightmare gone real.

First We Take Manhattan: deals with a man's frustration with being unable to make a difference in an uncaring, immoral society, and a dream of conquering the world to set things right. Of course it speaks of influence through music, a love that Leonard Cohen and me share. Leonard Cohen, although not an observant Jew, is quite obviously very conscious of his Jewish heritage. Take this line:
"I'd really like to live beside you baby, I love your body and your spirit and your clothes,. But you see that line moving through the station? I told you I was one of those'. This is particularly relevant at a time when hatred of Jews and Israel is greater in the world, than anytime since World War II
He generally takes a swipe at the shallowness of the world:
'I don't like your fashion business, mister. I don't like those drugs that keep you thin.'

Ain't no Cure For Love: A beautiful and passionate love ballad .His love songs have a profound and passionate depth and are nothing like 'those silly love songs' referred to in a song by Paul McCartney.

Everybody Knows: A strong indictment of the horrible predicament that the world finds itself in today. A seemingly complete absence of morality and spirituality, with a horrible blend of monopoly capitalism and Bolshevik political correctness dominating the world today. It touches on the coming AIDS epidemic, written in 1991, which now really is now wiping huge populations in the world today. He includes a powerful warning to change their morality and way of running. The song is almost telling us that the horrible prophecies of Orwell and Huxley are coming to pass.

I'm Your Man: A powerful song about the desperation born of love.

Take This Waltz: Strong imagery of Vienna there. I have visited that city and can strongly see that imagery in my mind, while listening: '
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows' -'in some hallway where love's never been'. Anyone who's explored Vienna can understand this. It's all about loneliness, deep depression and extreme emptiness in one of the worlds most intriguing and beautiful cities.

Jazz Police: All about the PC cultural commissars that tell us which music, art, literature etc we can and cannot like.

How about the last two songs on this album , I entirely leave up to you , gentle reader.But they are certainly hauntingly beautiful.

These are my interpretations. Others may see completely different things in them.
Finally the beauty of this compilation is enhanced by the haunting, sensual and powerful female vocals of Anjani and Jennifer Warnes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars You're my man? Darn right you are!, Jun 11 2002

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William Fevers III (US of A) - See all my reviews

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This album has a perfect title. When listening to Leonard Cohen, I frequently point to the CD player and excitedly exclaim "You da man, Leonard, you da man!" And he is da man, my man and the man for everyone who loves a sweet, sad ballad sung by a voice that drains every teardrop from the lyrics, and sets them to music that washes over you like rain. The man's a poet, I know it, and anyone who hears him will know it too. You da man, Leonard, you da man.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cohen's Best, Mar 7 2009

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This is Leonard Cohen's best album. While NOBODY in popular music - not Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan - has ever equalled Cohen's lyrics, and some would want to proclaim Songs of Leonard Cohen as his finest work, never before has this poetic genius recorded an album with four classics - First We Take Manhattan, Ain't No Cure For Love, I'm Your Man, and Tower of Song. Those songs are breathtaking!

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