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| 1. Everybody Knows - Don Henley |
| 2. Coming Back to You - Trisha Yearwood |
| 3. Sisters Of Mercy - Sting & The Chieftains |
| 4. Halleluiah - Bono |
| 5. Famous Blue Raincoat - Tori Amos |
| 6. Ain't No Cure For Love - Aaron Neville |
| 7. I'm Your Man - Elton John |
| 8. Bird On A Wire - Willie Nelson |
| 9. Suzanne - Peter Gabriel |
| 10. Light As The Breeze - Billy Joel |
| 11. If It Be Your Will - Jann Arden |
| 12. Story Of Issac - Suzanne Vega |
| 13. Coming Back To You - Martin Gore |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Eclectic mix,
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This review is from: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Audio CD)
Reading other reviews, i noticed the disdain for Bono's version of Haleluyah. I, however, LOVE Bono's take on the song. My only reservation is regarding the country-style interpreatations (Trisha Yearwood, Aaron Neville) (strangely, i rather liked Willie Nelson's version of Bird on a Wire), but that is only because I don't much like country. Otherwise, these are great, imaginative interpretations of Cohen's tunes: Tori Amos' voice is amazingly haunting for a very haunting song, and Billy Joel's Breeze is fantasticly bluesy. I love this CD in my car, as it is a nice mix of styles.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
No one sings Cohen like Cohen,
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This review is from: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Audio CD)
Like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen's voice is apparently an acquired taste. The charge is that he can't sing, but his brilliant songs compensate for that wretched voice. Nonsense. The worldly-wise voice of Cohen's later recordings is as perfect an instrument for his lyrics as Dylan's rough and creaky voice is for his. No one sings Cohen like Cohen, and the proof is in "Tower of Song," the second album ("I'm Your Fan" was the first) in which a diverse group of performers try their luck with the Canadian bard's impressive songbook. For the Cohen faithful, this has some value as a curiosity piece, but at no time do these "real" singers improve upon the man himself. Don Henley's take on "Everybody Knows" lacks the brooding menace (to say nothing of John Bilezikjian's spooky ode playing) found in Cohen's version from "I'm Your Man," and Bono, the one artist who I would have thought capable of making a Cohen song his own, fails miserably with "Hallelujah" (the best version of which can be found on "Cohen Live"). Suzanne Vega, Aaron Neville, and a few others fare much better, but if you're interested in hearing someone other than the man himself sing his songs, stick to Jennifer Warnes whose album "Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen" is outstanding. The song from which this album takes its title isn't included here and with good reason. In "Tower of Song," a self-mocking Cohen sings that he was "born with the gift of a golden voice." Cohen can make that claim without irony, more so than most of the artists on this disc.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
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This review is from: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Audio CD)
Most of the tunes on this are poorly done. Bono makes a complete mess of "Hallelujah"; he talks his way through it. Our local choir even does it better! I purchased this for a friend who loves Willie Nelson's cover of "Bird on a Wire". It turns out to be probably the best track on the CD, and it is very hard to find elsewhere. I doubt Cohen bought a copy of this one!
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