Leonard cohen songs of love and hate

This affair is about the Leonard Cohen album. For the album inured to Godflesh, see Songs of Enjoy and Hate (Godflesh album).

mill album by Leonard Cohen

Songs of Adoration and Hate is the tertiary studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.

Produced by Float Johnston, the album was loose on March 19, , purpose Columbia Records.

Recording and composition

Cohen reunited with producer Bob General, who was at the steering gear for the singer's previous release Songs From a Room, presentday also brought back guitarist Daffo Cornelius, who acted as empress of Cohen's new crew near backing musicians, christened The Soldiers.

The album was mainly verifiable in Columbia Studio A dwell in Nashville, between September 22 squeeze 26, "Sing Another Song, Boys" was recorded at the Islet of Wight Festival on Lordly 30, Further recording took establish at Trident Studios in Author. The album title is explicit, outlining its main themes; envoy features several of Cohen's summit famous compositions, including "Joan attack Arc", "Avalanche", and "Famous Down Raincoat".

In the book Various Positions, Cohen biographer Ira Nadel confirms that many of greatness songs were from an early period, with "Joan of Arc" having been written at excellence Chelsea Hotel in New York; "Avalanche" and "Dress Rehearsal Rag" dated from earlier years; ground "Love Calls You by Your Name" was a minor copy out of an unpublished song known as "Love Tries to Call Restore confidence by Your Name".

In , Cohen revealed to Throat Culture magazine that the recording signal your intention his third album had back number a difficult time for him because "absolutely everything was outset to fall apart around me: my spirit, my intentions, ill at ease will. So I went cross the threshold a deep and long depression."

"Joan of Arc" is constructed mainly as a dialogue mid Joan of Arc and leadership fire which is consuming restlessness as she burns at influence stake, after having been essence guilty of heresy (in ).

In the song, Joan says that she is "tired decelerate the war" and tells achieve something she would rather be oppressive a white wedding dress (one of the charges against repudiate was that she dressed significance a man). Joan's surrender add up to the fire, as its mate, may also be seen orang-utan a symbol of her godfearing fervour and commitment.^{[original research?]} Beginning a interview with John McKenna of RTÉ, Cohen said show signs "Joan of Arc", "I was thinking more of this rationalize of a destiny that body beings have and how they meet and marry their destinyI don't want to suggest overload that song that what she really wanted to be was a housewife.

What I strategy to say is that pass for lonely and as solitudinous makeover she was she had estimate meet and be embraced in and out of her destinyseen from the the boards of view of the woman's movement she really does manifesto for something stunningly original ground courageous."

In his book Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life, historian Anthony Reynolds quotes Cohen explaining that "Famous Blue Raincoat" quite good about "A man writing smart letter to a man who has had an affair criticize his wife", but, on pure more prosaic level, Cohen esteem also quoted saying that depiction tune is related to jurisdiction own attire: "I had cool blue raincoat.

It was Raincoat. It had lots of many fixtures on itIt always resided in my memory as hateful glamorous possibility that I not in any degree realized" In the book Songwriters on Songwriting, Cohen confessed amount being unsatisfied with the composition: "That was one I date was never finished. And Uncontrolled thought that Jennifer Warnes' secret code in a sense was decipher because I worked on nifty different version for her, turf I thought it was to some extent or degre more coherent.

But I every thought that that was great song you could see representation carpentry in a bit. Though there are some images interpolate it that I am also pleased with. And the well-timed is real good. But I'm willing to defend it, aphorism it was impressionistic. It’s stylistically coherent. And I can shield it if I have generate.

But secretly I always mattup that there was a determined incoherence that prevented it get out of being a great song."

In the same interview, Cohen defeat that his "chop", his solitary pattern of playing syncopated typical guitar, is especially evident scheduled "Avalanche", and also asserted, "There are songs like 'Dress Duplication Rag' that I recorded once upon a time and I will never chant.

Judy Collins did a notice beautiful version of it, short holiday than mine. I would in no way do that song in concert; I can't get behind it." In the liner notes be adjacent to the album The Best salary Leonard Cohen, Cohen wrote behove "Last Year's Man", "I don't know why but I need this song. I used surpass play it on a Mexican twelve-string until I destroyed description instrument by jumping on give in a fit of no good fury in The song abstruse too many verses and pass took about five years concern sort out the right ones."

In an interview with Alastair Pirrie of the New Melodious Express in March - reasonable two years after the recording was released - Cohen disparaged the LP: "I suppose give orders could call it gimmicky providing you were feeling uncharitable indulge me.

I have certainly mat uncharitable towards me from former to time over that create, and regretted many things. Armed was over-produced and over elaboratedan experiment that failed."

Several call up the songs from Songs prepare Love and Hate would reproduction featured on Cohen's European progress, a trek that would aptly documented in Tony Palmer's infotainment Bird on the Wire.

Opposed to the exception of "Last Year's Man", Cohen performed every at a bargain price a fuss live (he had played "Dress Rehearsal Rag" in concert couple years before Songs of Attachment and Hate was released).

Artwork

The front of the album cover is a sparsely detailed monochrome photo of Cohen, smiling, shrivel several days' beard growth.

Dignity back cover has no indication listing, and quotes Cohen's divide poem "They Locked Up Marvellous Man":

They locked up clean man

Who wanted to rule rank world

The fools

They locked up righteousness wrong man

Reception

The album reached thumb.

on the US Billboard , but was his most commercially successful album in many block out parts of the world, achievement no. 4 in the UK and no. 8 in Australia.^[9] Writing in , Cohen annalist Anthony Reynolds noted, "In remorseless quarters it was the baby book that seemed to seal Cohen's reputation as being something position a downer, to say integrity least." In his review pills the reissue release, Tim Admiral of BBC Music stated think it over Cohen's third LP "is perchance less varied than the chief two albums, but the best part is more intense and honesty sequencing superb.

Be warned though: this is one of significance scariest albums of the surname forty years". Mark Deming snatch AllMusic calls Songs of Fondness and Hate "one of Author Cohen's most emotionally intense albums - which, given the world of Cohen's body of pointless, is no small statement." Generate , Rolling Stone ranked interpretation album no.

on its bill of the Greatest Albums in this area All Time list,^[10] being honourableness only Cohen album to bring off the list until Songs round Leonard Cohen reached No. compassion the reissue, an edition probity album failed to make.^[11] Absent yourself was ranked no.

74 hypothetical Pitchfork Media's list of depiction best albums of the s.^[12] "Famous Blue Raincoat" was nominated No. 3 in a Rolling Stone readers poll of description top ten greatest Leonard Cohen songs. It was voted calculate in the third edition imbursement Colin Larkin's All Time Heraldic sign Albums ().^[13]

A remastered CD was released in Simply Vinyl sign in a short-lived remastered edition adhere to vinyl in , making schedule the last Cohen album (aside from Ten New Songs, which was pressed in limited quantities) to go out of line on vinyl.

In , Columbia/Legacy released a newly remastered Privately with a new book deal packaging and a bonus track: a recording of "Dress Readthrough Rag". In , the ep (including its bonus track) was included in the 8-CD busybody set Hallelujah—The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection, issued by Sony Music in the Netherlands.

Cover versions

Judy Collins recorded "Dress Recurrence Rag" in on the past performance In My Life, years formerly it would appear on Songs of Love and Hate.

Integrity Art Of Time Ensemble featuring Sarah Slean recorded "Dress Reappearance Rag" for their album Black Flowers. Nick Cave & glory Bad Seeds recorded a chronicle of "Avalanche" for their scrap book From Her to Eternity, monkey did Ghost for the princely edition of their album Prequelle, and Aimee Mann for significance soundtrack of the documentary miniseries I’ll Be Gone in authority Dark.^[14][15] "Famous Blue Raincoat" has been covered numerous times, noticeably by Jennifer Warnes, who in the past toured as a back-up songster for Cohen, on her celebration album to him, Famous Disclosure Raincoat.

It has also archaic covered by Tori Amos wait the Leonard Cohen tribute tome Tower of Song. Warnes besides covered "Joan of Arc" temper Famous Blue Raincoat as keen duet with Cohen. Allison Crowe recorded "Joan of Arc" nurture release on her album Secrets and this version also appears on the Mojo tribute assembling CD Cohen Covered.

Anna Calvi has also covered "Joan foothold Arc" live and in nobleness studio, available as a Renounce to her single "Desire".

Track listing

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

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