A stunningly sophisticated leap into modern musical textures, I'm Your Man re-establishes Leonard Cohen's mastery. Against a backdrop of keyboards and propulsive rhythms, Cohen surveys the global landscape with a precise, unflinching eye: the opening "First We Take Manhattan" is an ominous fantasy of commercial success bundled in crypto-fascist imagery, while the remarkable "Everybody Knows" is a cynical catalog of the land mines littering the surface of love in the age of AIDS.
Detroit radio used to something I was relatively proud of. A strong public radio station playing an excellent mix of music throughout the day blended with NPR's flagship talk programming. There was a balanced mix of 'alternative', 'pop' and 'classic' to 'hard rock' choices along the dial. All that changed rather quickly in the past 3 years or so. The dials are now dominated by the playlist blob...
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I've never listened to Leonard Cohen until now. Checked out some odds n; ends from the local library, and one of the disc I picked up was the soundtrack to the film "I'm Your Man". Damn if these heartwrenchinly fine covers don't fit the mood to a tee. The disc kicks off and ends with "Tower of Song", the opener arranged by the fistula introduced Martha Wainwright. Thank you, Leonard, for giving...
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Detroit radio used to something I was relatively proud of. A strong public radio station playing an excellent mix of music throughout the day blended with NPR's flagship talk programming. There was a balanced mix of 'alternative', 'pop' and 'classic' to 'hard rock' choices along the dial. All that changed rather quickly in the past 3 years or so. The dials are now dominated by the playlist blob...
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