Reviews (page 9 of 9)
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Bit weird... I don't like his voice that much, it's okay but it's not as soothing as I thought it would be.
OMG! Leonard Cohen does 80's musak including cheesy backing singers and even a Kenny G sax? This is a terrible moment in a great man's career. This is so wrong in so many ways and even Leonard's words are drowned out. I can't even blame the music label or producer since it's evident this was 100% his idea.
Many people love his lyrics, but man, the music is just straight bad. Some of the songs are painful and, even if they had the most moving lyrics of all time, I’d avoid. Sorry Leonard!
I think we need to get this album to the Ukraine as a WMD
I don't like Leonard Cohen 1.5
Tears streamed down my face when I saw we had him. I literally cant listen to this man without dying his voice not so slowly kills me.
o my GODDDDDD i am not listening to any more of this man's shitty music AGAIN 4 of his albums?!?!?!????? GET BENT and and and on this one his horrid MIXED WAY UP FRONT IN YOUR FACE vocals get treated with sequencers, the worst of 80s keyboard sounds, and drum machines? Also this dead emporer was buried with no clothes: these lyrics are embarrassing. I need to be more clear: this is utter utter shit. 0/10 and chafed that I can't give 0 stars
Shite. Rubbish vocals, dull lyrics, terrible music, weird arrangements and instrumentation. How is this even on the list?
1. Jesus christ
Not really to my taste, I have to admit it was hard not to bail out early.
I was digging the intro on the first track, and thought I might enjoy this album, however once the vocals started I knew I was in for a rough one. Pretty much every track was ruined by the vocals and I couldn't get past it.
какой-то стремный старый мужик речитативом говорит horny штуки. мне почему-то жалко его и я не особо верю в то, что он поет… кринжулик. музыка приятная, может более ранние его альбомы лучше, хочу послушать.
Oh god, what do people see in this guy?! His delivery is so wooden. Thank the lord that this is the last of his albums that I need to suffer through.
The album where every song sounds exactly the same and only one of them, "Everybody Knows", is even listenable. Subtract one star for the cover photo where he's eating a damn banana.
It's brooding in a way that I just don't enjoy. His voice also just is not great
Old
Horrible crap
Je m’explique bien mal pourquoi cet homme est un intouchable. Je comprends que certains textes sont très bien ficelés et je suis d’accord qu’il a tout un tone. Par contre la prod de cet album est tellement cheap... On est dans le midi vite fait. Ça sonne comme un démo. De plus, on dirait qu’il n’a pas décidé de la rythmique de son vocal avant d’enregistrer. C’est super aproximatif.
Sigh, another Leonard Cohen spoken word album. This time with shitty synth loops. I swear I remember most of these beats from the drum presets on my 80's Casio toy keyboard. I'm your Man was #7. Wanted to give this a 2 for having the ambition to attempt a song in 3/4, but then Jazz Police came on, and it was a wrap. They sentenced LC to 20 years of boredom, and he tried to do the same to us.
The kind of music you'd here walking to an empty dive bar in suburban Australia. One man up front with a karaoke backing track and an old Casio keyboard playing for a room of drunks and exhausted workers. I honestly thought it was a joke at first.
dull, his voice is so depressing
Fav Song: Tower of Song
Kinda sucks. I should hope this is not the album that people fell in love with. 1
Really doesn't do much for me. 80s electronica and comical backing singers.
This asshole is the reason the common man thinks they can go on some TV show and become famous. How the hell does this lack of talent make a list? I wish that banana choked the fucking life out of you Leonard!!!
No, you’re not. You’re annoying, man. Dieses Album (und alle anderen von ihm im übrigen auch) hat in dieser Liste aber auch gar nichts verloren. Ich betrachte diesen Listenpunkt als einen der absoluten Tiefpunkte in diesem Projekt, schrecklich, eine einzige, unerträgliche Katastrophe. Kaum jemand an diesem Projekt ist so derartig überschätzt wie Leonard Cohen.
Ha! Gaaaaaaayyyy!
This was a slog. I did not like this 1 bit. I’m sure the lyrics are good if you pay close attention but the music sucked. At least with Dylan you get some nice acoustic guitar sounds for the most part. I’m truly baffled at how this could be a comeback album. Who heard this and thought “wow this is what I missed!”? I’ll pass.
Awful. Cohen's worst album? ((Probably not, and I'm a fan!)
Didn't enjoy. Maybe later albums better.
I refuse to listen to any more Leonard Cohen. I hate his music.
This is bad music. This guy is a revered singer-songwriter!? How do I go back to only knowing about "Hallelujah?" There were a couple of mildly tolerable songs in the middle, but the rest was so objectionable that it should be stricken from musical existence, not celebrated as one of the 1001 albums you must listen to. Maybe you don't know brilliance unless you see/hear its opposite?
This album feels like the musical equivalent of walking into a modern art exhibition and being told that a wadded up gum wrapper is the hottest new art piece. I don’t get it, which makes me angry because I feel like I have been conned. How is this the same man that wrote Hallelujah?! This album is a con job, it has to be. I was sold a bill of goods when I saw the name pop up and what I got was a saxophone laden eighties dumpster fire in which Cohen doesn’t sing so much as recite bad spoken word poetry.
The last chance department at JCP. Appliance shopping at Sears. A graphic T display at Dillards. ‘If you want a lover I’ll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I’ll wear a mask for you. If you want a partner, take my hand, or if you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. I’m your man.’ I believe this lyric sums up pretty much everything I don’t like about Leonard Cohen. I find his whole approach toward women and sex to be juvenile, and his unhealthy obsession with the end times and divine judgment tiresome. Unless this is all satire, and I’m missing the whole point. Any of which I might be willing to work past if the music was good. But the tunes on this LP mostly sound like department store muzak crossed with bad 80s new wave dance music. All that and a drab album cover, too. I don’t mind ugly art when its serving a higher purpose, conveying some deeper, heretofore illusive truth. I do mind dumb art, though. Look, I know that Cohen is the darling of the critics, as much as I’m aware of the devotion of his peculiar fans. I’ve just never quite figured out why, nor does this LP make me want to. ‘And I can’t forget,’ Cohen sings on the second to last song of this interminable recording, ‘but I don’t remember what.’ I can, Leonard. And I do.
I didn't enjoy this one at all.
I'm having a hard time taking some of these seriously. This felt like a parody album. I have no idea who would listen to this for enjoyment but that's not me. And I can't even describe the shock when I realized this was the Leonard Cohen of Hallelujah. With synth. Singing about sex.
Ugh no. Terrible
mid, there was a song I think in the middle that lit the mood up a bit but that's it
Did Steve Branson have a mid-life crisis and cut a sad 80s country blues album? This is terrible! - 1 star
Mediocre music. With added dreary voice. And then it's all just the dreary voice
Not a fan of Leonard Cohen.
Surprisingly dull vocal
i cannot listen to this
L'ascolto di questo album l'ho trovato abbastanza faticoso. In primis il sound '80 che come ormai sapete, eccetto alcuni casi, a me non piace. I testi non mi hanno trasmesso molto (forse perché qui non era in fin di vita), anzi li ho trovati anche abbastanza banali. La voce monotona si è accollata. Ho trovato interessante il fatto che su "I'm your man" il pezzo finisca con un fade out mentre ancora canta, come se sapesse che l'ascoltatore, ormai stanco di sentire la sua voce, voglia abbassare il volume . Oggi mi sento cattivo! 1
Rape Music
Okay I guess this is from later in his career, but he sounds like he's old (first album on Spotify is '67). Maybe enjoyed it more as I got further into it? OMG I'm dying laughing at the beginning of Jazz Police. Ok maybe all of Jazz Police. What in the hell is this song.
weird cunt
No
This was completely different from what I expected. Some of the songs on here are the most 80s things I've ever heard. It has not aged well. I knew Everybody Knows but only because there's a cover of it that I really like. I think it's a very well written song but the original version makes it seem like a terrible song. I don't really have anything positive to say to be honest. A bit batshit in the worst possible way.
Boring old man slow so singing
Hawt Trash
Starting off strong with the late 80's sound. You know keys and drums machines. I know you know. I have to say that I'm not really into this album (the backing vocals/choir are slightly annoying) and Leonard Cohen, but maybe someday I will find some of his music that I like, maybe not.
20years of boredom!! Your songs Certainly show it!! Crap crap big pile of stemming shite........2 songs is all I could listen 2 🤮
I’m sure the lyrics are profound but I can’t get into the dirge. *
Zzzzz...
Leonard Cohen
Paso
That was a fever dream. Jazz police? Seriously?
Not for me. A weird album with way too much 80’s synth.