buffyleigh
The first Cohen album I have listened to, and I was pleasantly surprised that I totally loved it. It’s brilliant.
5
The first Cohen album I have listened to, and I was pleasantly surprised that I totally loved it. It’s brilliant.
I like the dark voice, even though I would not say he's a strong singer. The arrangements are great with some strings and a mouth harp. All in all, it's too slow to make me really love it.
It's much more enjoyable than what I feared at first. Leonard Cohen was part of my musical environment when I was growing up, and I must say that his drawling voice, slow and quiet music made me indifferent when it was not boring me to death. But I'm more familiar with his later work, and it seems that his earlier work is much more appealing (basic folk with nothing more than his voice and guitar, no fancy arrangements) and his voice a bit more dynamic than when he was getting older (less crooner, more folk singer). I even enjoyed some of it; it's simple, stripped down folk, guitar and voice going well together. There is far too much mouth harp though, it ruins part of the songs that would have been much better without it (or with a simple drumming pattern, or anything else really).
Never really liked Leonard Cohen, but listened to the whole album today…and…still don’t like his music.
I had always heard that Leonard Cohen had a reputation for being depressing and hard to listen to, but I really enjoyed this album. It’s sparse musically, but the production really allows the voice to shine through. The lyrics are on a par with Bob Dylan with occasional bits of French. There are some nice quirky elements, with whistling and an unusual twanging sort of noise which turned out to be a mouth harp in the background.
Uff, ich brauche dringend mal wieder was schnelleres, energiegeladenes. Die letzten Alben - inklusive diesem hier - sind so dermaßen easy listening für meine metalverwöhnten Ohren, dass ich nach jedem dritten Lied gähnen muss. Was das Album nicht schlecht macht, aber es kommt einfach zur falschen Zeit. "The Partisan" gefällt mir am besten, wahrscheinlich wegen des plötzlichen Französisch (mit Fremdsprachen abseits von Englisch bekommt man mich sehr schnell 😅). Make the Maultrommel great again!
I wanted to like this album, I didn’t.
Loved it! I only knew his more recent work, but this was also very good.
Boring
Very reduced music and a nasal voice reciting exceptionally good lyrics. No, that's not Bob Dylan but Leonard Cohen. Songs From A Room is not my favourite Cohen album but features one of his most famous songs "Bird On The Wire" and the equally great "The Partisan" From his early works, I prefer his debut album though. This one is good, but not great.
I love Leonard Cohen. He's one of my favourite songwriters. But if I'm honest, at lot of his albums drag on a bit, or aren't particularly well-structured as albums. This one's no different. It still gets a 4 for Bird on a Wire, The Partisan, Lady Midnight, and a bunch of other good stuff.