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New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Leonard Cohen's fourth album released in 1974. marks a new stage in Cohen's career. On this album, with a new producer in John Lissauer, he breaks away from the spare, guitar-driven folk-poetry of his first four albums and begins to experiment with a more orchestrated, more upbeat sound. This was a shock for many of his followers; following a characteristic pattern for Cohen's work, it failed to trouble the album charts either in the US or his native Canada, but also it was only a modest success in Britain. Unlike any of its predecessors, it failed to make the top 20 albums. Few would count it as one of his greatest works, and it marks the beginning of a lean period for him, but it contains seeds which will be cultivated more fruitfully in later years, and time has been kind to it. |
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New Sound Album |
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New Sound Album: This album was a departure from the spare, acoustic guitar-driven songs of his first three albums. It adopted more of a rock approach with rich orchestration. It didn't go down well with his fans at the time but has survived the test of time and looks forward to his more successful albums of the 1980s. |
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As the Good Book Says... |
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As the Good Book Says... "Is This What You Wanted" "Who by Fire" is based on a Jewish prayer, Unetanneh Tokef. |
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Alliterative Title |
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Alliterative Title: "Is This What You Wanted", "Field Commander Cohen" |
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Special Guest |
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Special Guest: Janis Ian shares the vocals on "Who by Fire" |
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All Psychology Is Freudian |
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All Psychology Is Freudian: "Is This What You Wanted" Carl Jung variant: the cover image, which is taken from an old alchemical text, was used by Jung to illustrate the union of psychic opposites in the consciousness of the enlightened saint. |
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Un-Installment |
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Un-Installment: "Chelsea Hotel #2". There was a "Chelsea Hotel", co-written by Cohen and Ron Cornelius but only ever performed in concert and never committed to disc. |
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Stylistic Suck |
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Stylistic Suck: "Leaving Green Sleeves" |
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Longest Song Goes First |
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Longest Song Goes First: The album opens with the 4:13 "Is This What You Wanted". The only other song on the album that breaks four minutes is "Take This Longing", which is seven seconds shorter than the opener. |
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Singer Namedrop |
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Singer Name Drop: "Field Commander Cohen" |
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Questioning Title? |
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Questioning Title?: "Is This What You Wanted?" and "Why Don't You Try?" |
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Character Title |
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Character Title: "Field Commander Cohen" |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: "Field Commander Cohen" alludes to The Andrews Sisters song "Rum and Coca Cola" "Leaving Green Sleeves" is a reworking of the fifteenth-century song Music/Greensleeves |
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Self-Deprecation |
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Self-Deprecation "Chelsea Hotel #2" "A Singer Must Die" |
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Intercourse with You |
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Intercourse with You: A lot of Cohen songs are concerned with sex but are wrapped in symbolism. "Chelsea Hotel #2" goes straight to the point, describing an encounter with Janis Joplin in New York's best-known bohemian hotel. Cohen later came to regard this as an Old Shame and said that if there were some way of apologising to Joplin's ghost, he would. |
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Broken Record |
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Broken Record: "Lover Lover Lover", and not just the title "There Is a War" |
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Product Placement |
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Product Placement: "Is This What You Wanted" |
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