| | Songs from a Room (Music) |
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Songs from a Room (Music) |
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SongsFromARoom |
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Songs from a Room is the second album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1969. It has a lighter, folkier feel than its predecessor, Songs of Leonard Cohen, and is the nearest Cohen got to a Country Music album – it was produced in Memphis by Bob Johnson after sessions produced by David Crosby in Los Angeles failed to work out. The lightness of tone on the surface is deceptive however; songs on the album probes deeper into the themes of religion, despair and suicide that were evident in the earlier album. Along with "Suzanne" from his previous album, the opening track "Bird on the Wire" was probably the most-covered of Cohen's songs before "Hallelujah". |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: Confined to a small box, perhaps echoing the spartan room in "Tonight Will Be Fine", with the contrast turned up to eleven so that all detail is washed out. |
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As the Good Book Says... |
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As the Good Book Says...: Of the Old Testament variety, as befits Cohen's active Judaism. "Story of Isaac" "The Butcher" "You Know Who I Am" |
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Alliterative Title |
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Alliterative Title: "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy". |
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Offing the Offspring |
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Offing the Offspring: "Story of Isaac". Though as the song is narrated in the first person it's clear the father doesn't go through with it. |
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Bilingual Bonus |
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Bilingual Bonus: Parts of "The Partisan" are in French. Being a Québécois Cohen handles French just fine. |
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Songs from a Room (Music) / int_294ed981 |
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Ode to Intoxication |
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Ode to Intoxication: "Tonight Will Be Fine". |
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Songs from a Room (Music) / int_2f551929 |
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La Résistance |
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La Résistance: "The Partisan" is a song about the French resistance during World War II, originally completely in French, but Cohen sings it in English, thus leaves a few lines in the original language. |
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Courtly Love |
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Courtly Love: "Bird on the Wire" |
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Songs from a Room (Music) / int_6205f4e5 |
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Heroic Sacrifice |
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Heroic Sacrifice: "The Partisan" |
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Non-Appearing Title |
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Non-Appearing Title: The album title doesn't appear in any of the lyrics. The song title doesn't appear in the lyrics of "Story of Isaac", "A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes"note But "A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes" does, "The Partisan" or "The Butcher"note But "I came upon a butcher" does. |
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Driven to Suicide |
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Driven to Suicide: "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy" |
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Anti-Love Song |
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Anti-Love Song: "Tonight Will Be Fine" |
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Songs from a Room (Music) / int_6f77ef8e |
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Real Life Writes the Plot |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy" is based on the life and death of a real Nancy that Cohen once knew. This article may shed some light on the real story. |
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Job Title |
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Job Title: "The Partisan", "The Butcher". |
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Team Title |
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Team Title: "A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes" |
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Character Title |
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Character Title: "Story of Isaac", "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy" |
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One-Woman Song |
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One-Woman Song: "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy". |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: Some lines from "Story Of Isaac" are quoted in the song "Everybody's Weird" from dEUS' album The Ideal Crash (1999). The band's lead singer, Tom Barman, is a huge fan of Cohen. |
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Cover Version |
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Cover Version: "The Partisan", a translation by Hy Zaret of a 1943 French song "La Complainte du Partisan" by Anna Marly and Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, about the French Resistance in WW2. One of very few cover versions in the early part of Cohen's career. |
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Deliberately Monochrome |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The cover is in stark black and white. |
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Lyrical Dissonance |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Tonight Will Be Fine" sounds rather jolly. It's about loneliness, depression and drug addiction. |
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Broken Record |
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Broken Record: "Tonight Will Be Fine" |
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Word Salad Lyrics |
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Word Salad Lyrics: As with many Cohen songs there is a lot of symbolism which isn't easy to penetrate. This is less evident on this album, however, than with most. Averted with "The Partisan" which is blunt and to the point. Possibly also with "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy". |
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A World Half Full |
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A World Half Full: "The Partisan". The narrator seems confident that all will be well in the end. "Tonight Will Be Fine" |
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