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Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1967. Cohen was already established as a published poet; his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, was published in 1956, eleven years before Songs of Leonard Cohen. He was persuaded by Judy Collins, amongst others, to set some of his poems to music. Collins had already adapted and recorded Cohen's poem "Suzanne Takes You Down", from his 1966 collection Parasites Of Heaven, as "Suzanne" for her 1966 album In My Life, and the song kicks off this album. Songs of Leonard Cohen set the tone for much of Cohen's career; the songs are predominantly melancholy and deal with parting, depression, self-harm and suicide, but also feature interwoven themes of sex, religion and politics with a dry and self-effacing wit and intelligent, profound lyrics. It also established a pattern of being much more popular in Europe than in his native North America.Three of the songs in this album were used as the musical accompaniment for Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller: "The Stranger Song", "Sisters of Mercy", and "Winter Lady". |
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Face on the Cover: Unsmiling, sepia-tinted and framed in black. Don't expect a bundle of laughs. Which isn't to say there aren't any. |
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Crapsack World: "Stories of the Street": |
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As the Good Book Says... |
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As the Good Book Says...: "Suzanne" "Stranger Song" |
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Alliterative Title: "The Stranger Song", "Stories of the Street". |
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Rummage Sale Reject |
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Rummage Sale Reject: "Suzanne" is described as "wearing rags and feathers / from Salvation Army counters." |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: "Suzanne", she shows the narrator all the secret places around the docks, is "kinda crazy", and almost becomes a kind of mythic figure by the end of the song. |
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Downer Ending |
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Downer Ending: It's all relative, as there aren't many upper moments. But: "Winter Lady": Ends with the singer pleading with his one-night-stand to come back for the rest of the night even as she stands in the doorway ready to leave. The whole album concludes with "One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong", which ends with something like a wail of despair. Although the song does have an air of tongue-in-cheek self-parody about it. |
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Big Eater |
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Big Eater: "Teachers" |
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Non-Appearing Title: The album title does not appear in any of the songs. More surprisingly, the song title does not appear in the lyrics of "Master Song", "Winter Lady", "The Stranger Song" or "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong". |
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Anti-Love Song |
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Anti-Love Song: "Winter Lady" |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: All of the songs on the album were written and performed by Cohen. |
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Naughty Nuns |
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Naughty Nuns: In "The Sisters of Mercy" the sisters take your confession as you lie down beside them. |
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The Something Song |
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The Something Song: "The Stranger Song". |
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Second-Person Narration |
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Second-Person Narration: "The Stranger Song" |
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The Gambler |
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The Gambler: "The Stranger Song" uses poker as a metaphor for an abusive relationship. |
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Break-Up Song |
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Break-Up Song: "Winter Lady": although he wants her to come back to bed and stay for a while longer. "So Long Marianne": "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye": |
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Character Title: "Suzanne" and "So Long Marianne". |
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One-Woman Song: "Suzanne" and "So Long Marianne". |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: "Suzanne" was covered in Dutch, by Herman Van Veen. |
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Self-Titled Album |
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Self-Titled Album: "Songs of Leonard Cohen". |
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Cover Version |
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Cover Version: Zig-Zagged with "Suzanne". It was published by Cohen as a poem, but previously recorded as a song by both Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell. So he covered a song he wrote the words to, in essence. |
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Deliberately Monochrome |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The black-and-white album cover is not only monochrome but sepia-tinted. something that suggested old-fashionedness even in 1967. Cohen was 33 when the album appeared, not exactly in the first flush of youth for a rock star. |
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One-Word Title: "Teachers" |
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The End of the World as We Know It |
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The End of the World as We Know It: "Stories of the Street": |
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Lyrical Dissonance |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "So Long Marianne" is rather jaunty, especially by Cohen's standards. So the references to depression and suicide come as quite a shock. |
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Intercourse with You |
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Intercourse with You: "Suzanne", based on Cohen's real-life relationship with Montreal social hostess Suzanne Verdal. Both Cohen and Verdal have publicly averred that their relationship was strictly platonic and the sexual implications were pure (or impure if you prefer) wishful thinking on Leonard's part. |
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Word Salad Lyrics |
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Word Salad Lyrics: All the way through, but "Teachers" in particular takes some unravelling. "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" starts to sound like he's playing with his audience. |
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Freudian Trio |
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Freudian Trio: "Master Song" can be construed as being about conflicts between aspects of the personality. |
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But Now I Must Go |
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But Now I Must Go: "Stranger Song". |
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Product Placement: "Stories Of The Street" |
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