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Death Of A Ladies Man Mov Version

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Leonard Cohen Format: Vinyl
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 True Loves Leaves No Traces
2 Iodine
3 Paper Thin Hotel
4 Memories

Disc: 2

1 I Left a Woman Waiting
2 Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On
3 Fingerprints
4 Death of a Ladies' Man

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Dutch 180 gram reissue in a gatefold sleeve.

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.5 x 12.5 x 0.13 inches; 11.64 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Music Canada Inc.
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ MOVLP 476
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2012
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 42 minutes
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 2, 2012
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Music Canada Inc.
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0071JPJP4
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Andrian Curshen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Leonard Cohen at his best
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2013
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    I am a great fan of Leonard Cohen, who has finally become a legend in the U.S. He had reach legendary status in Europe long ago and in his home country of Canada some years ago. His songs are not for everyone's taste, some require a bit of thought. The songs on this CD were recorded during a drug and alcohol induced haze at the Phil Spector studio in Hollywood back in 1977. Phil Spector, the genius, crazy guy who went to jail for shooting his girlfriend. An HBO movie recently appeared with Al Pacino in the title role. After the recording was finished Cohen said he never ever wanted to have anything to do with Spector again and he never did. These songs don't appear on any other CD to the best of my knowledge.
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  • Chris Lee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Album
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2013
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    Everyone knows Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate, but this is and amazing album. This album is a collaboration with the great Phil Spector and you can hear the influence throughout, with the grandiose production and female backup singers.
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  • Peter Uys
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gravitas, anguish and beauty
    Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2008
    Death Of A Ladies' Man is a work of tortured intensity expressed in striking songs so it will sound abrasive to some, especially those who prefer his spare style of the 1960s & later works like Recent Songs. As for the complaints about Phil Spector's production, the sound is not that far removed from songs like Is This What You Wanted? and Lover Lover Lover on 1974's New Skin for the Old Ceremony that are characterized by raw vocals & heavy rock instrumentation.

    Even earlier, on 1971's Songs of Love and Hate the track Diamonds in the Mine was anything but gentle. Why, even his 1967 debut Songs of Leonard Cohen contains the anguished One Us Cannot Be Wrong which addresses the lover in a sequence of strange images before moving on to melodic whistling and exiting with bitter shouted la la lahs.

    So there definitely was a precedent for this heavy approach. His own dislike of the album - he completely ignored it in compiling The Essential Leonard Cohen - probably has more to do with unpleasant recollections of the recording process, which reportedly was quite stressful, than with the actual music. There is simply nothing wrong with the melodies or the lyrics whilst the arrangements and the vocals are a matter of taste.

    On tracks like the plodding drum-dominated Iodine, the highly strung Memories with its soaring vocal sections and raucous sax & the thunderously pounding Don't Go Home his voice strains a bit against Spector's production, aptly reflecting the sentiment of the songs. On the other hand the melodiously twirling True Love Leaves No Traces has exquisite imagery and soulful female vocals by Renee Blackley who contributes same on Iodine and Memories.

    The lyrics are sheer poetry, whether uplifting as in "True loves leaves no traces/If you and I are one/It's lost in our embraces/Like stars against the sun" or bitter and acerbic as in the twisted Paper-Thin Hotel: "It's written on the walls of this hotel/You go to heaven once you've been to hell/A heavy burden lifted from my soul/I heard that love was out of my control." The harshest element in Iodine is the theme, not the drums or the overall sound which is rendered highly atmospheric by the other-worldly backing vocals.

    In addition to True Love Leaves No Traces, other immediately appealing songs include the sensual and elegantly arranged I Left A Woman Waiting where Leonard's voice hovers between speaking and singing. The fiddle feast Fingerprints, buoyant with a lilting, propulsive beat must be one of the most catchy country songs of all time. The track The Captain on the 1984 album Various Positions was the closest Cohen came to country again.

    Bob Dylan and Alan Ginsberg are amongst the backing vocalists on Don't Go Home With Your Hardhat, a stampede of driving rhythms, shuddering percussion, powerful piano rolls and shouted vocals. The wrath & the fury are quite deceptive as the absurd lyrics will reveal if you can hear them. By adding bombast, Meat Loaf could turn this into a hit bigger than Bat out of Hell. It was a brilliant idea to put the aforementioned Fingerprints in this strategic position between the onslaught of Don't Go Home and the solemn, sprawling dirge that follows.

    Gravitas at its gravest, the weighty title track Death of a Ladies' Man has a majestic arrangement with waves of multi-layered doom-laden vocals in crescendos allowing at the ebbs a single female voice to momentarily caress Cohen's. The wall of instrumental sound acts likewise, so when waning a single instrument or hypnotic instrumental pattern comes fleetingly to the fore. With its overall drone-like ambience it is as oppressive in its atmospherics as Lou Reed's The Bells on Street Hassle or Nico's Das Lied der Deutschen on her album The End. It also brings to mind the work of Swans like 1995's The Great Annihilator.

    The sleeve notes credit "Spector & Cohen" as composers of all songs with no further information on lyrics or music. Spector was responsible for all vocal arrangements and for rhythm arrangements on six tracks. The two exceptions are I Left A Woman Waiting & Iodine where Nino Tempo takes the credit. Phil definitely set out to recreate his famous wall of sound with seventeen backing vocalists and an arsenal of instruments that includes guitars, drums, keyboards, synth, bass, percussion, fiddle, sax, flute, trombone, trumpet, organ and vibes.

    Proof of the quality of these compositions can be found on the excellent tribute album I'm Your Fan where True Love Leaves No Traces is given a breezy 1970s pop treatment by Dead Famous People & Don't Go Home With Your Hardhat is covered well enough by David McComb & Adam Peters. I loved Death of a Ladies' Man when it was released in 1978 and I appreciate it even more now. Like all of us, Cohen is allowed to shout sometimes. If he doesn't like the production, nothing stops him from re-recording some of these songs.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Keep In Touch
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2019
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    I'm late to the Leonard Cohen party but, thanks to former student Joe Quam, I received an invitation.
    Brand new copy at a decent price and the book/ CD collection grows. Thanks, Joseph!
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  • stella ray
    2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2015
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    Didn't care for it
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  • Holmes Christopher
    3.0 out of 5 stars CAVEAT EMPTOR
    Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016
    Beware !
    A number of reviews here are totally irrelevant : they concern the album of music Death Of A LADIES' Man & not the book Death of a LADY'S Man.
    These reviews are therefore totally useless, & Amazon should move them to the appropriate place..
    I have yet to read the book, but I have 8 other poetry books by Cohen & both his novels, so I have a good idea what to expect.
    Amazon's question asking in which person the story is narrated is beside the point - it doesn't apply to poetry any more than it does to a maths book.
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  • Hawlik Pascal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Le mur du son derrière Leonard Cohen.
    Reviewed in France on May 19, 2023
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    Album décrié, honni par Leonard Cohen lui-même, mais perso c'est un album qui tient la route, avec une orchestration différente, moins dépouillé avec la touche de Phil Spector. L'album n'a pas à rougir, il est de très bonne facture.
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  • Chevy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Monumental.
    Reviewed in Canada on February 16, 2020
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    Well, what can I say? This album is monumental in all aspects and certainly made it a controversial one at the time and years to come. When Mr. "walls of sound", Phil Spector is involved, you know it's going to have a good feel to it. But this album offers more. It has the styling and lyrics of the great late Leonard Cohen. With Phil at the driver's wheel, he's not only the producer, he's fully involved with lyrics, guitar, backing vocal, and arrangements, you know you'll have a winner, especially with greats stopping by to contribute to this phenomenal recording at spector's home, Terry Gibb, Sneaky Pete on pedal Steel, Claudia King, and of course Bob Dylan. However, I advise all music lovers to research the making, and how this union of Cohen and Spector came to light. It certainly goes down in the books as musical history, in every sense of the word. Buy this album now as it's a "must have" among your record collection.
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  • Alex
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cohen at his most indepth, in a lovely untouched hardback copy
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2020
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    Excellent quality hardback. Complete with dust jacket (non price cut), thick pages, unbroken spine, and everything else you might find if you bought this book new, which you can't ask it's out of print. I don't like buying like this generally as you are guessing slightly on the quality but I was very impressed by Death of a Lady's Man. As for the poetry, well it's Cohen. If you like his music or his written word then you'll love this. It's by far his most dense collection, with huge and amazing prose poems such as 'How to Speak Poetry'. Each work has an identically titled piece after it, sometimes ther are poems about the poems, or they are earlier drafts, bits from his notebooks. Anyway, it makes for a wonderful insight into Cohen's writing process that his other works don't always have. The only unfortunate thing about this collection would be the lack of art. In his more recent works Cohen covers the blank space with sketches, which personally I find lovely whilst reading, this book appears to squeeze just before he started doing this. But still an amazing read, and a very good copy.
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  • Frank
    5.0 out of 5 stars Leonard Cohen excelente artista
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 1, 2017
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    Leonard Cohen excelente artista, el disco llego a tiempo y en perfecto estado,

    Leonard Cohen el ultimo de los grandes poetas de la musica.

    Nada recomendable tomar bebidas embriagantes mientras escuchas este disco, depresión segura.
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  • alastair nairn
    5.0 out of 5 stars great cd from the best era.
    Reviewed in Australia on September 1, 2024
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    great cd every track excellent
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