What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Not much new I can say about this one, as I have done the 4 albums the cuts are pulled from. Since they were all 3 star outings, likewise for this. Three tracks for each of the 4 albums. Only tracks not getting the top rating here are 2 of the ones from Songs From A Room. Normally I wouldn't have a best of cd from an artist that I have all of their studio product. In this case I must have purchased this when I first started getting cd's, and go it with no intention of getting the others. I soon realized my foolishness. Sorry about the duplicates posting, but it came up in the rotation and rules are rules. The album never touched the charts here.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - The Partisan

Best Track - Famous Blue Raincoat

It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

Sincerely, L. Cohen

1) Suzanne - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJY2HvW3Bw
2) Sisters Of Mercy - ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuORgPpODZA
3) So Long, Marianne - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDj5T8-H2R8
4) Bird On The Wire - ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjem3G_QsKA
5) Lady Midnight - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROAfo5okPM
6) The Partisan - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_223jKXKgQ
7) Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexNsBjz1r8
8) Famous Blue Raincoat - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pXBisteRms
9) Last Years Man - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3_j6SoHXM
10) Chelsea Hotel #2 - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx83eIVkKyo
11) Who By Fire - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AQ6NkrkAo
12) Take This Longing - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dpwJS1-uYM

3's - 10
2's - 2
1's - 0

Grade - 2.8