What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Or as I like to call it, Who Is Sharon Robinson And What Did She Do To Leonard Cohen? On the album cover, full production credit, plays all the instruments, co-writing credit and performs on most of the tracks. Problem with the performing is, unlike previous Cohen albums where the sultry female vocals are the landscape to a portrait of a couple making love, Sharon is usually dueting with Leonard, spoiling the visual of the couple making love. Leonard didn't need duets on a studio album. I think this is my first LC album I did not love. Still a couple of nice tracks in A Thousand Kisses Deep and In My Secret Life. With 5 likeable other tracks and 3 that give me a headache, this is only a mediocre LC album. Sorry, he should have hung it up after this one. Recording that is, not performing. He's a legend, in my own mind, and I'd like to keep it that way. Hey Leonard, you don't have to give away the farm, when you're gettin' the milk for free.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - The Land Of Plenty

Best Track - A Thousand Kisses Deep

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it’s done –
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it’s real,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep:
You ditch it all to stay alive,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet –
And then consented to be wrecked,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
I guess they won’t exchange the gifts
That you were meant to keep.
And quiet is the thought of you,
The file on you complete,
Except what we forgot to do,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat

1) In My Secret Life ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW7oNpzBSGc
2) A Thousand Kisses Deep ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy7ExVdamh0
3) That Don't Make It Junk *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYmF8AIqR4E
4) Here It Is **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hiEXwyto4k
5) Love Itself **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyqhyhSEXc
6) By The Rivers Dark **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA3sBuolUkA
7) Alexandra Leaving *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j1267BYexc
8) You Have Loved Enough **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlN2NN-mooM
9) Boogie Street **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswKZ0PNY_0
10) The Land Of Plenty *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHMxKgNbATo

3's - 2
2's - 5
1's - 3

Grade - 1.9