What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Leonards second album, with a softer sound than the debut. I preferred the first over this one, yet it still scores up there. Whatever you like Leonard. You da man. Probably one of his most well known tracks here with Bird On The Wire, yet still not known by the masses. Leonard never made music for the asses.....uh....I mean masses. typo there. That's probably the only track on here that anyone other than a Cohen fanatic would know. One thing I don't like here is the presence of that Jews harp on many tracks. He must have had a fondness for it here. I don't. Other than that, mostly superb tracks. Surprising to me that country boy Charlie Daniels plays bass on the album. Two bonus tracks on this cd version which are actually are just earlier versions of Bird On The Wire and You Know Who I Am and I do not include them in the grade or track listing. Kind of pointless to me. The album reached #63 in the U.S. and a surprise to me of a #2 in the U.K. Kickass rockin' hoedown live clip on that last track.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - The Butcher

Best Track - Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

It seems so long ago,
Nancy was alone,
looking ate the Late Late show
through a semi-precious stone.
In the House of Honesty
her father was on trial,
in the House of Mystery
there was no one at all,
there was no one at all.
It seems so long ago,
none of us were strong;
Nancy wore green stockings
and she slept with everyone.
She never said she'd wait for us
although she was alone,
I think she fell in love for us
in nineteen sixty one,
in nineteen sixty one.
It seems so long ago,
Nancy was alone,
a forty five beside her head,
an open telephone.
We told her she was beautiful,
we told her she was free
but none of us would meet her in
the House of Mystery,
the House of Mystery.
And now you look around you,
see her everywhere,
many use her body,
many comb her hair.
In the hollow of the night
when you are cold and numb
you hear her talking freely then,
she's happy that you've come,
she's happy that you've come.

1) Bird On The Wire - ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjem3G_QsKA
2) Story Of Isaac - ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQOmbIMYls
3) A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZkLeX9YRE
4) The Partisan - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_223jKXKgQ
5) Seems So Long Ago, Nancy - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVXsuJkrkBY
6) The Old Revolution - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNN0804olxw
7) The Butcher - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoArm1nkTnA
8) You Know Who I Am - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPkUyPU6nw4
9) Lady Midnight - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGjoyKTX2w4
10) Tonight Will Be Fine - ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBdSr1v641s

3's - 5
2's - 5
1's - 0

Grade - 2.5