What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Once again, not sure why I have a best of when I have the albums they are from. Only excuse is it's LC. The first eight of these are pulled from I'm Your Man and The Future. The next three are live performances of older tracks which only the first lives up to the original. The last two are previously unreleased and should have remained so. They had to have something new to suck in the fanatics. I guess that was me. Guess I'll go with Dance Me To The End Of Love for a favorite this time, as the only live track that holds up. The other two live tracks, Suzanne and Hallelujah, are both great songs, but these live tracks don't compare to the studio versions. This doesn't equal his first best of set and I'm surprised nothing is pulled from Death Of A Ladies Man (it wasn't that bad) or Recent Songs, which were released after that. Still, hard for me to give any Leonard compilation a bad grade. As usual, this album had no impact in the U.S.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - The Great Event

Best Track - Dance Me To The End Of Love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

1) Everybody Knows - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q63plx5NClI
2) I'm Your Man - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW8rFho6In8
3) Take This Waltz - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUtgjjj75_Q
4) Tower Of Song - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiAuXRK3Ogk
5) Anthem - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ma5tF6TJpA
6) Democracy - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5g8CA5ltR8
7) The Future - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0s4g1Yh5vw
8) Closing Time - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUtPHJHe8es
9) Dance Me To The End Of Love - ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9xcDs9jRk
10) Suzanne - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Af4p3OUX1I
11) Hallelujah - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzWeN-bVDUc
12) Never Any Good - *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPtZ6IjVHQ
13) The Great Event - *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O46xvoTjn4

3's - 7
2's - 4
1's - 2

Grade - 2.4