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I’m Your Man is Cohen’s shortest album, and some of it’s ’80s production flourishes haven’t dated well. (Just listening to the Miami Vice-ish opening bars of “First We Take Manhattan.”) But it’s hard to quarrel with the songs themselves: the acid, ominous “Everybody Knows,” the lilting “Take This Waltz.” It’s also the album on which Cohen discovers his sense of humor. On “Tower of Song,” he pokes fun at the image of the tortured singer toiling away in his garrett, following a one-sided conversation with the ghost of Hank Williams with a crude one-finger piano solo. His writing is looser as well, the rhythms more free-swinging. Where many songwriters’ careers effectively wind down in middle age, Cohen sounds as if he’s just warming up.
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A stunningly sophisticated leap into modern musical textures, I'm Your Man re-establishes Leonard Cohen's mastery. Against a backdrop of keyboards and propulsive rhythms, Cohen surveys the global landscape with a precise, unflinching eye: the opening "First We Take Manhattan" is an ominous fantasy of commercial success bundled in crypto-fascist imagery, while the remarkable "Everybody Knows" is a cynical catalog of the land mines littering the surface of love in the age of AIDS.
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First We Take Manhattan |
5:50 |
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| 02. | |
Ain't No Cure For Love |
4:49 |
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Everybody Knows |
5:34 |
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| 04. | |
I'm Your Man |
4:26 |
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Take This Waltz |
5:58 |
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| 06. | |
Jazz Police |
3:51 |
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| 07. | |
I Can't Forget |
4:29 |
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| 08. | |
Tower of Song |
5:37 |
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08 Total Tracks, 40:34 Total Length
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Credits
- Leonard Cohen - Piano // Leonard Cohen - Arranger // Leonard Cohen - Keyboards // Leonard Cohen - Vocals // Leonard Cohen - Producer // Leonard Cohen - Main Performer // Leonard Cohen - Performer // Jennifer Warnes - Vocals // Jennifer Warnes - Vocals (Background) // Jennifer Warnes - Vocal Ad-Libs // John Bilezikjian - Oud // Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Pedal Steel // Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Guitar (Steel) // Richard Beaudet - Saxophone // C. Roscoe Beck - Producer // Roscoe Beck - Arranger // Roscoe Beck - Producer // Roscoe Beck - Production Coordination // Tom Brechtlein - Drums // Lenny Castro - Percussion // Larry Cohen - Keyboards // Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums // Francois Deschamps - Engineer // Jude Johnson - Vocals // Jude Johnstone - Vocals // Peter Kisilenko - Bass // Jean-Jacque Peruchon - Engineer // Gean-Michel Reusser - Producer // Michel Robidoux - Arranger // Michel Robidoux - Drums // Michel Robidoux - Keyboards // Michel Robidoux - Producer // Michel Robidoux - Drum Fills // Jean Philippe Rykiel - Arranger // Jean Philippe Rykiel - Performer // Bob Stanley - Guitar // Ian Terry - Engineer // Anjani Thomas - Vocals // Leanne Ungar - Engineer // Leanne Ungar - Mixing // Leanne Ungar - Technical Coordinator // Billy Youdelman - Engineer // Elisabeth Valletti - Vocals // Elisabeth Valletti - Vocals (Background) // Mayel Assouly - Vocals // Mayel Assouly - Vocals (Background) // Kevin Beauchamp - Engineer // Raffi Hakopian - Violin // Evelyine Hebey - Vocals // Evelyine Hebey - Vocals (Background) // Federico García Lorca - Poetry // Jean-Michel Reusser - Producer // Frank Wolfe - Mixing // Jeff Fisher - Arranger // Jeff Fisher - Keyboards // Jeff Fisher - Performer // Anjali - Vocals // Sharon Weisz - Cover Photo // Roger Guerin - Engineer
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