Description:Songs of Love and Hate is Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's third album. It was mainly recorded in Columbia Studio A, Nashville, from September 22 to 26, 1970. "Sing Another Song, Boys" was recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970. Further recording took place at Trident Studios in London. The albumSongs of Love and Hate is Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's third album. It was mainly recorded in Columbia Studio A, Nashville, from September 22 to 26, 1970. "Sing Another Song, Boys" was recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970. Further recording took place at Trident Studios in London. The album reached #145 on the Billboard list, but was his most commercially successful album in many other parts of the world, reaching #4 in the UK and #8 in Australia[2].
The album title is descriptive, outlining its main themes. The songs contain emotive language and are frankly personal; "Famous Blue Raincoat" ends with the line "Sincerely, L. Cohen". The back cover of the album bears the lines:
They locked up a man
Who wanted to rule the world
The fools
They locked up the wrong man
A remastered CD was released in 1995. Simply Vinyl issued a short-lived remastered edition on vinyl in 2002, making it the last Cohen album (aside from Ten New Songs, which was pressed in limited quantities) to go out of print on vinyl.
In 2007 Columbia/Legacy released a newly remastered CD with a new book style packaging and a bonus track: a 1968 recording of Dress Rehearsal Rag.
In 2009 the album (including its bonus track) was included in the 8-CD box set Hallelujah - The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection, issued by Sony Music in the Netherlands.
It was ranked 74 on Pitchfork Media's list of the 100 best albums of the 1970s.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Columbia Release date : 31 March 1971 EAN: 0074646695128 UPC: 074646695128
"1971
Tracklist:
01. Avalanche
02. Last Year's Man
03. Dress Rehearsal Rag
04. Diamonds in the Mine
05. Love Calls You by Your Name
06. Famous Blue Raincoat
07. Sing Another Song, Boys
08. Joan of Arc"
blue_skies added this to a list 3 years, 1 month ago
"Now Leonard Cohen really struck me with these divorce songs of his. "Famous Blue Raincoat" is wonderful and so are actually all the other tracks.
"Let's sing another song boys,
this one has grown old and bitter""
blue_skies added this to a list 3 years, 2 months ago
"1971
Favourite song: "Famous Blue Raincoat"
Favourite moment:
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried
it's fucking bitter, man"
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