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The Future |  | Artist: Leonard Cohen
Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS.
Category: Music
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Seller: ziarecords
Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 4219
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 723698
UPC: 886972369822
EAN: 0886972369822
ASIN: B0012GMVDK
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Future | | • | Waiting for the Miracle | | • | Be for Real | | • | Closing Time | | • | Anthem | | • | Democracy | | • | Light as the Breeze | | • | Always | | • | Tacoma Trailer |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Leonard Cohen's deeply personal first LPs came out at a time when many of his peers were issuing furious, counterculture-inspired rants; he clearly had little interest in sticking with the pack at the time. So it makes a certain kind of contrary sense that Cohen would put out an offbeat topical collection two and a half decades later. The Future is an odd duck of an album; it's also brave, funny, and fascinating. "Give me back the Berlin Wall / Give me Stalin and St. Paul," Cohen petitions sardonically in the title track, adding, "I've seen the future, brother: it is murder." "Can't run no more with the lawless crowd / While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud," he intones in "Anthem." In "Democracy," he name-checks Tiananmen Square while surveying the United States ("The cradle of the best and of the worst"). Cohen has only improved with age as a vocalist; he sounds like a cross between Mark Knopfler and Barry White. While the polished production takes some getting used to, it's somehow suitable that cooing background vocals and programmed tracks temper these low-boil diatribes. This is, after all, The Future. --Steven Stolder
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 57
 Awsome Cohen January 24, 2010
Flintock (New Mexico)
Cohen's rendition of "The Future" is, in my opinion, his best musical recording ever. The music is mystically haunting and draws one into the soul of it. Spellbinding.
 Leonard Cohen,The Future August 31, 2009
Judy Ellington (Hopewell,Va.)
Too many repeats of old songs.They all sound the same.If you have his early music,don't waste your money on this one. Sorry!!
His Best! May 9, 2009
Deimos (Alberta)
This album is one of my favorite albums of all time. Leonard Cohen shines amazingly on this album. the lyrics/sound/vocals are all in sync perfectly. This is a winner in every sence.
 The Future October 23, 2008
Tom Claffey
Excellent! But, the best pieces are also on "More Best of Leonard Cohen." If you can only purchase one CD, buy "More Best ..."
The Future September 26, 2008
Bjorn Viberg (European Union)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Future being Cohens 1992 release is nothing short of a stroke of genius. It starts out with a bang with the track The future. Cohen is such a talented lyrcist that I consider it to be the perfect mix between poetry and music. His vocals are as solid as ever before. The book-let is very interesting. On the cover we have a bird, a heart and a pair of handcuffs. It contains both lyrics and also a list of who played and what instruments they used. Sharon Robinson once again is collaborating with Cohen and as I written before I think this is a such an amazing combination. Waiting for the Miracle is my favorite track. This track is pure gold!
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