ENGL 222 section 005 • 17W2 • Kevin McNeilly and Richard Kurth
Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) • Concise Discography of Studio Albums
134 songs on 14 albums spanning 49 release years, and tentatively grouped here in 4 periods: 1967, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1979 • 1984, 1988, 1992 • 2001, 2004 • 2012, 2014, 2016
1967 • Songs Of Leonard Cohen 1. Suzanne | 2. Master Song | 3. Winter Lady | 4. Stranger Song | 5. Sisters Of Mercy | 6. So Long, Marianne 7. Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye | 8. Stories Of The Street | 9. Teachers | 10. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
1969 • Songs From A Room 1. Bird On The Wire | 2. Story Of Isaac | 3. A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes | 4. The Partisan | 5. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy 6. The Old Revolution | 7. The Butcher | 8. You Know Who I Am | 9. Lady Midnight | 10. Tonight Will Be Fine
1971 • Songs Of Love and Hate 1. Avalanche | 2. Last Year’s Man | 3. Dress Rehearsal Rag | 4. Diamonds In The Mine 5. Love Calls You By Your Name | 6. Famous Blue Raincoat | 7. Sing Another Song, Boys | 8. Joan Of Arc
1974 • New Skin For The Old Ceremony 1. Is This What You Wanted | 2. Chelsea Hotel No. 2 | 3. Lover Lover Lover | 4. Field Commander Cohen | 5. Why Don’t You Try 6. There Is A War | 7. A Singer Must Die | 8. I Tried To Leave You | 9. Who By Fire | 10. Take This Longing | 11. Leaving Green Sleeves
1977 • Death Of A Ladies’ Man — N.B. all songs co-written with Phil Spector 1. True Love Leaves No Traces | 2. Iodine | 3. Paper Thin Hotel | 4. Memories | 5. I Left A Woman Waiting | 6. Don’t Go Home With Your Hard On | 7. Fingerprints | 8. Death Of A Ladies’ Man
1979 • Recent Songs 1. The Guests | 2. Humbled In Love | 3. The Window | 4. Came So Far For Beauty | 5. The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant) 6. The Traitor | 7. Our Lady Of Solitude | 8. The Gypsy’s Wife | 9. The Smokey Life | 10. Ballad Of The Absent Mare
1984 • Various Positions 1. Dance Me To The End Of Love | 2. Coming Back To You | 3. The Law | 4. Night Comes On | 5. Hallelujah 6. The Captain | 7. Hunter’s Lullaby | 8. Heart With No Companion | 9. If It Be Your Will
1988 • I’m Your Man 1. First We Take Manhattan | 2. Ain’t No Cure For Love | 3. Everybody Knows |4. I’m Your Man 5. Take This Waltz | 6. Jazz Police | 7. I Can’t Forget | 8. Tower Of Song
1992 • The Future 1. The Future | 2. Waiting For The Miracle | 3. Be For Real | 4. Closing Time | 5. Anthem 6. Democracy | 7. Light As The Breeze | 8. Always |9. Tacoma Trailer
2001 • Ten New Songs 1. In My Secret Life | 2. A Thousand Kisses Deep | 3. That Don’t Make It Junk | 4. Here It Is | 5. Love Itself 6. By The Rivers Dark | 7. Alexandra Leaving | 8. You Have Loved Enough | 9. Boogie Street | 10. The Land Of Plenty
2004 • Dear Heather 1. Go No More A-Roving | 2. Because Of | 3. The Letters | 4. Undertow | 5. Morning Glory | 6. On That Day 7. Villanelle For Our Time | 8. There For You | 9. Dear Heather | 10. Nightingale | 11. To A Teacher 12. The Faith | 13. Tennessee Waltz (live)
2012 • Old Ideas 1. Going Home | 2. Amen | 3. Show Me the Place | 4. Darkness | 5. Anyhow | 6. Crazy to Love You 7. Come Healing | 8. Banjo | 9. Lullaby | 10. Different Sides
2014 • Popular Problems 1. Slow | 2. Almost Like The Blues | 3. Samson In New Orleans | 4. A Street | 5. Did I Ever Love You 6. My Oh My | 7. Nevermind | 8. Born In Chains | 9. You Got Me Singing
2016 • You Want It Darker 1. You Want It Darker | 2. Treaty | 3. On The Level | 4. Leaving The Table | 5. If I Didn’t Have Your Love 6. Traveling Light | 7. It Seemed The Better Way | 8. Steer Your Way | 9. String Reprise: Treaty
On Friday January 5, we will begin a discussion of “Suzanne,” the lead song on Cohen’s first album.
• Leonard Cohen’s first studio version of “Suzanne” (1967): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svitEEpI07E
• A live version: (1970s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6zMPLcXZ8
• Another live version (Montréal 2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIpF-RPw0pw
The lyrics can also be found online.
We will focus mainly on Cohen’s first studio recording, but you may be interested in these cover versions:
• Judy Collins’ solo version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkamRumVXn4
• A duet version: Cohen with Judy Collins (1976): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toEk9DaLrgs
• Nina Simone’s cover of “Suzanne” (Rome, 1969): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pscDRqkFro
• Meshell Ndegeocello’s cover of Nina Simone’s cover (2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ehb25FUTYQ
• Tori Amos (Live, Denver, 2005): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3nir2dvtzQ
(And many others …)