Various Positions

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The recording quality of all these re-released Cohen CD's is very good, and this one is no exception. So, that music, "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin", meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. The Casio was a great discovery for Leonard because these machines allows you to put one finger down and have a whole band come back at you .

The unusually straightforward love song "Coming Back to You" was covered by both Trisha Yearwood and Martin L. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In 2004, jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux covered "Dance Me to the End of Love" on her album " Careless Love"; the version even became a hit in Brazil. If you are new to Leonard Cohen I'd also get the later 'I'm your man', plus perhaps 'The Future' and 'Songs from a room'.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Released in 1985 Various Positions proved to be a transitional album for Cohen, poised halfway between the classic balladic style of Recent Songs and the cool electronic backing of I'm Your Man. The album opens with one of his best compositions, and a signature song since he wrote it and one he tends to begin concerts with: Dance Me To The End Of Love. It also contains the bizarre country epic "The Captain", in which Cohen plays the part of a young officer being handed command of his unit by his dying superior.

In the interim, Lissauer had worked with Barbra Streisand, Manhattan Transfer, and had scored films. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

After recording Recent Songs, Cohen did not record again for five years and published no new writing until Book of Mercy in 1984. Various Positions was produced by John Lissauer, who had been at the helm of Cohen's 1974 album New Skin for the Old Ceremony.