Music : New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099703266023
Label: Columbia
Manufacturer: Columbia
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Columbia
Release Date: April 01, 1996
Studio: Columbia
Sales Rank: 1815

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Disc 1:

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. Singer Must Die
8. I Tried To Leave You
9. Who By Fire
10. Take This Longing
11. Leaving Green Sleeves

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Rating: - THE WORK OF A TRUE GENIUS
Yet another album that I can play over and over again without it getting boring. I know all of the songs by heart and yet I can listen to it any time. There is only one artist (and I can only emphasize the word ARTIST) who can do this, LEONARD COHEN. Without a doubt, his version of the traditional song LEAVING GREEN SLEEVES is the absolute highlight on this disc.

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Rating: - Not impressed
As the caption says, Not impressed. Would not recommend this if you like the "Normal" Cohen style. Will keep trying in the hope that it grows on me.

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Rating: - Why Don't You Try?
I feel compelled to leap to the defence of New Skin. Though I can say absolutely without doubt that it is not his greatest album, it contains at least three of Cohen's greatest songs - those being Chelsea Hotel*2, Who By Fire?, and best of all, Field Commander - though the latter is much better served on the live album/tour of 1979 bearing that same title.
The first in a string of three John Lisseur-produced albums (a sequence interrupted only by the disappointing collaboration Death ... Read More

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Rating: - I'm a great fan of LC - but I can't completely love this CD
I have all of Leonard Cohen's CD's as they are really cheap now and my LP collection of LC from the 70's onwards isn't a patch on the sound quality of these re-released CD's (and no download compression effects on sound quality here). I always buy the original album's though rather than compilations, as I think the cohesion of tracks originally recorded together far outweighs any price or quality advantages of compilations. Besides as shown by the other reviews here what lights your fire is very personal ... Read More

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Rating: - Why don't you come on back to the war?
To my mind this is Cohen's best album, achieving an impressive coherence of vision and texture whilst offering more variety of musical tone and timbre than any of his other (not inconsiderable) works. The arrangements are beautifully fitting, the instrumentation is subtle but much richer than on the preceding acoustic guitar oriented albums, and Cohen is in terrific voice, raw with unsuppressed rage and regret on 'Is This What You Wanted' and 'Leaving Greensleeves'. Casual or cloth-eared listeners hold that ... Read More

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