Various Positions

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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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Cohen, like very few others, has always appreciated that love is at least as much comedy as tragedy.

it's curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. Although it featured a more contemporary sound for its time compared with the singer's previous LPs, Columbia did not think it was commercially viable and refused to release Various Positions in the US. instead of presenting me with the new songs exclusively on a Spanish guitar as usual, he had this dinky little Casio keyboard with him . The use of synthesisers and Cohen's "new voice" would mark the beginning of a new era in Cohen's composing style and sound.Finally, a song that comes into its own live as well as on VP, the quietly sincere prayer, If It Be Your Will.

Asked in 2001 by Mojo 's Sylvie Simmons about this period of inactivity, the singer replied, "My children were living in the South of France and I spent a lot of time visiting them. Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985). The recording quality of all these re-released Cohen CD's is very good, and this one is no exception. The pulling and the putting of the pieces together coherently, the being inside of that process and knowing, once I'd done that, it would be finished and I would have to leave it and go back to the world.

Although structured as a love song, "Dance Me to the End of Love" was in fact inspired by the Holocaust. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song – it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity.